Mary Amanda Lewis

Allegorical Hunters & Gatherers Diptych

c. 1920s - 1930s

This rugged barroom shootout scene is a dramatically rendered, Western Americana gouache illustration by the California illustrator Fred Ludekens. In April 1942, the work appeared in...

A wonderful and rare surviving cover painting by the American artist Charles Martin (1848 - 1934), who was an active illustrator and editorial cartoonist on the East Coast in the ear...

An elegant Art Deco gouache-on-board created for General Motors who commissioned this work for their Cadillac ad campaign during the late 1920s-early 30s. This remarkable composition...

An original gouache cover illustration for a 1928 issue of the notorious French publication La Vie Parisienne. The long running, humorous, and racy magazine chronicled the exploits and sexual proclivities of sassy and free spirited French follies showgirls and their often dim witted suitors in risque, breezy, spicy pulp-like fashion. Maurice Milliere was a frequent contributor, fans on both sides of the Atlantic were familiar with the adventures of this delightful bobbed hair cover girl "Fanny" who appeared in a variety of humorous and or scandalous poses. This original gouache painting is nicely double matted in an oval window in a fine ornate gold gallery frame behind glass. Maurice Milliere (1871 -1946) was a prolific French illustrator, artist, designer and etcher. He was a key figure in what has come to be regarded as "Boudoir Art," and an influence on later artists like Louis Icart. Born in Normandy, France, Maurice Millière began his art education in Le Havre, but was soon transferred to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Arts Décoratifs in Paris where he was a classmate of Toulouse-Lautrec and Raoul Dufy among others. His skill as a draftsman translated quickly into success as an illustrator and his brilliant interpretation of the "Modern Parisienne" soon became known as the "Petite femme...

In the late 1930s, avant-garde illustrator Mahlon Blaine, working under the pseudonym G. Christopher Hudson created a series of illustrations which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City interior designer Paul MacAlister. Offering a dark and pessimistically erotic commentary on the skyscraper landscape that was taking over Manhattan, it's unclear if Blaine and MacAlister believed these murals would ever be approved, or if the preliminary artworks were exclusively created as an oblique social satire. Blaine treated each individual painting in the series as its own completed stand alone artwork, with painstaking detail and inspired yet terrifying imagery. It's unlikely Blaine or MacAlister ever truly expected the murals to be completed, they never were, and by 1940 the following year Blaine was under psychiatric care and dropped completely out of the public eye for the better part of the decade. This is the sixth of the series - We are offering the complete series of ten original concept paintings, each an impressionistic story of a nude underworld goddess engaged in the horrific industry of the machine age. In this work, a mechanical bird...

La Coquette by Alberto Vargas is an early work by the Peruvian born pin up legend exploring the Commedia dell'arte revival that took hold around 1915. The ...

Rarely do you come across a work of art that is vastly different than just about anything you see. This work is undeniably brilliant and a sheer pleasure to behold. Alexander Leydenfrost...

Oil on canvas by Cesar Vilot, France, ca.1930. Landscape with a Lady. Overall sizes: 27.3"x23.8"(69.5cmx60.5cm) - Painting measurements: 21.7"x18.1"(55cmx46cm) - 10F Format. Signed "...

Bistro Chomiere, Paris, 10"x12", oil on canvas. Artist: Areg Elibekian

Emmanuel Aubain (1872-1965) A Landscape Signed lower left Oil on canvas transefered on cardboard panel In quite good condition, some abrasions in the r...

Peregrine Heathcote’s paintings conjure a world of intoxicating glamour and intrigue, slipping across the boundaries of time to fuse iconic pre-war design with modern conceptions of ...

Signed and dated lower right 'Claude Flight 1923'. Exhibited: Paterson’s Gallery, ‘5th Exhibition of Pictures and Sculpture by the “Seven and Five” Society ( ‘ A Street in Jerusale...