Art by Medium: Paper

Charles Gir (French, 1883 – 1941) Ballerinas on point Pastel on paper Signed ‘CH. Gir’ (lower left) 24 x 18.1/2 in. (61 x 46.8 cm.) Charles Gir was born in Tours, France on November 1, 1883. He was a noted painter, watercolorist, pastellist, sculptor and illustrator. Gir was married to the well-known actress, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, and attended the Paris Opera every night for 17 years. He made many sketches of dancers and caricatures, and at the end of his wife’s performance used to deliver them to the newspapers he worked for. He knew Raoul Dufy, Frances Carco and Jehan Rictus. He sculpted a bronze statue of Don Quixote that now stands near the Prefecture of Cergy-Pontoise; and he also illustrated several books, including Edmond Rostand...

The Chrysler Building, a New York art deco masterpiece, is framed by modern buildings in this carefully composed image by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk. Signed and dat...

Butterflies and Tea Flowers in Pink by Joanna Padfield [2022] limited_edition Linocut Edition number 50 Image size: H:20 cm x W:30.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x ...

Wonderful fashion drawing of flapper by Helen Farr Sloan (American, 1911 - 2005), circa 1930. Signed lower edge "Helen Farr." Presented in new mat. Unframed. I mage size: 10"H x 6"W....

Original vintage London Transport poster featuring a programme of events from 3 to 9 April - This Week in London Ideal Home Exhibition Olympia Concerts Squash Rackets Boxing Ice Hockey - with the text in the centre and details including the London Underground stations and days and times of a symphony orchestra, piano and violin recital, non-stop concert and music competition festival as well as squash championships and amateur association boxing at the Royal Albert Hall South Kensington, and USA v Canada ice hockey test match at the ice-drome in Hammersmith, with the London Underground roundel logo in the corner and stunning Art Deco images on the side border and below depicting theatre masks with a ballet dancer under stage lights, horse racing and motorcycle racing with a greyhound dog race and spectators, a lady diving and rowers on the River Thames in a boat race, tennis players on a court with a cricket bat, ball and stumps, and people enjoying an art gallery with paintings, sculptures and flowers outside. The British commercial artist and poster designer Cecil Walter Bacon...

Latitude 43 was designed by the avant-garde architect Georges-Henri Pingusson. The building, listed as a historical monument in 1992, is a reference in ter...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Dubrovnik The Gem of the Jugoslav Adriatic featuring a stunning scenic view of the historic city on the clear blue sea with palm trees in the foreground and hills in the distance. Artwork by Hans Wagula (1894-1964). Dubrovnik is an ancient walled...

Original vintage travel poster - Golf and Beach Miramar / Golf y Playa Miramar - featuring a stunning Art Deco design depicting a golf player holding a golf club and looking over the...

Nouveau Riche by Andre de Krayewski, Polish (1933) Date: 1989 Pastel on Paper, signed and dated lower right Size: 23 x 16.5 in. (58.42 x 41.91 cm) Frame ...

Original vintage advertising poster - Day after day Trilysin The biological hair tonic that helps! The dandruff disappears The hair loss stops The hair grows again. Scientific hair c...

Dice by Andre de Krayewski, Polish (1933) Date: circa 1980 Pastel on paper, signed lower right Size: 21 x 15 in. (53.34 x 38.1 cm) Frame Size: 28 x 23 inches

Your Move by Andre de Krayewski, Polish (1933) Date: 1989 Pastel on Paper, signed and dated lower right Size: 16.5 x 23 in. (41.91 x 58.42 cm) Frame Size: 24 x 30 inches

In tandem with a growing number of newspapers and periodicals, print advertising proliferated during China’s Republic Era. A bathing beauty is the star attraction of this print ad fr...

Original vintage travel poster for Hapag Reiseburo travel agency featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Albert Fuss (1889-1969) showing a lady in a fashionable swimsuit covering her...

Original vintage car advertising poster - Tout est plus beau... avec une Peugeot / Everything is more beautiful... with a Peuge...

Beautiful original poster of Maggie Salcedo representing the descent in sled. Maggie Salcedo (1890-1959) was a French Art Deco painter and illustrato...

Original vintage travel poster for Necochea Splendid beach Interesting walks / Esplendida playa Interesantes paseos featuring a stunning Art Deco design depicting the silhouette of a...

Beautiful poster of Cassandre in 1928 for the Exposition Générale at Galeries Lafayette. Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean Marie Mouron, 🇺🇦 & 🇫🇷 (1901-1968) is a French graphic designer, poster artist, theater decorator, lithographer, painter and typographer whose works never cease to amaze us He is mainly known for his advertising posters for railroads, such as the Étoile du Nord, the Dubonnet drink, the Normandie liner, and for the typefaces he created in the 1930s such as Bifur and Peignot, and, drawn out of...

Deco Dancing Hungarian Expressionism European Drawing Modernism Figurative Dance. 22 1/2 x 16 inches. Signed lower left. Framed. BIO Hugó Scheiber was born in Budapest in 1873. At the age of eight, he moved with his family from Budapest to Vienna. In 1898, to help support his family after they had returned to Budapest. He started working during the day, attending painting classes at the Commercial Art School in the evening. In 1900, he completed his studies. Scheiber showed an early interest in German Expressionism and Futurism. In 1915 he met Marinetti, who invited him to join the Futurist movement. Because Scheiber's paintings conflicted with academic style of the Hungarian art establishment, his work was virtually ignored in his own country. In 1919, he and his friend Béla Kádár held an exhibition organized by Hévesy in Vienna, which was a great success, so much so that the Budapest Art Museum purchased two of his drawings. In 1920, Scheiber returned to Vienna. A turning point in his career came in 1921 when Herwarth Walden, founder of Germany's leading avant-garde periodical, Der Sturm...

Original vintage men's fashion advertising poster - The clothing that classifies an Epsom man / Le vetement qui classe un homme Epsom - featuring a great Art Deco design depicting a smiling gentleman in a smart suit and green tie, holding up his hat with his gloved hand in front of an image of a stylised...

Jean Dupas (French, 1882 – 1964) The angel of light Pen and ink and charcoal on paper 14.3/4 x 12.1/2 in. (37.5 x 31.8 cm.) One of the leading artists of the Art Deco period, Jean Théodore Dupas was the son of a merchant marine captain and began his adult life as a merchant seaman. Poor health meant that he had to abandon this career and he enrolled in art school instead, first in his native Bordeaux and later in Paris. He won the Prix de Rome in the category of painting in 1910 and studied at the Académie de France in Rome, from where he sent several paintings to the Paris Salons, although his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war. Dupas’s work came to public prominence on the occasion of the seminal Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925. He was chosen by the furniture designer Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann to provide paintings for the latter’s Maison d’un collectionneur, alongside furniture by Ruhlmann and objects by many of the leading Art Deco craftsmen of the day, while other paintings by Dupas were also displayed to great effect elsewhere in the Exposition. In the late 1920’s and 1930’s Dupas won a number of important and prestigious commissions. In 1926 he worked alongside Ruhlmann and the sculptor Alfred Jeanniot on the decoration of the tearoom of the ocean liner Ile-de-France; the first of the grand transatlantic ships to be built in France after the First World War. By this time Dupas had firmly established his reputation. Writing in 1927, his fellow artist George Barbier could already note that ‘Few artists have at such an early age attained such a degree of success, or gathered around them such swarms of imitators and disciples.’ Dupas reached the height of his fame in the mid 1930’s, and in 1934 he received his most important commission to date; a series of large glass murals...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the Roman Numeral edition of 150. Framed size approx 50 x 34 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity inc...

Original antique poster for the Flugtag Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bayerischer Piloten / Flight Day Working Group of Bavarian Pilots featuring a great design depicting a smiling pilot in pa...

Original vintage travel poster for advertising the Monaco Aquarium featuring a great design depicting fish swimming with weeds and corals on the sandy ...

Original vintage advertising poster for Pressa The World Press Exhibition on the Rhine May-October Koln 1928 featuring a stunning design depicting queues of people going to the exhib...

Original vintage newspaper advertising poster for Der Mittag Uberall featuring an Art Deco design depicting the figure of a man against a blue shaded sky background with crossed elec...

The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique was considered the most famous French shipping company. From 1862 to 1975, 483 ships flew the red globe flag on all the seas of the world. This beautiful poster promotes travel to Algeria and Tunisia with the Cie Gle Transatlantique...

Edward Julius Detmold (British, 1883 – 1957) Hornbill Pen and ink on paper Signed with initials’ ED’ (lower right) 16.3 x 15.8 cm. Edward Julius Detmold (21 November 1883 Putney, Wandsworth, Surrey - 1 July 1957 Montgomery) and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold (1883-1908) were prolific Victorian book illustrators. Their parents were Edward Detmold and Mary Agnes Luck. Their father, an electrical engineer was chronically ill, and they lived with their uncle and guardian, Dr Edward Barton Shuldham, who saw to their tuition and was a noted collector of porcelain and Japanese woodprints of plants and animals. Dr Shuldham occupied a house in Upper Richmond Road, Putney, where the twins had been born. He ensured their interest in natural history and art, and created a nurturing environment for their precocious talents. They also spent time with another uncle, the painter Henry E. Detmold, who encouraged them in their art. Most of their prodigious energy was expended on depicting animal subjects and their work showed great influence from traditional Japanese art, Albrecht Dürer and later the Art Nouveau movement. They were exhibiting watercolours at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at the age of 13. Edward Burne-Jones praised their work and warned against the dangers of uniformity inherent in art schools. The twins subsequently mastered the techniques of watercolour etching and of colour printing with copper plates, buying a printing press and producing their own proofs at home. In 1898 they compiled a portfolio of colour etchings of animals and flowering plants done in the Japanese style. These were much sought after and were rapidly sold out. They collaborated on the etchings and illustrations for their first book Pictures From Birdland published in 1899. This book resulted from a number of drawings being shown in the autumn of 1897, to the publisher J. M. Dent, who was so impressed that the two brothers were asked to provide coloured illustrations for a book of his. The first title mooted was Alphabet of Birds, eventually becoming Pictures from Birdland. "Particularly noticeable are the early influences in the paintings, Edward's design for an osprey, with its unusual water effects, testifying to a Japanese contribution. Already apparent is that style in which a searching study of natural forms, especially bird plumage, is subordinated to decorative arrangement" - David Larkin (The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold) This was followed in 1900, by an exhibition at the Fine Art Society's Gallery in London. Their next joint project was to produce a set of 16 watercolours for Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book published in 1903, by Macmillan. The success of their painting careers seemed assured, but Maurice ended his life by inhaling chloroform in April 1908, shortly before they were due to leave for a holiday in Sussex with Dr Shuldham, who had arranged that Maurice put down the household cats using the anaesthetic. Although stunned by the death of Maurice, Edward threw himself into his work. The recognition accorded the twins' illustrations of Kipling's classic tale was extraordinary. Consequently, in 1909 Edward illustrated The Fables of Aesop, producing 23 colour plates and a host of pen & ink drawings. This proved so popular that in 2006 The Folio Society of London published a facsimile of the original Hodder & Stoughton edition. In 1911, Detmold worked on illustrations for Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, Camille Lemonnier's Birds and Beasts and Florence Dugdale's Book of Baby Beasts. In the following year he worked on Maeterlinck's Hours of Gladness, in 1913, on Florence Dugdale's Book of Baby Birds and in 1919, on W. H. Hudson's Birds in Town and Village In 1919, he also produced a portfolio of Twenty Four Nature Pictures and, in 1921, on Our Little Neighbours and Jean-Henri...

Original vintage travel poster for Johannesburg the Metropolis of South Africa featuring a stunning Art Deco design depicting the stylised silhouette of a couple looking out at the v...

John Knowles Hare, American Illustrator, (1884-1947). This painting is believed this an original for a candy box illustration.

Original vintage Art Deco travel poster - O Verao Na Alemanha / The Summer in Germany - featuring stunning artwork by the notable German poster artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) of a fashionable lady in a summer dress holding a red sun umbrella...

Original vintage naval military recruitment poster Engagez-vous dans la Marine / Join the Navy featuring dynamic artwork of a warship at sea with the number 73 marked on the side of ...

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a... very large teenage boy appearing out of the clouds? Villa created this powerful image to encourage young people to practice light aviation—an ini...

This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. This beautiful cyanotype portrays an iconic building facade from the thirties. Details: + Title: Thirties Building with...

Original vintage travel poster for Hapag Reiseburo travel agency featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Albert Fuss (1889-1969) showing people relaxing on chairs and enjoying the wi...

An uncanny juxtaposition of sleek design. The bold geometric forms of the Chrysler Building Spire are set against the equally sleek lines of a contempo...

Original vintage poster for the Forsthaus Ilkahohe forester's house restaurant in Oberzeismering near Tutzing in Bavaria Germany. Great Art Deco design featuring a smiling lady in an apron carrying coffee and tea pots and cups...

Exhibition - Politics - Japan The Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989), Assumed The Throne Ucon The Death of His Father in 1926. His Official Coronation Was Two Years Later in a lavish, Traditional Ceremony Imbued with Ancient Japanese Pageantry. The New York Times Reported That Over One Million People Took To The Streets of Kyoto as part of the Celebration. This rare and exceptional post advertising an exhibition Held in Conjunction with the Coronation is a stylized, Decorative Map of Kyoto, Displaying for Visitors Highlights of the City's Infrastructure. The Image Harmoniously Combines The Prevailing Japanese Art Deco Style With Traditional Japanese Cultural Design Elements. The Chrysanthemums Seen in The Middle Part of the Design represent The "Chrysanthemum Throne" to which the Emperor was ascending. The Flowers Were Also Strewn and Planted All Around The City During The Event. In Handfulness Were Designed for the Coronoration Celebration, Each One More Staggering Than The Previous, However This Is The Only Design Well Locate en français...

Original antique advertising poster for the Buffet De La Gare Geneve / Station Buffet Geneva featuring a stunning Art Deco image of a lady looking to the viewer, holding a glass to d...

Beautiful Art Deco style poster to celebrate 100 years of Schmidt wool. Schmidt wool was a German wool brand from the 19th century. Fashion - Art Deco

Original vintage ski travel poster for Winter Sports in Carinthia Austria featuring artwork by Hubert Lechner (1903-1990) of a smiling skier wearing a hat and holding a ski pole, loo...

Original poster for the Bern Lotschberg Simplon Railway (BLS; 1913-2006). The image by Eugen Henziross (1877-1961) shows a train making its way through a rocky mountain tunnel and ov...

Original vintage travel poster featuring a stunning Art Deco design depicting the silhouette of a stag standing in the Belgian countryside with trees reaching to the sky in the foreg...

Original antique advertising poster for The Ideal Summer Drink Ovaltine Cold Delicious Refreshing Sustaining featuring a great illustration ...

A color, stone lithograph titled 'Edward' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950) with certification of authenticity stamped verso. A fresh ...

Original vintage SNCF railway travel poster for the Basque Coast - Cote Basque Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais - featuring a great Art Deco d...

Latitude 43 was designed by the avant-garde architect Georges-Henri Pingusson. The building, listed as a historical monument in 1992, is a reference in ter...

Original vintage advertising poster for the Dutch Royal Packet Navigation Company / Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (KPM; 1888-1966), featuring a stunning Art Deco illustration d...

Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the vitality and energy of New York City's classic Art Deco skyscraper, The Chrysler Building. It glows in pink, magenta, and crimson on ...

Singing Rooster by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961) Colour crayon and pencil on paper 22 x 16 cm (8 ⅝ x 6 ¼ inches) SOLD UNFRAMED This work is accompanied by a certificate of...

Original vintage ENIT travel poster for Lake Garda / Lago Di Garda Riva Torbole in Trentino Italy featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the Italian art...

Original vintage advertising poster for The International Air Traffic Exhibition Copenhagen Forum 20 August 2 September 1927 aviation event featuring an Art Deco design of planes flying around a blue globe of the earth...

Original antique advertising poster for the French car manufacturer Renault (founded 1899) featuring a stunning Art Deco design showing a classic Type 45 re...

Benedictus, Edouard. "Relais." Plate 14. Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930. Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé. Unsigned and unnumbered from an edition of presumabl...

Set of three original vintage travel advertising posters published by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway company and the TMB Mont Blanc Tramway for Mont Blanc (the highest mountain in Europe), via St Gervais...

Original vintage travel poster for Polska / Poland Divine Service at Lowicz featuring a stunning design by the Polish born artist Juliusz Stefan Norblin de la Gourdaine (1892-1952) d...

The annual Furriers Ball in Paris was advertised by such Art Deco luminaries as Charles Gesmar, Maurice Milliere and the unknown Asta Tigri who designed both this poster and the imag...

Danish travel poster created by Bogelund (1890-1959) advertising Frederiksberg Svomme Hal, a large indoor public pool in Frederiksberg, Denmark.