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Period: 1920s
Recognized Seller Listings
Autumn — American Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'Autumn', color woodcut, edition 50, c. 1925. Signed, titled and numbered '17/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Spring — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'Spring', color woodcut, edition 50, c. 1925. Signed, titled and numbered '4/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on ...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
QUARTER OF NINE - SATURDAY'S CHILDREN
By Martin Lewis
Located in Portland, ME
Lewis, Martin (American, born Australia, 1881-1962). QUARTER OF NINE, SATURDAY'S CHILDREN. McCarron 79. Drypoint, 1929. McCarron says the intended edition was 100 , but 107 were prin...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint
UNION SQUARE NY CITY
Located in Portland, ME
Roth, Ernest David (American, 1897-1964).UNION SQUARE NY CITY Etching, 1929. 10 x 7 1/2 inches (plate), 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (sheet). Signed and dated in pen...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Lady with Flower
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "E.JB." at lower right
21 7/8 x 17 inches including frame
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Le Collier de Perles by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Le Collier de Perles by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Oil on canvas
61 x 50 cm (24 x 19 ⅝ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Ludovic Rodo 1927...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Narcissus.
Located in Storrs, CT
Narcissus. 1927. Drypoint with hand coloring. Jaques 343. 8 7/8 x 4 7/16 (sheet 13 1/8 x 7 3/16). Printed with plate tone on Japanese mulberry paper. Scattered foxing. Signed and tit...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Watercolor
Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
Edition: Proof on Van Gelder paper
Unsigned (as usual for this image)
Edition: unknown
Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris (?)
References: Johnson 25...
Category
French School 1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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...
Category
Abstract 1920s Art
Materials
Pastel
Of Beauty —after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Von der Schönheit' (Of Beauty) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 9 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
Vienna Secession 1920s Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
La Seine et la Tour Eiffel, vue d'un balcon, painting by Louis Marcoussis, 1925
Located in London, GB
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La Seine et la Tour Eiffel, vue d'un balcon by Louis Marcoussis (1878-1883)
Oil on canvas
33 x 66 cm (13 x 26 inches)
Signed lower left, Marcoussis
Executed in 1925
Provenance
Alice Halicka (the artist's wife), Paris
Blanche Fabry Tézé, New York
Stern Pissarro Gallery...
Category
Cubist 1920s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Les cygnes by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Animal themed monotype
Located in London, GB
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Les cygnes by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Watercolour monotype
49 x 63 cm (19 ¹/₄ x 24 ³/₄ inches)
Signe...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Monotype
Sotto Portico, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Sotto Portico, Venice. 1928. Etching. Hardie/Carter 235. 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 (sheet 8 1/4 x 11 3/8). Edition 80, #39. A rich impression printed in black/brown ink with subtle tonal wiping...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB" at lower left
21 13/16 x 17 inches including frame
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor
The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB." at lower right
21 3/4 x 17 inches including frame
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Woman in a Fur Wrap
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Fur Wrap
Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920
Signed in ink lower right (see photo)
Estate stamp verso (see photo)
Provenance: estate of the artist
Borghi & Company, New York
Condition: excellent
Sheet/Image size: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Rudolph Bauer
1889-1953
"Rudolf Bauer was born in Lindenwald near Bromberg, Silesia, in 1889 but his family moved only a few years later to Berlin. In 1905 Bauer began his studies at the Berlin Academy of Art but left the Academy only a few months later to educate himself. The upshot was paintings, caricatures and comical drawings which were published in 'Berliner Tageblatt', 'Ulk' and 'Le Figaro'.
From 1912 Bauer contributed to the magazine and Gallery 'Der Sturm' founded by Herwarth Walden and pivotal to German Expressionism and the international avant-garde. In 1915 Rudolf Bauer participated for the first time in a group show at Walden's gallery. There he met Hilla von Rebay...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Ink
A Mirage
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Mirage. 1928. Etching. Hardie 238. 11 13/16 x 14 3/8 (sheet 12 3/16 x 18 3/4). Edition 76, #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1928 and 1938; Holmes, Etchings of Today. A ri...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Green Woodpecker by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Animal stencil
Located in London, GB
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The Green Woodpecker by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pochoir
31 x 47 cm (12 ¹/₄ x 18 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed w...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Stencil
The Trawler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Trawler. 1926. Etching. Hurst 176. 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 15 3/4). Edition 75, #71. Mat line outside the image; otherwise excellent condition.A fine impression with plate tone, printed on antique cream laid paper. Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
In 1899 Briscoe acquired a studio in Malden, Essex, and bought a 3 ton cutter which, with his young family, he would spend eight or nine months a year, sailing to Calais, along the Belgian coast and through the Dutch waterways, constantly sketching and painting in both oil and watercolor.
In 1922, after a meeting with the etcher James McBey, Briscoe returned to etching once more producing plates of some of his sea sketches. The two artists sailed together in Briscoe's, forty-ton yacht, the "Golden Vanity...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Break of the Haze
By Aaron Henry Gorson
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: AH Gorson
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Female Nude - Standing Female Nude (Havard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Female Nude - Standing Female Nude (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned, as issued in the portfolio
No signed impression are known to exist
From: The Drypoint...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Trois personnages nus
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Trois personnages nus" is a black conté crayon drawing on buff papaer by Francis Picabia. The artwork is signed in crayon, lower left, "Francis Picabia". The framed work measures 27 1/2 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. The Comité Francis Picabia has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.
Francis Picabia was an important French painter who experimented with a wide range of styles throughout his career and whose writings about art were influential in the development of the Dada movement...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Conté, Crayon
Tales Told of Shem and Shaun.
By Constantin Brancusi
Located in New York, NY
BRANCUSI, Constantin. Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Preface by C. K. Ogden. [6], xv, 55, [3] pp. Illustrated with an original portrait frontispiece etching by Brancusi. 8vo., 210 x 165 mm, bound in original publisher's wrappers and gold covered cardboard slipcase. In a new yellow cloth folding box. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929.
First Edition of these three Joycean fragments which were later included in Finnegans Wake. This handsome book was printed by Harry and Caresse Crosby in a limited edition of 500 copies on Holland van Gelder paper. The original Brancusi portrait...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Paper
Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy.
Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928
15 x 12 inch gelatin silver print
Image Size: 14 x 8.5 inches
Frame size: 22.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches
Edition of 15
Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us.
At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...
Category
Other Art Style 1920s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Cat and Cockerel, Oil and Gold on Panel by Georges Manzana Pissarro, 1925
Located in London, GB
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Cat and Cockerel by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Oil and gold on panel
65 x 94 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 37 inches)
...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Gold
The Passing Gondola
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
The Passing Gondola. c. 1926. Etching. Edition 80, #18. Hardie/Carter 230. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 13). Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1927. Printed on antique wove pap...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Two Heads
Located in New York, NY
Max Pechstein (1881-1955), Two Heads (Zwei Kopfe), woodcut, 1922, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Kruger 275. From the edition of 50. In very good ...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Woman and the Street
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Woman and the Street
Etching, 1927-1930
Signed in the plate lower right corner (see photo)
From: The Fables of La Fontaine, Plate 84
From the deluxe portfolio edition of 40 examples, printed on japan nacré paper
Printed by Maurice Potin, 1927-1930
Published by Tériade, éditeur, Paris, 1952
Reference: Johnson 174
Condition: Tape stain top center recto from pervious hinging.
Image/Plate size: 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 15 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches
The Women and the Secret
There's nothing like a secret weighs;
Too heavy 'tis for women tender;
And, for this matter, in my days,
I've seen some men of female gender.
To prove his wife, a husband cried,
(The night he knew the truth would hide,)
'O Heavens! What's this? O dear...
Category
French School 1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from ...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Still Life with Vase of Flowers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Still Life with Vase of Flowers
Oil on board with incised scraffito, c. 1929-1930
Unsigned by the artist
Signed and inscribed verso: "Painting by my father, Aileen B. Cramer" verso, the artist's daughter
Signed with the estate stamp verso
Exhibited:
Gerald Peters Gallery, Konrad Cramer and the Woodstock School, 2000. (label, see photo), Ny-00457-38-C
H. V. Allison Galleries...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Commedia dell'arte – Four Character Studies in Watercolor, 1920s
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Unidentified artist, 'Commedia dell’arte' – four character studies (Arlecchino, Pantalone, Pantalone giovane, Tartaglia), watercolor and pencil, c. 192...
Category
Realist 1920s Art
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Untitled (Presence) — 1920s modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Presence), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed in pencil. From a suite of 10 lithographs published by the artist and printed by Ad. Braun & Co., Paris...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Toujours Chic Tryptic.
Located in New York, NY
Set of 3 covers to the French fashion journal, "Toujours Chic" illustrated by Germaine Joumard who also sometimes signed her pieces "ZouZou." The three issues are: Les Robes de Soirees...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Paper
THE ARCH OF THE CONCA, PERUGIA
Located in Portland, ME
Arms, John Taylor. ARCH OF THE CONCA, PERUGIA. Etching, 1926. 10 1/4" x 14 5/8 plus margins. Framed to 18 x 22 inches. Signed in pencil and annotated "Trial Proof No. 6"; only state...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
Located in London, GB
Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches)
Inscribed, dated and signed lower left, Les Andel...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
DOWNTOWN, NEW YORK
Located in Portland, ME
Arms, John Taylor (American, 1887-1953). DOWNTOWN, NEW YORK. F.108. Etching and Aquatint, 1921. Edition of 75. Numbered 19/75 and signed and dated 1921, all in pencil. 8 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches, 214 x 125 mm (plate) plus margins. Framed to 16 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches with the label of The Old Print Shop...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Girl's Head - Woman's Head (Harvard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl's Head - Woman's Head (Harvard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from the original zinc and copper plates, 1952
Published by Curt Valentin, New York
Edition: unknown
Printed by Charles S. White, master printer
Printed on Van Gelder Zonen laid paper with armorial watermark
A complete portfolio is in the collection of Harvard Art...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Decorative Squirrel Design, Pencil and Watercolour on Paper
Located in London, GB
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Decorative Squirrel Design by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil and watercolour on paper
45.4 x 32.4 cm...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, Paper
STILL LIFE WITH APPLES
Located in Portland, ME
Lozowick, Louis. Amer., (1892-1973), STILL LIFE NO.2 (STILL LIFE WITH APPLES), Lithograph, 1929, Ed. C. 50. Flint 36, 10 5/16 x 13 3/16, 262 x ...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Gothic Spirit
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gothic Spirit (also called A Gargoyle, A Gothic Spirit). 1922. Etching and stipple. Fletcher 120. 11 5/8 x 7 (sheet 15 1/4 x 11 1/4). Gargoyle Series #8. Edition 130. Illustrated...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Figures in a Village by Béla Kádár - Charcoal Drawing
Located in London, GB
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Figures in a Village by Béla Kádár (1877-1956)
Charcoal on paper
33.2 x 23.5 cm (13 ¹/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right Kádár Béla
Executed circa 1920s
Provenance
Mr and Mrs Imre Deák, after 1928
Artisti Biography
The Hungarian artist Béla Kádár was born in Budapest in 1877 to a working-class Jewish family. Following his father’s death, he was forced to start working from an early age after only six years to primary schooling and was apprenticed as an iron-turner. In 1902, Kádár attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. After leaving the Academy, he worked at a mural painting company. Only when he visited Berlin and Paris and being exposed to the avant-garde art of the time, did Kádár direct his attention to painting once again. In 1910, the artist won the Kohner prize, and the same year he was awarded his first solo exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery. By 1918, Kádár moved to Western Europe. Today he is one of the most famous members of the early twentieth-century Hungarian avant-garde.
Over the course of his time living in Berlin, Kádár’s style changed. His expressionistic, graphic works were gradually replaced by paintings that were more romantic and delicate in nature. Incorporating and often synthesising stylistic elements of Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Neo-Primitivism and German Expressionism, Kádár’s decorative and metaphysical subject matter was often based upon traditional Hungarian folklore, and his subject-matter became increasingly narrative. His paintings in this period often feature surrealistic dream-like imagery, reminiscent of compositions by Marc Chagall. Despite his variety of subjects, ranging from abstracted figures and landscapes to interiors and objects, his paintings are typically rendered in a bright, jewel-toned palette and feature a fractured approach to rendering space.
In 1923 in Berlin, Kádár was invited by Herwath Walden to exhibit at the highly influential Galerie Der Sturm...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Nomads by Orovida Pissarro - Etching
Located in London, GB
The Nomads by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching and aquatint, final state 21/42
27 x 41 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 16 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed, Orovida, and dated 1925
Orovida was a gifted printmake...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Etching
The Irish Fair
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irish Fair
Lithograph, 1923
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Titled "Irish Fair" by the artist in pencil
Edition: 84
Housed in an archival frame with acid free...
Category
Ashcan School 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lassitude
Located in New York, NY
Henri MATISSE
Lassitude, 1925
Edition of 50
Lithograph, on Japanese vellum
Image: 7 1/2 x 5 1/16 inches (19 x 12.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (35.2 x 27.6 cm)
Ref: Duthuit 45...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
School Girls of Vienna Packing Rations from England and America for the Children
Located in Fairlawn, OH
School Girls of Vienna Packing Rations from England and America for the Little Children
Color lithograph poster, 1921
Signed lower right in the text (see photo)
Created in the Wein (Vienna), School of Arts and Crafts
Designed by Stephanie Krauss, aged 15 years
Published by the American Red Cross...
Category
Jugendstil 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Brume et Soleil du Matin (The Seine at Les Andelys) by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Brume et Soleil du Matin (The Seine at Les Andelys)
Oil on board
38 x 54.8 cm (15 x 21 ⅝ inches)
Signed lower le...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Peccarys and Tiger Pranks by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
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Peccarys and Tiger Pranks by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching and aquatint
31.5 x 23 cm (12 ⅜ x 9 inches)
Sig...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Man & Beast by Orovida Pissarro - Etching
Located in London, GB
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Man & Beast by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching
27 x 22 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 8 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower rig...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Etching
AUS DEM TIERGARTEN
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LOVIS CORINTH (1858-1925)
AUS DEM TIERGARTEN 1920 (Schwartz 397)
Drypoint, signed and numbered 47/50. BEAUTIFUL IMPRESSION with RICH DRYPOINT. Plate 9 ½ x 12 ½ inches. Full margins...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Femme nue de dos allongee
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Femme nue de dos allongee
Charcoal and white chalk on laid paper
Signed in charcoal, lower right "Steinlen" (see photo)
Note: Similar reclining nude drawing illustrated Slatkin No. 12 (See window on right)
Similar drawing, same model, same media, Proute 1971, Catalog Dandre Bardon, no. 115
There also other similar finished drawings of nudes in similar poses and with the same couch, white blanket...
Category
French School 1920s Art
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE or HIM
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John (American, 1871-1951). FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE. or HIM Morse 236. Etching, 1928. Edition of 100 (but only 50 were printed, by Platt). Dated and Titled in the plate, and Signed in pencil by Sloan and inscribed "100 Proofs," and also signed by Peter Platt. With tack holes and deckled edges. 5 x 8 inches, 126 x 203 mm. (plate), 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (sheet). In excellent condition.
From Morse:
" A small chorus singing 'Frankie and Johnnie' crowds the tiny stage of the Provincetown Players Theater in MacDougal Street. An episode from E. E. Cummings' intelligent and entertaining production, HIM." (Sloan writing in 1945).
"HIM" is about as thrilling an evening's entertainment as I have ever experienced. I liked it thoroughly -- I do not claim to understand it -- I do not believe that a work of art can be, nor need be understood, even by the maker. It seemed to me to be a glimpse inside the cranium of an artist-poet." (Sloan in a letter to James Light, the director of the play)
Though Morse says the stars were Hemsley Williams and Goldye Steiner, it was actually Hemliey Winfield (1907 - 1934), the founder of the New Negro Art Theater Dance Group. This company was very successful and highly regarded. It appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's premier of Louis Gruenberg's setting of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Rendez-Vous) — 1920s modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Rendez-Vous), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. From a suite of 10 lithographs published by the artist ...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
PYRAMID
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL HOFER / Carl Hofer (German 1878-1955)
PYRAMID, 1924
Lithograph, signed and titled in pencil. Unknown edition but small. Image 15 1/2 x 10, sheet 18 1/...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
William Tell And His Son In Front Of The Hat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LOVIS CORINTH (German 1858 -1925)
TELL AND HIS SON IN FRONT OF THE HAT "(Wilhelm) Tell Und Sein Sohn Vor Dem Hut" 1923 -5, (Muller 781) Lithograph with coloring, signed in pencil. This is one of 25, signed, on Japan paper Total edition 200. Image 9 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches. Full Sheet 15 x 11 1/2 inches with deckle edge. In good condition.
From the portfolio "William Tell". A portfolio of 13 signed lithographs including the title page. Published in 1925. Publisher Karl Nierendorf, Berlin, Printer:A. Rogall, Berlin. (Müller 775-787 - this is the 7th one. There are 25, signed, on Japan paper as offered, Total edition 200, including 75, signed, on "Bütten" paper and 100, signed, on copperplate printing paper)
Below is from the Museum of Modern Art:
Heather Hess, German Expressionist Digital Archive Project, German Expressionism: Works from the Collection. 2011.
Lovis Corinth often cloaked allusions to contemporary politics in historical dress. In these thirteen lithographs for an illustrated edition of Friedrich Schiller...
Category
Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
The Mouth of Honey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Mouth of Honey
Lithographic crayon and mixed media on paper mounted to support paper
Initialed by the artist "GB" bottom center on image. (see photo)
Titled in pencil in bottom m...
Category
Ashcan School 1920s Art
Materials
Crayon