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Period: 1920s
Composition of Animals - Lithograph after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Composition of Animals is a lithograph realized after Odilon Redon.
They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923.
Goo...
Category
Symbolist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Poul Friis Nybo, Coastal View With Breakers, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Poul Friis Nybo (1847-1932) depicts breaking waves on the coast of North Zealand, Denmark.
Nybo ...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Half-length portrait of an elderly bearded man - Melancholy of a prophet -
Located in Berlin, DE
Friedrich August Seitz (1902 Staffort - 1944 Belgrade). Half-length portrait of an elderly man with a beard. Oil on canvas, 42 x 34 cm (visible seize), 58 x 50 cm (frame), signed and...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Oil
'Elisabeth' — 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Elisabeth', woodcut, edition 20, 1923. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op.142b' and '12/20' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil.
A fine impression, on heavy fibrous Japan paper, with full margins (1 3/16 to 3 1/2 inches),
in good condition. Printed by the artist, With the artist’s blindstamp in the bottom center margin. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 4 15/16 x 6 inches (131 x 152 mm); sheet size 10 x 6 inches (254 x 152 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 (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Sandeman Porto & Sherry – Iconic Original Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
The Don: One of the most recognizable figures in poster history ever, quietly reveling in the simple delights of a glass of ruby port – typically thought of as a horseman, clad in a ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Circus Dog, The Saturday Evening Post cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by artist lower right
The Saturday Evening Post cover, July 29, 1922
This commission for The Saturday Evening Post is a brill...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Original poster made in 1930 to promote Vermouth Richard - Alcohol advertising
Located in PARIS, FR
Magnificent poster made in 1930 to promote Vermouth, an emblematic drink of the Alps, which was commonly called, as early as 1900 in the cafés of France, "Le Chambéry": the Savoyard city then became the French capital of Vermouth.
At that time, cooked wines were reputed to be fortifying, curative and preventive to eliminate factory dust. Thus, in the 19th century, many vermouth factories were created in Savoy, particularly in Chambéry.
During the Roaring Twenties, the Maison Richard participated in the Art Nouveau wave of advertising posters. Famous poster artists contributed to the fame of the brands. Famous poster artists such as DOL and Edmond MAURUS worked with the Maison Richard.
Alcohol - Advertising - France
Voila! Richard Coeur de Lion...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1929 at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet for L'Art Cubiste. Image size: 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (112 x 140 mm). A text inscripti...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Stencil, Lithograph
Original Vintage Work Motivation Poster Why Envy Bill Jones Cricket Sport Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Bill Jones motivational propaganda poster - Why Envy? Learn Successful Methods and Apply Them - featuring a great sport themed image show...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Paper
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Model, Seated" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
Category
Vienna Secession 1920s Art
Materials
Paper
Subway Construction in Paris, 1928, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography, Paris, The subway construction in Place de la Bastille, Paris, November 1928.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print Ph...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Exhibition of Eugenio Marana - Fascist Teachers National association - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition of Eugenio Marana - Fascist teachers National association is a vintage print of exhibition invitation realized in 1929.
The exhibition was held in Palazzo delle Esposizio...
Category
Contemporary 1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Offset
Circa 1925 Original poster by Leonard Richmond - Dover Southern Railway
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb poster with radiant colors realized by Leonard Richmond 🇬🇧 (1889-1965) around 1925. This artist was particularly known for his railway posters.
During the First World War, Richmond served as the official war artist...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Spanish village landscape oil on cardboard painting Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Manuel Isidor Valle Micolau (1874-1959) - Spanish village landscape - Oil on cardboard
Oil on cardboard 11.5x19 cm.
Frame measures 22x28 cm.
Photographer and artist from Lleida trai...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Original Vintage Swiss Skiing Poster Adelboden Switzerland Ski Jump Winter Sport
By Willy Trapp
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing and winter sport travel poster for the Swiss alpine village in the Bernese Oberland region - Adelboden Suisse 1400m - featuring a dynamic design by Willy Trap...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Paper
Early American Impressionist Winter Vermont Landscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist signed winter landscape oil painting by Dorothea (Dorothy) Taber Stafford (1902 - 1985). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Category
Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sketch of Anne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sketch of Anne
Lithograph, 1923-1924
Signed and titled by the artist, signed by his printer Bolton Brown
Edition: 42
Printed by Bolton Brown (see photo of his signature in pencil)
Pr...
Category
Ashcan School 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Kuppenheimer Famous Fifties Featuring John Barrymore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Inscribed on back #174
House of Kuppeneheimer 1927 fashion advertisement, catalog cover.
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait
By Eric Gill
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Self Portrait
1927
Original wood engraving
20.0 x 15.0 cm (Image)
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface d...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Engraving
Seated Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Nude
Match Stick ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: A. Biehle
Created at the Kakoon Arts Club, Cleveland. Influenced by friend and fellow artist...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Ink
Easter Baby, Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Study Easter Sunday Baby
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Les Pavots Noirs - Phototype after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Les Pavots Noirs is a phototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon.
They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923...
Category
Symbolist 1920s Art
Materials
Photogravure
Spring Song /// Antique Female Artist Children Child Etching British Art
By Eileen Soper
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990)
Title: "Spring Song"
*Signed by Soper in pencil lower right
Year: 1924
Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: 178
Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK
Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK
Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 83, page 119, 141, 157
Sheet size: 8.13" x 10.13"
Image size: 6.63" x 9.63"
Condition: Paper trimmed in the margins. A few faint areas of discoloration. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO.
Biography:
Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Intaglio, Drypoint, Laid Paper, Etching
Chivalry Sketch, Study for SEP Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Study for Satruday Evening Post Cover, Fabruary 16, 1929
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
“Seaside Picnic”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a bucolic seaside picnic with a mother and her young children. Signed by the artist, F. G. Grust lower left. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in a period style gold leaf frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 31.5 by 41.75 inches. Provenance: A California estate.
F. G. Grust was a Dutch painter born in 1889 who was best known for his domestic interior and exterior scenes of a mother with her young children. He is the son of artist Theordor Grust (1859 - 1909), who also painted Dutch genre...
Category
Academic 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Felix The Cat: Original Drawing signed by the creator Otto Messmer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: Original Production Drawing
IMAGE SIZE: 11" x 7"
SKU: CCV2049
ABOUT THE IMAGE: Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in 1919 by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer during the silent film era. An anthropomorphic young black cat with white eyes, a black body, and a giant grin, he is often considered one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history.
Category
Pop Art 1920s Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Pencil
"Sandy"
By Robert Henri
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Robert Henri (1865 - 1929).
Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865. At the ...
Category
Other Art Style 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ex Libris Josep Beleta Quer - Woodcut by Antonio de Guezala - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Josep Beleta Quer is an Artwork realized by the Spanish artist Antonio de Guezala (1889-1956).
Woodcut coloured print on ivory paper. The work is glued on cardboard.
Tot...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Original Vintage Poster Ashtabula Harbor Lake Erie New York Central Lines Rail
Located in London, GB
Original vintage rail transport advertising poster - Ashtabula Harbor Lake Erie where trainloads of Appalachian coal are exchanged for cargoes of Northern iron ore New York Central L...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Paper
"Lemons and Pear" Marsden Hartley, Colorful Fruit Still Life, Modern Art
Located in New York, NY
Marsden Hartley
Lemons and Pear, circa 1922-23
Oil on canvas
9 x 10 3/4 inches
Provenance:
Adelaide Shaffer Kuntz, Bronxville (Hartley’s friend and patron)
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Stamford, Connecticut (acquired from the above)
Barridoff Galleries, Portland, Maine, April 7, 1984, Lot 29 (as Still Life with Pear and Lemons)
Richard Ward Foster (acquired at above sale)
Sotheby's New York, American Art, October 6, 2017, Lot 32
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Exhibited:
(possibly) Kantstrasse, Berlin, Private showing in artist’s studio, 1923.
(possibly) New York, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Still Life Painting by European and American Painters, 1944.
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting showed a focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms, and his unique style has been described by critic Sadakichi Hartmann as "an extreme and up-to-date impressionism" and "emerging modernism that evolved through Impressionism". (Gerdts 291)
He had a lonely, insecure childhood because his mother died when he was eight years old, and he was raised by an older sister when his father left to remarry. He studied art in Cleveland, Ohio and then in 1898 went to the Chase School in New York and at the National Academy of Design. He continued to spend much time in Maine painting landscapes, and by 1909 had his first exhibition, which was held at New York Gallery 291, run by Alfred Stieglitz. There he became involved with a social circle of modernists that included Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and John Marin.
In 1912, he first went to Europe where he had further exposure to modernism, and from 1913 to 1915 he was in Germany. In Paris, he experimented with Cezanne-like still lifes and was befriended by Gertrude Stein. In Germany, he was influenced by Expressionism, and especially by military pageantry. It is said that his greatest contribution to early 20th-century American modernism has been his brilliant synthetic military icons known as German Officer Portraits. He developed a close homosexual relationship with a handsome young Prussian officer who was killed in World War I.
Being encouraged by Stieglitz to explore American subjects, Hartley turned to American Indian objects...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"In Memorium Rene Beeh" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in Germany in 1922 for the rare Ganymed portfolio of "Das vierte Jahrbuch der Marees Gesellschaft", published in Munich by Marees-Gesellschaft, R. ...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Cover for Ecce Homo - Lithograph and Offset after George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Cover for Ecce Homo is an artwork realized by George Grosz in 1923.
Lithograph and Offset.
25x25 cm, no frame.
Good condtions.
Reference: Wieland Herzfelde (introduction), Der Malik-Verlag, 1916-1947, exhib. cat. Deutsche Akademie der Künste Berlin, Berlin (Ost) 1966, cat. no. 59; Lothar Lang, George-Grosz-Bibliographie, in: Marginalien, Zeitschrfit für Buchkunst und Bibliophilie,
30th issue, July 1968, p. 1ff, no. 38; Rosamunde Neugebauer, Georges Grosz, Macht und Ohnmacht satirischer Kunst. Die Graphikfolgen "Gott mit uns...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Located in New York, NY
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Firemen
Textile design, c. 1929
19 1/4 ...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Board, Gouache
"Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, " Mountain Lake Landscape View
Located in New York, NY
Charles Warren Eaton (1857 – 1937)
The Shadow of Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1921
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed lower right: CHAS WARREN EATON.
Provenance:
The artist
The Macbeth Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Sotheby's New York, American Art, April 14, 1989
ConocoPhillips, Houston
Simpson Galleries, Houston, Fine Art & Antiques, May 18, 2019, Lot 447
Exhibited:
New York, The Macbeth Gallery, Paintings of Glacier National Park by Charles Warren Eaton, December 13, 1921 - January 2, 1922, no. 2.
Literature:
"Two Exhibitions at Macbeth's," American Art News, New York, Vol. XX, No. 10, December 17, 1921.
A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings of Charles Warren Eaton appeal to “the dreamers who find in them the undiscovered scenes in which their fancy long has dwelt.” Eaton’s contemplative landscapes exude a spiritual quality that moves the observer into a similar frame of mind. He loved to depict the ethereal light of dawn and dusk in late autumn or winter, usually without any reference to human or animal figures or buildings. These Tonalist paintings, with their subdued palette and relatively intimate scale, marked a definite break with the fading popularity of the panoramic and romantic views of the Hudson River School painters.
Charles Warren Eaton was born in Albany, New York to a family of limited means. He began painting while working in a dry-goods store. At age 22, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York City and then studied figure painting at the Art Students League. By 1886, he was successful enough to quit his day job and make a living as a landscape painter. That year, he traveled to Europe with fellow Tonalist painters Leonard Ochtman and Ben Foster. In France, Eaton visited popular artist’s spots such as Paris, Fontainebleau and Grez-sur-Loing, and fell in love with the loose brushwork and moody style of French Barbizon painting.
Returning to the United States, Eaton fell under the spell of George Inness, the foremost exponent of Barbizon style in the United States. In 1888, Eaton settled near Inness in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where Eaton lived until his death in 1937. In this period, he painted shadowy and ambiguous landscapes inspired by rural scenery in the northeastern United States. His signature theme was a cropped view of the branches, trunks, and foliage of a pine grove silhouetted against a delicately illuminated sunset or moonlit sky. He painted this vision so often between 1900 and 1910 that he picked up the sobriquet ‘‘The Pine Tree Painter.”
After 1910, Eaton responded to the popularity of Impressionism by using brighter colors and painting sunlit daytime scenes. In 1921, he was hired to paint Glacier Lake, in Glacier National Park by the Great Northern Railroad Company as part of their ‘See America First’ campaign. He produced more than 20 paintings, among the artist's last works, that now poignantly remind viewers of the vast disappearing glaciers. Eaton tended to approach this mountain scenery from an oblique vantage point; he liked to capture small episodes, showing mountaintops nearly obscured by dramatically attenuated screens of fir trees.
Eaton, like many Tonalist artists of his generation such as Henry Ward Ranger, John Francis Murphy, and Charles Melville Dewey...
Category
Tonalist 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Anémone Humaine Fleurs - Lithograph after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Anémone Humaine Fleurs is a lithograph realized after a watercolor by Odilon Redon.
It belongs to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felur...
Category
Symbolist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
EARLY SKYSCRAPER
By Helen West Heller
Located in Portland, ME
Heller, Helen West (American 1872-1955). EARLY SKYSCRAPER. Wood-engraving, 1928. Edition size not known. Titled, dated and signed in pencil, and further inscribed by Heller in the lo...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Farm Horse Drunking
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Farm Horse Drunking
Charcoal and pastel on artist's board, c. 1920
Signed lower right in pencil (see photo)
Titled in ink lower center, as are all the illustration for At the Farm (s...
Category
English School 1920s Art
Materials
Chalk
Spanish school landscape with river oil painting Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil on canvas glued to board.
Oil measures 25x40 cm.
Frameless.
Illegible signature.
Category
Barbizon School 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Cubist Painting By Swedish Artist Dick Beer, View From a Window, 1920
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938)
Utsikt från fönster, View From a Window, 1920
oil on canvas
73 x 60.5 cm
stamp signed
painted 1920
Exhibi...
Category
Cubist 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925, Barge on the Seine, B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography.
The International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, October 1925. On the Seine River, The Department Store "Belle Jar...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
At the Yacht Club
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
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...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Dans la Rivière”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas post impressionist painting by the French artist, Edmund Amedee Heuze. Signed lower right. Circa 1920. Condition of the painting is very good. No restorations. His paintings rarely come to the market. The painting is housed in a contemporary gold leaf gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 24.25 by 28.75 inches. Provenance: Papillon Gallery (gallery label verso)
Edmond Heuze
1883-1967
Edmond Heuzé was a painter, pastellist, watercolourist, and lithographer. His birth name was Amédée Le Trouvé.
He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor and a seamstress. Heuzé wanted to be an artist from early childhood, and refused to follow his father into the tailoring profession. When he was 11, His parents moved to Montmartre, and it was there, in rue Cortot, that the thirteen-year-old Edmond Heuzé and his boyhood friend André Utter met Suzanne Valadon, whom Utter would later marry.
Heuzé moved into an attic room in 8, rue Cortot, with another friend, the young Russian sculptor Laxine. For two years they studied under Valadon, until Laxine entered the atelier of Fernand Cormon at the Beaux-Arts; Laxine was soon to kill himself. Edmond Heuzé too studied under Cormon, but flounced out when Cormon made fun of his large nose. Discouraged, Heuzé took up a tailoring job at the department store La Samaritaine. But when his portrait of Suzanne Valadon was accepted by the 1902 Salon d'Automne, he resolved to devote himself to art.
To support himself, Heuzé took a job as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, where he danced with La Goulue. For two years he entered dance competitions across Europe under the name Williams. He also taught the painter Maurice Utrillo, who was the son of Suzanne Valadon. In 1908, Heuzé had his first solo exhibition, at the galerie Berthe Weill. The following year he went to Saint Petersburg, where he was the curator of the art collection of Grand Duke Nicolas.
On the outbreak of WWI Edmond Heuzé returned to Paris to join up, but was only mobilized for a few months. In Paris he survived doing odd jobs in Les Halles. Continuing with his own art, Heuzé also acted as an intermediary between collectors and artists such as Picasso, Vlaminck, and Valadon. This led to Heuzé being appointed artistic director of the galerie Sagot in rue Lafitte.
In 1920 Heuzé exhibited at Bernheim alongside Maurice Asselin, Emily Charmy, and Lucien Mainssieux...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Beautiful Blond Girl with Elves - Arts and Crafts - Glasgow Girls
Located in Miami, FL
A fantasy scene with Elves and a beautiful girl lost in thought at the base of a tree. Elizabeth Mary Watt, G.S.W.A. In 1919, she was elected as ...
Category
Vienna Secession 1920s Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pigment
"Bildnis" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on smooth wove paper for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition ...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Wien
By René Guinand
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
54 x 47 x 4 cm
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
'Venus' — 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Venus, Ex Libris - Hanns U. Herta Heeren', woodcut, 1923, edition not stated but small. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op.154' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, on cream Japan paper, with full margins (15/16 to 2 11/16 inches), in good condition. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards (unframed).
.
Translation: Venus Ex Libris for Hanns and Herta Heeren.
Image size 5 15/16 x 4 inches (156 x 102 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 6 inches (245 x 152 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 (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Le Masque de la Mort Rouge - Lithograph after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Le Masque de la Mort Rouge is a phototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon.
They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felu...
Category
Symbolist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"The Banquet" (Das Gastmahl) original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on smooth wove paper for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition ...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Swan ride
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Watercolor Painting of the Monseigneur News Theatre, by Reginald Marsh, 1925
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh, 1898 – 1954
Monseigneur News Theatre, 1925
Signed and dated at lower right: 'Reginald Marsh 1925'
Watercolor on card
8 x 11 inches
Born in Paris to parents who were American artists, Reginald Marsh became an adept illustrator at an early age. His family returned to the United States in 1900. Upon graduating from Yale University, Marsh moved to New York and in 1922 took a job as an illustrator at the New York Daily News. For the paper he provided cartoons of vaudeville and burlesque shows. In 1925 Marsh went to work for a new magazine -- The New Yorker -- as one of its original cartoonists. That same year he married Betty Burroughs, daughter of the paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later that year they traveled to Europe where Marsh discovered the work of the old masters at the Louvre in Paris and British museums. With a sketchbook always on hand, he wandered the streets of Europe and began depicting bums or what he called figures of failure. Upon the couple’s return, Marsh, now with a serious interest in pursuing art, enrolled at the Art Students League where he studied under George Luks, John Sloan, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. This work, Monseigneur News Theatre, is accompanied by a letter from Marsh Scholar Professor Norman Sasowsky, University of Delaware...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Rudolf v. Rittner as Florian Geyer - Last man standing -
Located in Berlin, DE
Lovis Corinth (1858 Tapiau - 1925 Zandvoort), Rudolf von Rittner as Florian Geyer, 1924 (Müller 854), drypoint signed in pencil. 20.4 × 14.2 (plate size), 37.7 × 30.6 cm (sheet size). Published by Karl Nierendorf, Berlin. Framed in a passepartout.
- Strong, precise impression. Frame a little bit rubbed and with two small damages.
About the artwork
The knight is a leitmotif in Lovis Corinth's work, culminating in his Self-Portrait in Armour of 1914. Of all the paintings on this theme, Corinth most often depicted Florian Geyer. Descended from a Franconian noble family, he fought for the freedom of the peasants during the peasant wars of the Reformation, first diplomatically and then militarily, leading the legendary Schwarzen Haufen (Black Troops). The name derives from the black uniforms with which Geyer dressed the peasants willing to fight.
During the Napoleonic occupation, the freedom fighter Florian Geyer was sung about by the Romantics, and the free corps Die Schwarze Schaar, founded in 1813 by Major von Lützow, succeeded the Schwarzer Haufen. It was against this historical background that Gerhard Hauptmann wrote the revolutionary drama Florian Geyer, which premiered at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1896. While the actor Rudolf Rittner, who would later appear in Fritz Lang's films, initially played the role of Schäferhans, he took over the leading role in the new production at Berlin's Lessing Theatre in 1904, again directed by Emil Lessing, which established his fame as an actor. Hauptmann himself praised the acting. He wrote to Hugo von Hofmannsthal: "It went quite well with Florian Geyer. In any case, I had the great pleasure of seeing the play again in an admirable performance". And Lovis Corinth was so taken with Rittner's performance that he painted an oil portrait of him in the role of Florian Geyer in 1906.
After two further graphic versions in 1915 and 1920/21, Corinth returned to the painting a year before his death and almost twenty years after the oil painting to create this graphic version in 1924. Even the inscription in the picture was taken over. This proves all the more the importance of the knight and freedom fighter for Corinth's self-image.
The oil painting, in particular, proclaims the single-minded determination to fight to the last for the values defended, manifested in the oil painting by the tattered flag held out to the enemy. There is a parallel with Rainer Maria Rilke's 1899 story The Cornet, in which the protagonist goes down with the flag that he first saved at the risk of his life.
Consequently, the portrait is also a self-portrait, and the knight's armour is not an academic costume or an ironic refraction, but an expression of Corinth's self-image, which also includes his self-representation as an artist. The Secession poster...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Les Biches - Rare Book Illustrated by M. Laurencin - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Les Biches is a ballet by Bronislava Nijinska, with music by Francis Poulenc and with costume design by Marie Laurencin. Edition of 335 copies. Copy nu...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
"The Goat" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in 1920 for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition of 500. Image size: 6 1/...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Young Spaniard with mantilla and fan
By Henry Meylan
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
The Hunting Prince by Orovida Pissarro - Etching
Located in London, GB
The Hunting Prince by Orovida Pissarro (1893 - 1968)
Etching
15 x 20 cm (5 ⅞ x 7 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1926
Inscribed lower left Trial proof no.14 and titled lower middle
Provenance: Private collection, Europe
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Etching
“Lost Love”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very intricate silhouette cut out of black paper over white paper background by the Czech artist, Frederich Kaskeline. Signed lower right. Bearing inscription lower left. Circa 1920...
Category
Victorian 1920s Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Pegase Captif - after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Pegase Captif is a prototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon.
They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923.
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Category
Symbolist 1920s Art
Materials
Photogravure
"Goats" original lithograph
By August Gaul
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on smooth wove paper for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition ...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph