1930s Figurative Paintings

'The Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, Paris', gouache on art paper by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). In Paris' 5th Arrondissement the site in which Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet is ...

Figurative 1930's illustration of a just married couple in a classic car by Charles Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). Signed "Kinghan" in the lower left c...

A beautiful portrait of a woman named Wilda Leiner, a pianist (1908-1994) by longtime Santa Cruz, CA resident Cor de Gavere. Signed "Cor de Gavere" lower right. Provenance listed on ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Contact for exact dimensions. Cover of Pictorial Review Magazine, December 1932. The woman in the illustration was modeled by th...

Sleeping woman  is an artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.  Oil on canvas, 110 x 160 cm.  Very good conditions Antonio Feltrinell...

Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964) My Studio Stove, 1936 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right, titled verso 23.5 x 19.5 inches 29.75 x 25.5 inches, f...

Our Gallery acquired the estate of a Northern California artist, Thelma Terrell. Terrell lived in Oakland and was an illustrator and professional graphic artist. "Springtime" is an ...

Signed by Artist Lower Right Commissioned from the artist by Coats & Clark thread company circa 1939 Exhibited at the Mint Museum, January 2022

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...

Arnold Blanch Nude Signed lower right Oil on board 20 x 16 inches Provenance: G. David Thompson Collection, Pittsburgh Private Collection, New York Bo...

Hans Burkhardt The Artist's Wife (1930) Oil on canvas, 20" x 16" 24" x 20 ½" x 1 ½" framed Dated 1930 lower right recto. Annotated "To Elsa HB Louise Burkhardt 1930. HB" verso. ...

Presenting a just discovered oil painting from the earliest period, c.1932, of American artist Ron Blumberg. After completing his fine art studies art at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris Ron Blumberg left for New York in 1932, where he worked for eight years as a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League. Virtually every painting from this early New York period has been sold, making this the rarest period of work in Ron Blumberg’s career. City Street: Fifth Avenue, is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1932, with an image dimension of 39 x 39 inches, good original condition with two very small restorations, set in a beautiful custom white gold frame. Please contact the gallery for information, availability and pricing Ron Blumberg Born: 1908 Reading, Pennsylvania Education: National Academy of Design, New York, NY Art Students League, New York, NY, 1930 Academie de La Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France, 1930-1931 ​Museum Exhibitions Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA 1933 Houston Museum of Art, Houston, TX 1936 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX 1936, 1936 Denver Museum of Fine Arts, Denver, CO 1957 Tucson Museum, Tucson, AZ 1955 San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA 1962 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1958 H. d Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA 1967 Erma Frye Museum, Seattle, WA 1969 ​Gallery Exhibitions ACA Gallery, New York, NY 1937 Arr USA, New York, NY 1939 MacBeth Gallery, New York, NY 1932 Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1951 Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1958,1959 Cushing Gallery, Dallas, TX 1972 Jean Dichter Gallery, Denver, CO 1955 Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Trigg Ison Fine Art...

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...

Genre: Modern Subject: Landscape Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: United States Dimensions: 30" x 22" EMANUEL ROMANO Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984 Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897. His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland. In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later. Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame. In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida. Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel. In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York. Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum. COLLECTIONS Indianapolis Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Boston Fine Arts Museum Fogg Museum Musée Nacional de France Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos...

Portrait of Woman if a beautiful oil on wooden panel realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Very good conditions. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) Antonio Felt...

Interesting view of the Pool of London, an area known on the Thames near Tower Bridge where freight was loaded and unloaded from the earliest times of the City of London through the ...

Sitting model is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1...

Presenting an original oil on canvas by Belgian artist Karel VonBelle. "Fleurs", is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1935, beautifully framed.

Here for your consideration is a oil on academy board painting by the American artist, Alvin Raffel. Signed and titled verso. Circa 1930's. Condition is good. Small puncture in the ...

Colorate opere di Aeropitture tecnica mista su giornali ,quotidiani tra il 1927 e 1935 Colori brillanti Pubblicato sul catalogo della Mostra "Michele Falanga aeropitture 1925-1937 G...

Old House at Capistrano, Laguna Beach Figurative Landscape by California Pioneer Artist Daisy A. Newell Kearns Substantial and historic mid-1930's period...

Mid-20th century Impressionist scene, French landscape with cottage The painter was active around the middle of the 20th century, painting landscapes, portraits, and city scenes. ...

Stark and emotional depiction of a family after a natural disaster by Charles Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). This grayscale painting was created as an ...

Signed and dated oil on board figures in landscape by French post impressionist painter Gustave Cariot. The piece is set in Wiesbaden, Germany depicts a breathtaking view of the Rive...

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...

Portrait of a Seated Woman Oil on canvas, c. 1930 Unsigned Provenance: estate of the Artist by Descent to the Heirs Signed in oil with the artist’s initials “PH...

Oil on canvas signed R.B.FELTRAP, France, 1937. Nude. With frame : 101.5x82.5 cm - 40x32.5 inches ; without frame : 92x73 cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. Format 30F. Signed and dated "R.B.Fe...

Antique American impressionist seascape oil painting by Ralph Von Lehmden (Born 1908). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 15 by 22 inches overall and 13 by 20 painting alone.

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A Bunch of flowers Oil on on canvas Signed upper left 38 x 46 cm In a nice modern frame : 53 x 61 cm Lucien...

Lady is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltri...

Sign by Artist in Lower Right The present work was published as an illustration for Elizabeth Goudge's short story "A Crock of Gold" in the August 1938 issue of Woman's Home Companion. The story follows a family of five children on their summer vacation in Scotland. The kids set...

Presenting the ultimate wine painting! This is a monumental oil painting by French artist Maurice Georges Poncelet. "Le Vin Nouveau", (The New WIne), is an original oil on canvas, s...

Tlaloc and the Tiger (1939) Oil on panel 16" x 12" 23 ¾" x 18 ¾"x 2 ½" framed Signed and dated (and inscribed) "de Diego 39" lower left. Provenance: The artist; private collection Ch...

We are proud to have discovered and now present a rare original self portrait by Austrian Expressionist artist, Franz Bergmann (1998-1977) "My Self", is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1938, with an image dimension of 29 x 24 inches. The painting is in good original condition, the frame has been restored. A biography on the artist appears below, please contact the gallery with any question. Franz Bergmann 1898 - 1977 Franz Walter Bergmann was born on August 6, 1898, in Dimling, Austria, a town northwest of Vienna. His parents were both involved in the arts: his mother was a pianist, and his father was an amateur artist and a violinist. After serving in World War I for three years, he enrolled in the National Academy of Art in Vienna and embarked on a seven-year course of study, focusing on figure painting and portraiture. Although schooled in the academic tradition, Bergmann also adopted elements derived from the more avant-garde German Expressionist style. By 1924 he was exhibiting in Vienna and Stockholm. The following year, he graduated with honors. He left Vienna to tour Europe, and in early 1926 he traveled to the United States. After a brief stay in New York, he moved to Chicago, where he obtained a commission to paint murals for theaters owned by Balaban & Katz. That year his mural sketches were exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then moved to New York, where he joined the staff of the noted Austrian architect and designer Josef Urban...

Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) Vallée de Nafraiture signed with the estate stamp at the lower left Oil on canvas transfered on panel 29.5 x 44.55 cm Certific...

We are proud to have recently discovered, “The Sophisticate”, by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld. Rosenfeld was classically trained in fine ...

Allegory is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Original oil on plywood. Beautiful and represent...

Yvonne Sjoestedt (1894 - 1966) The Dream 1938 Oil on canvas 130 x 97 cm (134,6 x 102,3 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower right

This superb British 1930's modern art tempera painting is by noted interwar artist Blair Hughes-Stanton. Painted in 1936 it is part of the myth se...

Edouard Dumoulin (1898 - 1973) The Blessed Oil on canvas 130 x 81 cm (132 x 83 cm with frame)

Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, published May 14, 1932 Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s Circus Bareback Rider (1932) is a standout example of his work for The S...

"The Woman on the Sofa" is a beautiful and impressive oil on canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli. It was realized between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s and represents...

Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on board Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 FAIRGOERS IN FRONT OF ROULOTTES signed "Lagar" (lower right) oil on canvas 18-1/4 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm.) framed: 29-1/4 x 26 inches (74 x 66 cm.) PROVENANCE Private French Collector Celso Lagar Arroyo (Ciudad Rodrigo, 1891 - Seville, 1966) was an expressionist Spanish painter of the first generation of the School of Paris, where he lived most of his life. He was influenced by avant-gardes of all kinds, such as cubism and fovism. He painted mainly landscapes and still lifes...

Portrait of Noblewoman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Label on the back. Antonio Feltrine...

A magical, idealized moment is captured as a bare-breasted maiden strolls out in the rain. Inscribed with title and signature on reverse Roughton Galleries; Dallas, Texas The work ...

Early oil on canvas painting by the well known American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov done in the “Social Realism” period of the artist’s career. Signed lower left. Original artist inventory label on stretcher verso dates the painting to 1937. Condition of the painting is very good. The painting is housed in a contemporary version of a House of Heydenryk frame that measures overall 14.25 by 27.25 inches. Provenance: Estate of the artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Nahum Tschacbasov Biography : Russian-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his cubo-surrealistic works which feature a strong psychological element. Some of his work bears a resemblance to work of another Russian-American artist--David Burliuk. He was somewhat of a late starter, moving to Paris in 1932 to study under Adolph Gottlieb, Marcel Gromaire and Fernand Leger. He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1934. He then returned to the US where he joined Rothko and Gottlieb at the Galery Seccession. He was one of the co-founders of The Ten, a group of social conscious abstract painters which included Rothko, Gottlieb, Joseph Solman and Ilya Bolotowsky, among others. In 1944, he began to work at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17, a center for surrealistic ideas. Between 1936 and 1943, he had five one-man exhibitions at the ACA Galleries and participated in five group shows. He also exhibited at the Whitney, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Knox Albright Museum, the Chicago Institute of Fine Art and Corcoran, among others. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Met, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum and the Jewish Museum. Tschacbasov has been the subject of two recent retrospective at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY and Arthur...

Interior with Man at Table American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Painting Philip Evergood (1901 - 1973) Untitled (Interior with Man at ...

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...

Presenting a magnificent early oil painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.) The Professor, is an original oil on paper, laid on panel, estate stamped, painted in 1935, currently unframed with an image dimension of 20 x 16 inches, beautiful original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist. This is among the earliest work of Robert McIntosh, painted in a master level classical style. Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...

Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Brick Layers House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939 ...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration: Saturday Evening Post, November 6, 1937

Bellissimo paesaggio del paese della Normandia dove è avvenuto lo sbarco degli americani nel 1944 Spiaggia,Barche,Mare del Nord

Portrait is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. On the back a portrait of a man. Don't miss thi...

This charming Post-Impressionist Art Deco oil painting is by noted British prolific Royal Academy exhibitor and Royal Academician William Dring. It is possible that our painting was exhibited in 1954, No. 207 and entitled Summer rather than Summer Frolic. The painting is a garden scene of 4 girls enjoying the sun and one is dancing in the nude. Signed and dated William Dring 1931 lower right. Provenance. Bonhams, Modern Pictures and Illustrations, 11 November 2008, Lot 99. Condition. Oil on canvas, image size 24 inches by 20 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed in a complementary frame, 30 inches by 26 inches framed and in good condition. William Dring RA (1904-1990) - a painter, draughtsman and teacher, he was born Dennis William Dring, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring, he married the painter Grace Elizabeth Rothwell...

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bouquet of roses and nasturtiums Signed lower right Oil on cardboard canvas In good condition 39.5 x 31.5 cm Framed : 58.5 x 51.5 cm Maurice Asselin w...

Arthur Prince Spear: 1879-1959. Well listed American painter with auction results up to $6900, but sells for much more in galleries as his works ar...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Literature: Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Norman Rockwell Museum...

The Woman on Sofa is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – G...