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Art For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1940s
View of Siena
Located in Roma, RM
Bruno Croatto (Trieste 1875 - Rome 1948), View of Siena (1941) Oil painting on panel 50 x 60 cm signed, located Siena and dated 1941.
Category

1940s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Picasso, Deux femmes, La Chèvre-Feuille (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving and Zincograph on vélin Lafuma-Navarre paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Chèvre-Feuille, 1943. Published b...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

"TWO MALLARDS" FLYING DUCKS FRAMED 23.25 X 27.25
Located in San Antonio, TX
Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951) Massachusetts Image Size: 15.5 x 15.5 Frame Size: 23.25 x 27.25 Medium: Charcoal on Paper Dated 1930 "Two Mallards Biography Frank Weston Benson (1862...
Category

1930s Realist Art

Materials

Charcoal

Picasso, Visages, La Chèvre-Feuille (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving and Zincograph on vélin Lafuma-Navarre paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Chèvre-Feuille, 1943. Published b...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

Morisot, Les Tuileries, Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Morisot, Bateau blanc dans le port de Nice (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Morisot, Jeune Femme sur le sofa, Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Morisot, Bibi dans sa voiture au bois, Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Morisot, Montagne du Château à Nice vu de Cimièse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Morisot, Le Cerisier, Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Morisot, Fillette et sa bonne sur un banc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Morisot, Le Goûter, Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Morisot, Jeune femme assise avenue du Bois de Boulogne (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Berthe Morisot Sei...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Moore, Drawing for Sculpture, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mediterranean Costal Town (South of France)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Charles Evans (1907-1992) Mediterranean Costal Town, 1932. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Sheet measures 8.5 x 10 inches; mounted in frame measuring 8.5 x 10 inches. Signed a...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Portrait of the Neapolitan actor Raffaele Viviani
Located in Roma, RM
Raffaelle "Lello" Scorzelli (Naples 1921 - Rome 1997), Portrait of Neapolitan actor Raffaele Viviani (1942) Terracotta sculpture 38 x 51 x 26 cm signed and dated 1942 on the back of...
Category

1940s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Terracotta

The Model Asleep - Mid 20th Century Nude Still Life Oil Painting by Dorothy King
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Dorothy King was born and lived in London in 1907. She studied at the Hornsey School of Art under JC Moody, then briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art with Randolph Schwabe. She to...
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Picasso, Composition, La Chèvre-Feuille (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving and Zincograph on vélin Lafuma-Navarre paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Chèvre-Feuille, 1943. Published b...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

1941 original travel poster by Walter Herdeg for Montreux Switzerland
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1941, a captivating original travel poster by Walter Herdeg unveiled the timeless allure of Montreux, Switzerland. Instead of showcasing typical vistas or landmarks, the poster o...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Picasso, Danseuse, La Chèvre-Feuille (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving and Zincograph on vélin Lafuma-Navarre paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Chèvre-Feuille, 1943. Published b...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

Picasso, Trois baigneuses, La Chèvre-Feuille (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving and Zincograph on vélin Lafuma-Navarre paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Chèvre-Feuille, 1943. Published b...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

Picasso, Femme assise et deux danseuses, La Chèvre-Feuille (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving and Zincograph on vélin Lafuma-Navarre paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Chèvre-Feuille, 1943. Published b...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

Marquet, Femme se coiffant, Marquet (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Marquet, 1948. Publish...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...
Category

1930s American Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Windmill And Well At Dusk - Original Vintage Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Windmill And Well At Dusk - Original Vintage Lithograph Original vintage black and white lithograph of a windmill and well at dusk by Peter Hurd (American, 1904-1984). The viewer looks out into the New Mexico desert, as a windmill stands in back of a full water tank. The setting dusky sun lights the horizon as the crescent moon comes into view. Simple, beautiful New Mexico desert scene. Signed in print575 "Peter Hurd" lower right. Presented in a silver frame with an inner white mat. Frame: 15.25"H x 19.25"W Mat: 14.5"H x 18.5"W Image: 8.75"H x 10.25"W Peter Hurd (American, 1904-1984) was an American painter whose work is strongly associated with the people and landscapes of San Patricio, New Mexico, where he lived in the 1930s. He is equally acclaimed for his portraits and his western landscapes. Early in his life, Hurd studied in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania under the noted illustrator N. C. Wyeth, along with two of his grown children. Hurd later married the painter's eldest daughter, Henriette Wyeth, who also is known as an accomplished painter. During World War II, Hurd worked for Life magazine as a war correspondent attached to the US Air Force. He created hundreds of "War Sketches". Hurd came to national attention in the 1930's for both painting and book illustration. Among the books are Last of the Mohicans (1926), Great Stories of the Sea and Ships (1933), and Habit of Empire (1938). Nevertheless, he was most associated with the New Mexico subjects which occupied most of his career. He worked primarily in egg tempera on gesso, a medium he introduced to his younger brother-in-law, Andrew Wyeth. Hurd's realist palette and brush technique of fine, linear marks and hatches beautifully conveyed the scrubby high-desert landscape. He loved to explore the visual effect of constantly changing weather and sunlight on the land. Hurd also was known for his honest yet sympathetic portrayals of local ranch and farm families going about the work and pleasures of their daily lives. Sponsored by New Deal art programs, Heard painted murals for the Big Springs, Texas Post Office in 1938 and the Terminal Annex Building in Dallas in 1940. In that latter year he also completed three fresco murals at the Alamogordo, New Mexico Post Office. From 1942 to 1945 Hurd worked as a war correspondent for Life magazine and then resumed full-time painting. During 1953 and 1954 Peter, Henriette, and two students, Manuel Acosta...
Category

1930s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Łańcuchów Village - Mid 20th Century Oil Landscape by Helena Krajewska - Poland
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
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 Art

Materials

Oil, Board

"The Herman Miller Collection" 1948
Located in Bristol, CT
Furniture designed by George Nelson/ Charles Eames/ Isamu Noguchi & Paul Laszlo [72] pp. Herman Miller Furniture Co. 1948 First Edition 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" The first edition catal...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paper

"The Embrace" Original Surreal Watercolor & Ink Drawing by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
Category

1940s Surrealist Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Mother and Child - Vintage Photograph - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Mother and Child is a black and white photograph of a painting realized by A. Von Mayden in the 1930s. Good conditions with slight foxing. Included a Passepartout:46 x 35 cm
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

C Sørensen, Interior With Spinning Wheel, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist C Sorensen depicts a rustic interior with table, spinning wheel, chair, clock, and chest. Little is known about C Sørensen, whi...
Category

1930s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gibraltar From The Sea - Etching by James Charles Armytage - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Gibraltar From The Sea is a lithograph realized by James Charles Armytage in 1940. Signed on the plate and titled on the lower. Included a Pasepartout:24 x 30 cm Good conditions w...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Andre Derain Female Nude Pencil Drawing
Located in Dallas, TX
André Derain (1880-1954) nude female pencil drawing, circa 1935 Stamped with Atelier Oval “Andre Derain” Stamped on verso with the S. Knaublich André Derain sale stamp Pencil on pape...
Category

1930s Aesthetic Movement Art

Materials

Paper

"Just Married", 1930s Original Painted Figurative Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative 1930's illustration of a just married couple in a classic car by Charles Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). Signed "Kinghan" in the lower left c...
Category

1930s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Cardboard, Acrylic

Gromaire, Composition, Gromaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Gromaire, 1949. Publis...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Dartmoor Ponies. Early Morning Mist and Haze. Devon Moor Pony.1930s.Wild Horses
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Charles Walter Simpson. English ( b.1885 - d.1971 ). Dartmoor Ponies, Devon. Oil on Board. Signed lower right. Image size 20.7 inches x 28.2 inches ( 52.5cm x 71.5cm ). Frame size 29...
Category

1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Olle Hjortzberg Still Life With Yellow Roses, 1946
Located in Dallas, TX
Olle Hjortzberg (Swedish, 1872-1959) Stilleben met gula rosor (Still life with yellow roses), 1946 Oil on Masonite Sight: 25-1/2 x 21-1/4 inches (64.8 x 54.0 cm) Framed: 35 X 30.25 ...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paint

Going to Market, Jamaica
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Going to Market, Jamaica Image: 24.0 x 14.0 cm Mount: 36.8 x 25.8 cm Wood engraving 1932 One of Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises by Robert Gibbings...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Wood, Engraving

Harbour View - Cityscape Abstract Dada Romanian Israeli
Located in London, GB
This work is signed by the artist “Janco”, in the lower right corner. Condition: Good condition. Minor areas of craquelure, particularly along the edges of the canvas. Mild surface ...
Category

1930s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Anthony Thieme Nets And Sails
Located in Dallas, TX
Anthony Thieme, Netherlands (1888-1954). Oil on canvas 'Nets and Sails', Signed lower left and mounted in gilt decorative frame. Framed: 34.5 x 40.5 Canvas: 28.75 x 34.75 Condi...
Category

1930s Aesthetic Movement Art

Materials

Paint

Aristide Maillol Charcoal Drawing “Nu De Dos”
Located in Dallas, TX
Aristide Maillol (Fr, 1861-1944) A very large original charcoal drawing by Aristide Maillol verified by Olivier Lorquin, Director of Galerie Dina Vierny at the Musee Maillol in Par...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Visage dans étoile (A.R. 30)
Located in London, GB
White earthenware ceramic plate, partially engraved, with coloured engobe and glaze, conceived in 1947 and executed in an edition of 200 copies. Inscribed 106/200 and I. 104 undernea...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Henri Matisse Drawing Masque D'eskimo Crayon
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri Matisse Drawing Of An Eskimo COA By George Matisse. Pencil on paper, 1949, Unsigned. Sheet size: 11.75 Inches x 9.2 Inches Framed in Museum fram with linen matting and museum ...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Au Cafe
By Elizabeth Ronget
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frame size 42 x 52.5 inches ELISABETH RONGET "AU CAFE” OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1940 Elisabeth Ronget 1886-1962 Elisabeth Boehm Ronget was born in 1896 in Conitz, Polan...
Category

1940s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wagon Crossing a Bridge (Wagen auf einer Brucke)
Located in New York, NY
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), Wagon Crossing a Bridge (Wagen auf einer Brucke), woodcut, c. 1941, signed in pencil lower left, with the artist’s work number lower center (1867). Reference: Prasser W 82, only state. In very good condition, with margins, 3 1/2 x 4 3/4, the sheet 4 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. A fine fresh proof impression of this intricate cubist composition, printed in black ink on a thin Japan wove paper. Prasser notes a few proofs, on various papers, some unsigned. This print was included as No. 5 of the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger, 1941, edition of 30; as with many of his small woodcuts...
Category

1940s Cubist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney
Located in Dallas, TX
Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958) - Étude pour le Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney. A large specimen painting for Rouault beautifully framed in a shadow fashion making a grandiose ...
Category

1930s Expressionist Art

Materials

Paint

Low Country
Located in Raleigh, NC
Elizabeth O'Neil Verner etching titled "Low Country" lower left and signed in pencil lower right beneath the image. Excellent condition with large margins. A richly inked impression ...
Category

1930s American Realist Art

Materials

Etching

A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm) Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm) Provenance Private Collection o...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Graphite, Paper

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Georges Braque (1882-1963) ...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Don't be Fuel-ish original vintage poster by HM Bateman WW2 Home Front
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage public information posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller" - or send us a message if you ca...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Looking Up Meeting Street - Charleston
Located in Raleigh, NC
Looking Up Meeting Street - Charleston by Elizabeth o'details showing. A dark richly inked impression with all the fine ddetails showing. Some light staining as shown in the photos.
Category

1930s American Realist Art

Materials

Etching

Madonna of Notre Dame
Located in Täby, SE
This is a unique sculpture made of a bulding block in limestone from Notre Dame in 1949 by Einar Norman. Gustav Einar Norman, born 12 February 1896 in Avesta, died 28 October 1950 i...
Category

1940s Expressionist Art

Materials

Limestone

Matisse, Composition, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IV, N° 13, Novem...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marquet, Nu., Marquet (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Marquet, 1948. Publish...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Early 1940s Fashion Study for Elizabeth Arden's Nail Polish at Marshall Field
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring an advertisement for Elizabeth Arden's "Safari" nail polish at Marshall Field & Co. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion ...
Category

1940s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Watercolor

Marquet, Nu à la chaise, Marquet (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Marquet, 1948. Publish...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category

1940s Surrealist Art

Materials

Photogravure

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