1930s Portrait Paintings

'Portrait of a Woman in Red Dress', oil on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). During the 1930s, Latapie painted thoughtful figurative works, mostly portraits and landscapes. Alt...

'Woman with Necklace', oil on paper mounted on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). Filled with colour, this extraordinarily desirable work by F...

'Girl with Flowers', oil on board (circa 1930s), by Marguerite Barrière-Prévost (1887-1981). A young girl with a bouquet of spring flowers stands bef...

'The Tennis Player', oil on canvas, by artist Louis Van de Spiegele (circa 1930s). This delightful painting depicts a tennis competitor taking advantage ...

Beautiful portrait of the 30s expressionist style realized on canvas by the Hungarian artist of the Parisian school Lucie Decsényi born in Budapest and mainly active in France. the p...

Frame size 64x53 cm. José Vilató Ruiz (Barcelona 1916-Paris 1969) was a Spanish painter and engraver known by the pseudonym J.Fín. He was the brother of also painter Javier Vilató and nephew of Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Son of the Barcelona neuropsychiatrist Joan Vilató and Lola Ruiz Picasso, he is the second of 7 brothers, among which is also the painter Javier (1921). The appellation of Fín has a family origin: José, Josefín, Fín. The family environment will mark his pictorial vocation. Works such as Science and charity as well as other paintings of his uncle are hung on the wall of his house and for many years, the famous Harlequin was hung on the head of his bed, just as the historian Pilar Vélez, biographer of the artist. 1 Many of these works are currently in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. Quickly, his interest in painting passes ahead of his studies and at the age of 14 he begins to make his first works, which he will present for the first time in a collective exhibition at the Emporium Galleries in Barcelona in 1932. He briefly passes by the prestigious La Llotja and after finishing high school in 1934, he made a brief stay on the island of Mahón, where he continues painting and for the first time he lives alone. The works he paints on this trip and others will be part of his first individual exhibition at the Reig galleries in Barcelona, ​​in 1935 and in which the painter and art critic José María de Sucre will make the presentation text. According to his friend, the painter Antoni Clavé, these works had a surreal character that was not present in his previous or subsequent works, but none is preserved, probably due to the bomb that destroyed his studio during the Civil War After the war broke out, his exhibition activity was interrupted and he joined the republican army, marching to the front of Aragon, where he met Manuel Viola. Later he will be sent to Tárrega, where he will establish a lifelong friendship with Francesc Melich, who will edit his prints in the future. In 1939 he meets his brother Javier, also mobilized and crossing the border with France. There they will be admitted to the Argelès-sur-Mer concentration camp, where they will be able to leave thanks to the intervention of their uncle, Picasso. Welcomed in Paris by their uncle, the Vilató brothers return to painting. The work of Fín of those months in France moves away completely from his work in Barcelona: dark oil paintings and drawings, of sculptural character and great modernity. In those months, he approaches the graphic work for the first time in the Lacourière workshop where many of his uncle's engravings were stamped. They spend the summer with Picasso and the beginning of World War II forces them to return to Barcelona in 1939. After spending a few days in the prison of Figueres, he settled in Barcelona. Among his first activities will be to participate in a collective exhibition for the benefit of concentration camps. At first, his work acquires a surreal character with a series of paintings and engravings that he called "Fafarreic compositions", a term invented by the artist. However, in 1940, he returned to his previous painting, a sober figuration. They will be hard years in which he will combine his painting with the work of a decorator, restoring, for example, the dome of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Aragó Street in Barcelona. At the end of 1940, he is forced to perform military service in Madrid, which will allow him to visit the Prado Museum. Taking advantage of the permits, he returned to Barcelona and continued painting and maintaining a certain exhibition activity, coming to share a gallery with Manolo Hugué, Eduardo Yepes or Llorens Artigas. 1943 will be a key year for Fín, he will end military service and return to Barcelona. Get a workshop and make friends with the painters Ramon Rogent and Alberto Fabra, with them and his brother Javier will hold various collective exhibitions of painting and engraving, among which the engraving exhibitions of the Pictoria gallery or the participation in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, both in Barcelona, ​​or the one held at the Clan gallery in Madrid with, among others, Rafael Zabaleta, Álvaro Delgado...

Beautiful portrait of the 30s expressionist style realized on canvas by the Hungarian artist of the Parisian school Lucie Decsényi born in Budapest and mainly active in France. the p...

Oil, Pastel on Paper Hand carved period wood frame Signed, and dated, lower right Christie's New York and from the famous The Lewisohn Collection Work has a striking presence in pe...

'Portrait of Boy in Feathered Cap' by Luigi Corbellini (circa 1930s). An endearing depiction of an enchanting young boy dressed in his smart clothing. Perh...

A beautiful 1930's painting depicting a woman with a cloth wrapped around her backside. This work is signed Schlegel but we have not been able to determine the exact author of this ...

Oil, Pastel on Paper Hand carved period wood frame Signed, and dated, lower right Christie's New York and the The Lewisohn Collection Work has a striking presence in person.

Born in Normandy in Northern France, Albert Horel (1876-1964) was a noted landscape and orientalist painter. Having settled in Paris after the war, he took a detour to Morocco where he painted a number of vibrant scenes in that country's cities and towns thereby earning his reputation as a French orientalist. This painting, circa 1930s is oil on canvas and depicts a Moroccan woman...