1920s Art

Signed Lower Right by Artist Magazine story illustration: “Mr. and Mrs. Fixit”, author: Ring Lardner, Liberty Magazine; publisher: (Liberty Weekly, Inc.), Vol. 2, no 1, May 9, 1925.

Davis Kemp Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style. Very well drawn nude study of two women from 1928 in t...

Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1927. Watercolored lithograph. The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs  (1870-1925). The manuscr...

Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1923. Mixed colored watercolored lithograph. The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs  (1870-1925...

Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1927. Mixed colored watercolored lithograph. The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs  (1870-1925...

Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1927. Mixed colored watercolored lithograph. The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs  (1870-1925...

Samuel Chamberlain, 'Soaring Steel', drypoint, 1929, edition 100, Chamberlain and Kingsland 79. Signed, titled, and numbered '64/100' in pencil. Annotated '48.00' in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom right margin. A superb, finely-detailed impression, with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy Rives cream wove paper; full margins (1 3/8 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. The subject of the print is the construction of the Daily News Building in Chicago, Illinois. Image size 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (311 x 241 mm); sheet size 15 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches (394 x 314 mm). Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Public Library, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Western Australia Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST 'There is something about the atmospheric vibrancy of an etching which imparts a peculiar and irresistible life to architectural drawing...A copper plate offers receptive ground to the meticulously detailed drawing which so often appeals to the architect'. —Samuel Chamberlain, from the Catalogue Raisonné of his prints. Samuel V. Chamberlain (1896 - 1975), printmaker, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Iowa. His family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1901, and in 1913, Chamberlain enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied architecture under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States' involvement in the First World War, Chamberlain sailed to France, where he volunteered in the American Field Service. In 1918, he was transferred to the United States Army to complete his tour of duty. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued, working for a few years as a commercial artist. Chamberlain received the American Field Service Scholarship in 1923, which he used to travel to Spain, North Africa, and Italy. In 1924 he was living in Paris, where he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon, publishing his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm...

Edition not available. Partially uncut. Excellent conditions.

Title: Hopi ca. 1920s Artist: Lon Megargee Medium: Block Print Size: 11 x 11 inches (Sight Measurement) Creator of Stetson's hat logo "Last Drop from his Hat" Image of Lon Megargee not included in purchase. Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg, Arizona where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar R. . . and after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook of the T.T. Ranch near New River. By 1906, Megargee had learned his trade well enough to be made foreman of Cook’s outfit. Never shy about taking risks, Lon soon left Cook to try his own hand at ranching. He partnered with a cowpuncher buddy, Tom Cavness, to start the El Rancho Cinco Uno at New River. Unfortunately, the young partners could not foresee a three-year drought that would parch Arizona, costing them their stock and then their hard-earned ranch. Breaking with his romantic vision of cowboy life, Megargee finally turned to art full time. He again enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and then the Los Angeles School of Art and Design during 1909 – 1910. The now well-trained student took his first trip to paint “en plein air” (outdoors) to the land of Hopi and Navajo peoples in northern Arizona. After entering paintings from this trip in the annual Territorial Fair at Phoenix, in 1911, he surprisingly sold his first oil painting to a major enterprise – the Santa Fe Railroad . . . Lon received $50 for “Navajos Watching the Santa Fe Train.” He soon sold the SFRR ten paintings over the next two years. For forty years the railroad was his most important client, purchasing its last painting from him in 1953. In a major stroke of good fortune during his early plein-air period, Megargee had the opportunity to paint with premier artist, William R. Leigh (1866 – 1955). Leigh furnished needed tutoring and counseling, and his bright, impressionistic palette served to enhance the junior artist’s sense of color and paint application. In a remarkable display of unabashed confidence and personable salesmanship, Lon Megargee, at age 30, forever linked his name with Arizona art history. Despite the possibility of competition from better known and more senior artists, he persuaded Governor George Hunt and the Legislature in 1913 to approve 15 large, historic and iconic murals for the State Capitol Building in Phoenix. After completing the murals in 1914, he was paid the then princely sum of roughly $4000. His Arizona statehood commission would launch Lon to considerable prominence at a very early point in his art career. Following a few years of art schooling in Los Angeles, and several stints as an art director with movie studios, including Paramount, Megargee turned in part to cover illustrations for popular Western story magazines in the 1920s. In the 1920s, as well, Lon began making black and white prints of Western types and of genre scenes from woodblocks. These prints he generally signed and sold singly. In 1933, he published a limited edition, signed and hard-cover book (about 250 copies and today rare)containing a group of 28 woodblock images. Titled “The Cowboy Builds a Loop,” the prints are noteworthy for strong design, excellent draftsmanship, humanistic and narrative content, and quality. Subjects include Southwest Indians and cowboys, Hispanic men and women, cattle, horses, burros, pioneers, trappers, sheepherders, horse traders, squaw men and ranch polo players. Megargee had a very advanced design sense for simplicity and boldness which he demonstrated in how he used line and form. His strengths included outstanding gestural (action) art and strong figurative work. He was superb in design, originality and drawing, as a study of his prints in the Hays collection reveals. In 1944, he published a second group of Western prints under the same title as the first. Reduced to 16 images from the original 28 subjects, and slightly smaller, Lon produced these prints in brown ink on a heavy, cream-colored stock. He designed a sturdy cardboard folio to hold each set. For the remainder of his life, Lon had success selling these portfolios to museum stores, art fairs and shows, and to the few galleries then selling Western art. Drawing on real working and life experiences, Lon Megargee had a comprehensive knowledge, understanding and sensitivity for Southwestern subject matter. Noted American modernist, Lew Davis...

Edition of 143 copies. One of 25 copies on pur fil. Near perfect conditions and partially uncut.  Louis Aragon was born in 1897 and died in 1982. He was a French poet and writer,long...

Edition of 140 copies including 21 original watercolors by Charles Laborde. Copy on Hollande Van Gelder paper. Lightly damaged on binding. Inside perfect conditions. Very rare and p...

Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1923. Mixed colored watercolored lithograph. The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs  (1870-1925...

Edition of 215 copies including b/w reproductions of artworks by Charles Pequin and a portrait of the artist by G. Aubert. Copy on papier pur fil. Copy in good conditions. Partially...

Edition of 442 copies including 16 original engravings by J.E. Laboureur. Copy on Vélin d'Arches. Includes editorial soft cover. Copy in perfect conditions, lightly damaged on cover.

Antonin Artaud, Le Pèse-Nerfs, suivi des Fragments d'un Journal d'Enfer. Edition ornée d'un frontispice par Andé Masson, Les Cahiers du Sud, Marseille 1927. Uncut. Edition decorated ...

Edition of 760 copies including 60 original b/w and color woodcuts by André Derain. Copy on vélin blanc des Papeteries de Navarre, in perfect conditions with soft editorial cover and...

Original edition including 42 illustrations of the works by the artist. Famous critical essay by Ardengo Soffici on one of the main sculptores of his age, Medardo Rosso (Torino, 1858...

Le Ranocchie Turchine , Edition of  1909, edited by edizioni di "Poesia", Milano : via Senato n°2. with Manifesto del Futurismo. Very good conditions. 

Edition of 1.053 copies. One of the 100 copies "de tete", in-quarto tellière numbered in roman numbers, printed for the Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française on papier vergé La...

Le Cirque by Vertes and De la Serna is an edition of 103 copies including 5 original colour etchings and many drawings reproduced with lithograph techniques by Vertès. Includes soft ...

Edition of 1081 copies. One of only 65 copies on Japan Impérial including original woodcuts by Louis-Joseph Soulas. Superb copy in perfect conditions and uncut.

Edition of 1000 copies. One of the only 50 copies on Japon Imperial paper, including a suite of 15 woodcut prints on China paper. Includes also original black and white and colored w...

Edition of 1.000 copies plus 40 out of commerce including 7 original etchings and aquatints printed in sepia, the first of which also hand colored. One of the only 50 copies on Japon paper including a suite of the 7 etchings on China paper printed in black and white.  Pages are finely illustrated with pictorial borders and figures in red and black. Original editorial soft covers with original wrappers embossed with a gilt design, and title and name of author lettered in red. Superb copy in perfect conditions and uncut, only binding unglued. Alfred Jarry...

Collection of parodic texts by Luciano Folgore (Roma, 1888- Roma, 1966), one of the most important futurist poets. The texts are the parodies of the characters and the texts of some ...

First edition of the famous collection of short stories by L. Folgore (Roma, 1888 – Roma, 1966), one of the most relevant literature personalities in 1900 Italy. Folgore was an impor...

Les Malheurs des Immortels révélés par Paul Eluard et Max Ernst. Collection of poems and prints Woodcuts. Uncut. Copy number 822 of 1300. This copy is printed on paper Madagascar.

Edition of 300 copies including 6 original etchings/sanguines and many gouaches inside the text by Demetrios Galanis. One of 243 copies on Vergé de Rives. Original editorial softcov...

Edition of 364 copies including 14 original engravings by Chas Laborde. One of the rare copies on paper from Holland. Original editorial softcover.Copy in perfect conditions.The firs...

Beautiful edition of 1000 copies. Copy on Japon Imperial paper. Includes etchings by Siméon. Illustrated cover. Spine lightly damaged in both top and bottom. Uncut and in superb cond...

Edition of 600 copies including 12 original lithographs by Vertès. Original editorial soft cover with original jacket printed on pink cardboard. Copy on Vélin Pur Fil Lafuma with e...

Gus Bofa, Le Cirque, Paris, la Renaissance du Livre, 1923. Vol. in 8º, cm 22 x 1.3 x 16, pp. 24, in French Edition of 448 copies including 24 original b/n and colour woodcuts by Gu...

 Ex libris - Dr. Gombos Laszlo is an Artwork realized in 1974 by the artist Zoltan Perei, from Hungary. Woodcut print on ivory paper. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Total di...

Edition of 145 copies. One of the only 40 copies on Velin pur fil Lafuma Navarre paper. Language: french. First edition. Perfect conditions. Uncut.

Edition of 206 copies including 11 original engravings by Demetrios Galanis and one original frontispiece. Copy on reservede to Librairie Champion. Includes a printsuite and an origi...

Edition of 230 copies. Copy on Pur Fil Lafuma paper. Includes the "Cahier de la Rédaction" titled "Feuilleuts" and "Jacques Rivière". Language: french. Original soft cover. Very good...

Edition of 563 copies including 19 original engravings by Dubreuil. Exceptionally fine and rare copy. One of the only 18 copies on Japon Ancien including one original drawing by Dubr...

Editorial soft cover, spine restored. Inside excellent conditions.  Couverture souple originale et dos restauré. A l'intérieur le livre est dans d'excellentes conditions. 

Edition of 479 copies including original illustrations by Feder. One of only 19 copies on Japon Impérial. Perfect conditions. Original editorial soft cover.

Edition of 312 copies on Papier Velin Lafuma-Navarre including six original lithographes by R. De La Fresnaye. Perfect Conditions. Partially Uncut.

Edition of 507 copies including 66 illustrations by Carlègle, colored "au pochoir". Extremely rare and precious copy on Japon Imperial (one of 37 of the commercial edition), includin...

Edition of 990 copies. Copy on vergé d'Arches, soft editorial cover with some very minor stains. Inside near perfect conditions. Edition tirée à 990 exemplaires. Imprimé sur papier ...

Edition of 215 copies on pur fil Lafuma paper. Includes a portrait of the artist on china paper, engraved and signed by G. Aubert. Includes also reproduction of the artist's works on...

Text and illustrations by Gus Bofa. Plates and spine partially missing and restored. Inside excellent conditions and partially uncut.

9 Plates which represent different kind of coins. Cover on rigid parchment. Decorations and title of book drawn with ink. A full page b/w etching on first endpaper, and a second smal...

Original work by Rudyard Kipling, translated in french by Etienne Lamy. Little foxing on the original paperback cover. Language: french. Good conditions. Partially uncut.

Rare and important volume belonging to the deluxe edition of 109 copies in-quarto tellière, of which 100 on Vergé Pur Fil Lafuma de Navarre paper were reserved to the Bibliophiles de...

Edition of 2330 copies. Copy on vergé bouffant paper. Original paperback cover representing the Muses, illustrated by Chas Laborde. Excellent conditions and uncut.

Paris la Nuit. Les Plaisirs de la Capitale, ses bas fonds et ses jardins secrets. Considerations by Louis Aragon on different aspects of Paris, seen from...

Anton Schutz, 'Heart of San Francisco', etching, c. 1927, edition not stated. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2...

Edition of 1003 copies. One of the 109 copies realised for the "Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française" in Roman Numerals. Copy printed for the Countess Pecci Blunt.Spine partia...

Author of the book is Guillaume Apollinaire. Edition of 100 copies including 6 drypoints (a full page engraving on frontispiece and 5 engravings in text). Copy on Vergé de Rives à la...

Samuel Chamberlain, 'Manhattan Old and New', drypoint, 1929, edition 100, Chamberlain and Kingsland 81. Signed, titled, and numbered '81/100' in pencil. Titled and annotated '30.00' in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed. A superb, finely-detailed impression, with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy Rives cream wove paper; full margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. The subject of the print is the lower Manhattan cityscape just before the Depression. Image size 8 3/4 x 6 13/16 inches (222 x 173 mm); sheet size 12 3/4 x 10 inches (324 x 254 mm). Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Zimmerli Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST 'There is something about the atmospheric vibrancy of an etching which imparts a peculiar and irresistible life to architectural drawing...A copper plate offers receptive ground to the meticulously detailed drawing which so often appeals to the architect'. —Samuel Chamberlain, from the Catalogue Raisonné of his prints. Samuel V. Chamberlain (1896 - 1975), printmaker, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Iowa. His family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1901, and in 1913, Chamberlain enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied architecture under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States' involvement in the First World War, Chamberlain sailed to France, where he volunteered in the American Field Service. In 1918, he was transferred to the United States Army to complete his tour of duty. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued, working for a few years as a commercial artist. Chamberlain received the American Field Service Scholarship in 1923, which he used to travel to Spain, North Africa, and Italy. In 1924 he was living in Paris, where he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon, publishing his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm Osborne...

This is a wonderful hand-signed linoleum cut from 1929 by the great Swedish artist to who immigrated to the US and lived and worked in Kansas and Colorado. "Smokey Valley Homestead" 1929 Linoleum Cut Hand-Signed in Pencil Lower Right by the Artist Titled in Pencil Lower Left Image Size: 9 x 12 inches Sheet Size: approx. 13 x 15 inches Framed Size: approx 13.75 x 15.75 inches Very Good Condition. Born Blidsberg, Sweden, Feb. 5, 1871; died Lindsborg, June 19, 1954. Painter, specialized in landscapes. Etcher. Engraver. Lithographer. Teacher. Attended the College and Academy of Skara as a pupil of Olof Erlandsson. After graduation from Skara College, Sandzén spent a semester at Lund University attending art history lectures and continuing the study of French. Following Lund University he went to the technical high school at Stockholm, where he studied perspective and form drawing. Sandzén joined a group of young artists and they rented a studio at Anders Zorn's suggestion. They received instruction from Zorn as well as Richard Bergh, a well-known portrait painter and Per Hasselberg...

Karl Michel, 'Mehr Sonne fur 1924. Viel Gluck Wunscht Karl Michel U. Frau', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 162' and '15/20' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. New Year's Greeting – English translation: "More Sun for 1924. Good Luck Wishes from Karl Michel and his Wife." Image size 4 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (118 x 121 mm); sheet size 7 3/4 x 10 inches (198 x 254 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...

Leonetto Cappiello, a pioneering figure in the world of poster art, left an indelible mark on advertising through his innovative and captivating designs. Among his exceptional creati...

Classic watercolour portrait of "Lord Dundreary" 1862 Signed & dated: George Bridgman 1920 (see Punch. Vol. 42.1862) Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 6 1/2"W Frame ...

Antique American impressionist winter landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.

Woodcut print by Dagobert Pesch. Peche was instrumental in leading the Wiener Werkstätte movement. He was known for his glass, ceramic and textile design.