1920s Art

Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Bold outlines and strong weighty forms coalesce with a compositional delicacy that forms the hallmark of Hartley's work. The work has a long and distinguished provenance and exhibit...

ATTRIBUTED TO LAUREANO BARRAU Spanish, 1863 - 1957 UNDER THE PARASOL unsigned oil on canvas 35-1/2 x 26 inches (90 x 66 cm.) framed: 44-1/4 x 35-1/2 in...

4096 A 1920's oil painting on canvas of an elegant southern lady .Artist unknown. Unframed

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. View of a bridge in Lyon, France, March 1927. This view of the Pont de l'Université in Lyon, France, was taken from the ...

Lake Biwa, sunset in Yabase is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1920s. Woodcut Print Oban Yokoe Format. Reprint of of the Taisho...

The Goddess is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1923. Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corner: Ferdinand...

Artist Edward Cucuel and his wife Clara Lotte von Marcard spent their first two decades together in Germany, mostly in a villa on Lake Ammersee in Holzhausen near Munich. It is the works created in this period, mainly outdoor scenes of young women in fashionable attire of the day, that are most collected and appreciated among his works. It’s easy to see why- they capture an elegance and sense of calm and easy leisure- of long days in gardens or by the water.  This is one of those captured moments with a well-dressed woman watching the sailing yacht...

Rio del Santi Apostoli, Venice. 1930. Etching. Fletcher catalog 22 state .ii. 8 x 6 (sheet 11 x 7 3/16). Italian series #4. Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of...

Original Italian poster: Impermeabili Moretti by Leopoldo Meticovitz. Archival linen-backed original Italian vintage poster IMPERMEABILI MORETTI. This pre-art deco poster is in v...

Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E. 1857-1945. The Shadowed Valley. 1927. Mezzotint. Hardie 128. 14 3/8 x 19 3/8 (sheet 19 x 24). A rich, glowing impression p...

Provenance Consigned to the gallery by private collectors Description Jack Wilkinson Smith was a New York-based illustrator before moving out West around 1906 seeking the mythical W...

Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, published in Le Mercure de France (Colors, new tales follow old things), 1908 Graphite and colored...

Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Profile of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 15 in pencil. Number 15 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publish...

Eventail is a vintage lithograph realized by Raul Dufy in the 1920. Good conditions. Edition of 110. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Van Dongen, 1925. Published by Henri Floury, Paris; printed by Pierre Dumont, Pa...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. The International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, in October 1925. By the river Seine, access to the Department Sto...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations, Etude Critique...

Impressive early American impressionist Florida beach scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvasboard. Image size, 19H by 15L.

This vibrant and eye-catching 1921 advertising poster by Gautolai promotes Cognac aux Oeufs "Aurore", a rich and indulgent egg-based liqueur. The artwork is a stunning example of ear...

Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Ashcan 20th Century Social Realism Modern John Marin (1870-1953) Brooklyn Bridge 7 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches Graphite on paper Signed lower right, c. 1...

Ora Coltman (American, 1858-1940) Portrait of De Forest Mellon, 1922 Oil on canvas Unsigned 30 x 25 inches 35.5 x 30.25 inches, framed Ora Coltman was born in 1858 in Shelby, Ohio, ...

Gaspar Camps, an influential Spanish poster artist, was known for his ability to blend art and advertising into compelling, visually striking works. Active during the early 20th cent...

Wonderful early 20th Century study of Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's 1885 Lion and Sun landscape "The Two Majesties." Unsigned. Condition: One tear professiona...

DRAWING OF A NACKED MAN ON LADDER - - by Gennaro Luciano, 1920, with ebony frame. Cm.65x48

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 and published in Germany for GENIUS: Zeitschrift fur Werdende und Alte Kunst. Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (195 x 235 mm). Signed in ...

5-2768a A circa 1920's country house oil painting on canvas displayed in a painted white wood frame.Signed center lower by Belokopytoff.

Hand Signed. Edition of 130 pieces. This artwork is from the collection "Dix danseures"  Ref. Duthuit 481 Very good condition.

Duthuit-Garnaud 483 From the Portfolio of Ten Lithographs: “Dix Danseuses (ten dancers)” Lithograph on wove paper, c. 1927 Hand-signed and numbered in pencil in lower margin Impressi...

Sloan, John. INVITATION TO STUDIO PARTY. Morse 200. Etching, 1921. Edition of 100 of which only 75 were printed. Signed in penci land inscribed "100 proofs." 3 3/4 x 2 3/8 inches, 96...

This absolutely charming portrait of a Pekingese dog called Dodo is attributed to much loved Scottish artist Samuel Fulton. Famous as an animal artist and chiefly a painter of dogs, this has got to be one of his best if you are a Pekingese fan. Painted circa 1920, Dodo, a lovely little black and tan dog is sat profile but is turning to look at the artist/viewer. Beneath him is a beautiful orange and brown Persian rug...

Shadows on the Ramp. 1927. Drypoint and sand ground. McCarron 64. 9 x 10 1/2 (sheet 12 3/8 x 14). Edition 75 recorded impressions. A rich, tonal impression with drypoint burr, printe...

Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas c.1920 by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. The piece depicts a harbour at Collioure, a commune in the southern Fr...

Herbert Bayer Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Verkauf- und Werbekiosk, Zigarettenmarke P ), 1924 Offset Lithograph Year: 1994 Size: 33.2 × 23.2 inches Publisher: Bauhaus A...

Count Albert de BELLEROCHE 1864–1944 Painter of portraits and genre, and lithographer; influenced by Impressionism. Born 22 October 1864 in Swansea, of Huguenot descent. Brought up b...

Born in Hungary in 1899 Joseph Waidinger was educated in fine art before moving to Paris to work in 1924. "Lola" is original oil on canvas, signed, and dated 1929. A true genre painting, as an elegant art deco woman sits in a cafe, perhaps waiting for someone...

Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge, 'Peking '25', woodblock print, published 1926. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'No 124' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh, undiminished colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Watanabe 6 mm seal, lower right, indicating an impression printed between 1945 and 1957. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 9 5/8 x 14 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 7/16 x 15 3/8 inches. ABOUT THE IMAGE A 'paifang', also known as a 'pailou', is a traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure. It has been theorized that the paifang gate architecture was influenced by Buddhist torana temple gates. Paifang are designed with traditional Chinese architectural motifs including multi-tiered roofs, prominent supporting posts, and gracefully arched openings. This is an unusual ukiyo-e or 'floating world' woodcut published by Watanabe Shozaburo, Tokyo, in that the subject is of an early 20th-century scene in Peking, China. ABOUT THE ARTIST Cyrus Leroy Baldridge...

'Mother Nursing Her Baby', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pai...

Southern California Lake. Signed "J Kleitsch," which could possibly be by Joseph Kleitsch. Oil on canvas in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 16"H x 28"L. Joseph Kleitsch was c...

This is one of the artworks in the portfolio 'Le Bonheur du Jour', by George Barbier. A very fine work of one of the most important and famous european illustrators of Art Deco, who...

In the bustling streets of early 20th-century France, the figure of the "Caïffa" coffee peddler became a familiar and cherished sight. Dressed in a distinctive bottle-green uniform a...

Born in Ixelles in 1883, Claes-Thobois studied at the Academy of Brussels under Constant Montald and Herman Richir. His career spanned an age of g...

Philippe Petit's 1927 Art Deco poster for Clotilde & Alexandre Sakharoff is a mesmerizing piece of visual art that captures the essence of an era known for its opulence and artistic ...

Picture yourself stepping into a breathtaking spring day in Texas, where the sun bathes the landscape in warm, golden light. In this exquisite painting by Dawson Dawson-Watson, an in...

Suzanne Valadon, French (1865 - 1938) - Maurice Utrillo, Year: 1928, Medium: Lithograph on thin woven paper, signed and dated in the plate, Image Size: 8.75 x 7 inches, Size: 12.5 ...

A majestic Canadian mountain rises to the sky with a small Canadian Mountie on hours viewing the scene, Mizen uses a creative technique of exposing...

'Rivière de Mon Paix', Pair of Fine French Impressionist Oils, Musée d'Orsay, Luxembourg Museum. --- Raoul André Ulmann (French, 1867-1941) Each signed, 'R.A. Ulmann' and offered a...

Exquisite antique painting of terrier dogs by Jacques Cartier (1907 - 2001. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 15H x 18L.

Antique American modernist signed original oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed illegibly. Image size 20L x 16H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.

Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Signed with the artist's initials in pencil Provenance: Estate of the artist Francis M. Nauman (label) Private collection, NY A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia. Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. Biography Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything." At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage. By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris. During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student". In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe. Paris The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum. Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s. Philadelphia The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...

Original Biere Allary vintage French beer poster. Art Deco time frame. Excellent condition and ready to frame. The image features a Viking-style name...

Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 19cm x 15cm, (32cm x 27cm framed). First exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of...

Sunrise on Nantucket Island Fisherman Gazing at the Sky 1929 Nantucket Sunrise, a Fisherman is gazing at the sky by James Francis Barker (American, 1872 – 1950). In the style of Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 - 1917) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts. Albert Ryder is known for Romanticism-pastoral landscape painting. Barker has a heavy impasto and extensive brushwork throughout and captures American Post Impressionism with this early sunrise on Nantucket Island scene. Image, 10.25"H x 14.25"W Signed "J. F. Barker" dated "3/29" on Stretcher bar verso Signed James F. Barker on Linen verso James F. Barker’s lineage traces back to eleven of the original Nantucket settlers. He was born in 1872 in Keokuk, Iowa, the son of a railroad ticketing agent and a New Orleanian of Spanish and French extraction. His ancestors on his father's side included 11 of the 15 families who settled Nantucket in 1659. He graduated from Cornell University in 1893 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent another year studying Architecture at the graduate level. He briefly worked at D. H. Burnham & Company and Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. before switching to education, With a degree in mechanical engineering and graduate degree in architecture, his career was centered among institutes of higher learning. Barker was also a skilled painter and a talented photographer. Barker specialized in waterfront, wharf, and beach scenes. The artist exhibited his work during the summer months at the Eagle’s Wing Studio on Union Street, having named the studio after a steamer, which had been captained by his grandfather. James Francis Barker (1872 – 10 December 1950) was the second president of the Rochester Athenæum and Mechanics Institute, succeeding Carleton B. Gibson, from 1916–1919. He also pursued painting, pottery, metal working, and cabinet making. Gravestone in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket He was born in 1872 in Keokuk, Iowa, the son of a railroad ticketing agent and a New Orleanian of Spanish and French extraction. His ancestors on his father's side included 11 of the 15 families who settled Nantucket in 1659. He graduated from Cornell University in 1893 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent another year studying Architecture at the graduate level. He briefly worked at D. H. Burnham & Company and Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. before switching to education, becoming Superintendent of the Manual Training Department at East Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1897. He left in 1904 to pursue similar positions at Grand Rapids High School and the Hackley School in Muskegon, Michigan. In 1906, he participated in the formation of East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio and served as its first principal. He married the former Kate Spooner in 1897 and raised one daughter. After being widowed in the late 1930s, he married Josephine M...

“Seine Under the Morning Snow (Seine Sous la Neige du Matin)” Raymond Thibesart (1874-1968) Oil on canvas 70 x 31 ½ (36 ½ x 74 ½ frame size) inches Signed lower left The morning mis...

Georg Gelbke, Untitled (Women Bathing), etching, 1920. Signed and dated in pencil. Initialed and dated in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked im...

Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947). Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. ...

Jesus and the Disciples is an Original woodcut print realized by François Bouchot in 1922. The artwork is in good condition and included a brown cardboard passpartout (36.5x27.5 cm). No signature. François Bouchot (1800-1842), peintre et graveur, est né à Paris en 1800. Il étudia la gravure sous la direction de Richomme, puis devint élève de Regnault, puis de Lethière, et obtint le grand prix...

Impressive early American impressionist beach scene painting. Framed. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.

Transport yourself to the picturesque landscapes of Golden, Colorado, with this breathtaking vintage oil painting on canvas by acclaimed artist Robert Alexander Graham. Dating back t...

William Eastman (American, 1881-1950) Finsevand Norwegian Glaciers, 1922 Oil on canvas 21 x 18 inches Exhibited: 1923 Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Born in Cleveland in 1881, Wil...