Art Deco Paintings

At The Circus An interesting unsigned painting in the style of the Spanish artist Anglada Camarasa, dating from the early 20th century. The original ...

A beautiful watercolor depicting Lili Elbe and Ulla Poulsen in a windowsill.

GERTRUDE L. PEW "PORTRAIT OF ASIAN BEAUTY" PASTEL, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1910 18 X 12 INCHES Gertrude L. Pew Robinson 1876-1949 American painter and miniaturist Gertrude L. Pew Robinson was born in 1876 in the town of Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio. After her early education in Niles, Miss Pew attended the Cleveland School of Art where she received a B.A. degree in painting, graduating in the same class with her friend and colleague, Charles Burchfield. She also participated in the Cleveland School’s Residency Program in New York City where she studied at the National Academy of Design before leaving for Paris, France, where she attended classes as part of the Cleveland School’s residency abroad program during the rise of the Ecole de Paris, a modernist art movement in the first half of the twentieth century centered in the cafes, studios, academies and galleries of Montparnasse that attracted emigre artists from all over the world who flocked to Paris as one of the important centers of Western art. There students could see the new styles of Post-impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism and Cubism, as well as other overlapping styles of contemporary expression. Artists in Paris during the period of Pew’s time there included Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Tsuguharu Fougita, Maurice Utrillo, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, and Marc Chagall. In 1900, the New York Census recorded Miss Gertrude Pew as an artist living back in the city at 30 West 57th Street. During this period Pew attended classes at the Art Students League where Robert Henri led a new movement in American painting later called the Ash Can School of Painters who specialized in everyday scenes of urban life. Pew moved briefly to Boston where she established a commercial studio specializing in portrait miniature painting until 1910 when she returned to Paris to paint and to study at the ateliers of several French modernist landscape...

John Friedlinger   Hungarian, 1890- Still Life Oil on canvas 24 by 30 in. W/frame 30 by 36 in. Signed lower right John studied in Vienna and exhibited his works in Vienna and in M...

A rare original signed Art Deco gouache on paper by Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) . This stunning nude in a costume design is signed Erte. The piece is 19 by 17 framed. It comes in a s...

Art Decò,1915, Flowers,Roses,Liberty,Pastel Lucien Victor GUIRAND DE SCÉVOLA (1871-1950) De Scévola was a pastellist, remarkable for his silky, velvety and smooth style. "Making hi...

American Art Deco painting, iconic image.

Fine American Art Deco painting.