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Art For Sale
Period: 1940s
Color:  Blue
Original Vintage War Home Front Recycling Poster Bones Make Explosives WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Home Front recycling poster - Bones Make Explosives Put Out All Bones For Salvage - featuring a great modernist graphic design by Reginald Mount (1906-...
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1940s Modern Art

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Paper

Original Vintage World War Two Poster Great Britain Will Pursue Japan WWII Plane
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster featuring an illustration of an RAF Royal Air Force plane flying at speed above a Royal Navy warship in camouflage flying a White Ensign flag, t...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Dolomites Holiday Italy Franz Lenhart
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster in French - Pour vos vacances Sud Tirol Italie Dolomites / For your holidays South Tyrol Italy Dolomites - mountain range located in north ...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Torino Alps Capital Winter Sport Campagnoli Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Winter Sports in Torino Capital of the Alps / Sport Invernali Torino Capitale Delle Alpi - featuring artwork by Alberto Campagnoli (1905-1983) of a red cable car ski lift traveling up past snow covered trees with a mountain and bright sun in the background, the colourful bold title text below and slogan diagonally across the image. Issued by ENIT the Italian...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Rother Valley Landscape Kent - British 1950's art harvest oil painting
Located in London, GB
This interesting British landscape oil painting is by noted artist Laurence Henry Irving. Painted circa 1940 it is a Kent harvest landscape of the Rother Valley from Prospect Hill, W...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Art

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Oil

Original Vintage Travel Poster St Moritz Les Bains Switzerland Albert Steiner
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Switzerland travel poster for St Moritz Les Bains Suisse 1856m featuring a scenic image by the notable Swiss photographer Albert Steiner...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Airspan Travel Corsica Awaits You
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Airspan Travel Limited Corsica Awaits You... featuring an image of a plane flying above a map of Corsica island with a smiling lady in a red headscarf and Ajaccio marked on the map set...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster Weymouth GWR SR Railway Map Express Train
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster advertising Weymouth and District Frequent Express Trains and Cheap Fares GWR Great Western Railway SR Southern Railway featuring a pictorial map of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis with significant locations and historical events marked on the map including illustrations in Weymouth Bay of sailing boats near the shore, navy battle ships, fishing boats and an angling description, the Shambles light ship, and the captions Weymouth ships captured two galleons from the Spanish Armada / Weymouth furnished 20 ships and 265 mariners for the Siege of Calais in 1345, as well as places of interest and sporting activities on land such as Roman remains and villa, the grave of Lawrence of Arabia, golf, people on horses, steam trains on routes marked in red through the hills, rivers, trees and towns, sub-tropical gardens, bird sanctuary, churches, the Race at Portland Bill...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Winter Sport Travel Poster Kandahar Ski School Murren Brugger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport travel poster for the Kandahar Ski School in Murren Kandahar with the slogan - Its sun terrace is waiting for you / Seine Sonnenterrasse wartet auf Sie ...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster St Moritz Switzerland Skiing Sun Mountains Swiss Flag
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport travel poster for the ski resort of St Moritz featuring a great design by the Swiss artist Franco Barberis (1905-1992) depicting the St Moritz smiling s...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Central Kitchens War Food Centrale Keukens Map Chef
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two food propaganda poster - Central Kitchens A nutritious meal for little money / Centrale Keukens Voor weinig geld een voedzaam maal - featuring a fun il...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage War Poster British Short Sunderland Flying Boat WWII RAF Navy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - A British Short Sunderland Flying Boat patrolling the sea lanes - featuring an illustration of an RAF Royal Air Force bomber plane flying abov...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Ski Travel Poster Mont Dore Auvergne Snowman France Skiing Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster for Le Mont Dore Auvergne in France featuring a fun design by Jean Even (1910-1986) depicting a skier wearing a racing bib skiing down a slope at s...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist Drawing 1940s w/c
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist 1940s Drawing w/c HILLA REBAY (1890 - 1967, GERMAN/AMERICAN) Abstract Watercolor on paper, c. 1945. 8x9 inches. Provenance: Estate of Hilla Rebay; Gary Snyder Fine Art, NY. In March of 1996, Snyder Fine Art opened its exhibition, Museum of Non-Objective Painting: American Abstract Art. Gary Snyder acquired a large body of works from the Hilla Rebay Estate, many of the works on paper spent decades archivaly stored in flat files with fresh colors and immaculate paper. BIO A woman credited largely for the existence of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Hilla Rebay also was an accomplished artist in modernist styles that included collage and biogmorphic-linear oil paintings. She is remembered primarily for being the key person in first exposing the American public to avant-garde art and creating revolutionary museum environments for that art. To remind the public that Rebay was an artist in her own right, curators at the Guggenheim Museum held a retrospective of her work in the spring and summer of 2005. Hilla Rebay (pronounced reh-bye) was born to minor nobility in Strasbourg, Alsace and had the full name of Baroness Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Rebay von Ehrenwiesen. Her father, a career army officer from Bavaria, and her mother encouraged her obvious childhood art talent. She studied locally and then enrolled in 1909 at the Academie Julian in Paris. There she was much influenced by avant-garde movements especially theosophist artists and writers led by Wassily Kandinsky "who helped formulate her lifelong belief in the power of intuition in art-making and other areas of life" (Glueck). In 1910, she spent time in Munich where she was further exposed to modern art, and she returned to Paris in 1913, having exhibited work in Cologne and Munich. In Paris she studied at the Academie Julian. By 1914, she was exhibiting with the Secession Group in Munich, the Salon des Independants in Paris, and the November Gruppe in Berlin--all rebelling against prevalent realism and traditional teaching methods. In Berlin, she associated with many modernist artists including Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Marc Chagall. In 1917, she med Rudolph Bauer...
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1940s Abstract Art

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Paper, Watercolor

The Vegetable Seller, Mauritius
Located in London, GB
Tempera on board, 87cm x 60cm (framed 106cm x 78cm). Stuart Maxwell Armfield (1916-2000) was renowned for his use of the traditional egg tempera technique, a skilled process that us...
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1940s Post-War Art

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Egg Tempera, Board

Original Vintage Advertising Poster Japan Trade Expo Yokohama Tokyo Bay Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Japan Trade Expo / 日本貿易博覽會 on 15 March 1949 at Nogeyama Park Yokohama City featuring a view over the city with a train running along a rai...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Circa 1940 Original advertising poster to promote Blackfield shoes
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster, made in the 1940's to promote Blackfield shoes. These shoes, timeless, were sold at the time, exclusively in spring. Every elegant man wears Blackfield shoes, the m...
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1940s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Original Vintage WWII Poster Guide The Fighter Planes Army Air Force Recruitment
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two recruitment poster - Guide the fighter planes Join the Army Air Forces Ground Observer Corps Volunteer at your local Civilian D...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster BOAC World Air Routes Western Hemisphere Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for BOAC World Air Routes Western Hemisphere featuring a pictorial map with colourful illustrations of people in national dress, places of ...
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1940s Art

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Paper

American School Modernist Abstract Nautical Seascape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school signed seascape painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
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1940s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Oil

Original Vintage Travel Poster St Moritz Switzerland Horse Drawn Sleigh Laubi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for St Moritz featuring a great design by Hugo Laubi (1888-1959) of a smiling lady in a traditional red dress waving a handkerchief as she rides on a carved wooden horse drawn sleigh...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original poster created by Kurt Krepcikfor ERP European Recovery Program
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful poster created by Kurt Krepcik. Krepcik won the 5th prize in the international competition for this beautiful poster. ERP We are building a new Europe. The European Recover...
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1940s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Bacchus (1943) by Ernst Georg Heussler - Gouache 32x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernst Georg Heusser, Swiss painter with 60 auctions on the country. The oldest in 1991 ans the most recent on 2021 (1903-1982) The work is on paper and ...
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1940s Fauvist Art

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Gouache, Oil Pastel

Original Vintage Winter Travel Ski Poster Flims Graubunden Grisons Switzerland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski poster for Flims Graubunden Grisons die modernste sesselbahn Europas / the most modern chairlift in Europe. Colourful design depicting a lady in skiing boots and...
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1940s Art

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Paper

When Abdullah got the Net Ashore - French Art - Symbolism, Fauvism Art
Located in London, GB
MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985 [Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses] Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes Title: When Abdullah got the Net Ashore…, from: Four Tales...
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1940s Fauvist Art

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Lithograph

Original Vintage WWII Poster Sunderland Flying Boat RAF Coastal Command Aircraft
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster for the 20-Ton Giant Of The Coastal Command - A Short Sunderland Flying Boat featuring an annotated technical cut-out...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Belgium Resists V Victory Sign War Relief Fund USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Belgian World War Two poster - Belgium Resists - issued by The Belgian War Relief Society Inc of the United States of America Member Agenc...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Children Are Safer In The Country War Evacuation
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two British propaganda poster - Children are safer in the country ... leave them there - featuring a black and white imag...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster The Downfall Of The Dictators Is Assured Submarine
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - De Ondergang De Dictators Is Verzekerd / The Downfall of the Dictators is Assured - featuring a dynamic image of a battle at sea by the British artist Marcus Stone...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Winter Sport Ski Poster Pontresina Resort Switzerland Leupin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport ski poster for the popular resort of Pontresina in Switzerland featuring a fun and colourful illustration by the notable Swiss poster designer Herbert Leupin (1916-1999) of a snowy tree skiing with its head as a bright smiling sun smoking a pipe and wearing a hat and sunglasses against the blue sky background with branches wearing yellow gloves...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Abstract expressionist blue, black & green mid-century geometric painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Untitled, c. 1949 oil on canvas 18 x 32 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art. The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery. In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Oil

Abstract Geometric WPA Painting Transcendental Art Modern Non Objective 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Born in Hungary, Bisttram went on to become a prolific artist creating many thousands of paintings and drawings that embraced styles from realism through abstraction. A member of the WPA, he was best known as one of the founders of Transcendental Art...
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1940s Abstract Geometric Art

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Paper, Encaustic

Original Vintage Poster Telephonez! Swiss Telecom Girl And Dog Advertising Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Swiss Telecom - Telephonez! - featuring an adorable illustration by Donald Brun (1909-1999) depicting a young girl ...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Le Mont-Dore 1050 mètres 1886 mètres Circa 1940 Original Poster Tourism Auvergne
Located in PARIS, FR
A very beautiful poster realized by Jean Even ( 1910-1986 ), a French painter, lithographer and poster artist. In parallel to his career of painter and teacher, Jean Even begins a ca...
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1940s Art

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Paper, Linen, Lithograph

The Wave, 1948
Located in London, GB
JEAN MIROSLAW PESKE 1870-1949 Ukraine 1870-1949 France (Ukrainian/Russian/French) Title: La Vague / The Wave, circa 1948 Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas laid on board. This work was painted circa 1948. size:33 x 41 cm / 13 x 16.1 in Additional Information: This is an original painting by Jean Peske...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Art

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Oil

“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Hand colored original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “AP” lower left for artist proof in pencil. Signed by the artist lower...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching, Archival Paper

Woman with a Goldfish
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on masonite. Russian-Jewish-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his intriquing cubo-surrealistic-symbolist works which feature a strong psychological elem...
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1940s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Masonite

Original Vintage WWII Poster Royal Netherlands Navy Koninklijke Marine War Ships
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - They keep our colours high! What are you doing? / Zij Houden Onze Kleuren Hoog! Wat doet gij? - featuring an illustration by Jan Ve...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Castore - Plate 1 - Lithograph by Giorgio De Chirico - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Castore is a black and white artwork realized by Giorgio De Chirico in the half of 20th Century. Rare specimen on light blue paper. Black and white lithograph. Hand signed by artis...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Original Vintage Travel Poster Swissair Switzerland Flag Swiss Alps Mountain Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Swissair featuring a fantastic illustration of a propeller plane flying high over the Swiss Alps with a red and white cross Swiss flag...
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1940s Art

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Paper

'Careless Talk May Cost His Life' British Royal Air Force original WW2 Poster
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 cannot find it. 'Careless Talk May Cost His Life' 50 x 33.5 cm Original RAF Poster...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph, Paper

Antique American Abstract Bridge Landscape Oil Painting by Will Hollingsworth
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American surreal abstract landscape painting Will Hollingsworth. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modernist fr...
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1940s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Oil

“Oil Tankers”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on cardstock painting of oil tankers docked in port along with people dockside on a bright clear day by the Long Island American artist, Whitney Myron H...
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1940s American Modern Art

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Cardboard, Oil

A Charm Against All Evils, Modern Cubist Painting by Benjamin Benno 1941
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil painting on canvas by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 24 x 30 inches, signed and dated upper left. By the early 1930's Benno had established a reput...
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1940s Cubist Art

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Oil, Canvas

The Isometric Quartet, Modern Cubist Painting by Benjamin Benno 1948
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil and sand painting on wood by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 32 x 18.75 inches, signed and dated lower left. By...
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1940s Cubist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Original Vintage WWII Poster British Railways Home Front General Post Office GPO
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda poster printed by British Railways during World War Two - Your Parcels and Letters Depend on the Lines Behind the Lines - one of a series of war effort posters highlighting the importance of railway services for transportation during the war featuring a great illustration showing a photo of a worker sorting the parcels on General Post Office GPO baskets behind sacks of letters in front of a picture of railway tracks in green shades with an image of a train and the text in red and white letters below. Printed by Rembrandt...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
We are pleased to present this vivid, modernist work by Marcel Janco, one of the founders of Dada. It is housed in a stunning House of Heydenryk frame. Marcel Janco was a Romanian-Israeli-Jewish painter who was one of the founders of Dadaism and a noted modernist architect. His career evinced the modern artist's interest in the primitive in art. In its earliest years, the Romanian avant-garde flourished mainly outside of Romania, thanks to the conservative and nationalistic mood of that country during the post-World War I era. Dada, the anti-art movement, was hatched by a group of Romanian expatriate artists, Tristan Tzara (born Sami Rosenstein), Marcel Janco and other intellectuals working in Zurich in 1915. The Dada movement, which later took root in other centers in Europe and the United States, fostered an abandonment of traditional artistic methods and forms and urged an approach to art without preconceived ideas. A manifesto by Tristan Tzara said that Dada meant nothing, that ''we want works, straightforward, strong, accurate and forever not understood, logic is always wrong.'' Janco built the scenery for Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich that was the first Dadaist meeting place, and he was one of the most energetic members of the Zurich group. At the cabaret the members of the group put on shows and performances that were alien to and completely different from anything to which the bourgeois society of Zurich was accustomed. Marcel Janco was a full partner in all the group's activities - he created the masks they wore during stage performances, and took part in the shows that evoked great rage and indignant responses from the audience. A Dada construction of his was reproduced on the cover of Dada, the group's magazine, published in 1917. His best known Dadaist works were abstract, architectonic plaster reliefs, one of which is in the collection of the MOMA. Janco had his first exhibition at Cafe Voltaire in 1916. In 1917, Janco exhibited at the first Dada show in Zurich at the Dada gallery together with Hans Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, and Tzara. In 1918, he became a member of Das Neue Leben, a group of artists in Basel that included Arp, Fritz Baumann, Augusto Giacometti...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Original Vintage WWII Poster New Zealand Fights For The Future Soldier Children
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - New Zealand Fights for the Future - featuring a peaceful image in shades of blue of children walking along a country road with tree...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Original Vintage Skiing Poster Nuria Catalonia Spain Pyrenees Ski Winter Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport alpine ski resort poster featuring a skier in red and blue skiing at speed down a snowy piste past a red and yellow flag of Spain flying over spectators...
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1940s Art

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Paper

Australia Original Vintage Propaganda Poster post WW2 MacDonald Max Gill
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage travel and propaganda 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...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Poster Charles Paine Lend to Defend 1940 National Savings World War II
Located in London, GB
To see our other vintage propaganda posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller". Charles Paine (1895-1967) Lend to Defend...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism
Located in New York, NY
FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism Daniel Celentano (1902-1980) "Flight," 26 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1940s. Signed lower right. Ori...
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1940s American Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

“Bouquet by the Sea”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board original painting by the well known American artist, Nicolai Cikovsky. Thick vibrant colors with a vase of flowers, a banjo and a notebook with photographs with a rough sea as the background. Circa 1940. Condition is very good. Overall framed in a circa 1960 frame, 23 by 27.25 inches. Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894-1984, was born in Russia, where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...
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1940s American Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Surrealist Nocturnal Hawaiian Figurative Landscape w. Blue Skirted Woman & Moon
Located in Soquel, CA
Surrealist Nocturnal Hawaiian Figurative Landscape w. Blue Skirted Woman & Moon by Marguerite Louis Blasingame Striking mid century modern Hawaiian noct...
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1940s Surrealist Art

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Linen, Oil

Girl Playing Golf
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink with White Gouache Signature: Signed Lower Right A pin-up study
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1940s Art

Materials

Gouache, Pen, Ink

"Vermont Landscape"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Miami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates, Miami Fl.
Located in Miami, FL
Ezra Stroller is perhaps the world's most accomplished Architectural Photographer. In this image " Miami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates" ...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Original Vintage Poster Kolynos Toothpaste Dental Health Care Modernist Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage dental health advertising poster for Kolynos toothpaste featuring a great modernist design of a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste against a blue background with the ...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper

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Whether growing your current fine art collection or taking the first steps on that journey, you will find an extensive range of original photography, drawings, prints, sculptures, paintings and more on 1stDibs.

Visual art is among the oldest forms of expression, and it has been evolving for centuries. Beautiful objects can provide a window to the past or insight into our current time. Art collecting enhances daily life through the presence of meaningful work. It displays an appreciation for culture, whether a print by Elizabeth Catlett channeling social change or a narrative quilt by Faith Ringgold.

Contemporary art has lured more initiates to collecting than almost any other category, with notable artists including Yayoi Kusama, Marc Chagall, Kehinde Wiley and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Navigating the waiting lists for the next Marlene Dumas, Jeff Koons or Jasper Johns has become competitive.

When you’re living with art, particularly as people more often work from home and enjoy their spaces, it’s important to choose art that resonates with you. While the richness of art with its many movements, styles and histories can be overwhelming, the key is to identify what is appealing and inspiring. Artwork can play with the surrounding color of a room, creating a layered approach. The dynamic shapes and sizes of sculptures can set different moods, such as a bronze by Miguel Guía on a mantel or an Alexander Calder mobile suspended over a table. A wall of art can evoke emotions in an interior while showing off your tastes and interests. A salon-style wall mixing eclectic pieces like landscape paintings with charcoal drawings is a unique way to transform a space and show off a collection.

For art meditating on the subconscious, investigate Surrealists like Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí. Explore Pop art and its leading artists such as Andy Warhol, Rosalyn Drexler and Keith Haring for bright and bold colors. Not only did these artists question art itself, but also how we perceive society. Similarly, 20th-century photography and abstract painting reconsidered the intent of art.

Abstract Expressionists like Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner and Color Field artists including Sam Gilliam broke from conventional ideas of painting, while Op artists such as Yaacov Agam embraced visual trickery and kinetic movement. Novel visuals are also integral to contemporary work influenced by street art, such as sculptures and prints by KAWS.

Realist portraiture is a global tradition reflecting on what makes us human. This is reflected in the work of Slim Aarons, an American photographer whose images are at once candid and polished and appeared in Holiday magazine and elsewhere. Innovative artists Mickalene Thomas and Kerry James Marshall are now offering new perspectives on the form.

Collecting art is a rewarding, lifelong pursuit that can help connect you with the creative ways historic, modern and contemporary artists have engaged with the world. For more tips on piecing together an art collection, see our guide to buying and displaying art.

A variety of authentic art is available on 1stDibs. Explore art at auction and the 1stDibs NFT art marketplace, too. 

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