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Art For Sale
Period: Early 1900s
Period: 1910s
Le Quai de la Tournelle - Impressionist Cityscape Oil by Eugene Galien-Laloue
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist gouache on paper figures in landscape circa 1910 by French painter Eugene Galien-Laloue. The piece depicts a street scene at the Quai de la Tournelle...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Academic Nude Study
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Academic Nude Study by E. Rantz Charcoal on laid paper signed in charcoal Lalanne Watermark, c. 1880-1900 Image: 24 3/4 x 18 3/4"
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Charcoal

Kees Van Dongen Circus Performers 1900s Vintage Vibrant Figure Fauvist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Artistes du Cirque" is an original painting in ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper by leading Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, signed in the lower right. In the piece, two circus performers stand against against a wall. On the left, a pale woman in a blue leotard with red flowers on the shoulder stands with her arms crossed, looking out at the viewer. The painter fills in her tights with delicate white brushstrokes, lending them an almost iridescent appearance. Her strawberry blond hair is piled on top of her hair according to the fashion of the period. On the right, an African man stands in a vivid orange toga, looking somewhere off to the left. His feet are clad in bright white shoes...
Category

Early 1900s Fauvist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Modernist scene ink drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 43x37 cm. Frame with damage.
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Ink

"Amsterdam Jewish Quarter" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1919 and published in Berlin by Paul Cassirer. Image size: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (138 x 186 mm). Not signed.
Category

1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

"Bloomfield, New Jersey" Oscar Bluemner, American Modernist, Colorist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner Bloomfield, New Jersey, September 13, 1916 Signed, titled, and dated lower left Crayon on paper 5 x 5 3/4 inches Provenance: Fox Gallery, New York Sheldon Ross Galler...
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Paper, Crayon

"From the Saga of the Nibelungs"
By Friedrich König
Located in Wien, Wien
FRIEDRICH KING Vienna 1857 – 1941 Vienna “From the Saga of the Nibelungs” Oil on canvas 159 x 205 cm Signed u.l. Reverse: Munich Secession exhibition label Provenance: Modern Gallery Heinrich Tannhauser, Munich Secession, Munich Private collection, Vienna Friedrich König...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil

Svante Bergh, Still life with fruits on a table.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful still life of fruits in a basket set on a table by Ewald Svante Bergh, (1885-1946). Oil on canvas. Bergh was a Swedish painter and a member of the artist group 'De tolv'....
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Impressionist Artist Studio Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category

Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

A view from the Pont Neuf - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Charles Guilloux
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas riverscape by French impressionist painter Charles-Victor Guilloux. This beautifully painter piece shows a view from the Pont Neuf looking towards the ...
Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Near Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey" Date: 1908. Exquisite small snow scene!!!!!!
Located in San Antonio, TX
Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 6 x 9 Frame Size: 19 x 22 Medium: Oil Dated 1909 "Near Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey" Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) Known...
Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

La Cote de Marseille - Post Impressionist Sea Landscape Oil by Louis Gaussen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed seascape oil on panel circa 1910 by French painter post impressionist painter Adolphe Louis Gaussen. The work depicts a view of the bright blue sea from a rocky shoreline on t...
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

Hudson River School Fall Landscape Gouache Painting 1910
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4015 Gouache landscape painting in a green frame
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Gouache

Sankt Matteus Church in Stockholm, 1907
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting we have for sale, executed by Swedish artist Erik Tryggelin on May 3rd, 1907, presents an atmospheric and dynamic view of Sankt Matteus Church in Stockholm. This piece i...
Category

Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Nature by Charles Kern Fiedler - Pastels on paper 30x40 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Pastel on paper sold with frame Total size with Frame 44x34 cm Signed C. Kern ann dated 1915
Category

1910s Modern Art

Materials

Pastel

Antique American Impressionist Flower Garden Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower garden landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Young Beauty American Maurice Sterne rare early 1904 signed original etching
Located in Norwich, GB
An extremely rare and lovely hand signed etching by American Maurice Sterne, dating from the turn of the century when the artist was working in Paris. Maurice Sterne, born in 1877 ...
Category

Early 1900s American Modern Art

Materials

Etching

"Self Portrait" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (in smaller size after the original lithograph). This edition was published in Germany by Cassirer ca. 1903, and is now rare. Printed on smooth cream wove paper. I...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Antique German Landscape Figurative Rowboat River Crossing 1900
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3919a Antique German oil painting river crossing in a gilt wood frame Image size 12x12"
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil

"A Glowing Day South West Texas" Date: 1910. Exquisite Sky in this Texas piece
Located in San Antonio, TX
Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 6 x 9 Frame Size: 10.75 x 13.75 Medium: Oil Dated 1910 "A Glowing Sky" SW Texas Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) Known as...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

The Harvesters - Post Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Charles Frechon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Charles Frechon. The work depicts two woman harvesting a field on a sunny summer's day. One woman is resting against a hay bale. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 27"x31" Unframed: 20"x24" Provenance: Private collection - Rouen Charles Fréchon joined the Académie de Peinture et de Dessin in Rouen in 1879 and met Joseph Delattre and Charles Angrand. He then went to Paris and in 1881 enrolled at the Académie Colarossi. When he returned to Rouen he painted mainly from life.Fréchon painted landscapes in an Impressionist style and was one of the instigators of the so-called School of Rouen. The School took its name from the fact that painters such as Joseph Delattre, Léon Jules Lemaître...
Category

Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Circa 1900 poster for the Bal de l'Opéra de Paris by Tamagno - Belle Époque
Located in PARIS, FR
The circa 1900 poster for the Bal de l'Opéra de Paris, crafted by the talented artist Tamagno, offers a glimpse into the cultural richness of the Belle Époque. Tamagno, recognized fo...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

English Antique Bedroom screen set with 6 Polo Ponies in stables
Located in Woodbury, CT
Amazing late Victorian English mahogany bedroom screen set with six horse/polo pony portraits. George Paice was an English painter of horse,...
Category

Early 1900s Victorian Art

Materials

Wood, Oil, Panel

La Marchande de Fleurs - French Realist Figurative Oil by Victor Gilbert
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on original canvas by French realist painter Victor Gabriel Gilbert. The work shows a flower seller filling a young girl's basket with cherries while a little b...
Category

1910s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1906 Original caricatural poster by Sem representing J. P. Morgan
By SEM
Located in PARIS, FR
Marie Joseph Georges Goursat, better known as SEM, was a versatile French illustrator, affichiste, and caricaturist born on November 22, 1863, in Périgueux, and passing away on Novem...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

PORTRAIT OF "SAM HOUSTON" LARGE 55 X 44 FRAMED. DATED 1918 NICE LARGE TEXAS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Emil Hermann (1871 - 1966) Austria, Ohio, Wichita Falls (Texas) Artist Image Size: 47.5 x 36 Frame Size: 54.5 x 44 Medium: Oil Dated 1918 "Sam Houston" Emil Hermann (1871 - 1966) Emil Hermann (Am.1871-1966) Emil Hermann was born in Vienna of French and Austrian parents. His father was an engineer who did not consider art a proper profession for a young man. But so obvious was Hermann's talent, that his father let him enter the Royal Academy in Vienna. He went on to study at the National Art Institute at Budapest and the Rembrandt Art Institute in Amsterdam. In 1889, Hermann came to the United States to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at the age of nineteen. Hermann was the organizer and first president of the Ohio Brush and Pencil Club and president of the Dayton, Ohio Art Club. As a result of his work in the latter city, a two-million-dollar art center was later founded there. After enrolling in the Academy, he opened his first studio in Philadelphia. In 1890, he received his citizenship papers. His first break came when a Dayton art dealer invited Hermann to hold a one-man art show. From this show, he obtained a position as a muralist with the great Schachne Studios. Soon, he became one of the best-known portrait artists in the area, drawing the leading citizens of Dayton to his studio. The upcoming artist was such a success that, soon, he was traveling throughout the country to execute portrait commissions and hold exhibitions. On one such trip, he was in Tulsa. After viewing his exhibition, a group of Missouri attorneys, some of whom were living in Oklahoma, commissioned Hermann to paint a portrait of General John H. Pershing from an only existing photograph that had been made in France. This work, when completed, was presented to the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, and he was later commissioned to duplicate the portrait for the city of Loclede, Missouri, the birthplace of General Pershing. At a suggestion from his Tulsa friends, Hermann opened an exhibit on the balcony of the Freer Furniture Company, at Ninth and Scott in Wichita Falls, in 1919, in the midst of the great Burkburnett oil boom. Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Kemp commissioned him to do a portrait, which now hangs in the Kemp Public Library. As a result of this show his fame spread and he was soon flooded with offers from all parts of the southwest. The Fort Worth citizens club gave him a commission to do a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt...
Category

1910s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Original vintage poster for Cycles Clément Pneumatique Dunlop
Located in PARIS, FR
The vintage poster for "Cycles Clément Pneumatique Dunlop Clément, Gladiator & Humber Ltd" is a charming relic from the early 20th century, epitomizing the collaboration of renowned ...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Art Nouveau "Glasgow Rose" original lithograph by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Located in Chicago, IL
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, and visual artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wif...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sierra Snow Covered Cabin By R.Weil 1917
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5042 Sierra snow covered cabin Artist board Solid oak frame Signed R.Weil Dated 1917 on verso
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Oil

"Sous l'averse" original etching and aquatint
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and aquatint with drypoint. Catalogue reference Bourcard/Goodfriend 154. This work is also known as "Le petit enterrement". Printed in 1902 on laid paper and...
Category

Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Original "This Device on Hat or Helmet means U. S. MARINES" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “This Device on Hat or Helmet means U. S. MARINES” vintage poster. Archivally linen-backed in excellent condition. No paper loss an...
Category

1910s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Wharfedale Landscape with Kilnsey Crag Yorkshire - British 1919 art oil painting
By Bertram Priestman
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous British Impressionist landscape oil painting is by noted esteemed Yorkshire artist Bertram Priestman and was painted in in 1919. The location is Wharfdale, the valley o...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Vue de Rouen" original etching
By Clarence Alphonse Gagnon
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1905 and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate size: 6 5/8 x 4 inches (170 x 100 mm). Sheet size: 10 1/2 x 7 inches (270 x 178 mm)....
Category

Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Etching

Franz Bergmann Orientalist Arab Slave Nude Group Cold Painted Bronze Signed 1910
Located in Portland, OR
A very large 24" (61cm) Franz Xavier Bergmann (1861-1936) cold painted bronze group statue, signed, Austria, circa 1910. The bronze in the Orientalist manner & depicts a young slave ...
Category

1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Bronze

Henry M Terry, An Old Salt, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century watercolour by British artist Henry M Terry (1854-c.1920) depicts an elderly fisherman. Terry’s body of work is brimming with characters: dapper old gentleme...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Countryside landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 86 x 73 x 6 cm
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Oil

Children in the Luxembourg garden - Circa 1900 Original Poster - Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Painter, draughtsman and poster artist, Louis Abel-Truchet (1857-1918) is, along with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of the most famous representatives of Parisian life at the end of...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Oeuvres Complètes Illustrées - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1902
Located in Roma, IT
Oeuvres Complètes Illustrées is a rare book by Victor Hugo published in 1902.  Edited by Librairie du Victor Hugo Illustré - Paris.  Edition published on the centenary of Victor Hu...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea) Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906 Signed in pencil in the image (see photo) Edition: c. 100 Reference: Merrill Chase, Volume 1, No. 85 Condition: F...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Aquatint

Original 'Will You Supply Eyes for the Navy?' vintage American military poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster, linen-backed. Very good condition, rare American WW1 antique military poster. Navy ships need binoculars and spy-glasses. Will you ...
Category

1910s American Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Les pêcheurs de Concarneau by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Etching Print
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED Les pêcheurs de Concarneau by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961) Etching 22.5 x 17.7 cm (8 ⁷/₈ x 7 inches) Inscribed and dated lower left, and signed lower right...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Etching

Paysage Normand, Port en Bessin by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, watercolour, 1914
Located in London, GB
Paysage Normand, Port en Bessin by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour and ink on paper 23.5 x 30 cm (9 ¹/₄ x 11 ³/₄ inches) Signed and dated lower right, Ludovic Rodo 1914...
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Two Bengal School wash Watercolours Signed and Dated 1917 Calcutta Tagore N Bose
Located in Norfolk, GB
M D Natesan 1917 Watercolours on Paper x 2 Untitled (girl removing thorn from foot) Image Size: 33.5 x 17.7 cm Frame Size: 44 x 33 cm Untitled (girl with flower blue wash) Image Size: 27.5 x 17.6 cm Framed Size: 44 x 33 cm Two beautifully painted early Bengal School watercolours from Calcutta, One shows a girl removing a thorn from her foot, possibly a reference to a scene from Shakuntala, one of the Indian epics and portrayed by artists such as Abanindranath Tagore...
Category

1910s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

"Your War Savings Pledge, War Savings Stamps" original vintage 1918 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 1 vintage military poster: YOUR WAR SAVINGS PLEDGE. Archival linen backed, very good condition; ready to frame. For War Savi...
Category

1910s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Comrades in Arms (Brothers in Arms), Robert Ingersoll Aitken, World War I Bronze
By Robert Aitken
Located in New York, NY
Robert Ingersoll Aitken Comrades in Arms (Brothers in Arms), 1919 Inscribed "AITKEN" on the base Bronze 19 inches high Robert Aitken attended San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Institute of Art where he studied sculpture with Douglas Tilden and drawing with Arthur Mathews. At the age of eighteen, he opened his own studio in the city. He went to Paris in 1895, but deciding that the influence of the French was not beneficial for American artists, returned to the United States having stayed only three months. Aitken's first major commissions included a bronze monument to Bret Harte which the young sculptor executed for San Francisco's Bohemian Club, an organization that was to give him encouragement and patronage for the rest of his life. His first public exhibition was held at the Club's headquarters in 1896. In 1901, he won the competition for a memorial to Admiral Dewey to be placed in San Francisco's Union Square; his conception of Victory for the monument received much critical acclaim. Between 1901 and 1904, Aitken was head of the Department of Sculpture at the Hopkins Institute. In 1905, fifty-three of his sculptural models were featured in an exhibition at the Bohemian Club. Despite his earlier derision of French artists, he returned to Paris in 1904, this time he remained for three years, even having a work accepted in the Salon of 1907. He came back to the United States in the latter year, and settled in New York where he opened a studio and began teaching at the Art Students League. His artistic career was interrupted by World War I, when he served in Europe, achieving the rank of Captain in the infantry. Aitken first exhibited at the Academy in 1907, received the Barnett prize in the winter exhibition of the following year, and continued to be a consistent exhibitor in NAD exhibitions. Particular critical attention was given his Michelangelo, which he showed at the Academy in 1912. He designed the Academy's Elizabeth N. Watrous Gold Medal, an award he won himself in the Winter Exhibition of 1921, for a model of his monument to George Rogers Clark...
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Bronze

"La Toilette" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1908 and published in Paris by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 8 x 5 1/2 inches ...
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Early 1900s Art

Materials

Etching

Chelford Church stained glass window design by Reginald Hallward
Located in London, GB
To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Reginald Hallward (1858 - 1948) Stained glass memorial design for Chelford Chu...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Pencil, Gouache

"Le Perron" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Sanchez & Seydoux 1911-12. Printed in 1911 by Fourtier et Marotte and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Image size: 7 1/...
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1910s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original "Shoot Ships to Germany and help America Win" vintage poster 1918
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Shoot Ships to Germany. At this Shipyard are being built ships to carry to our men "Over There" -- Food, Clothing, and the Munitions of War. Without these ships ou...
Category

1910s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Antique Advertising Poster AW Faber Castell Stationery Supplies Athlete
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster for Castell A.W. Faber stationery supplies featuring a young athlete throwing a green AW Faber pencil as a javelin with another javelin thrower an...
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Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper

Ruth. 1902. Сast iron, h 61 cm; w 27 cm molder Kuznetsov, factory KASLI
Located in Riga, LV
Ruth. 1902. Сast iron, h 61 cm; w 27 cm molder Kuznetsov, factory KASLI Author - Friedrich GOLDSCHEIDER (1845-1897)
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Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Iron

Le Resesquement a l'Advocats (The Legal Reservation)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Resesquement a l'Advocats (The Legal Reservation) Pastel on paper, c. 1910 signed lower right Image size: 10 3/4 x 14 inches Frame size: 23-1/2 x 26-1/2 x 2-3/8 inches Condition: ...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Pastel

Uxbridge original vintage poster by Edward McKnight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage 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 cannot find the poste...
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1910s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Antique WWI Home Front Poster Every Rivet Brings Us Nearer To Victory
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One home front poster - Every Rivet Brings Us Nearer To Victory - featuring an industrial illustration of ship build...
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1910s Art

Materials

Paper

Vårvinter II (Winter, Early Spring II), Oil on Board, C. 1909
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting "Vårvinter II," believed to have been painted around 1909 by the Swedish artist Karl Tirén, is a remarkable representation of a landscape in the cusp of the seasonal tra...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Board, Oil

St Etheldreda's Fulham WW1 commemorative window design by Reginald Hallward
Located in London, GB
To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Reginald Hallward (1858 - 1948) Stained glass window design for St Etheldreda'...
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1910s Art

Materials

Gouache, Pencil

"Rio Ca Foscari, Venice" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Tabanelli 220. This impression on watermarked laid paper was printed in 1906 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate size: 8 5/8...
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Early 1900s Art

Materials

Etching

Original "Your Country's Call, Enlist Now" 1915 vintage British poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Your Country's Call. Isn't this Worth Fighting For? Enlist Now. Original WW1 poster, archival linen-backed vintage military poster. Linen-backed and ...
Category

1910s Academic Art

Materials

Lithograph

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