1920s Figurative Paintings

Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published March 30, 1929. J.C. Leyendecker's holiday covers, particularly his iconic New Year's baby, were instrumental in driving The...

This rare and historic Orientalist painting, La Petite Dieu, translated as “Little God”, by renowned Armenian-American artist Hovsep Pushman. First exhibited March 27 – April 7, 192...

Oil on canvas by Pere Creixams Pico (1893-1965), School of Paris, ca.1920. Beautiful Spanish woman. Provenance: Charpentier Gallery, 76 rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, Paris (Sotheby's...

Signed oil on canvas seascape circa 1920 by French naive painter Camille Bombois. This work depicts workers out at sea on a large sail boat with a few ...

Initialed upper right 'A.B.' for Axel Bentzen (Danish, 1893-1952) painted circa 1925. Axel Bentzen studied art as a child and, by the age of 14, was copying Old Master paintings at ...

Original Maritime Oil Painting of RMS Aquitania in New York Harbor by Frederick Hoertz. Original painting of Cunard Line’s Aquitania by Frederick Hoertz (American, 1889-1978) that w...

Micao Kono was born in Japan, moving to work in Paris in the 1920's. His style, a mixture of Japanese watercolor and figurative Art Deco. He often mixed egg tempera into his oils to ...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Center Left Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover 'Who, Me Work?' January 23, 1926

Born in Hungary in 1899 Joseph Waidinger was educated in fine art before moving to Paris to work in 1924. "Lola" is original oil on canvas, signed, and dated 1929. A true genre painting, as an elegant art deco woman sits in a cafe, perhaps waiting for someone...

This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Subway Construction, c. 1928, oil on board, 19 x 15 ¾ inches, signed upper left, artist and title verso; exhibited: 1) 12th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, The Waldorf Astoria, New York NY, from March 9 to April 1, 1928, no. 864 (original price $250) (see Death Prevailing Theme of Artists in Weird Exhibits, The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), March 8, 1928); 2) Boston Tercentenary Exhibition Fine Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Horticultural Hall, Boston MA, July, 1930, no. 108 (honorable mention - noted verso); 3) 38th Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, June, 1931 (see Alexander, Mary, The Week in Art Circles, The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 7, 1931); and 4) National Art Week Exhibition [Group Show], Montross Gallery, New York, New York, December, 1940 (see Devree, Howard, Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Exhibitions in the Galleries, The New York Times, December 1, 1940) About the Painting Ernest Stock’s Subway Construction depicts the excavation of New York’s 8th Avenue line, which was the first completed section of the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND). The groundbreaking ceremony was in 1925, but the line did not open until 1932, placing Stock’s painting in the middle of the construction effort. The 8th Avenue line was primarily constructed using the “cut and cover” method in which the streets above the line were dug up, infrastructure was built from the surface level down, the resulting holes were filled, and the streets reconstructed. While many artists of the 1920s were fascinated with the upward thrust of New York’s exploding skyline as architects and developers sought to erect ever higher buildings, Stock turned his attention to the engineering marvels which were taking place below ground. In Subway Construction, Stock depicts workers removing the earth beneath the street and building scaffolding and other support structures to allow concrete to be poured. Light and shadow fall across the x-shaped grid pattern formed by the wooden beams and planks. It is no surprise that critics reviewing the painting commented on Stock’s use of an “interesting pattern” to form a painting that is “clever and well designed.” About the Artist Ernest Richard Stock was an award-winning painter, print maker, muralist, and commercial artist. He was born in Bristol, England and was educated at the prestigious Bristol Grammar School. During World War I, Stock joined the British Royal Air Flying Corps in Canada and served in France as a pilot where he was wounded. After the war, he immigrated to the United States and joined the firm of Mack, Jenny, and Tyler, where he further honed his architectural and decorative painting skills. During the 1920s, Stock often traveled back and forth between the US and Europe. He was twice married, including to the American author, Katherine Anne Porter. Starting in the mid-1920s, Stock began to exhibit his artwork professionally, including at London’s Beaux Arts Gallery, the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Whitney Studio and various locations in the Northeast. Critics often praised the strong design sensibility in Stock’s paintings. Stock was a commercial illustrator for a handful of published books and during World War II, he worked in the Stratford Connecticut...

Here for your consideration is a very well executed original oil on board painting by the American artist, George A. Traver. Signed lower right. Signed and titled verso. National Academy of Design exhibition label verso. (1923) Condition is very good; no issues. The painting done in an impressionist style depicting a mother and her child picking wild flowers in a field. A beautiful variety of greens and blues dominate the composition. The figures are painted with a soft white palette are equally well done. The painting has recently been professionally cleaned. The painting is housed in its original wood frame with a hand hammered copper metal wrap over wood. The frame is from the arts and crafts period and is in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 18.75 by 4.75 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. In 1864, George Traver was born in Corning, New York. George Traver was working as an artist in New York City by the 1890's. He studied with J. Alden Weir, Henry Siddons Mowbray and Thomas Wilmer Dewing...

Signed fauvist oil on canvas laid on panel riverscape circa 1925 by French painter Louis Valtat. The work depicts several boats being rowed on River Seine in Bois de Boulogne - a for...

Still life with plate, poster and bottle of liqueur 1929. Oil on canvas, 69x50 cm with certificate of authenticity Romans Suta Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (La...

William Lester Stevens Rockport Signed lower right Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Born on June 15, 1888, in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens displayed his artistic abilities from a y...

☀️⭐Road Line III ⭐☀️ Landscape - Sky scrappers, office- NYC Building avenue Painting with mirror effect Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden strecher frame ...

Davis Kemp Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style. Very well drawn nude study of two women from 1928 in t...

A beautiful art deco portrait by well listed American Ashcan School artist Alexander Oscar Levy. This piece was featured in the American Art Review article about the Levy retrospect...

J. BREYNAT (XXth century) Oil on cardboard 20 x 30 cm (28 x 38 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower left "J. Breynat / 1921" Beautiful carved wooden frame from the 19th century ...

Signed lower left, 'Henri Buron' for Henri Lucien Joseph Buron (French, 1880-1969) and dated lower right 1927; additionally signed verso and dated. The painting is displayed in a cu...

#5-01 Large Scale Persian Hunt, circa 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting hunting scene, displayed in a wood-gesso frame.Image size 39 H X 59.5 W Arti...

Scottish artist John Maclauchlan Milne, RSA, (1885-1957) is a contemporary of Scottish Colourists Peploe, Fergusson, Cadell and Hunter. Like the...

Signed oil on original canvas landscape by French post impressionist painter Albert Charles Lebourg. The work depicts a view of rural Rouen, a city on the River Seine in northwestern...

Still Life with ham, oil on canvas signed a wonderful example of the artist's work, from the Collection of Bass Museum Of Art. Canvas size 16 3/4 x 22 1/5 framed 23 x 29. Edmund Pick...

"Market in Paris" is a European townscape and market Scene by American Impressionist painter Albert Van Nesse Greene, featuring towns people at a busy outdoor market. The painting i...

Count Albert de BELLEROCHE 1864–1944 Painter of portraits and genre, and lithographer; influenced by Impressionism. Born 22 October 1864 in Swansea, of Huguenot descent. Brought up b...

Winthrop Duthie Turney Pigeon Hill, Rockport Signed lower left Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Exhibited New York, National Academy of Design, Artists of America, Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1949. Winthrop Duthie Turney was born in New York City and received his education at the Art Students League. He was affiliated with the Fifteen Gallery...

Algerian women in an interior. Oil on panel. Signed. This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation. Jules Van Biesbroeck w...

Gorgeous pair of two 1920's watercolor portraits of Gibson girls, one in blue and one in pink, by Charles Hollman (Dutch, 1877-1953). Each portrait renders...

Oil on canvas by Amedee de La PATELLIERE, France, 1928. Eclipse with four characters. With frame: 63x54 cm - 24.8x21.25 inches ; without frame: 41x33 cm - 16.15x13 inches. Format 6F....

This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing About the Painting Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast. About the Artist Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...

Work on canvas with frame The frame is new and the total size is 70x80 cm Signed " V. Marendaz ", Unknonwn artist from the gallery Dated 1920

Louis Buisseret (Belgian) Exhibited at the Pittsburgh International (Carnegie Institute) show of 1928 "Composition" This surrealist painting depicts nude women having a picnic in a S...

Davis Kemp Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style. Very well drawn nude study of two women from 1928 in t...

Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s Well executed impressionist painting of a Hungarian countryside courtship vignette by a 19th-20th century Hungarian artist Pal Szlavik. some minor s...

Signed divisionist landscape oil on panel circa 1920 by French painter Henri le Sidaner. This stunning piece depicts a white house framed by trees at nighttime. Light glows from the...

Illegible signature Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 46.5 x 41.5 x 5.5 cm

Grace Hill Turnbull Laughing Waters, 1925 Signed lower right, titled on verso Oil on canvas 26 x 37 inches Provenance The artist Catonsville Community College, Catonsville, Maryland...

Charming early 20th Century impressionistic summer landscape of Dutch cottage with chickens. Signed illegibly lower right corner. Stamped "Rotterdam" on ...

Oil Painting by Frank Moss Bennett "By the Fountain" 1874 -1952 Painter of figurative scenes and townscapes, studied at the the Royal Academy school and regular exhibitor there and L...

Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century "Late Afternoon, Columbus Avenue, New York", impasto oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed verso (under relining, shown in photo), and titled verso on stretcher, in maple mitered cove frame, 23 1/4" x 27 1/4", SS: 19 1/4" x 23 1/4", Relined. BIO Russian-born Gussow trained at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He also studied under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His first claim to fame was exhibiting two works at the Armory Show in 1913. Gussow exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists between 1917 and 1934 and at Salons of America in the 1930s. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for example, has his Subway Stairs. The Barnes Foundation...

Les Baigneuses by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 89 x 118 cm (35 x 46 ¹/₂ inches) Signed and dated lower right, Paulémile - Pissarro. 1928. This work is accompanied by...

This illustration was created for the Hills Brothers Coffee company in 1929 and was used on promotional products as well as coffee cans in the ye...

5000 Antique Chinese Reverse painting on glass et in a period frame with brass hanger

What a Life, c. 1930, mixed media on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed lower left; titled on label; exhibited at The San Francisco Art Association Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition at the P...

Eric Hallström (1893-1946) Swedish Party Time pastel on paper signed Eric Hallström image dimensions approx 19.29 x 23.22 inches (49 x 59 cm) frame 26.37 x 30.70 inches (67 x 78 cm...

Presenting a lovely self portrait by Swiss artist Juliette Calame’. “Auto-Portrait” is an original vintage oil on panel, signed, c.1925, with an image dimension of 29 x 19.5 inches.

La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1922 Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura El estado de la obra es bueno Medidas obra: 94 x 74 cm. ::::::::...

Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas c.1920 by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. The piece depicts a harbour at Collioure, a commune in the southern Fr...

Original advertisement for Kuppenheimer Clothing, featuring a jockey on a race horse and a well-dressed gentleman in a suit This illustration for Kuppenheimer Clothes appeared in various advertisements and promotional materials in 1926 and 1927, such as the cover of a race-themed Kuppenheimer advertising booklet, as well as the interior page of the Kuppenheimer Spring & Summer 1926 brochure, where the associated caption states: “This double-breasted, with slender hips and broad Curvette shoulders, will be quite the thing with stylish young fellows this spring – especially in the new shades of Ambertone and Silvertone.” A wood-engraving of the image was completed by Jacob Sander for use in newspapers in 1926. Engravings like this were often created to eliminate the difficulties associated with half-tone production on the poor quality newspaper stock. The present work showcases the artist’s ability to capture an idealized vision of male beauty. The rich colors and textures of the fabrics applied with Leyendecker’s signature painterly technique further enhance the appeal of the clothing the picture advertises. In the early spring of 1926, in preparation for upcoming Kuppenheimer advertising projects, J.C. Leyendecker visited the Aqueduct Racetrack horse racing facility in Queens, New York. He was directed to the legendary trainer ‘Dick’ (Herbert John Thompson), who was training the horse named Bubbling Over, who would become the model or the horse pictured...

Whitney Myron Hubbard's wife in the garden Signed in pencil lower left Whitney M. Hubbard. Framed in a contemporary gold leaf frame 16 by 13.75 inches. A seventy year resident of G...

This superb vibrant Orientalist Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and Norther...

Signed by Artist in Lower Right The Saturday Evening Post, April 14, 1928, cover illustration Literature: Arthur Leighton Guptill, Norman Rockwell, Illustrator, New York, 1970, p....

Natalie Van Vleck Waterfall, Connecticut, 1929 Signed and dated lower right Oil on canvas 30 x 25 inches Provenance Private Collection, North Carolina Natalie Van Vleck was born i...

Beautiful oil on canvas painting of a young nude woman sitting on a large rock in a enchanted grotto with two swans. The painting was executed in the 1920's and is in fine original condition. Unlined and housed in its original Stanford White hand carved wood gilt frame. Signed lower left. Provenance: Szynanski Gallery, Beverly Hills; Temple Steel Company, Chicago, Illinois; acquired from the above in 1980. Condition report: Stretcher bar mark center with corresponding light cracks. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, as a child Naegele moved with his parents to Memphis, where by 1873 he was apprenticed to a tombstone carver at three dollars a week. He also earned money painting...

Signed, titled and dated oil on canvas figures in landscape by post-impressionist painter Jules Le Ray. The piece depicts two women on a top of a cliff overlooking the port of La Mor...

August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979) Berlin Heights Looking toward Lake Erie, 1929 Gouache on paper Signed and dated lower right 18 x 23 inches 23.25 x 29 inches, framed A versatile ...

Nura Woodson Ulreich (American 1899-1950) Were I a Great Lady, 1927 Oil on board Signed lower left, inscribed and dated verso 11.25 in. h. X 9.75 in. w., board 17.75 in. h. X 16 in. ...

Original oil on canvas painting of a bucolic seaside picnic with a mother and her young children. Signed by the artist, F. G. Grust lower left. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in a period style gold leaf frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 31.5 by 41.75 inches. Provenance: A California estate. F. G. Grust was a Dutch painter born in 1889 who was best known for his domestic interior and exterior scenes of a mother with her young children. He is the son of artist Theordor Grust (1859 - 1909), who also painted Dutch genre...

Charming portrait of Russian Boyarina by Bell Dibble Taft (American, 1855-1937), 1921. Signed and dated lower left corner and gallery label for Oakland Gallery Exhibit (Oakand Museum...

Jean DESPUJOLS (Salles 1886 – Shreveport 1965) Portrait of a Henri Martin, mayor of Saint Médard en Jalles (Gironde) Oil on canvas H. 75 cm; L. 60 cm Signed lower right around 1920/2...