1920s Figurative Paintings

Study for Satruday Evening Post Cover, Fabruary 16, 1929

4032 Scandinavian painting of a female bather on cut out wood applied to a painted backround Set in a wood frame image size 8.5x10.5"

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...

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950) Portrait of a lady, a sketch signed lower right Oil on canvas transfered on cardboard 25 x 18 cm oval Framed : 31 x 24.5 cm This port...

Signed oil on canvas landscape by American impressionist painter William Samuel Horton. The piece depicts a view of the town of Gstaad in Southwestern Switzerland. The buildings and ...

Excellent figurative painting of a mother and child by H. Willard Ortlip (American, 20th Century), 1927. Signature and date lower left "H. Willard Ortlip 1927." Presented in a giltwo...

Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1929. Mixed colored oil painting on board Not signed. Ref. - Exhibition: Biennale of Venice 1938, - Italian...

Provenance: This is an early painting by Huldah Mae Cherry (also known as Huldah Cherry Jeffe), done in her "Impressionist years" and painted after a painting by another American I...

Beautiful Brittany, France coastal landscape depicting a cottage and a lone farmer by A. Henry (French, 20th Century),circa 1920. Signed "A. Henry" lower right. Unframed. Image, 16"H...

Original study for the cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post, published June 2, 1923 Medium: Oil on canvas Artwork Dimensions: 21.5 x 15.75 in. Framed Dimensions: 25 x 18...

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...

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...

Antique original nocturnal cityscape oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1920. Signed illegibly. Image size, 12L x 16H. Housed in a period frame.

Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Lucien Adrion. The painting depicts people going about their daily lives on the streets of Paris, France on a sunny spring day with trams travelling along the boulevards. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 33"x39" Unframed: 26"x32" Provenance: Galerie Vildrac - Paris (labels verso) Lucien Adrion was born May 25, 1889 in Strasbourg, France. He was was a French Post-Impressionist painter, draftsman, and printmaker known for his depictions of the French countryside and beaches, as well as Parisian life including landscape, still life, figure and landmark paintings. He began his initial studies in Strasbourg as a technical draughtsman. In 1907, at the age of eighteen, he left his hometown Strasbourg and traveled to Paris, where he found employment in a large drafting company to work as a fashion illustrator. Adrion changed his mind upon arrival and rather than working for a large company, he decided to peruse his artistic career by traveling to London, Munich and Frankfurt. As the World War broke out he had to go to Berlin, where he studied as an engraver with Hermann Struck, who was also the teacher of Marc Chagall. He remained in Berlin until the war ended and after the demobilization, Lucien would study engraving under Franz Ritter von Struck...

Antique American modernist interior scene of figures eating lunch by the shovel full. Really well painted and unusual scene. A rare early work by Justin Murray (1912 - 1987). Sign...

Will Foote View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg, circa 1927 Signed lower center; titled and dated on the reverse Oil on artist's board 12 x 16 inches Foote was born on June 29, 1874 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and died on January 27, 1965, in Sarasota, Florida. He was in Old Lyme, 1901-65; and in Cos Cob, 1903. Will Howe Foote was one of the earliest artists at Old Lyme and one who adopted the town as home. He first went there the summer of 1901 with his uncle, William H. Howe, a painter of cattle, who had been told about the beauties of the countryside by Henry Ward Ranger. Foote had himself heard of Old Lyme when he had met Clark Voorhees in France. He and his uncle were both from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Foote's father was an executive in the furniture industry that made the city famous. Encouraged to be an artist by his father, he began his professional training at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1894. He became friends there with a fellow Michigan student, Frederick Frieseke, who would study with him again at the Art Students League in New York, where Foote worked in 1895-96 under H. Siddons Mowbray and Kenyon Cox. In 1897 he and Frieseke went to the Academic Julian in Paris, where Foote studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He was at Julian's until 1900, except for an Italian trip, summers at Laren, Holland, or Etaples, France, and a short period at Whistler's school in Paris. He exhibited twice at the Old Salon, and when he returned to the United States in 1900, he had a one-man exhibition in his hometown. Will Howe Foote's paintings were well received on his return from abroad. He exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design and became an associate member in 1910. His awards included a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Once he visited Old Lyme, Foote returned every summer. In 1902 he was hired as assistant to Frank DuMond at the Lyme Summer School of Art, which was sponsored by the Art Students League of New York. Sometime in 1903 he also taught a session in Cos Cob. After 1906, when the League moved its Lyme classes to Woodstock, New York, Foote continued in Old Lyme as a private instructor. In 1907 he was married to Helen Kirtland Freeman, whom he had met a year or two earlier when she had come to the Lyme art colony as a student of Henry Rankin Poore. Fellow artist William Chadwick was best man at the wedding. The Footes began building a house on Sill Lane in Old Lyme and upon its completion in 1909 spent every spring, summer and fall there, where Foote devoted full time to painting. The Gregory Smiths, old friends from Grand Rapids, arrived in Old Lyme in 1910 and became neighbors. Foote's early works in Connecticut, such as A Summer's Night reflect the artist's interest in soft, atmospheric scenes dominated by a single, overriding tone. The arrival of Childe Hassam and Walter Griffin...

Small head in pencil. original drawing painting André Derain (Chatou, June 10, 1880-Garches, September 8, 1954) was a French painter, illustrator and set designer, representative of...

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...

Morris Kantor New York (1896 - 1974) Paris from the Ile St. Louis, 1927 (view of Eiffel Tower) Oil painting on canvas Hand Signed lower left. Provenance: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ( bears label verso) Size: 20 3/4"H x 28 1/8"W (sight), 28.75 "H x 36"W (framed) Morris Kantor (Belarusian: Морыс Кантор) (1896-1974) was a Russian Empire-born American painter based in the New York City area. Born in Minsk on April 15, 1896, Kantor was brought to the United States in 1906 at age 10, in order to join his father who had previously relocated to the states. He made his home in West Nyack, New York for much of his life, and died there in 1974. He produced a prolific and diverse body of work, much of it in the form of paintings, which is distinguished by its stylistic variety over his long career. Perhaps his most widely recognized work is the iconic painting "Baseball At Night", which depicts an early night baseball game played under artificial electric light. Although he is best known for his paintings executed in a realistic manner, over the course of his life he also spent time working in styles such as Cubism and Futurism, and produced a number of abstract or non-figural works. A famous cubist, Futurist, painting of his "Orchestra" brought over 500,000$ at Christie's auction house in 2018 Kantor found employment in the Garment District upon his arrival in New York City, and was not able to begin formal art studies until 1916, when he began courses at the now-defunct Independent School of Art. He studied landscape painting with Homer Boss (1882-1956). In 1928, after returning to New York City from a year in Paris, Kantor developed a style in which he combined Realism with Fantasy, often taking the streets of New York as his subject matter. He did some moody Surrealist Nude paintings and fantasy scenes. In the 1940's he turned towards figural studies. Later in his career, Kantor himself was an instructor at the Cooper Union and also at the Art Students League of New York in the 1940s, and taught many pupils who later became famous artists in their own right, such as Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmund Abeles and Susan Weil...

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...

"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...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration for Top-Notch Magazine, August 15, 1921 Forsythe was a major influence on many great artists and had many important friends. He was Rockwell's studiomate and mentor and actually helped Rockwell to get his first cover at The Saturday Evening Post. Forsythe was also friends with Teddy Roosevelt, who was the first President to drive a car. "The Race is On" 1921 depicts Teddy Roosevelt racing a cowpoke on horseback. This is a phenomenal painting in many respects - historical, western, presidential, car. Roosevelt is a major collector's market. The car is a Red Model T Roadster as well. It also contains great action and drama - and beautifully rendered, as good if not better than any WR Leigh...

Fauvist signed oil on canvas riverscape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. The work depicts a view of the R...

Signed impressionist landscape oil on canvas circa 1920 by French painter Antoine Bouvard Snr. The work depicts a figure rowing on a gondola beside buildings lining the canal at the ...

Otto Lindberg was a Swedish artist born in Söderhamn in 1880. Lindberg was known for his landscapes and marine paintings. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm an...

A gentle, quiet, lovely portrait of motherhood painted by British artist Arthur Bradbury in 1927, a distinguished painter who over the years exhibited 14 works at the Royal Academy. ...

With stylistic confidence, French Artist Georges Lepape created three highly inventive and masterfully imaginative Art Deco figures based on Ancient Greek history. The work was for a...

Jacques Martin-Ferrières (French, 1893-1972) Le marché d'Assise, 1927 A warm gathering at the beginning of the last century at a mountain top courtyard in Assisi Italy built just af...

Original on Gouache on paper. Hand signed on front; signed, titled, dated with dedication on verso by Erte. Stamped "Composition originale". Frame size 29 x 24.5 inches. Artwork s...

Ex Voto; Holy Tribute for the Return to Good Health. Oil on tin with ink, May 31, 1922, by Mexican artist V. Cervantes with a contemporary custom frame hand-carved by artisan Michael...

Literature: Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque Catalogue Raisonne (Neuilly, 2008), vol. 1, p. 223 (no. 820) (illus)

A stunning, beautiful nude dancer exhibiting ideal proportions and crowned with an ornate floral headdress holds a luminescent Japanese Lantern. The lantern glows, and the dancer glows back in this light-infused painting. The background shows a Japanese screen with cranes...

William Ablett was born in Paris of English parents. He was accepted at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts and began working in oils. Under the tutelage of his professors and mento...

The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, July 23, 1921 (cover illustration). Sarah Stilwell-Weber is celebrated for her captivating illustrations of children. While her early work often ...

Romualdo Locatelli è conosciuto per i suoi ritratti che riflettono le culture e le tradizioni dei luoghi esotici che ha visitato. Born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1905, he traveled and exp...

“Their Romantic Honeymoon: The Bride and Groom Visit Niagara Falls,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published July 9, 1927 Newlyweds Lil and Sandy are on their honeymoon at N...

Everett Lloyd Bryant American, 1864-1945 Woman in Kimono Oil on canvas Signed lower right 30 by 25 in. W/frame 35 by 30 in. Everett studied wit...

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...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned “She Needs You So!” Magazine advertisement: Cream of Wheat hot cereal, 1927;

Arnold Friedman studied with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League in 1905 . Yet as he developed his style he abandoned the academic influence of his teacher. He started experimenting with materials and techniques. Friedmans intimate style recalls a variety of post-impressionist artists such as Pointillism of Pisarro, Vuillard and Nabis, and perhaps even Seurat. His thick application of paint has definitive textual impasto that was influenced by his trip to Paris in 1909. In "Museum Piece...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published January 26, 1929. After the passing of Sandy’s Great-Uncle Ulysses, Sandy and Lil walk around the cluttered brownstone mansion he left...

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Left Satuday Evening Post Cover, May 30, 1925.

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Center Sight Size 30.00 x 24.00;" Framed 40.00 x 33.50" The Elks Magazine Cover, June 1925

F. Luis Mora was the first Hispanic member of the National Academy of Design. Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, by Francis Luis Mora is a painting of beautiful Spanish women in...

Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Jean Bouchaud (1891 in Saint Herblain near Nantes – 1977 in Nantes) was a French painter. He was fascinated by travel since his childhood seeing s...

Pastel Impressionist style painting by American landscape artist George Ames Aldrich. The work features a woman standing at the edge of a river in a quaint pastoral French town. Sign...

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...

"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan The size of the canvas 28 3/4 x 43 1/4 inches. The painting comes directly from the artist's estate. It is signed lower right as well as signed, titled and dated verso. We have available more than two dozen paintings and works on paper from the 1930s - 80s that come directly from the Loew estate. BIO Michael Loew (1907 – 1985) was the son of a New York City baker. After high school, he was an apprentice to a stained-glass maker, and from 1926-1929, he studied at the Art Students League. In 1929, he traveled to Paris, North Africa, Germany, and Italy with a group of artists. When he returned to New York City in 1931, the Great Depression hit Loew unexpectedly, and for the next two years he paid his apartment rent with his paintings. In 1935, he found work with the WPA where he painted murals and partnered up with longtime friend Willem de Kooning in 1939 on a mural for the Hall of Pharmacy at the New York World’s Fair. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives. In the mid-30’s he painted in Mexico and the Yucatán documenting the construction of a U.S. Naval airbase on Tinian Island. It was from this airbase that the Enola...

Marie RÉOL (Massiac 1880 – Douarnenez 1963) Seaside in Douarnenez ? Oil on canvas H. 54 cm; L. 65 cm Signed lower left Provenance : Private collection, Périgord Born in the heart of Cantal, Marie Réol left to study Fine Arts in Paris, where she met Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas. This Breton master will become “his” master. Going from teacher, to friend, then husband whose stylistic influence will be felt throughout Marie Réol's career. The couple is divided between Douarnenez where Désiré-Lucas has a large residence, Espalion where they have a house overlooking the Lot and the Vieux Pont, as well as in Paris. Obviously, through his friendship with the Périgord Lucien de Maleville...

ERWIN BINDEWALD (1897-1950) Two men playing draughts, a girl with the red book standing behind them Signed and dated E. Bindewald d.j., 27 Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 90.5 cm In black and gilt gesso frame. Note: Bindewald was born in Charlottenburg. He moved to Berlin in 1914 where he studied till 1924 at the Berliner Kunst Akademie. Bindewald travelled in Europe, but mainly stayed in Germany and certainly never was in China. This painting was made in Europe, presumably in the China Town of Berlin. Bindewald received several commisions in Germany from factory owners who wanted their factories painted inside, usually with workers, as well as outside. In the present painting the sitter on the right seems to be a man with a Manchurian background, wearing the brown coat reserved for the highest aristocracy in China. In China the black sleeve-ends completely cover the hands, indicating that the high aristocracy does not have to do any manuel labour. This man clearly is not a factory worker but he possibly is the (co)- owner of the factory in the background and as such might need his hands to do at least some writing. The man on the left in the modern Western suit...

Signed figure in landscape oil on board circa 1920 by sought after French Post-Impressionist painter Victor Charreton. The piece depicts a lone figure walking through a wooded area i...

"Waterways" is a stunning original oil painting by Carl Lindin (1869-1942), a Swedish-American artist known for his beautiful landscapes. This 1920s-1930s signed framed oil painting ...

The present decorative frieze, signed by the Malagasy painter Georges Razanamaniraka, is organized around the central figure of an enigmatic and hypnotic dancer. The quasi-symmetrica...

Countryside Village River Scene with Cherry Tree Blossom, Female Figure and Geese by Early 20th Century Artist, Laszlo Neogrady (1896-1962). Framed in a high quality off-white shabby chic contemporary wooden moulding. Art measures 30 x 24 inches Frame measures 36 x 30 inches Laszlo Neogrady was a Hungarian painter best known for his naturalistic depictions of rustic landscape scenes, often featuring peasants and snow-covered forests. Neogrady notably made extensive use of impasto paint and atmospheric colours, achieving a sense of pictorial depth and light in his work. Born in 1896 in Budapest, Hungary as the son of painter Antal Neogrady, he went on to study at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under the celebrated portrait artist Ede Ballo. Today, Neogrady’s works are found in the collections of the Iowa State...

Signed 'ORPEN' (upper left) Sitter is bathed in warm window light that creates subtle patter of light and shadow in the background. Artists depicts Mr. Glass in a beige and brown ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00" Signature: Unsigned Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 1923, illustrated as Kuppenheimer Clothing Company advertisementLaurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, p. 91, illustrated in color p. 92 Notes: The Kuppenheimer Clothing Company used this painting as an advertisment for its men's clothing. The advertisement printed...

Friedrich August Seitz (1902 Staffort - 1944 Belgrade). Half-length portrait of an elderly man with a beard. Oil on canvas, 42 x 34 cm (visible seize), 58 x 50 cm (frame), signed and...

Original cover for Good Housekeeping, published October 1922. The Young Scholar, reproduced on the cover of the October 1922 issue of Good Housekeeping, demonstrates Jessie Willcox ...

Die Arbeit von Albert Bertalan war ein Spontankauf aufgrund der offensichtlichen Qualität der Arbeit, noch bevor ich etwas über den Künstler recherchieren konnte. Das Label „Ecole de...

Georgina Klitgaard Johnny Walker’s Place, circa 1929 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 34 x 42 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity t...