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Art For Sale
Period: 1910s
Color:  Gray
Seated nude with Face in Profile - Pencil Drawing - female Nude
By Alexej Jawlensky
Located in London, GB
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY 1864-1941 Torzhok 1864 - 1941 Wiesbaden (Russian/German) Title: Seated nude with Face in Profile Sitzender Akt mit Gesicht im Profil, 1912 Technique: Signed Pencil Drawing on Wove Paper Paper size: 50 x 40 cm. / 19.7 x 15.7 in. Additional Information: This drawing is signed in pencil by the artist “A v Jawlensky” at the lower right image. It is dated in pencil “1912”, at the lower left image. Provenance: Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover Sotheby's London, 28 June 1978. Lot 176. Jacqueline Kohler-Krotoschin, Zurich Beurret & Bailly, Basel, 20 June 2018. Lot 107. Exhibited: “Zwischen Tradition und Moderne”. Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover. 1975. Recorded as no. 222, cat. 14 (Illustrated). Literature: 1. Weiler,C. (1970) Alexej Jawlensky...
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1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Pencil

Woman with Leaves
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right American Art Works Calendar Illustration
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1910s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Study for World War I Soldier Collier's Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Study for the July 7, 1917 cover of Collier's National Weekly (the title story was "Why I'd Let My Boy Go To War").
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1910s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Mother with Child by Candlelight
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration, 1917
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Man and his Father, 1916
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board, Framed Under Glass Signature: Signed and Dated on the Back Sight Size 30.50" x 20.50," Framed 35.50" x 26.50" Great condition, bad glare from glass in thi...
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1910s Art

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Soldiers in World War I
Located in London, GB
ABEL PANN 1883-1963 Latvia 1883-1963 Jerusalem (Russian/Lithuanian /Israeli) Title: Soldiers in World War I, 1913 Technique: Original Signed Pastel Draw...
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1910s Art

Materials

Pastel

Cream of Wheat Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
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1910s Art

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Man Fishing
By Leslie Langille Benson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1914 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 29.00" x 19.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
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1910s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Universal Peace, " Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1911
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 24.00" x 16.50;" Framed 31.75" x 24.75" "Universal Peace" by Hamilton Holt, August 1911. Cosmopolitan Magazine...
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1910s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

What is the Home Anyway
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper Signature: Unsigned Titled in pencil and inscribed "Blue print-Rush-/March" beneath the composition, identified in a printed label affixed to the frame ...
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1910s Art

Materials

Ink, Pen

Henri Ottmann (1877-1927) A forest in the mist, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henri Ottmann (1877-1927) "Orée du bois par brume", A forest in the mist signed lower right pastel on paper 24 x 32 cm In good condition In a vintage frame : 43.5 x 53 cm The gilding on the frame is missing in many places Henri Ottmann particularly excelled in the pastel technique, as can be seen here. This is due to the fact that this delicate material obviously lends itself very well to the artist's characteristic vaporous style and manner. We should also note the great modernity of this landscape and its fades, which go almost as far as abstraction. Henry Ottmann was born on 10 April 1877 in Ancenis. He made his debut at the Salon La Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1904 and took part in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris from 1905, the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon des Tuileries. In 1911 and 1912, Ottmann exhibited at the Artistes de la Société Moderne at the Gallery Paul Durand-Ruel together with Armand Guillaumin, Henri Lebasque and others. In 1912, he exhibited at the gallery Eugène Druet. In 1920, Ottmann exhibited at the gallery Marcel...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Pastel

Gulli I /// Impressionist Anders Zorn Swedish Etching Antique Girl Face Portrait
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920) Title: "Gulli I" Series: Gulli *Signed by Zorn in pencil lower right. It is also signed and dated in the plate (printed signature) lower right Year: 1914 (second state of two) Medium: Original Etching on cream Van Gelder Zonen laid paper Limited edition: approx. 50 impressions Printer: the artist Zorn himself, Mora, Sweden Publisher: the artist Zorn himself, Mora, Sweden Reference: Asplund No. 265; Hjert & Hjert No. 162 Sheet size (irregular margins): 12.88" x 10.13" Image size: 5.13" x 3.5" Condition: Faint UV stain. Minor toning to sheet and minor paper loss at bottom center margin. It is otherwise a strong impression in excellent condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Santa Fe, NM. Fleur-de-lis shield (Van Gelder Zonen) watermark at left center margin. Pencil inscribed "Gulli No. 1" lower right in margin. Retains old paperwork from previous framing. Biography: Anders Leonard Zorn...
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1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Vintage French Watercolor - Red Vines
Located in Houston, TX
Eye catching watercolor of bright flowering vines covering a towering column along the serene Riviera, circa 1920. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat ...
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1910s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Le Petit Oiseau - Etching by Jean François Raffaelli - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Not numbered. With dedication to "Bernard" (1921). Etching and aquatint technique. Perfect conditions. Image Dimensions : 15 x 19 cm Passepartout included : 35 x 50 cm
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Etching

Morning on the East Side
Located in New York, NY
Jerome Myers (1867-1940), Morning on the East Side, c. 1910, colored etching, signed in pencil lower right and annotated “imp.”; numbered and titled (twice) lower left. In very good ...
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1910s Art

Materials

Color, Etching

"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identic...
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1910s American Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Queen Mary Greeting School Children - British 1910 royalty portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. Painted circa 1910 the painting depicts Queen Mary greeting a large group of school child...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Antique portrait of a woman sitting by Carl Ernst Von Stetten
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Large antique oil portrait painting of a woman sitting, signed and dated in the lower right corner, Carl V Stetten, Paris 1911. This is a beautiful large scale Art Nouveau atmospheric oil portrait by a re-known and well respected artist, Carl Ernst Von Stetten...
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1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Oil

Géo Dorival 1912 poster Chateau de Clisson - Excursions en Vendée, en Saintonge
Located in PARIS, FR
Géo Dorival's 1912 creation, titled "Chateau de Clisson - Excursions en Vendée, en Saintonge et au littoral de l'Océan," emerges as a visual gem inviting viewers on an enchanting jou...
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1910s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Self Portrait - British Italian art Edwardian pencil drawing female artist
Located in London, GB
This is a fine detailed and superbly executed Edwardian drawing by Estella Canziani which dates to circa 1911. Executed by one of the leading artists of the day it is a very strikin...
Category

1910s Pre-Raphaelite Art

Materials

Pencil

Stockholm Winter Landscape, 1919, by Swedish Artist Anton Genberg
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are honored to present for sale a captivating winter landscape painting by Anton Jonsson Genberg, completed in 1919. This piece is a pristine representation of Genberg's artistry,...
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1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Children finding birds eggs on a tropical island
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist Book illustration: Smuggler’s Island, by Clarissa A. Kneeland; Publisher: (Houghton Mifflin Co.), 1928, opp. page126.
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1910s Art

Materials

Oil

Les Exploit d'un Jeune Don Juan - Rare Book Illustrated by Apollinaire - 1910
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 137 copies including 12 original lithographs.Copy on Rives B.F.K., with lithographs on vélin d'Arches. Original soft cover, includes slipcase. Slipcase with some stains in...
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1910s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper

La Nuit Venitienne, Fantasio, Les Caprices de Marianne
Located in Wilton, CT
Brunellechi's classic color drawings elegantly illustrate three plays by Musset, "La Nuit Venitienne", "Fantasio", and "Les Caprices de Marianne"
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1910s Art

Materials

Paper, Aquatint

Baseball Catcher, Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist Post Cover, October 1, 1910
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Oil

Cloisonné Flower Vase by Amphora, Art Nouveau c. 1910
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful ceramic vase with hand-painted flowers in bright cloisonné enamels. Stamped Amphora in the base, and numbered. Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RStK), later known as Amp...
Category

1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Ceramic

Charles Sims, RA - Nude Drapery Study for the Royal Academy Mural
Located in London, GB
CHARLES SIMS, RA, RWS, RSW (1873-1928) Drapery Study for the Royal Academy Arts & Crafts Mural Pencil, squared for transfer Unframed, in conservation mount 17.5 by 24 cm., 7 by 9 ...
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1910s Realist Art

Materials

Pencil

Junger Fürst und Tänzerinnen
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this extremely scarce etching and aquatint. First state (of 2), before the darkened background. Edition of approximately only 11. Signed in pencil. This etch...
Category

1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

"Rakish Gent" 1914 Watercolour by WL Mots
Located in Bristol, CT
Charming watercolour depicting a rakish gent with pipe/ cap/ & stick by W L. Mots 1914 Art Sz: 11 1/4"H x 6 5/8"W Frame Sz: 15 3/4"H x 10 1/2"W
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1910s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Boy Drying Dishes, The Saturday Evening Post cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Left by Artist The Saturday Evening Post cover, October 18, 1913
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1910s Art

Materials

Oil

"Geneva Countryside" by Henri Duvoisin - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas with frame Total size with frame 56x48x5 cm
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1910s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Cloisonné Folk Art Vase by Amphora, Art Nouveau c. 1910
Located in Chicago, IL
Carved folk art vase, with hand-painted bright cloisonné enamel embellishments. The form's contrasting glazes amplify its intricate carvings and mottled texture. Stamped Amphora in t...
Category

1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Ceramic

Art Deco Fantasy Charcoal Drawing Lithograph Print by Adolf Uzarski
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning charcoal drawing lithograph print on paper depicting a fanciful lion kidnapping a young woman was designed by Adolf Uzarski (1885-1970), a German artist. This drawing i...
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1910s Art Deco Art

Materials

Charcoal

The Boat in Martigues, France
Located in London, GB
'The Boat in Martigues', oil on canvas, by Marie de Nivouliès de Pierrefort (circa 1910). Martigues is a small port town just northwest of Marseille in the South of France. Its nickn...
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1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Illustration of a Golfer by Listed Illustrator for Vanity Fair
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration of a golfer getting out of a sand trap by well listed illustrator Leslie Saalburg whose work appeared in Vanity Fair and Esquire.
Category

1910s Realist Art

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Art Nouveau German watercolor of children dancing in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...
Category

1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Art Nouveau Egyptian Sphinx Bowl by Ernst-Wahliss c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Unique earthenware bowl featuring a pair of golden Egyptian sphinxes and stylized purple flowers in an incised pattern, with an iridescent glaze of rich green, blue, and purple hues....
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1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Ceramic

Auf dem Lötschpass (1919) by Albert Nyfeler - Watercolor on paper 26x36 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on art paper framed and signed Total size with frame: 52x40 cm Albert Nyfeler (September 26, 1883 in Lünisberg, † June 14, 1969 in Burgdo...
Category

1910s Academic Art

Materials

Watercolor

Car Racing in France, 1911 - Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Agence Meurisse, Paris. Car racing in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, circa 1911. Features: Original silver gelatin print pho...
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1910s Art Deco Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Hairy on the way
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood 75.5 x 62 x 5.5 cm
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1910s French School Art

Materials

Oil

"Train Station, " Max Kuehne, Industrial City Scene, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Max Kuehne (1880 - 1968) Train Station, circa 1910 Watercolor on paper 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Illinois Max Kuehne was born in Halle, Germany on November 7, 1880. During his adolescence the family immigrated to America and settled in Flushing, New York. As a young man, Max was active in rowing events, bicycle racing, swimming and sailing. After experimenting with various occupations, Kuehne decided to study art, which led him to William Merritt Chase's famous school in New York; he was trained by Chase himself, then by Kenneth Hayes Miller. Chase was at the peak of his career, and his portraits were especially in demand. Kuehne would have profited from Chase's invaluable lessons in technique, as well as his inspirational personality. Miller, only four years older than Kuehne, was another of the many artists to benefit from Chase's teachings. Even though Miller still would have been under the spell of Chase upon Kuehne's arrival, he was already experimenting with an aestheticism that went beyond Chase's realism and virtuosity of the brush. Later Miller developed a style dependent upon volumetric figures that recall Italian Renaissance prototypes. Kuehne moved from Miller to Robert Henri in 1909. Rockwell Kent, who also studied under Chase, Miller, and Henri, expressed what he felt were their respective contributions: "As Chase had taught us to use our eyes, and Henri to enlist our hearts, Miller called on us to use our heads." (Rockwell Kent, It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1955, p. 83). Henri prompted Kuehne to search out the unvarnished realities of urban living; a notable portion of Henri's stylistic formula was incorporated into his work. Having received such a thorough foundation in art, Kuehne spent a year in Europe's major art museums to study techniques of the old masters. His son Richard named Ernest Lawson as one of Max Kuehne's European traveling companions. In 1911 Kuehne moved to New York where he maintained a studio and painted everyday scenes around him, using the rather Manet-like, dark palette of Henri. A trip to Gloucester during the following summer engendered a brighter palette. In the words of Gallatin (1924, p. 60), during that summer Kuehne "executed some of his most successful pictures, paintings full of sunlight . . . revealing the fact that he was becoming a colorist of considerable distinction." Kuehne was away in England the year of the Armory Show (1913), where he worked on powerful, painterly seascapes on the rocky shores of Cornwall. Possibly inspired by Henri - who had discovered Madrid in 1900 then took classes there in 1906, 1908 and 1912 - Kuehne visited Spain in 1914; in all, he would spend three years there, maintaining a studio in Granada. He developed his own impressionism and a greater simplicity while in Spain, under the influence of the brilliant Mediterranean light. George Bellows convinced Kuehne to spend the summer of 1919 in Rockport, Maine (near Camden). The influence of Bellows was more than casual; he would have intensified Kuehne's commitment to paint life "in the raw" around him. After another brief trip to Spain in 1920, Kuehne went to the other Rockport (Cape Ann, Massachusetts) where he was accepted as a member of the vigorous art colony, spearheaded by Aldro T. Hibbard. Rockport's picturesque ambiance fulfilled the needs of an artist-sailor: as a writer in the Gloucester Daily Times explained, "Max Kuehne came to Rockport to paint, but he stayed to sail." The 1920s was a boom decade for Cape Ann, as it was for the rest of the nation. Kuehne's studio in Rockport was formerly occupied by Jonas Lie. Kuehne spent the summer of 1923 in Paris, where in July, André Breton started a brawl as the curtain went up on a play by his rival Tristan Tzara; the event signified the demise of the Dada movement. Kuehne could not relate to this avant-garde art but was apparently influenced by more traditional painters — the Fauves, Nabis, and painters such as Bonnard. Gallatin perceived a looser handling and more brilliant color in the pictures Kuehne brought back to the States in the fall. In 1926, Kuehne won the First Honorable Mention at the Carnegie Institute, and he re-exhibited there, for example, in 1937 (Before the Wind). Besides painting, Kuehne did sculpture, decorative screens, and furniture work with carved and gilded molding. In addition, he designed and carved his own frames, and John Taylor Adams encouraged Kuehne to execute etchings. Through his talents in all these media he was able to survive the Depression, and during the 1940s and 1950s these activities almost eclipsed his easel painting. In later years, Kuehne's landscapes and still-lifes show the influence of Cézanne and Bonnard, and his style changed radically. Max Kuehne died in 1968. He exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and in various New York City galleries. Kuehne's works are in the following public collections: the Detroit Institute of Arts (Marine Headland), the Whitney Museum (Diamond Hill...
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1910s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Sunbathing
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sunbathing Etching and color aquatint on watermarked Umbria Italy paper, c. 1915 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo) Annotated: "No. 6" in pencil lower left (see p...
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1910s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Etching

“Apple Blossom Time”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a light filled oil on canvas painting by the American artist, David Clark. The meandering path, apple blossoms. the first ...
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"The Green Parasol, " Henry Hannig, American Impressionist, Woman in Beach Scene
By Henry Hannig
Located in New York, NY
Henry Charles Hannig (1883 - 1948) The Green Parasol Oil on canvas mounted on board 6 x 7 3/4 inches Provenance: R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois Private Collection, Lake Orion, Michigan Hannig, born in Hirschberg, Germany on 27 February 1883, came to America with his parents at the age of seven. He attended school in the southwest suburbs before the family settled in Chicago. Young Henry enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where Lawton Parker became his mentor. He made ends meet by working in industrial design and illustration. By 1908 he was a pupil in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where students followed the traditional European drawing curriculum, beginning with the copying of master engravings and drawing after plaster casts, then concentrating on the nude figure. Students worked toward the goal of winning various academic prizes. One of Hannig's fellow students was Louis Ritman...
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1910s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PEDRO J. LEMOS (American, 1882-1954) FOOTBALL STATUE THROUGH THE TREES - UC BERKELEY 1921 - THE ORIGINAL YEARBOOK PASTEL Pastel drawing on colored paper 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Full signature in pastel, Pedro J Lemos. In good condition. A few bits of old tape at the corners, verso. THE 1921 UC BERKELEY YEARBOOK CONTAINED SEVERAL LEMOS PASTEL REPRODUCTIONS. Pedro de Lemos was an important proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He produced some of the finest color woodcuts of the period as well as fine pastels, paintings and architecture. He was also an instructor and director of the Stanford University Art Department, From Wikipedia: Pedro Joseph de Lemos (25 May 1882 – 5 December 1954) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, museum director and art educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to about 1930 he used the simpler name Pedro Lemos or Pedro J. Lemos; between 1931 and 1933 he changed the family name to de Lemos, believing that he was related to the Count de Lemos (1576–1622), patron of Miguel de Cervantes. Much of his work was influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He became prominent in the field of art education, and he designed several unusual buildings in Palo Alto and Carmel-by-the-Sea, California..... In 1911 he began teaching decorative design at the San Francisco Institute of Art.[8] In late 1912 he was one of the founders the California Society of Etchers, and the following year he started offering the Institute's first classes in printmaking. Some of his students, such as William S. Rice and John W. Winkler (1894-1979), went on to achieve significant fame as printmakers. He helped organize the California print...
Category

1910s Tonalist Art

Materials

Pastel

Lubin de Beauvais (1873-1917) L'Anse de Launay 1911, signed color drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Lubin de Beauvais (1873-1917) L'anse de Launay, a woman at the beach, 1911 signed, dated and titled "Anse de Launay, Loguivy Ploubazlanec, Bretagne,...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Pencil, Color Pencil

Willows, Old Lyme, CT Summer landscape
Located in Greenwich, CT
A gorgeously colored summer landscape by Important American Impressionist, Frank V Dumond. Fresh in color and elegant in the tonally complimentary French frame with silk liner. Atm...
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1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Bouquet of flowers
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Gray wooden frame 85.5 x 64 x 5 cm
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Oil

Original lithograph by Poulbot of a scene from the first world war. This lithogr
Located in PARIS, FR
Original lithograph by Poulbot of a scene from the first world war. This lithograph is numbered 36/50 and hand signed by the artist. Francisque Poulbot, born in Saint-Denis on Februa...
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

'Improvisation 7' second ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' by Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Improvisation 7' second ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' is a woodcut print created by Wassily Kandinsky. The present woodcut print comes from the second edition of 'Klänge (Sounds),' a book of original graphics and poetry by Wassily Kandinsky. The title of the album and of this print, 'Improvisation,' demonstrated Kandinsky's interest in music and how abstract musical forms could be translated into images on a two-dimensional surface. This particular composition is difficult to read, but through the abstraction, one can make out various figures and a landscape beyond. Originally carved and printed in 1911, this second edition print was done ca. 1938. It is a woodcut in black ink on woven paper. Signed with encircled 'K' in the block, lower right (from the book, signed in ink, ed. 117/300) Image Size: 7 1/2" x 5 inches Frame Size: 22 1/4" x 18 3/4" Ref. Roethel 124 Artist Bio: The Museum of Modern Art described 'Klänge (Sounds)' as follows: Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art. Kandinsky said his choice of media sprang from an "inner necessity" for expression: the woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems purely verbal descriptions. Kandinsky sought a synthesis of the arts, in which meaning was created through the interaction of, and space between, text and image, sound and meaning, mark and blank space. The experimental typography shows his interest in the physical aspects of the book. Klänge is one of three major publications by Kandinsky that appeared shortly before World War I, alongside Über die Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) and the Blaue Reiter almanac...
Category

1910s Blue Rider Art

Materials

Woodcut, Laid Paper

THE RUG WEAVER
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971) THE RUG WEAVER, 1910 (Chamberlain 26) Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the Hills o’ Brown...
Category

1910s American Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

“Headed to Market, 1916”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original drawing of a woman heading to market by the well known American artist, Everett Shinn. Mixed media work created with charcoal, pastel and gouache. Signed with the artist’s initials lower right and dated 1916. Condition is very good. Under glass. Matted and in a period gold frame with restorations. Overall framed measurements are 23.5 by 17.25 inches. Provenance: A New York City estate. Everett Shinn (1876 – 1953) Everett Shinn, a realist artist associated with the Ashcan School and member of “The Eight” was born in New Jersey in 1876. After showing an aptitude for the arts as a child, at age 15, Shinn was enrolled at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. He quickly moved on to classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and by the age of 17, he was working as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Press. While working at the Press, Shinn befriended fellow artists William J. Glackens, George Luks, and John Sloan. This group, with Robert Henri and Joseph Laub, established the Charcoal Club, a social and intellectual sort of alternative art school. In 1897, Shinn moved to New York City to work as an illustrator at the New York World. He became fascinated by the drama of the city. While visiting Europe in 1900, Shinn took interest in the work of the Impressionists, particularly those of Degas. Degas’ influence can be read in Shinn’s depictions of American theater. From his acquaintances in the theater world, Shinn began to paint decorative “rococo revivalist” murals in the homes of the wealthy elite. He also worked extensively in pastel, portraying the rough life of the city. In 1908, Shinn exhibited alongside his Charcoal Club associates, with the addition of Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, and Maurice Prendergast...
Category

1910s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel, Gouache

Autumn
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Oil

"Sunlit Landscape, " Lawton Silas Parker, Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Lawton Parker Sunlit Landscape, circa 1910 Oil on board 10 x 12 inches Provenance: Adamson-Duvannes Galleries, Los Angeles Goldfield Galleries, Los Ange...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

“Long View”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas painting by the American Impressionist artist Louis H. Richardson. Signed lower right and dated 1917. Overall framed measurements in original Newcomb Macklin frame 27.5 by 31.25 inches. Louis H Richardson [1853-1923] American Impressionist : Louis H. Richardson was born in New Bedford, MA, where he lived and worked until his death in 1923. Richardson was a self-taught Impressionist artist, most known for his sensitive paintings of the landscape surrounding New Bedford and the Dartmouth area. From his shanty shack studio at Salters Point in South Dartmouth, he would paint the wetlands and feature water, trees, the sky and land. In 1917, Richardson was part of a two-man show in New York City with artist Clifford W. Ashley at the Arlington Art Galleries on Madison Avenue. Of his show, The New Bedford Sunday Standard wrote: “His style is so absolutely his own that the simple mention of his name recalls to mind vividly the salt marshes, the soft browns of silent reaches near the sea, wind-blown inlets, flying clouds. … Some of it reaches a height of charm and truth that it would be impossible to surpass.” Richardson believed in the art community and founded the New Bedford Arts Club and its successor the New Bedford Fine Arts Society. When not painting, Richardson worked at the New Bedford Water Company and later as a plumbing inspector for the city’s Board of Health. He was an avid baseball player and would be known as “the Babe Ruth of New Bedford.” On his death, the local newspaper declared him “one of the best-known artists in New Bedford” and “one of the art pioneers in building up a more widespread appreciation of art in the community.” His work is in the permanent collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum...
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1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dejeuner sur l'Herbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dejeuner sur l'Herbe Lithograph, c. 1914 Edition: c. 100 Unsigned as issued by Vollard References And Exhibitions: Commissioned from Cezanne by Ambrose Vollard in the late 1890s Prin...
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1910s French School Art

Materials

Lithograph

Circa 1910 Original poster by Raoul Vion - Bicyclettes La Française Diamant
Located in PARIS, FR
La Française is a very old company (1889) which has contributed to the development of the bicycle in France and in the world, both by the diversity of its...
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1910s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Reclining Young Man - Pencil Drawing - German Expressionism
Located in London, GB
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER 1880-1938 (German) Aschaffenburg 1880 - 1938 Davos Title: Reclining Young Man Liegender junger Mann, circa 1911 Technique: Pencil Drawing on Firm Wove Paper ...
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1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Pen

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