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Parade Mexicaine by JEAN DUFY - Modern, Animals, Colourful, Fauve, Gouache
By Jean Dufy
Parade Mexicaine by JEAN DUFY (1888-1964)
Gouache on Ingres paper
45.1 x 55.6 cm (17³/₄ x 21⁷/₈ inches)
Signed Jean Dufy lower centre
Executed circa 1948-1950
Provenance
Galerie K...
Category
1940s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Harum-Scarum (modeled by Marilyn Monroe)
Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer Harum-Scarum, an original 1948 pastel created for the Brown & Bigelow calendar company. The image features a colorful cheesecake pin-up...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
1940's Abstract Modernist Charming Figural Interior Portrait Painting New York
By Harriet Holden Nash
An original oil on board by American modern female artist Harriet Holden Nash. This early figurative work is charming and rare housed in a contemporary archival frame presentation.
...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
The Village
By Raphael Gleitsman
Raphael Gleitsmann [Cleveland, OH; 1910-1995]
The Village
Signed & Dated 1947 Lower-Left;
Inscribed "Germany 1945" Lower-Left
(signed, titled and dated on reverse)
Oil on Masonite
35...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Look at It! Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1942
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Center: Al Moore
The Saturday Evening Post cover, October 10, 1942
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Wallpaper Blouse, Saturday Evevning Post Cover, October 1941
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 25, 1941
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
On the Hudson
By Reginald Marsh
Medium: Tempera on Linen, Laid to Paperboard
Signature: Signed & Dated Lower Right
Exhibited: Art Institute of Chicago, American Paintings and Sculpture, Fifty-Second Annual Exhibit...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Tempera, Board
Happy Endings
By Tom Lovell
Medium: Oil on Linen
Signature: Signed and Dated
The stretcher is dated 4/23/40 in pencil on the back. Next to this date is what looks like to be an inventory number -8755
Featured...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Gondola In Venice, 1947
By Tom Lovell
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Original Use: Interior Illustration for The American Magazine
Excellent Condition
This luminous, expressive oil on masonite wa...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Saratoga Trunk
By Tom Lovell
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Andrew Loomis
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Laszczyn - Building a Stack 2 - Mid 20th Century Oil Painting by H Krajewska
By Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska
Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism.
Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Dancer" Dance, 1943, Isadora Duncan, Ballet, White, Rose cm. 28 x 38
"Dancer" Dance, 1943, Isadora Duncan, Ballet, White, Rose
ODILON ROCHE (CHÂTEAUNEUF-SUR-LOIRE , 1868 - SIX-FOURS, 1947)
Biography
disciple of Auguste Rodin
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'At the Beach', California Impressionist woman artist, Carmel, Cooper Union,
Inscribed, verso, on old label, 'Marjory Pegram, Carmel, Calif. circa 1940' for Marjory Pegram (American, 1883-1972) and painted circa 1940.; additionally inscribed 'M. Peagram'.
Bo...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Japanese Dancer Figurative Painting
By Unknown
1-6010 A vintage Japanese male dancer,a silk painting set in a red mat and displayed in a gilt wood frame under glass.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Old Rome Figurative Landscape Painting signed De Luca
By Unknown
1-6006 An old Rome scene, oil on canvas applied on a wood board,displayed in a gilt wood frame.Signed lower left by De Luca
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Paris Street Scene Cityscape Seine River Utrillo like poignant war 1940
By Suzanne Roche
This oil paining is double sided: painted in 1940, when artists' materials were scarce, the Suzanne Roché made the most of the little she had available.
A newspaper article from the ...
Category
1940s Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Italian Winter Landscape Painting
By Unknown
1-4051 Circa 1940's winter scene,oil on canvas displayed in an ornate gilt wood frame,illegible signaure lower right
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Posing Nude
By G. Pascal Rocca
1-4044 Posing Nude a 1940's oil on canvas
Signed Pascal La Rocca
Unframed
Some losses to paint.
Category
1940s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paris, Hotel des Saint Pères - Oil on Masonite by F. De Pisis - 1948
By Filippo De Pisis
Oil painting on Masotine realized by the Artist in 1948.
Image dimensions: 65x38 cm.
Artist paints the Hotel where he used to live in Paris during those years.
Note, title, date and ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"The Postman Always Drinks Twice", Preliminary Study for Life Magazine
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Preliminary study for Life magazine, Circa 1941. Features a study of the work titled; "The Postman Always Drinks Twice." Life Magazine page...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Roofs of Via Margutta (Rome) - Oil on Canvas by M. Mafai - 1943
By Mario Mafai
On the back a label written by the Artist: Mario Maffai (sic) Via Margutta Roma.
On the back: C.ssa Anna L. Pecci Blunt n.119 Tetti di Roma (Via Margutta).
A Historical Paintin...
Category
1940s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude of Woman - Oil on Board by Emilio Notte - Late 1941
Image dimensions: 27 x 19.5 cm.
Signed on top left E. Notte and dated 1941. On the back label written by the Artist: Emilio Notte R. Accademia Belle Arti "Nudino" L. 2000 (duemila)....
Category
1940s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pensee du Femme
By Miette Braive
Belgian artist Miette Braive(1916-2000), was classically trained in Belgium, before moving to Paris to pursue her art career as first a student and then a contemporary of the French ...
Category
1940s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Blue Two-Piece Bathing Suit Laying on Beach with Man in Bathing Su
By John LaGatta
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Woman Among Books with a Man in Fedora Behind Her
By John LaGatta
Signature: Signed
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Feeding the Horses
GREGORY ORLOFF
"FEEDING THE HORSES"
OIL ON PANEL, UNSIGNED
AMERICAN. C.1940S
33.5 X 31.5 INCHES
Gregory Orloff was born in 1890 in Kiev and began his early art training with pai...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
By Michel-Marie Poulain
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and her child in a style of som...
Category
1940s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
By Stevan Dohanos
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys
...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Art Deco Original Painting Marcel Vertes Fashion Illustration Design 1940 Framed
By Marcel Vertès
An important original watercolor by Hungarian artist Marcel Vertes depicting a woman in period clothes including a charming ornate floral hat.
This incredible painting is in excel...
Category
1940s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Cityscape Street Scene Food Cart Original Oil Painting by Helen Malta
Modernist cityscape street scene by Helen Malta (b.1912). Oil on canvas, circa 1945. Signed. Displayed in a modernist frame. Image size, 20"L x 16"H.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After the Bath Nude
5-3308 Oil on canvas set in acustom gilt wood frame
Image size 15.5x11.5"
Category
1940s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pavanne - 17th Century Court Dance - British exhibited Surrealist oil painting
By John Armstrong
Painted by "Modern British" Surrealist artist John Armstrong this oil/tempera on board depicts Pavanne. The Pavanne is a 17th century Court dance. The figures bunch up rhythmically a...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
CIRCUS INTERLUDE
FREDERICK BUCHHOLZ
"CIRCUS INTERLUDE"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED
AMERICAN, C.1940, EXHIBITED
20 X 28 INCHES
Frederick H. Buchholz
1901-1983
Frederick H. Buchholz was bor...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunter in Camp
By Joseph Francis Kernan
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Fragments of exhibition label verso describing this as a cover illustration in November, 1948
November, 1948, Progressive Farmer...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Riveting Read
By Victor Kalin
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The Sorbet Merchant
By Emmanuel Bellini
The sorbets merchant.
Beautiful oil on cardboard from the late 40's by the famous French listed artist Emmanuel BELLINI, 1904 -1989 depicting a scene of life in summer in the French ...
Category
1940s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Men playing cards on the beach, French Riviera
By Emmanuel Bellini
Joueurs de carte à la plage, Men playing cards on the beach on the French Riviera.
Beautiful oil on cardboard from the late 40's by the famous French listed artist Emmanuel BELLINI, ...
Category
1940s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cubist Nude
By Elijah Silverman
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
DATED 1947
39.5 X 29.5 INCHES
Elijah Silverman
1910-1994
Elijah Silverman created an enormous body of work throughout his 60-year career as an artist in New...
Category
1940s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter, Washington Square," Bela de Tirefort, New York impressionist, ca. 1940s
By Bela de Tirefort
Born in Austria in 1894, New York impressionist Bela de Tirefort exhibited and was Chairman of the Semi-Annual Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibition. Best known for his striking N...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Silent Night
Silent Night is an original painting by Frederick Shane (1906-1992) a modernist WPA era Colorado winter landscape with a moonlight over church, snow and hills. Frederick Shane studie...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Piccadilly - Post War London - British Impressionist art oil painting cityscape
By Frank Waddington
A original oil on canvas/board which was painted and depicts post war London in 1946. Painted by Frank Waddington, it is a busy city view of Piccadilly. Finely painted, this work is ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shove Ha'penny - British Impressionist art 40's Pub game interior oil painting
This charming figurative interior oil painting is by British artist William Edward Narraway. Painted in an Impressionist style with wonderful soft tones and heavy impasto, but strong...
Category
1940s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Family Heart Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative
By Marguerite Blasingame
Symbolic figurative of whispy figures surrounding a heart by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame were two of...
Category
1940s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Cliff House Surreal Hawaiian Landscape Blasingame
By Marguerite Blasingame
Symbolic and surreal landscape with figure walking toward house on cliff by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasing...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Cliff's Edge Surreal Hawaiian Landscape
By Marguerite Blasingame
Symbolic and surreal landscape with figure and sailboat by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame were two of f...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
1940s Moonlight Dance by Blasingame
By Marguerite Blasingame
Symbolistic and romantic 1940s nocturnal and figurative of dancing, boating and promenading couples by Marguerite Louis Blasingame circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Bla...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Girl Helping Admiring Boy with his Math Homework
By Frances Tipton Hunter
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evenign Post, May 25th, 1940
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Harlem Moving Day, African American Scene Black Renaissance Mid 20th Century WPA
By Unknown
Harlem Moving Day, African American Scene Black Renaissance Mid 20th Century WPA, 22 x 14 inches. Oil on board. Signed and dated March 1947 verso.
We can't unearth any details about...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Nowhere To Go" WPA Depression Era American Scene Oil Painting Mid 20th Century
By Norman Barr
"Nowhere To Go" WPA Depression Era American Scene Oil Painting Mid 20th Century. 30 x 25 inches. Oil on canvas. Circa 1939.Original carved frame.
Norman Barr, WPA artist, was born i...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Outside a Deli
By Jack Levine
Jack Levine
American, 1915-2010
The Deli
Oil on board
28 ¼ by 34 in. W/frame 36 ¼ by 42 in.
Signed Lower Right
Born and raised in the south end of Boston, Jack Levine created soc...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Framed Size 28.5 x 21
Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. ...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Carnation Vase, Oil on Canvas
Oil on canvas dating from 1946 by Jean-René Chatelain. Beautiful canvas of a neo-realism soothed. Measurements : with frame: 81x72x7.5 cm - 31.9x28.3x3 inches, without frame: 68x58 c...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Washer Women
By François Gall
The Washer Women (Blanshisseuse) oil on canvas, signed lower right, titled on the back, dated 1949
From the Collection of Bass Museum Of Art label on verso.
Literature: Jurnal of t...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Glassblowers WPA Depression era Men working mid 20th Century modern Industrial
By Unknown
Glassblowers WPA Depression era Men working mid 20th Century modern Industrial
This 24 x 36 inch oil on canvas was painted in during WPA era, circa 1930’s/40s. The work, like many o...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Abstract painting of Mother and Child by American painter, Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Byron Browne was an American abstract artist and influential advocate for the avant-garde movements of the 1930s. During his lifetime, his work was shown in major museums and galleri...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Abstract painting by American, Byron Browne, titled "Two Heads"
By Byron Browne
Byron Browne was an American abstract artist and influential advocate for the avant-garde movements of the 1930s. During his lifetime, his work was shown in major museums and galleri...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Modern Abstract painting of Circus Acrobats by American painter, Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Byron Browne was an American abstract artist and influential advocate for the avant-garde movements of the 1930s. During his lifetime, his work was shown in major museums and galleri...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache
