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Art For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Color-Field
Inner World
Located in Sempach, LU
The still life Inner World is dedicated to the inner world of a person. It can be hidden from our eyes, but it can be very deep, interesting, bright, fantastic, always special. It ca...
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2010s Art Deco Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Pekingese Portrait - British Art Deco oil painting dog interior animal artist
Located in London, GB
A beautiful British portrait of a Pekingese dog by George Denholm Armour. Dated to circa 1920, it is a superb Art Deco animal portrait with bold brush strokes and vibrant colour. The...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Oil

Papillons
Located in London, GB
SEGUY, E[ugene] A[lain]. Papillons. Paris, [1929]. Superb lithograph by the master of the format. “In comparison with their variety and brilliance, much Art Deco illustration s...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Gouache

Papillons
Located in London, GB
SEGUY, E[ugene] A[lain]. Papillons. Paris, [1929]. Superb lithograph by the master of the format. “In comparison with their variety and brilliance, much Art Deco illustration s...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Gouache

" Le Fumeur de pipe "
Located in CANNES, FR
Paco Rabanne ( 1934 -2023 ) Grand couturier et parfumeur franco - espagnol . Il a marqué l'univers de la mode dans les années 60. En 1963 , Lauréat de la Biennale de Paris avec une s...
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Early 2000s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper, Felt, Felt Pen, Graphite

Still Life of Wallflowers - Scottish 1920's exh. floral art flower oil painting
By Andrew Law
Located in London, GB
This rich and vibrant Scottish still life oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Andrew Law. It was painted circa 1920 and has a Glasgow Club exhibition label verso entitling the p...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Oil

"L'homme calculateur" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and engraving. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1939 and published in Paris by San Lazzaro for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 5-6). Size:...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Etching

Art Deco Still Life -- Spring Tulips in Vase
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful art deco style still life of yellow and lavender tulips in vase with sugar bowl by Hamlin (American, 20th Century), circa 1935. Signed lower right "Hamlin" Condition: Good;...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Original Impermeaili Moretti Italian art deco vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Italian poster: Impermeabili Moretti by Leopoldo Meticovitz. Archival linen-backed original Italian vintage poster IMPERMEABILI MORETTI. This pre-art deco poster is in v...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Lithograph

Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925 Art Deco Sculpture - B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency, Paris 1925. The International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, October 1925, with an Art Deco sculptu...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Papilloins
Located in London, GB
SEGUY, E[ugene] A[lain]. Papillons. Paris, [1929]. Superb lithograph by the master of the format. “In comparison with their variety and brilliance, much Art Deco illustration s...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Gouache

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

1940s Art Deco Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

1940s Fashion Study Featuring an Advertisement for Lilly Daché Perfumes
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring an advertisement for Lilly Daché Perfume. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Instit...
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1940s Art Deco Art

Materials

Pencil

" Aède " Greek Poet
Located in CANNES, FR
Paco Rabanne ( 1934-2023 ) grand couturier et parfumeur franco-espagnol . il a marqué l'univers de la mode dans les années 60. en 1963 , lauréat de la biennale de Paris avec une sculpture exposée au musée d'art moderne de Paris . " Aède " est un autoportrait de Paco Rabanne Feutre noir et de couleur , encre sur papier . signé et daté 1991 . 30 x 23 cm . 51 x 41 cm encadré en aluminium . provenance : Succession Paco Rabanne 2023 " Un Aède est ,en Grèce antique...
Category

1990s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite, Felt

Original Vintage Travel Poster Poznan Visit Poland Art Deco Pologne Polen Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Pologne Poland Polen Visitez Visit Besuchet Poznan et ses Environs and Environs und Umgebung featuring a couple in traditional clothing holding flo...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper

1940s Fashion Study for Perfume Advertisement at Marshall Field & Company
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring an Elizabeth Arden advertisement for Marshall Field & Company. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the S...
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1940s Art Deco Art

Materials

Pencil

1935 original poster by Alo Chemins de fer de Paris Orléans Midi Lac de Sarrans
Located in PARIS, FR
Alo's 1935 poster for Chemins de fer de Paris Orléans Midi, featuring Lac de Sarrans and the picturesque Laussac peninsula in Cantal and Lot, emerges as a masterpiece that transcends...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper, Linen

Portrait of Juliana - British Art Deco pencil charcoal drawing of a woman
Located in London, GB
A fine large charcoal and pencil drawing by British listed artist James Stroudley. Executed in 1930, it is a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait. Very strong and bold, it d...
Category

1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Charcoal, Color Pencil

Art Deco original 'La Panna' vintage beach resort poster 1932
Located in Spokane, WA
Beautiful art deco original vintage poster La Panne from 1932. A chromolithograph with the addition of silver ink makes this original Belgium beach poster...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Lithograph

"La Comete" Iconic French Art Deco Silvered Bronze 1920s Female Nude
Located in New York, NY
"La Comete" Iconic French Art Deco Silvered Bronze 1920s Female Nude Maurice Guirard-Riviere (1881 - 1947) La Comete Silvered bronze 23 inches wide x 19 3/4 inches high x 5 1/2 inc...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Bronze

Paris, The Riverbank Booksellers - Black and White Original Photography Postcard
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photography postcard by Albert Monier, Paris. The riverbank booksellers, Quai de Gesvres, circa 1950. Features: This original silver gelati...
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1950s Art Deco Art

Materials

Postcard, Silver Gelatin

Paris International Exhibition w Eiffel Tower Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency ROL, Paris 1937. The International Exhibition Construction, with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Features: O...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

La Veuve Rusée By Erté
Located in New Orleans, LA
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) 1892-1990 Russian-French La Veuve Rusée Signed “Erté” (lower right) Gouache on paper La Veuve Rusée, first performed in 1748 in Venice, is a comedy cente...
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20th Century Art Deco Art

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Fille au Pigeon, Etching & Aquatint by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Fille au Pigeon by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Etching & aquatint 36 x 13.8 cm (14 ⅛ x 5 ⅛ inches) Signed lower left Provenance Private Collection, London Exhibition Fort ...
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1910s Art Deco Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

1940s Fashion Study for a 1940s Fashion Study Featuring Elizabeth Arden
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring an advertisement for Elizabeth Arden. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institut...
Category

1940s Art Deco Art

Materials

Pencil

La Mystérieuse
Located in Greenwich, CT
La Mystérieuse was inspired by Erté’s design for a wedding gown published in Harper’s Bazar in 1923. Erté wrote, “The name comes from the effect of mystery of this exquisite outfit. ...
Category

20th Century Art Deco Art

Materials

Bronze

Art Deco painting on cutout wood board of golden pheasant in oriental landscape
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This captivating piece truly stands out as an extraordinarily distinctive and exquisitely decorative example of Art Deco craftsmanship, bearing the signature 'D Edwards 21'. Despite ...
Category

20th Century Art Deco Art

Materials

Wood

Portrait of a Young Woman with Book - British Art Deco 20s portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Art Deco portrait oil painting is by noted British artist James P Barraclough. Painted circa 1923 it is a seated portrait of a young woman holding a book on her lap. She is wearing a blue satin dress with lace cuffs and collar and is gazing warmly at the artist and viewer. The illumination on her features is superb. A lovely Art Deco period oil portrait...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Oil

Sir Francis Drake Hotel San Francisco 1930, B and W Photography by Ralph Young
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Ralph Young Studios, San Francisco. View of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel building in 1930. Features...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Tandil Health Retreat Argentina Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for Tandil F.C.S. Las Sierras Distraccion y Salud / The Mountains Relaxation and Health featuring a scenic Art Deco view of the edge of a buildin...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper

Oil on canvas, Naked woman lying in front of her mirror
By Robert Louis Raymond Duflos
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Robert Louis Raymond DUFLOS (1898-1929), France, 1920s. Naked woman lying in front of her mirror. With frame: 95x61.5 cm - 37.4x24.2 inches - without frame: 73x40cm ...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Prismes
Located in Wilton, CT
A rare and particularly contemporary-looking collection of forty pochoir-colored plates of decorative designs for fabrics and ceramics by the seminal Art Deco designer E.A. Seguy. L...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Gouache

Original Golden Arrow Poster by Fix Masseau Hand Signed 1989
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This Fix-Masseau illustrated poster of the Golden Arrow is a not only great reminder of the artist’s practiced Art Deco niche but as well a reminder of the luxury of the Golden Arrow...
Category

1980s Art Deco Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mother and Child Bathing - British Slade School 30's Art Deco nude oil painting
Located in London, GB
An intriguing 1930's Art Deco Slade School oil on canvas painting. The work depicts a mother and child bathing, surrounded by other bathers. It possibly has religious overtones. This...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Oil

in City and in Forest (pale pink soft painting abstract wood minimal)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...
Category

2010s Art Deco Art

Materials

Spray Paint, Wood Panel

R.B. FELTRAP, Oil on canvas, Nude, 1937
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas signed R.B.FELTRAP, France, 1937. Nude. With frame : 101.5x82.5 cm - 40x32.5 inches ; without frame : 92x73 cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. Format 30F. Signed and dated "R.B.Fe...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Neo Deco – 02-02-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Extending the Series This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 02-02-23’ follows one in the same series. However, for the last one I used my regular model. This time I got ye...
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2010s Art Deco Art

Materials

Pencil

Portrait of a Boy - British Art Deco interior painting seated male female artist
By Anna Airy
Located in London, GB
This large stunning watercolour portrait was painted circa 1930 by noted British female artist Anna Airy. The portrait depicts a full length boy seated in a beautiful Art Deco interi...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Watercolor

Portrait of a Boy in White Shirt - Scottish 1920's Art Deco male oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Art Deco portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Cowan Dobson. Painted in 1923 it is a really light and bright portrait of a young boy. The light catching his white shirt and face illuminate him beautifully as his blue eyes gaze at the artist/viewer. The brushwork, for example on his hair and shirt are superb. This stunning portrait is finished off in a gorgeous original frame. A excellent example of Cowan Dobson's work. Signed and date (19)23 lower right. Provenance. Scottish estate. Condition. Oil on canvas, unframed size is20 inches by 16 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed behind glass in a beautiful ornate gilt frame. Framed size is 28 inches by 24 inches and in good condition. David Cowan Dobson (1894–1980), referred to as 'Cowan' Dobson ARBA (1919), RBA (1922), was a leading Scottish portrait artist of his day. Dobson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, the second son of the Scottish portrait painter Henry John Dobson (1858–1928).Dobson started his career in Scotland. He was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh and studied art in Edinburgh, London and Paris. In 1918 he was using his father's studio at Dalry. Around 1920 he moved to London and from then on he worked and resided mainly in London. Occasionally, he would work in and around Glasgow. He is said to have rented Kenmure Castle, in New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, in the 1930s and 1940s to entertain and paint fashionable sitters. Dobson mainly worked in oils but also painted some fine water-colour scenes. He painted in the tradition of the academic nineteenth century with mostly a rather darker colour scheme, while his brother Henry, influenced by the Modernist movement in Edinburgh, painted more colourful portraits. Although he painted some fine portraits of well known men, like Earl Attlee, Earl Beatty and Harold Wilson, Dobson also portrayed "fashionable London ladies". Dobson was married to Phyllis Bowyer, who was the brains behind his financial success. She made Dobson one of London's leading society portrait painters. She herself sat for the photographer Alexander Bassano, the resulting portrait now being at the National Portrait Gallery, London. During World War I, Dobson was commissioned by the Royal Air Force section of the Imperial War Museum to paint portraits of three recipients of the Victoria Cross. Dobson painted portraits of Lt. Col. L.W. Brabazon Rees, Sgt Mottershead and Flight Lt. A.W. Beauchamps-Proctor. Dobson first exhibited at Royal Academy when aged only nineteen and began showing at the Royal Scottish Academy four years later. Dobson's works were also exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Water-colourers, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Cambrian Academy, Fine Art Society and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Dobson enjoyed significant commercial success and thirty-six of his paintings, almost all portraits, are held in UK public collections including Glasgow Museums, The National Galleries of Scotland, Imperial War Museum, Paisley Art...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Oil

Golden Fleece
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté designed Golden Fleece for a Folies-Bergére scene entirtled "The Golden Fleece" and a 1926 George White's Scandals scene entitled "La Toison d'or." Erté, whose artistic style was influenced in part by a childhood admiration of classic Greek art, was always drawn to a good story with a sense of drama – typified by Greek tragedy. Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 115, 207). From the total edition of 462; numbered 215/375 (there were also 50 Roman and 37 AP). Referring to the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, the Golden Fleece sculpture depicts an elegant woman in a classic Greek garment. The curled horns of the ram style her headdress, elegant in appearance and yet fierce in battle. Descending from these horns is the golden fleece itself, its curly mane covering the woman to her toes. Her gown, a gracefully draped toga, is designed to leave one breast bared, in the folkloric tradition of the Amazon tribe of women warriors...
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20th Century Art Deco Art

Materials

Bronze

Portrait of a Woman - British Art Deco 1930's painting young lady red lipstick
Located in London, GB
A fine detailed watercolour on paper by Royal Academician William Dring who was a noted portrait artist of the 20th century. This portrait depicts a young woman in profile - and was painted circa 1937. A very evocative Art Deco portrait. In excellent condition and framed in gallery frame. A fine example of mid 20th century British portraiture...
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20th Century Art Deco Art

Materials

Watercolor

Nude "odalisque Aux Pantins" Belgian Modern School By Georges Brasseur 1930
Located in Gavere, BE
"Nude "odalisque Aux Pantins" Belgian Modern School By Georges Brasseur 1930" Georges BRASSEUR was an artist born in Belgium in 1880 and died in 1950. His works went up for sale at p...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Alexandria
By Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BUCKLEY MACGURRIN "ALEXANDRIA" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED AMERICAN, DATED 1949 EXHIBITED: DALZELL-HATFIELD GALLERY 14 X 20 INCHES Buckley MacGurrin 1896 –1971 Buckley MacG...
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1940s Art Deco Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Manon (Deuxième Tableau, #7), 1920
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté first met the legendary beauty Ganna Walska in 1920 when she contacted him about creating designs for her nascent opera career. He created many desig...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Lake Como Art Deco Bathers Comersee Italy Italien
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Comersee Italien / Lake Como Italy featuring a stunning Art Deco scene of people in fashionable summer clothing and elegant swimming costumes in th...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper

Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Ink, Paper

Women Of The Eastern Village. Andrée Karpelès (Paris, 1885 - Grasse, 1956).
Located in Firenze, IT
Women of the Eastern Village. Andrée Karpelès (Paris, 1885 - Grasse, 1956). A charcoal drawing on paper, from the beginning of the 20th century, representing 3 peasant women dresse...
Category

Early 20th Century Art Deco Art

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Original 1942 Plaza de Toledo vintage bullfighting poster
By Carlos Ruano Llopis
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed “Plaza de Toros de Toledo" bullfighting poster for 20 August 1942. Grandiosa Corrida de Toros. Six bulls from the famou...
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1940s Art Deco Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Vintage Travel Poster Air France Airways In All Skies Roger de Valerio
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Dans Tous Les Ciels Air France / In All Skies - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Roger de Valerio (1886-1951) depicting a propeller plane flyi...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper

Masquerade
Located in Greenwich, CT
Masquerade is based on an image Erté originally created as a fashion drawing for Harper’s Bazar in 1922. Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 119, 207). From the total edi...
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20th Century Art Deco Art

Materials

Bronze

LAND OF THE PHAROAHS Signed Lithograph, Expedition, Egyptian Pyramids, Camels
Located in Union City, NJ
LAND OF THE PHAROAHS by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Coventry Rag paper, 100% acid free. LAND OF THE PHAROAHS is a humorous desert expedition scene near the Egyptian pyramids featuring a row of barefoot explorers in safari hats and suits and their camels, walking side by side posed like figures depicted in the ancient Egyptian reliefs...
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1980s Art Deco Art

Materials

Lithograph

Vase Ormeaux
Located in Miami, FL
Rene Lalique "Vase Ormeaux" White blown molded glass with patina and high color 7,5 x 7,5 in Appears in the 1928 and 1932 catalogs. Catalog Raisonne #984
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Blown Glass

Ornements d'Oreilles, 1929 (#3.542)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Possibly created as a design for one of Harper's Bazar's 1929 monthly editions, Ornements d'Oreilles (#3.542) is also similar to a design Erté considered for his 'Art to Wear' jewelr...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Morceaux Choisis
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889-1963 ) " Morceaux Choisis " est un dessin à l'encre brune et légère estompe au crayon noir , exécuté en 1932 , il représente un profil de femme . 19 x 11 cm . si...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Ink

Original Vintage Travel Poster Orient Line Australia McKnight Kauffer Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Orient Line to Australia - featuring a great design by one of the most renowned poster artists of the 20th century Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954...
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1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper

Starfish
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté originally created this image as a costume design for the "Fonds de la Mer," a presentation of the Folies Bergere in 1919. Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 108, 2...
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20th Century Art Deco Art

Materials

Bronze

Art Deco Costume Design - Eva
Located in Miami, FL
The paper in some of these photos looks overly textured due to the sharpness of the high-res digital camera. In person, with the human eye, the paper looks reasonably smooth with out blemishes. For this fashion illustration, Georges Lepape paints a stunning abstract pattern for the subject dress that is repeated in her hair. The work represents an early use of metallic paint, with silver metallic in the dress and bronze metallic in the blouse. Lepape's highly detailed drawing becomes more evident the closer you look. It's quite amazing how deftly he rendered facial feature on such a small scale. "Eva" 1918 Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper Signed and dated, lower right: '1918' Inscribed, verso: "Costume for L'enfantement du mort, (miracle en pourpre, et or.). Devised by Marcel L'Herbier and performed at the Théatre Edouard VII and the Comédie des Champs-Elysées, 1919" Provenance: Ex-collection Lucien...
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1910s Art Deco Art

Materials

Ink, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

1929 American Male Academic Nude Crouching Bronze Sculpture EXCELLENT DETAILS
Located in New York, NY
Philip Shelton Sears 1868-1953 was an American tennis player and sculptor. He was the son of Frederic Richard Sears and Albertina Homer Shelton. His brother Richard Sears, was also a...
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1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Bronze

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