Mid-20th Century Mixed Media

This unique black wooden assemblage from 1951 is a captivating example of mid-century post-war abstract relief art. Signed with an illegible signature, the piece carries a mysterious...

Abstract Surrealist Photo collage with painting. Mixed Media with or about Amos Keinan the Israeli Playwright and journalist. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an ...

Myril Adler "Flare" c.1960s Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper 4.75"x2.75" site unframed Signed and titled in ink Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Russia ...

Reclining Figure is an artwork on white cardboard realized after Italian Artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961) in 1925. Phototype print. Signed on the low corner. Good conditions.  Pri...

Myril Adler Untitled c.1960s Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper 3.75"x1.75" site unframed Signed in ink lower right Very Good Condition- Wear consiste...

Mixed media on canvas realized by Fernando Porfili (Porfirius) in 1961. Hand signed and dated. Includes a coeval wooden frame. Very good condition.

The proposed work is a paper piece by artist Franz Lenhart, preserved in excellent condition, measuring 62 x 69 cm. Considered one of the leading figures in Italian advertising poster...

Alexander Raymond Katz (Hungarian-American, 1895-1974) initialed l.r. "A.R.K." inscribed verso "Prayer Tree", A Raymond Katz." Sight size: 39-3/4"h x 30"...

This Modern abstract oil painting on canvas by Modernist artist Stanley Bate features a geometric composition and a soft palette. The white and creme colors are complemented by earth...

Abstraction (Untitled), c. 1930s, mixed media on board, signed lower right, 8 ¼ x 7 inches (image), 15 x 10 inches (board), Literature: Achieving Recognition, American Fine Art Magaz...

Here for your consideration is a wonderful mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials middle left. Circa 1955. Co...

General Merch Way Down in Chinatown - Vintage Illustration in Ink This illustration, inked in intricate detail by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows two men with long brai...

Myril Adler "Brightscape" c.1960s Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper 5.75"x2.5" site unframed Signed and titled in ink Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Ru...

Introducing a captivating post-war modern painting by German artist Ferdinand Spindel. In a stunning abstract composition, this piece features a harm...

Moving Figures is an artwork on white cardboard realized after Italian Artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961) in 1913. Phototype print. Signed on the low corner. Good conditions.  Print...

Tragedy is an artwork on white cardboard realized after Italian Artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961) in 1932. Phototype print. Signed on the low corner. Good conditions.  Printed on t...

Studio for Wall Painting is an artwork on white cardboard realized after Italian Artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961) in 1934. Phototype print. Signed on the low corner. Good condition...

Idea for a Wall is an artwork on white cardboard realized after Italian Artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961) in 1934. Phototype print. Signed on the low corner. Good conditions.  Prin...

Composizione, 1963 is an interesting original drawing (mixed media: pencil, pastel, China ink, watercolor) by the Informal Italian artist, Gaston...

Gloria Dudfield Yellow and Black Abstract Gouache and Oil Pastel on paper 35 x 36 in c. 1960 Framed Size: 38.5 x 39.5 x 1.5 Good Condition - Wear consistent with age and history. Cr...

Gloria Dudfield Tractor at Work 6-10-64 Gouache and Oil Pastel on Paper 36"x32 1/2" Unframed Signed and dated lower right in crayon Very Good Condition - Minor wear consistent with ...

Walter Thrift (American, 1922-1969), Pair of Abstract Compositions, Mixed Media Collages, one signed lower left and one signed lower right, giltwood frames. Image: 7.5" H x 6.25" W;...

Arieh Merzer (Israeli, 1905-1966) Copper relief sculpture panel in gilt frame Framed dimensions 18 X 26.25, copper 14.5 X 22.5 Arieh Merzer ...

Diana Kurz Two Reds #4 Mixed media on paper 24 x 18 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England ...

The Lapis III Irene Rice Pereira, American (1902-1971) 1954 Watercolor and Ink on Paper, signed, dated and titled Size: 12 x 15 in. (30.48 x 38.1 cm) Frame Size: 14 x 17 inches

This superb assemblage abstract landscape is by artist Peter Field. Created circa 1955 it is made of wood on board and hung as a portrait. The lower three quarters are vertical panel...

Myril Adler "Sunscape III" c.1960s Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper 5.75"x2.5" site unframed Signed and titled in ink Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, R...

Important work on paper by French artist Jean Halion. Ink, watercolor and colored pencil study done in 1952. Signed top right in ink and dated in pencil 15-9-52. Jean Hélion was ...

Village is an original drawing in pencil, pen and tempera, illustration, realized by Lucien Boucher (1889-1971), hand-signed on the lower right. The state of preservation of the artw...

Signed Tschacbasov top right

Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Board Dimensions: 15 1/2" x 19 1/2" Reminiscent of the Art Brut work of french master Jean Dubuffet this Boy with balls i...

Terry Frost (British, 1915 – 2003) Dancing figure Mixed media Collage 16.1/2 x 18.1/2 in. (42 x 47 cm.) to slip edge Provenance: Created for and donated to the St. Ives Theatrical Pr...

Composition is original modern artowork realized by Italian Artist Mario Sironi. Mixed media. Includes frame. Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernis...

Policeman is an original artwork realized by José Luis Rey Vila in the 1950s. Watercolor and tempera on paper. Unsigned. Very good conditions. Very...

Mixed media on paper. Signed lower right "Fautrier 23/4/63". With dedication "C’est pas beau, mais c’est pour mon petit ami Ungà…Milano en Italie". Provenance: Giuseppe Ungaretti Col...

May Wilson (1905–1986) was an American artist and figure in the 1960s New York City avant-garde art world. A pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, she is best known for her Surrealist junk assemblages and her "Ridiculous Portrait" photo collages. Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into an underprivileged family. Her father died when she was young. She was reared by her Irish Catholic mother, who sewed piecework at home. Wilson left school after the ninth grade to become a stenographer/secretary to help support her family. When she turned 20, she married a young lawyer, William S. Wilson, Jr., and give birth to her first child. She continued to work until the birth of her second child, after which she devoted her energies primarily to mothering and homemaking. In 1942, the couple had prospered enough to move to Towson, Maryland, where she began to take correspondence courses in art and art history from several schools, including the University of Chicago. In 1948, after the marriage of their daughter, the couple moved to a gentleman's farm north of Towson, where she pursued painting and gave private art lessons to neighbors. She exhibited her paintings, scenes of everyday life painted in a flat, purposefully primitive manner in local galleries and restaurants. In 1952 and 1958, she won awards for work submitted to juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1956, her son, the writer Williams S. Wilson, gave to Ray Johnson, the founder of the New York Correspondence School, his mother's address. This began a friendship and artistic collaboration between Johnson and Wilson, which would last the remainder of her life. Wilson became an integral part of Johnson's mail art circle and was initiated into the New York avant-garde through letters and small works that she exchanged with Robert Watts, George Brecht, Ad Reinhardt, Leonard Cohen, Arman, and many others. When her marriage dissolved, she moved to New York City in the spring of 1966, aged 61, taking up residence first in the Chelsea Hotel and then in a studio next door, where she threw legendary soirées and became known as the "Grandma Moses of the Underground". By the time she arrived, Wilson was already working with photomontage collage techniques. Encouraged by Johnson, who had sent her magazines through the mail, she scissored patterns into images of pin-up girls and muscle men until they resembled doilies or snowflakes, as Wilson called them. She decorated her hotel room and later her studio on West 23rd Street with these and other manipulated, found object images. Around this time, she also began her series of neo Dada "Ridiculous Portraits", for which she would ride the subway to Times Square, where she made exaggerated faces in photo booths. She then would cut and paste her photo-booth face onto postcards, along with Old Master reproductions, fashion shoots, and softcore Playboy magazine pornography. Long before artists such as Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura embarked on similar critical projects, Wilson's "Ridiculous Portraits" sent up the ubiquitous sexism and ageism that exists in popular and fine-art images of women. At the age of 70, she converted a nude photograph of herself into a stamp that she pasted on envelopes. Her collages and humorous self-portraits were made as gifts and mail-art items for her friends and were not widely known until after her death. Her work was contemporaneous with the Arte Povera artists Jannis Kounellis and ‎Michelangelo Pistoletto. She was also an innovator of junk art assemblages that incorporated real objects, such as high-heel shoes, bed sheets, sauce pans, toasters, liquor bottles, ice trays, and wrapped baby dolls. Her sculptures were inspired by Surrealist and Dada practices and are similar in spirit to Yayoi Kusama's contemporary accumulations. Wilson was the subject of a 1969 experimental documentary by Amalie R. Rothschild, "Woo Hoo? May Wilson". Since her death, May Wilson's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and retrospectives at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York; the Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.; the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City; and The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Selected Exhibitions 2010 "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968", University of the Arts, Philadelphia (traveling exhibition) 2008 "1968/2008: The Culture of Collage", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, City 2008 "Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson", Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey 2008 "Woo Who? May Wilson", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City 1995 [Retrospective], The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland 2001 "May Wilson: Ridiculous Portraits and Snowflakes", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, City 2001 "Inside Out: Outside In-The Correspondence of Ray Johnson and May Wilson", Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, California 1991 "May Wilson: The New York Years", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City 1973 "Sneakers", Kornblee Gallery, New York City 1973 "Small Works: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art", RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island 1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1970 "Sculpture Annual 1970", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City 1965 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 1962 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 1957 Bookshop Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Public collections Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, Maryland) Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York) References William S. Wilson, "May Wilson: Constructing Woman (1905-1986)", in Ann Aptaker, ed., Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson, ed. Ann Aptaker, Morristown, N.J.: Morris Museum, Camhi, Leslie, "Late Bloomer", Village Voice, December 18, 2001 Giles, Gretchen, "Cosmic Litterers: Artists Ray Johnson and May Wilson: Taking the Cake", "Northern California Bohemian," June 14–20, 2001 McCarthy, Gerard, "May Wilson: Homespun Rebel", Art in America, vol. 96, no. 8, September 2008, pp. 142–47 Sachs, Sid and Kalliopi Minioudaki, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968. Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 2010, ISBN 978-0789210654 Wilson, William S. Art is a Jealous Lover: May Wilson: 1905-1986, andy warhol...

Dimensions with frame: 32.3x45 cm. Wooden frame included. Signed and dated lower left: CAMACHO 59 G. Dedication, date 1960 and signature on rear.

Image dimensions: 29 x 19 cm. Black composition is a beautiful original mixed media on canvas, realized by Mario Sinisca (Naples, 1929), an Italian post-war master that can not be l...

Image dimensions: 29 x 25.1 cm. Saint Germain de Prés is a beautiful original drawing by the Spanish-naturalized French artist Vidal Ignace or Ignasi (Barcell...

Card Sz: 2 3/4"H x 1 1/2"W Art Sz: 15"H x 19"W Frame Sz: 22 3/4"H x 26 3/4"W The "Jockeys 1930" series is a collectible set of 50 cigarette cards issued by Ogden's. It showcases p...

Charles Green Shaw Pleasure and Recreation, circa 1935 18th Century print, playing cards 15 x 10 inches Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when...

Gouache and technic mixte on paper, signed in the text. Benjamin Vautier was born July 18, 1935 in Naples, Italy to a French family. He is the great-grandson of the Swiss painter Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier [fr] (1829-1898). He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the music of John Cage. In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu. In 1960, he had his first one-man show, Rien et tout in Laboratoire 32. Ben joined George Maciunas...

Original mixed media pencil, charcoal and white lead by Nicola Simbari. Hand-titled in pencil on lower-left margin, and signed in pencil on the lower margin at the center. In good...

D Ollard Ribbons of Memory Gouache and photographic collage 20 x 26 cm Signed to reverse Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell Little is known about D Ollard other than the fac...

Margaret Putnam (1913-1989) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25.5 x 49 Frame Size: 28.5 x 52.5 Medium: Multimedia on Paper "St. Francis of Assisi" Margaret Putnam (1913-1989) Margaret ...

Sculptor; Collage Artist Born New York, NY December 14, 1920. Holdings : AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington, DC; Community Blood Council in New York; Omaha National Bank; Slater Mem...

Gouche and technic mixte on paper.signed in the text. Benjamin Vautier was born July 18, 1935 in Naples, Italy to a French family. He is the great-grandson of the Swiss painter Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier [fr] (1829-1898). He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the music of John Cage. In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu.[2] In 1960, he had his first one-man show, Rien et tout in Laboratoire 32. Ben joined George Maciunas...

The Tobacco Package is an original bonding realized by Juan Gris (d'après M. Beaufuret) in 1933. Good condition on a watermarked paper by the Editor Bucher-Becker. No signed. On th...

Sketch for a Glasswindow is an original modern artwork realized in the 1950s by the French artist and glassmaster Louis Balmet. Original artwork realized in China Ink ans watercolo...

Allen Ladd as Shane Colored and metallic paper collage. c. 1960's Signed in ink lower right; Signed in pencil on reverse; (see photo) Titled in pencil upper left recto (see photo) C...

Portrait is an original Mixed media drawing on paper, realized by Sebastiano Carta. In good conditions except for some diffused foldings. Hand-signed on the lower left margin in pe...

Landscape is an original drawing in mixed media (tempera and watercolor) on canvas realized by an Anonymous artist of the Mid-20th Century. The State of preservation is good, excep...

Still Life is an original modern artwork realized in the 1950s by an Italian artist. Original Mixed Media, gouache and tempera on cardboard Hand-signed on the lower right corner ...

Easy Rider Blues Paper collage, post 1969 Inspired by the Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper movie of the same title Signed lower right (see photo) Titled lower left (see photo) Condition...

An important Spanish portrait painting by the celebrated artist Jose Vela Zanetti (1913-1999), signed & dated 1962. This painting by one of Spain's most celebrated muralists, who als...

Soldiers is an original artwork realized by the Spanish artist José Luis Rey Vila, china ink and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed on the lower righ...

Sign is a beautiful mixed media on cardboard panel, realized by the artist Esy Belluzzi. Signed in pencil on the back A charismatic abstract composition made of pure sign, action,...

Collage was an important part of Louise Nevelson's practice. The process mirrored her approach to sculpture; taking disparate elements and assembling or uniting them into a complex w...

Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) - Juste Présent Lithograph from 1961. Dimensions of work: 38 x 28 cm Publisher: Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris. A Xerox copy of the justification page, s...

Costume Drawing Mid-Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Russian Theatre Anton Refregier (1905-1979 Costume, 1931 Pencil, crayon, and silver paint on paper 17 x 13 ¾ inches...