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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: Early 1900s
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The Jewel that is London, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
The Jewel that is London
Airbrush and gouache
26 x 33 cm
c.1930
Signed to reverse
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a Brit...
Category
1930s Realist Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
La Seine - 1930's French Impressionist Oil on Canvas Paris River City Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very beautiful signed and dated 1936 impressionist oil on canvas by Lelia Caetani depicting the river Seine in Paris.
The artist is very interesting - please see biography below - she was an Italian...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Female Pencil Study Drawing by Marie Louise Simard
Located in Atlanta, GA
A naked woman standing is depicted in this black pencil-on-paper study by Marie Louise Simard (1886–1963). The written signature is in the bottom left corner with the official "MS" s...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Pavillon de Cirque
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
PAVILLON DE CIRQUE
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 inches (38 x 46 cm.)
framed: 21-1/2 x 24-1/2 inches (54 x 62 cm.)
NOTE:
THIS W...
Category
1930s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life with lemons
By Markey Robinson
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
David Marcus Robinson 1918-1999, was an Irish painter and sculptor who worked in an elementary and archaic manner. He was known as Markey Robinson, bor...
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Impressionist Roaring 20's Elegant Nocturnal Party Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Up for sale here is a really impressive early 1900's oil painting by William Clarke Rice, Jr. (1875 - 1928). A great nocturnal view housed in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 2...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Parc Bagatelle - Fauvist Landscape Oil Painting by Louis Valtat
By Louis Valtat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Louis Valtat. This stunning piece depicts a view of Bagatelle Park in the north of France in summer. The trees and the flower...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Huntsman and Hounds in an Open Landscape, Alfred Grenfell Haigh, signed
By Alfred Grenfell Haigh
Located in London, GB
Signed hunting scene by Alfred Grenfell Haig (1870–1963). Haig's masterful oil on canvas brings to life the exhilarating spirit of a hunting scene, with a huntsman leading a pack of ...
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of the al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem
Located in PARIS, FR
View of the al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem
Watercolor on pencil lines
40 x 28 cm
Signed lower right
With Frame
Lucienne Épron grew up in the Charente Maritime in France, and was awakened...
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Full and By -- Sails Full
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed lower right
Category
1930s Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Paris Street Scene, Notre Dame
By Maurice Falliès
Located in Norwich, GB
Notre Dame Cathedral by Maurice Falliès (French, 1883-1965), an artist who specialised in Paris street scenes. His work was recently shown at the Musée...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Oil on Canvas. Walter J. Hall, "The Maize Barge, Woodbridge"
Located in Mere, GB
Walter J. Hall. (1866 - 1947). Son of a Nantwich historian, painter of local Bury and East Anglian views, exhibitor at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Represented Bury and Nantw...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rugged California Coast - 1930's Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming 1930's impressionistic seascape of blue waves crashing on a rocky shore with distant sail boats on the horizon by Charles Morris (American, b-1889) c.1930. Signed lower left...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American Watercolor Painting Bucks County Pennslyvania Horses Farm 1910
By Frank F. English
Located in Portland, OR
Antique American watercolor painting, Bucolic Farm scene by Frank F. English (1854 - 1922), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Circa 1910.
A very attractive painting by the celebrated Pennsylvania artist Frank F. English, the location is in Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The painting depicts a scene of blue skies with two farmers tossing hay with pitchforks & two horses harnessed to a hay wagon, with barns to the background. The painting signed lower right " Frank F. English", condition is excellent and is ready to hang on your wall.
Frank F. English was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1854. In the early 1880s, he studied for five years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His instructors included Thomas Eakins, James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz.
However, English's reputation primarily rests with his outstanding facility as a watercolorist; most of his known paintings are executed in this medium. English's propensity for its use coincides, appropriately enough, with the watercolor's growing popularity among other American painters.
The American Water Color Society brought the medium special prominence by the late 1860s, and acceptance on the level of oil painting in 1876. That same year, the society was invited to display its works at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Its members exhibited 116 watercolors, and their public exposure was enormous. It is safe to assume that during the 159-day Centennial, Frank English was among the nearly 10 million exposition attendees, surpassing attendance records at all preceding world's fairs.
At age twenty-two, English, traveled to Philadelphia to see works by the Society's notables such as Samuel Colman, R. Swain Gifford, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Albert Fitch...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bonneted Lady in Church, Easter Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Middle Left
Cover of Saturday Evening Post magazine (Easter edition), April 1905.
This is one of Leyendecker's first Easter covers for the Sa...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“First Tracks at Courchevel, French Alps” by Marius Chambon (French, 1876-1962)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“First Tracks at Courchevel, French Alps”
Marius Chambon (French, 1876-1962)
Gouache on paper
Signed lower right.
16 1/2 x 10 1/2 (24 x 18 frame) inches
Capturing the moment in the...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of Old Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized in 1930s.
Painted on both sides, recto and verso.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Still Life with Burgundy and White African Daisies & Statue
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful vintage impressionistic still life with burgundy and white African daisies (Osteospermum) in brass cache pot with statue by Marie Michael (Am...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"Venice, 1906, " Italy, Warren W. Sheppard, Realist, Oil, Gondola, Canal
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Marine painter Warren W. Sheppard was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, to a ship captain father who instilled in his son a love and respect for the sea. He studied privately with Mauritz F. H. De Haas and took courses in drawing at Cooper Union in New York City. He traveled along the Mediterranean coast in 1879, sketching the ports of Naples, Gibraltar, Genoa and Messina. Sheppard’s foreign tours continued between 1888 and 1893, with stays in Paris and Venice, where he captured the architecture and busy canals of the Floating City. This fondness for travel also translated to his home country. He sailed along the East Coast from New Jersey to Maine in search of subjects and was an expert navigator, eventually writing the book Practical Navigation. Yacht design became a second career for Sheppard and he participated in a number of sailing competitions himself, most notably winning the New York-to-Bermuda race twice while skipper of the Tamerlane.
Sheppard exhibited at the Denver Exposition, Chicago Exposition...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Fauvist "Still Life with Flowers and Skull" Louis Mathieu Verdilhan
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Fauvist Vanitas "Still Life with Flowers and Skull"
Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (Provence, France, 1875-1928)
Circa 1910
Oil on canvas on ...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Pleine Air Lake Sketch Summer Day Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American landscape oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1900. No signature found. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 14"L x 10"H.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish landscape with church Spain original oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Albert Rafols Cullerés (1892-1986) - Landscape - Oil on board
Oil measures 27x36 cm.
Frame size 33x42 cm.
Catalan painter formed the Llotja with Lluis Labarta and Arcadi Más and fon...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Family Hearth" - Turn of the Century Cozy Interior Figurative Scene
By Charles Everett Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming turn-of-20th Century interior painting that takes the viewer back to simpler times with grandmother, grandfather, mother sewing and a young girl playing with her greyhound a...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Sacré-Coeur Montmartre at Willette Square Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre at Willette Square, Paris', gouache on art paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. Created by the Director of Public Ways and Promenades under Napoleon III, Sq...
Category
1930s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
German Autumn Landscape With Windmill, 1903
Located in Stockholm, SE
Reinhold Grohmann (1877-1915) was a German painter who studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, a renowned art school that attracted students from all over the world.
Grohmann's wo...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Two Seated Nude Women - British Modernist 1930's oil painting
By Lionel Ellis
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Modernist portrait oil painting is by noted artist Lionel Ellis. The painting comes from a collection of works by the artist, previously owned by his wife. Painte...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Working in the Hayfields
Located in St. Albans, GB
Harry Pennell
Picture Size: 24 x 40" (61 x 102cm)
Outside Frame Size 31 x 47" (79 x 120cm)
Exhibition Period 1900 – 1930
Harry Pennell (1879-1934) was a British artist and illustr...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
"City Street, " Oil on Board, circa 1930
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer, American (1899 - 1987)
Title: City Street
Year: circa 1930
Medium: Oil on Board, signed verso
Size: 20 in. x 13.75 in. (50.8 cm x 34.93 cm)
Frame Size: 26 x 20...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Castle, Signed Watercolour painting by Norman Lindsey
By Norman Lindsay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Castle
By Norman Lindsay (1879-1969),
Watercolour painting on canvas mounted on board and framed
signed to lower right
painting measures: 30.5cm x 23.5cm
framed: 77.5cm x 70.5cm
...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American Early Female Impressionist New York City Street Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible and rare early American impressionist cityscape painting by Alice Y. Hirsh (1888 - 1935). Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 8L x 10H.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait Blue Miles Davis French School READY TO HANG Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait Blue Miles Davis
Portrait of the famous Miles Davis
Technique: oil, acrylics and ink on canvas 73x60cm ■■ 28,7x23,6inch
⏩》R E A D Y -- T O -- H A N G《⏪
🟢 → Original ...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Gesso, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
Lady - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Lady is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
Antonio Feltri...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
"The Ledge" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Upstate New York Country Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
The Ledge, 1936-37
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 52 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artist...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old 17 Mile Drive, Carmel California Landscape Early 1900s Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Old 17 Mile Drive, Carmel California Landscape Early 1900s Oil on Linen
Gorgeous early 20th century landscape of rugged Carmel Old 17 Mile Drive coastline by Frank Lucien Heath...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Winter Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape abstraction. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 30L x 25H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Historically Important American Army Soldiers in Paris Cafe WPA Ashcan Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Measuring 18 by 22 inches.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Nude Female Boudoir Scene Erotic Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful nude female portrait boudoir scene by Cynthia Kleinmeyer.
Watercolor on paper measures 8 x 12 inches. Framed measurement: 12 x 16 inches.
Signed and dated 1932 by artist...
Category
1930s Realist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French Post Impressionist Village Scene Silver Birch Trees Vibrant Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape with Silver Birch Trees in Dappled Light
French Post-Impressionist, circa 1930's
Oil on board, unframed
Board: 19.5 x 24 inches
Provenance: Private collection
Condit...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Expressionist Colorful Landscape Oil Paint : San Antonio
Located in Segovia, ES
San Antonio . Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Chico Montilla.
Measurements: (H) 65 x (W) 81 x 2 (D) cm.
Framed 85 x 101 x 5 cm.
San Antonio, another expressionist view of the countr...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Celebrations at Marienplatz, Munich French 1900 art city landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb French Impressionist city landscape oil painting is attributed to Jacques Emile Blanche and has his characteristic brushwork. It was painted circa 1900 and portrays a civ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Opera Scene Signed Elegant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American impressionist oil painting by Richard W. Baldwin (1920 - 2012). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beautiful 1930's French Signed Oil Portrait Lady Purple Dress Blue & Pink Back
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady in Purple Dress against a Pink and Blue Wallpaper background
French School, circa 1930's
signed lower front corner
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
p...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Art Deco Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura M. GREENWOOD (1897-1951).
Portrait of Woman in Head Shawl
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches.
Signed upper stretcher verso. Excellent condition. Would benefit from a cleaning. O...
Category
1930s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20thC Modernist/Expressionist Large oil European Landscape c1930's
Located in Frome, Somerset
A good large post impressionist/expressionist Landscape oil circa 1938
oil on canvas 75cmx90cm
Gallery frame 87cmx102cm
Fields with a small dwelling painted in expressive impastoed b...
Category
1930s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Magnificent 1931 Art Deco Painting by Master Artist John Storrs
Located in Chicago, IL
A magnificent 1931 Art Deco painting by master artist John Storrs. Artwork size: 18" x 12". Framed Size: 21 1/4" x 21 3/4". In a handsome, dark fram...
Category
1930s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Woman - Painting by Eliseu Visconti - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original modern artwork realized by Eliseu Visconti (1866-1944) in 1930.
Mixed colored oil painting on board.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Board
Oil on Masonite Painting Titled "Lobster Shack", by Aaron Bohrod, 1938
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992
Lobster Shack, 1938
Oil on masonite
16 x 20 inches
Signed and dated ower left: Aaron Bohrod 1938
Bohrod-3
Provenance:
Private estate, Rhode Island, 2004
Am...
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Portrait of Young Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait realized by Franco Settimj in 1932.
Oil on cardboard.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Good condition except for some minor issing parts on edges.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
FRENCH SCHOOL Urbanscape La defense France PARIS - SNOW - Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐ La Défense ⭐
It's a cityscape, dominated by modern, high-rise buildings (Sky scrappers, office in Paris ) buried on snow.. The architecture suggests a contemporary urban environme...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Nude of Woman - Oil on Wooden Panel by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman if an original oil on wooden panel realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Very good conditions.
Antonio Feltrinelli
(Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
Antonio Feltrine...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fine 1930's French Impressionist Signed Oil Le Pont Neuf River Seine Paris
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Pont Neuf, Paris
by Edouard Henri Leon (French 1873-1968)
signed lower front corner
inscribed and titled verso
oil on canvas in wooden surround slip frame
wooden frame: 18.5 x 25....
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden panel realized by Fausta Settimj in the 1930s.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
Under the Viaduct
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower left
...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930’s French Impressionist Signed Oil Harvest Fields Haybales Landscape
By Suzanne Roche
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Suzanne Roche, French signed and dated 1930
signed oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas : 21 x 28 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: overall very good
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Impressionist Artist Studio Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Tropical Palm Tree Samoan Beach Landscape Painting
By Louis Michel Eilshemius
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important and rare American modernist Samoan Island landscape oil painting by Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864 - 1941). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 12 by 14 inches overall a...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare & Special Painting by Important Chicago Modernist Artist Davenport Griffen
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1936 Modernist landscape painting with figures by important Chicago artist (William) Davenport Griffen. His paintings tend to be rare. Image size: 18" x 20". Framed size: 22" x 24".
(William) Davenport Griffen was born in 1894 in Millbrook, NY. He graduated from Iowa State College in Ames, IA in 1918 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering; however, Griffen’s true love was painting. In 1919, he enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1923-1928. In 1926, he was awarded the American Travel Scholarship and began painting in Provincetown, MA. In 1928, he was awarded the John Quincy Adams Scholarship and spent six months painting in Paris, France. Griffen also painted in the U.S. Virgin Islands for 11 months between 1930-1931. Griffen had one-man exhibitions of his Virgin Islands paintings...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Impressionist mid century view of Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames London
Located in Woodbury, CT
Pietro Sansalvadore was active during the early to middle of the 20th century.
He painted in an Impressionist manner and on a small scale.
Acquiring a late 19th-century Impressionist painting of Hammersmith Bridge by the Italian painter Pietro Sansalvadore is an opportunity to own a captivating piece of art that transcends both time and cultural boundaries. Sansalvadore's unique perspective, influenced by the Impressionist movement, infuses this painting with a luminous quality that captures the atmospheric essence of Hammersmith Bridge in a way that only a skilled artist with an international perspective could achieve.
This masterpiece not only showcases the artist's mastery in capturing light and movement but also represents a harmonious fusion of Italian artistic sensibilities with the iconic English landmark. The play of colors and the subtle brushstrokes transport the viewer to the late 19th century, offering a glimpse into the allure and dynamism of that period.
Owning this painting is not just acquiring a visual delight; it's investing in a historical and cultural artifact...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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