1920s Paintings

Signed Lower Right Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, March 30, 1929

Oscar Lycke was a Swedish artist from Sundsvall. He is best known for his impressive colourful landscape paintings in a national romantic and realism style...

Vintage impressionist horse portrait painting. Oil on board. Nicely framed. Image size, 13L x 11H. Signed.

Stunning pointillist landscape oil on panel circa 1920 by French neo-impressionist painter Achille Lauge. The work depicts a spring landscape. In the centre are three tall trees covered in white and pink blossom. The trees are surrounded by fields painted in wonderful shades of green and blue. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 28"x34" Unframed: 20"x26" Provenance: A certificate of authenticity from Juliette Lauge accompanies the painting. The work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the artist, currently in preparation by Mme. Nicole Tamburini Achille Laugé...

A fine landscape painting of Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire by American artist Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933). Perry was born in Boston, Massachusetts...

Post impressionist oil on canvas circa 1920 by French painter Adolphe Louis Gaussen. The work depicts a boat sailing in the blue waters off a rocky coast in Marseille, France. Signa...

What a gorgeous painting, and what a distinctive style this artist had! It is signed "Sinclair," but I haven't been able to figure out who this was, or where this scene is. On the ba...

A lovely, peaceful view across the patio of a stone house in a forested countryside. This painting was imported from England, but the architecture appears Mediterranean to me. It is ...

Still life, eggs, red flower, White, Realism, 1920s Henri VAN DE VELDE (1896-1969)

A wonderful oil on board circa 1920 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton, who was known as the painter of colours. The piece depicts a figure walking th...

Albert Ernest Bottomley was an English Impressionist and traditional painter of landscapes and animal scenes. Painter born in Leeds who studied art with the landscape artist William...

Signed lower right 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885-1961) and dated 1923. In a later, giltwood swept frame. Framed dimensions: 34.25 x 1.75 x 24.75 inches An early-twentieth century figural gouache showing Joan prior to her execution, kneeling and holding the communion chalice. She seems oblivious to the jostling crowd of captors and weeping supporters that surround her. An armored soldier stands at right, firmly grasping his scabbard and the hilt of his sword. A second solder draws aside the tent door...

Antique American impressionist beach dune oil painting by Charles Gordon Harris (1891 - 1963). Oil on board, circa 1920. Signed. Displayed in a period gi...

“Public Aid” is an oil painting by Lionel Walker, a 20th century African-American artist known for his oil paintings. Three figures dressed for the outdo...

Medium: Oil on Paper Laid on Panel Signature: Signed Lower Right Initialed lower right: M.P. Signed on the reverse: Maxfield Parish Initialed and numbered by the artist's son on the reverse: M.P. Jr. / No. 68. When Maxfield Parrish painted the comical A Dark Futurist in 1923 for Life magazine, he had already established himself as America's leading book and magazine illustrator. His early artwork for children's classics like L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose (1897), Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days (1900), and Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood (1904) popularized his signature atmospheric settings, cobalt blue-and-gold palette, and dreamy figures inhabiting magical worlds. Likewise, his covers for Century, Collier's, Harper's Bazaar, Ladies' Home Journal, Life, and Scribner's Magazine were highly desirous and instantly recognizable, often more stylized than his book imagery; no other journal illustrator could match Parrish's winning combination of precise draftsmanship, strong graphic design, and amusing characters. According to David Apatoff, Art Critic, The Saturday Evening Post, "Parrish abandoned his customary heavy details and rainbow colors to present a bolder, more high-contrast design silhouetted against a stark white background - a treatment more suitable for a modern magazine cover vying for attention on a crowded newsstand. A Dark Futurist is silhouetted against a white field with no background or details to prop it up. The composition is carefully centered with only differences in the hands and the artist's necktie to break the symmetry. These are crucial to the success of the design. Just as important as Parrish's clean, high-contrast style in these pictures is the refreshing humor and sophistication in content, which is usually absent from Parrish's fairytale paintings. A Dark Futurist shows us a different kind of modernism. Parrish steps out of his timeless fairy tales to tweak one of the most incendiary artistic movements of his day. Futurism, with its militant manifesto and its outspoken artists, was all the rage in Europe. Parrish pokes them, showing a "dark" and anxious futurist with pursed lips and thick glasses, poised to paint but not exactly sure of, or optimistic about, what the 'future' will hold. This suggests that Parrish was alert to, and had opinions about, current events of the day - something one might never guess from his usual subject matter." In his early Collier's illustrations, Parrish also developed memorable themes that he would return to in his 1920s magazine work. One of his most popular characters was the "seer," or man with keen visual powers, most often depicted as an artist, but also appearing as a tourist, scientist, and philosopher. Parrish's seer was recognizable by particular physical attributes: round glasses, indicating his visual and analytical acuity, and an overcoat and/or hat signifying his role as observer of the outside world. A Man of Letters, sold last year at Heritage Auctions, was one of the first Life covers Parrish rolled out for Gibson, and he repeated the character of the artist-seer, emphasizing the comic spin, for two later editions: A Dark Futurist (Life, March 1, 1923) captures a Parrish-like artist in foggy round glasses and a long green coat...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Sight Size 20.13" x 16.38", Framed 26.00" x 23.00" Maxfield Parrish’s popularity as an illustrator began with his early work for magazine publishers. An Easter 1895 cover for Harper’s Bazaar, one of the leading publications of the day, was followed by a successful foray into book illustration beginning in 1897 when Parrish completed illustrations for Frank Baum’s Mother Goose in Prose. His unique style and vivid imagination were well suited to illustrating children’s literature and resulted in numerous commissions. The List of Characters is one of 26 paintings, which appeared as an illustration in Louise Saunders' book, The Knave of Hearts. Lawrence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler write, “The last book Parrish illustrated, The Knave of Hearts (1924), was his masterpiece. When Parrish discovered this children’s play, he proposed an illustrated edition to Scribner’s, to which the publisher enthusiastically agreed …It was written by Louise Saunders, who was the wife of Maxwell Evarts Perkins of Scribner’s, an important editor in the 20th century and discoverer of authors Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. The couple were summer residents at Cornish and close friends of the Parrishes” (Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Edison, New Jersey, 2004, p. 172). According to Coy Ludwig, “The artist’s enthusiasm was shared by the publisher, who requested sketches or more precise information upon which to base a cost analysis, as final approval could not be given until the costs were estimated. Parrish prepared an elaborate dummy or mock-up of the proposed publication, complete with watercolor sketches of the illustrations, and sent it to the publisher early in 1921 …The twenty-six paintings for The Knave of Heartswere executed within three years, and the book, a sumptuous production, was published on October 2, 1925… The volume, selling for ten dollars, was packaged in a telescoping box...

Provenance: This is an early painting by Huldah Mae Cherry (also known as Huldah Cherry Jeffe), done in her "Impressionist years" and painted after a painting by another American I...

Medium: Oil on Paper Laid to Board Signature: Signed with the Artists Initials M.P Lower Center Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, plate 35, p. 133, illustrated in color

Documentation Signed Origin Belgium Period 1920-1949 Materials oil on canvas Dimensions W. 25.5 in; H. 31 in; W. 64.77 cm; H. 78.74 cm; Condition Good. Excellent condion Creation Date C. 1930 Description An exquisite still life with masterful use of color. Carved frame measures 38.5 x 33 inches. Fernand Toussaint...

EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS French 1882 - 1969 PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right) oil on canvas 19-3/4 x 25-1/2 inches (50 x 64.5 cm.) framed: 27-3/4 x 33-3/8 inches (70 x 84.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collector, Madrid An elegant night view of the Parisian Republic Square, with amazing light effects that catch us. This work executed based on brushstrokes of long and safe strokes that make the forms vibrate with vivid color. Parisian nightlife is trapped in this corner of Paris. The monumental sculpture that symbolizes freedom and that presides over the square serves as a reference behind the tram between a light chiaroscuro. Meanwhile, the effervecent and lively life of the cafes that surround it vibrate strongly with its bright lights. Èdouard León Cortés (1882–1969) was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting" because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings. Cortes was born on August 6, 1882, in Lagny-sur-Marne, about twenty miles east of Paris. His father, Antonio Cortés, had been a painter for the Spanish Royal...

LOUIS ICART French, 1888 - 1950 CAFÉ PLACE BLANCHE signed "Louis Icart" (lower left) titled, inscribed, signed and located "- Café place Blanche - / XVI-77 / L. I, / Paris" (on the r...

Original Oil on Canvas Illustration for Hearst/Cosmopolitan Aug. 1925 "Land Where Men Forget the Past, The Coconut Pearl" Caption: " 'Anyone who's knocked ...

Signed and dated on top right. On rear: Stamp, "Galleria Bergamini - Milano". Beautiful landscape of Paris by Filippo De Pisis, realized during his long stay in Paris after 1925. Thi...

Jean Dufy (1888-1964) "Les Cavaliers Dans La Parc" c. 1929/30 Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left Provenance: Arthur Lenars & Co., Paris *This work has been authenticated by Jacques Ba...

Edmund Adler (Rode) "Blowing Bubbles" Oil on Canvas 22 x 27 inches 32 x 37 inches framed Signed Lower Right Edmund Adler (Austrian) 1876-1965 Kno...

"Les Usines En Banlieue" 1926 Gouache 31 x 40cm/approx. 12.5 x 16.75 inches Signed and Dated Lower Right Catalogue Raisonne: Petredies, Plate AG166, Page 190-191

Modernist winter landscape with figures by Abel Bertram (1871 - 1954). Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1920. Signed lower left,...

An original oil on board by American artist George Renouard created Circa 1920.

Micao Kono was born in Japan, but moved to work in Paris in the 1920's. His style, a mixture of Japanese watercolor and figurative Art Deco. He often mixed egg tempera into his oils ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 18.00" x 14.00", Framed 25.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Life Magazine, November 8, 1924 Good Scouts, Girl Scouts...

Impressionist painting of a beach town by Hans Kruuse (1893-1964). Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed lower right, "H. Kruuse". Displayed in a gilt...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 53.00" x 136.00", Framed 66.00" x 149.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Interwoven Stocking Company Advertisement Reproduced on gift boxes, Advertisement appeared in Saturday Evening Post, December 8, 1928, pg.2 The long lost NC Wyeth...

Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 - 1948), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, gener...

An early, rare oil on canvas by American artist Ron Blumberg. Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he b...

An original oil on canvas by prolific French artist Helene Perdriat. Perdriat specialized in figurative, genre subjects of the 1920's and 1930's French...

Signed lower right, "H. Melville Fisher" for Hugo Melville Fisher (American, 1878-1946) and painted circa 1925. Inscribed on stretcher, verso, 'New England Rocky Seashore'. A substantial, Impressionist seascape by this Paris-trained and well-listed, American Modernist. Born in Brooklyn, Hugo Melville Fisher first studied with his father, the landscape painter Hugo Anton Fisher...

Presenting an original mixed media watercolor by Hungarian artist Bela Kadar. Bela Kadar was a historically important artist, is work was included as part of the degenerate art movement of Nazi Germany. His works appeared illustrated in the famous German arts magazine Der Sturm...

Presenting a lovely self portrait by Swiss artist Juliette Calame’. “Auto-Portrait” is an original vintage oil on panel, signed, c.1925, with an image dimension of 29 x 19.5 inches.

An original oil on canvas by French artist Jean Jannel, known for his figurative, genre portraits. Le Miroir, is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1930...

Micao Kono was born in Japan, moving to work in Paris in the 1920's. His style, a mixture of Japanese watercolor and figurative Art Deco. He often mixed egg tempera into his oils to ...

Presenting an exceptional Art Deco oil painting by Austrian artist Richard Geiger. Geiger specialized in Art Deco imagery, in particular, he enjoyed using figures from the Italian Theater...

Presenting an exceptional and rare mixed media watercolor by Belgian artist Edmond Vandercammen. Vandercammen was classically trained and well ...

Presenting a rare oil on panel by German artist Otto Tugel. Otto Tugel worked in Germany before settling in New York. This is an early oil on panel, signed in monogram, dated 1925.

Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 - 1948), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, gener...

An original mixed media watercolor/gouache by Russian artist Vladimer Ullianoff. Ullianoff was credited for his large paintings and mural work in venues such as Graumans Chinese Thea...

An original mixed media gouache by French artist Jean Jannel, known for his figurative, genre portraits. Mademoiselle Jannel, is an original mixed media gouache, c.1930. We acquir...