1930s Art

RGRFineArts is pleased to offer this fine pencil drawing of young people enjoing the beach by Carl Pickhardt done in the 1930s. This picture illustrates the fine craftsmanship that P...

GEORGES ROUAULT (1871 – 1958) La PARADE 1932 (CR.203, W.211) color etching and aquatint 1932. Edition 270. Frontispiece from “Cirque”. ...

Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963), Wuxtry! [Extra?!], linocut in colors, c. 1936, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower center [also initialed in the plate]. In very good conditi...

A very beautiful signed and dated 1936 impressionist oil on canvas by Lelia Caetani depicting the river Seine in Paris. The artist is very interesting - please see biography below - she was an Italian...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

Robert Falcucci (1900-1989) Famoso illustratore di manifesti famosi i suoi manifesti di corse automobilistiche e località turistiche francesi Quest'opera è vicina llo stile Futurista...

Plump or fleshy and voluptuous nude... you can describe it as you see it. Signed, titled and dated lower left: John Steuart Curry / 1934 "Hilda Nellis", John Steuart Curry is best ...

Elsa Carlander (British, circa 1930) An autumn gust Watercolour and pencil on paper Signed and inscribed ‘Best wishes from Elsa Carlander’ (lower right) 6.5/8 x 5.7/8 in. (16.8 x 15 ...

Impressive early American impressionist winter landscape by Frank A. Barney (1862 - 1954). Framed. Oil on board. Unsigned. Image size, 12H by 16L.

Crafted in 1932, the advertising poster for "Biscotti di gran Lusso - Lazzaroni" epitomizes the golden age of Italian graphic design and culinary excellence. Created to promote the l...

This gorgeous Scottish 1930's soft focus and sensual pastel oil painting is by noted artist John Bulloch Souter. It was painted in 1931 and the sitter is the artist's beautiful wife...

A substantial, American School figural oil of a young woman with dark hair shown seated, wearing a simple white cotton shift and gazing to the viewer's left. A dramatically composed...

Charlie Chaplin is a vintage black and white photograph realized during the 1930s. Includes a wood frame. This pretty photograph represents the actor Charlie Chaplin with a woman, probably during one of his famous sketches...

Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'Tenant Farmers', color wood engraving, 1936, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/25' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh c...

Impressive early American modernist cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas.

5122 Antique landscape Cambridge England 1932

This work of art depicts a majestic mountain scene, strikingly capturing the essence of nature in all its splendor. The imposing, majestic mountains dominate the center of the compos...

Nicely painted Japanese impressionist cityscape. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.

Edouard Benedictus, 'Poppy' from the portfolio 'Relais', plate 14, color pochoir, 1930. Signed in the matrix, in the center bottom margin. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fre...

A beautiful 1930's French impressionist oil on canvas depicting a landscape in the Haute Loire region with hay bale and hilltop village, by René Aubert. Excellent quality work in v...

signed and dated lower left

Well painted American modernist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 8H by 10L.

Amazing early American surrealist nude male portrait landscape. Painted by Charles W St Clair. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 24L x 30H. Super detailed and rare!

Mediterranean Calm Image: 25.0 x 18.2 cm Mount: 37.8 x 29.8 cm Wood engraving 1932 Condition: Slight foxing One of Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises by Robert...

Preliminary Study for Cretan Dancer Bronze Graphite on tracing paper, 1930 Unsigned Note: The bronze sculpture measures 24 1/2 x 33 5/8 inches and is signed and dated 1930 on the bas...

This atmospheric painting is titled “On Puget Sound” and was created by William J. Beck in 1933. It’s a lovely rendition of what seems to be early sunrise light on the Sound. Beck u...

American impressionist seascape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas board. Signed verso. Image size, 16H by 20L.

No, this young lady is not happy, but although she is still clutching her large white hanky, the tears have dried up. Her face is a fascinating study of micro emotions, as we see her...

Il figurino di moda è firmato e datato in basso a destra. The croquis is signed and dated on the bottom right. E.Sacchetti 1935. La donna è rappresentata di spalle, con un lungo vest...

The 1934 original railway poster by Albert Steiner, promoting St. Moritz with a 30% reduction on Swiss tickets, reflects the golden age of Swiss tourism. By the 1930s, St. Moritz had...

Arthur Dupagne (1895 Liège - 1961 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre), Panther striding upwards, c. 1938. Patinated bronze in full cast on a hollow-cast terrain base, signed in the cast “Dupagne”, 22 cm (length) x 13.5 cm (height) x 6 cm (width), 1.35 kg. - Patina somewhat rubbed, slightly bumped in places, in good overall condition. - The powerful elegance of animalism - The powerful panther strides up a rock formation and pauses at the edge, overhanging it with his left paw to peer into the distance. He seems to be surveying his territory and searching for prey at the same time. Even if the predator pauses, the impulse to move upward may continue with a mighty leap the next moment; after all, the panther seems to have already caught the scent and made visual contact. The staircase-like rock formation shows the panther's strength, which is present down to the tip of its tail, in the elegance of its supple, powerful movement. Arthur Dupagne certainly studied these movements in nature, and yet he formulates the musculature in the geometricized language of Art Deco. This does not transform the panther into an abstract creature of art, but rather expresses the fullness of power and the exciting dynamics of its inner movement. Dupagne also transferred the artistic experience he had gained in the Congo of a powerful, original African art...

Konstantin Andreevich Somov (Russian 1869-1939), Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky), 1931, Sanguine and pastel on paper, signed and dated (twice) (lower right), 32cm x 48cm, (46...

Signed oil on panel landscape circa 1930 by French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. This stunning work depicts a view of a French hamlet in summer - the buildings in the ...

A mysterious blond young woman is standing by the window in a plush drawing room which has a velvety feel. With her back turned to us, she is looking out over the spires and roofs of...

Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°5-6, February-March 1939. Published and printed under th...

Original vintage travel poster - Visit Ribe the oldest town in Denmark - featuring a stunning illustration by the Danish artist Hakon Spliid (1893-1959) depicting a view of the histo...

A beautiful early 20th century oil on canvas portrait of the terrier "Celtic Phelan" by Belgian artist Emile Joseph Patoux. Simple and sensitive depiction of the terrier by this not...

Nude from Charles FUETSCH (1894-1965) Charles Fuetsch was a French painter artist. Ha had an International career He practiced his art in the United States from 1922 to 1931 in Philadelphia, Hollywood, New York and Los Angeles, where he became a professor at the prestigious Academy of Modern Art. In 1933, he went back to France to live in Paris, then Cagnes-sur-Mer (South of France) and finally in Mulhouse (Alsace). He was a member of the Art Alliance of America and the Watercolor Society of New York during his stay and a member of the Palette and advisor to the M.D.P.A. ⭐Structural Analysis⭐ : It is an Impressionist portrait. Doesn't she look like an odalisque by Henri Matisse? or Olympia from Edouard Manet? Probably not! Lascivious position, the body undulates on the couch. (see deform limbs) Even if the light shadow on the background looks like to a wave. A clew in the top of the artwork helps a lot: 🟢 A N T I N E A Atlantida is a fantasy novel by French writer Pierre Benoit...

Ricard Opisso - Crowd in Barcelona - Watercolor drawing Drawing measurements 19x24 cm. Frame measurements 30x35 cm. Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and criti...

Impressive early American modernist large flower still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 35H by 23L.

Maison au Bord de Chemin by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952) Watercolour and ink on paper 27 x 36.7 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 14 ¹/₂ inches) Signed with Estate stamp, lower right This work is...

Hans Harders (1875 Mörel - 1955 Berlin), Boy playing the shawm, around 1930. Dark patinated bronze with round plinth on a black marble base (2 cm high), total height 35 cm, diameter ...

*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Nu (Nude) by Moïse Kisling (1891-1953) Oil and crayon on canvas 22 x 16 cm (8 ⁵/₈ x 6 ¹/₄ inches) Signed lower right, K...

A beautiful large 1930's Modern British oil on canvas depicting thistle in a glass vase by Helen Stuart Weir RBA ROI. Excellent quality early work by this important female artist, w...

P. L. Hohnstedt (Peter Lanz) (1872 - 1957) San Antonio, Comfort Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Medium: Oil Circa 1930s "Texas Summer" Hill Country Biography P. L. Hohnstedt (Peter Lanz) ...

Frida on White Bench, New York, by Nickolas Muray is a colorful portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. This iconic image features the woman artist sitting on a white bench in fron...

Jeanne Marguerite Frey-Surbek (Swiss, * 23.2.1886 Delémont, † 17.5.1981 Bern) Country Road near Gabés, Tunesia, North Africa • Etching • Platte, ca. 7 x 11 cm • Sheet, ca. 33 x 25.5 cm • Monogrammed lower right • Edition noted lower left 74/100 • Printed title lower right Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Looking through my stock, buyers will notice my liking of female artistes working in Switzerland and here I introduce you to another important heroine of Swiss artistes and present a sweet little Swiss School orientalist pre-war etching...

Anonymous, UK 1939 Keep Calm and Carry On (Medium size) Ministry of Information Lithographic poster 50 x 37 cm Very rare - we have traced copies in the Imperial War Museum collectio...

A lovely 1930s watercolor on paper of a summer nocturne moonrise by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 11" x 14". Archivally 8-ply matted to to 14” x 18”. Estate stamped on rev...

Buffalo, NY Steel Mill American Scene Modernism WPA Era Industrial 20th Century Ruth A. Haven Gay (1911-1992) “Buffalo, NY Steel Mill”, c. 1935 23 x 28 inches Oil on Board Signed G...

Fitzgerald, James (1899-1971) OLD TREE. Cat Raisonne 1223. Watercolor on paper, c. 1930. Signed, lower left. 19 x 25 1/2 inches, framed to 27 5/8 x 33 1/4 inches. Provenance: Estate ...

Jean Durand, (French 1894-1977) Academic Study (Centaur), c.1930s, Charcoal on paper, studio stamp (lower right), 42cm x 31cm (57cm x 46cm framed). The picture is framed behind museu...

Jean Durand, (French 1894-1977) Academic Study (Centaur), c.1930s, Charcoal on paper, studio stamp (lower right), 32cm x 48cm (63cm x 46cm framed.) The picture is framed behind museu...

This gouache, tempera and watercolour painting is signed and dated by the artist "HMP’31" [Hermann Max Pechstein 1932] in the lower right image. It was painted in 1932 and depicts th...

American Art Deco 20th Century Modernism Social Realism WPA Era Scene Pin-Up Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981) 'Edward, This Man Insulted Me. Do Something" Sight: 20 x 15 inches Wa...

Jean Durand, (French 1894-1977) Academic Study (Centaur), c.1930s, Charcoal on paper, studio stamp (lower right), 56cm x 35cm (71cm x 49cm framed). The picture is framed behind museu...

Kawase Hasui Morning in Hirano, Lake Yamanaka (山中湖平野の朝), 1936 Color woodblock print Oban Sheet: 31 × 42 cm Image: 28.7 × 40 cm First edition seal: 'D' seal Published by Watanabe Shoz...

Bruno was born in 1888 in Bruenn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the youngest son of a well-to-do family of textile manufacturers. Bruno was a delicate child, but...