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Style: Art Deco
Period: 1940s
Glamorous Nude with Red Coat emerging from Curtain, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Fabry's captures the hight of elegance in his loose style. Conte crayon, watercolor on watercolor paper Signed lower right Private collection Other works by this artist:
ca. 1940 - ...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Crayon
Intermission (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Intermission (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Recently framed in a gold Louis XV style frame
Framed size: 39" x 33"
Canvas size: 30" x 24"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Port Orange, FL; acquired from Herbert Arnot Gallery, New York, NY in the early 1970's. Titled by Fried on verso. The artist's copyright stamp and various reference number on verso.
Biography:
Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Hortense (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative Art
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Hortense (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Framed in a light gold...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Portrait of the sculptor Henri-Paul Rey (1904-1981)
Located in PARIS, FR
Suzanne Rey de Jaegher
Paris, 1907 - Juvisy-sur-Orge, 1994
Portrait of the sculptor Henri-Paul Rey (1904-1981)
Painting, oil on hardboard panel
Signed
Painting: 90.5 x 108 cm
Modern ...
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Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alexandria
By Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BUCKLEY MACGURRIN
"ALEXANDRIA"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED
AMERICAN, DATED 1949
EXHIBITED: DALZELL-HATFIELD GALLERY
14 X 20 INCHES
Buckley MacGurrin
1896 –1971
Buckley MacG...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Arabian Nights, Sea Monster - The Thousand and One Nights
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
Arabian Nights, Sea Monster - The Thousand and One Nights Gustaf Tenggren - Attributed - unsigned, unframed. Good condition with very slight toning.
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Study for the Spring (preparatory to the Four Seasons) by René-Marie Castaing
Located in PARIS, FR
René-Paris Castaing, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1924, left a large body of work, both sacred and secular. Many churches in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in South-West France still bear witness to the diversity of his talent. In 1942, he began a major decoration project for the Château de Diusse, in the north-east of the county, including an allegory of the four seasons. The vigorous pastel we are presenting here is a study for Spring, depicted as Flore undressing. This commission was a veritable swan song for the artist, who died a year later at the age of 47.
1. René-Marie Castaing, the great inter-war painter in Pau
René-Marie Castaing was born in Pau on December 16th 1896. His father, Joseph Castaing, was also a painter: he was the official portraitist of Pau's high society, which was particularly cosmopolitan at the end of the century, when many rich foreigners spent the winter in Pau, taking advantage of the mild weather to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle punctuated by hunting, horse ridings and golf.
René-Marie Castaing was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in April 1920 and entered the studio of Paul-Albert Laurens (1870-1934). In 1924, he was awarded the First Grand Prix de Rome for Painting, which earned him a stay at the Villa Médicis for more than three years. He then returned to Pau in 1928, where he lived until his death.
Castaing's work is marked by the academic tradition, in which drawing plays as important a role as painting. Although his drawings are often sketches that help to set up large painted compositions, they stand as independent artworks in which the artist fully expresses the vivacity of his talent.
Castaing was a fervent Christian and religious painting played an essential part in his work, as shown by the decorations he created for the churches of Bizanos, Borce, Bidache and Salies-de-Béarn. The painter also created several secular decorations, such as that for the dining room of the Villa Saint-Basil's in Pau in 1935, and the Hunting at the Albret’s time commissioned in 1940 by the Prefecture of Pau. The décor created in 1942-1943 for the Château de Diusse, a mansion located north-east of Pau, was his last large-scale décor, as the painter died shortly after its completion on December 8th 1943.
2. Description of the drawing
Our pastel depicts an eminently secular theme: Spring is embodied by Flore, crouching on the ground with one knee touching the ground. She reveals her ample bosom by removing her shirt, her arms raised above her shoulders to undress.
Given Castaing's classical training at the Beaux-Arts and the influence of ancient statuary...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Vintage 1940’s Circus Acrobat Oil on Canvas Painting. Unique modern style.
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a highly stylized circus acrobat scene. Done “en grissille” or shades of grey, it portrays an acrobat on a trapeze high above the crowd, abstractly shown lower right. The stark composition, enhanced by the theatrical lighting...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Eagle Fortune Magazine Cover Illustration ( alternate )
Located in Miami, FL
Alternate cover for Fortune Magazine February, 1940. Gouache on board. 350x285 mm; 13 3/4x11 1/4. Signed "A. Petrucelli" in lower left image. Tipped t...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Embracing Couple on Sailboat , Art Deco Style Romantic
Located in Miami, FL
Love at sea. A nautical romance is captured as a handsome couple embrace.
The big splash of water at the peak moment of drama symbolizes passion and defines Falter's creativity in communicating
a romantic narrative. This is a companion piece to a romance story.
Most likely done on assignment for a major newsstand magazine.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Magazine Illustration circa 1940 Oil on board Signed lower right h: 28.5 x w: 30 in / h: 72.4 x w: 76.2 cm Morris Weiss collection...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
At The Baths
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marcel von Herrfeld, born in 1889, was a son of Alice Herrfeldt and the Spanish painter of nudes Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) who worked in Pari...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Swedish Art Deco Figurative Painting)
Located in New York, NY
This elegant Art Deco oil painting on canvas was realized in Sweden, circa 1945. It presents a stylized nude man crouching against a sea of abstract forms in tones of forest green, m...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Birds in Flight', Modernist Equestrian Gouache
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower right, 'Made for Ruth M.' and painted circa 1945. Titled verso 'Birds in Flight', additionally...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Illustration Board
Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period -
Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Artists Studio
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a wonderful oil on heavy jute canvas, "The Artists Studio."
The painting depicts an artist preparing his canvases for painting. "The Artist...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Size 28.5 x 21
Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Pencil
James McCracken Oil on Board
Located in San Francisco, CA
This oil on board is by James McCracken (1875-1967). It is a lush, exotic composition, depicting a Buddha statue atop a lotus flower. There are other flowers in the background as wel...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Art Deco Glamour illustration, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Caption: "He proposed this morning right
after the alarm clock went off."
From the Estate of Charles Martignette
Signed lower center
unframed
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Princess
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld was classically trained in Poland before settling in Los An...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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