1930s Art

Provenance On consignment with the gallery from a Pasadena, California corporate collection. The painting was displayed at Mutual Savings and Loan on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. A 1955 photo showing Bickerstaff paintings on display at the same Mutual Savings and Loan office in Pasadena is available through the Pasadena Museum of History's library. Label on verso: Mutual Savings No. 3107 Description This painting is untitled, however, the landscape appears to be of California's Palm Springs Desert area with a scattering of smoke trees...

Roman in Ancient Temple is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881...

original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. signed in plate with his monogram and cipher mark. from the 1930s. Rare Judaic image. the Jewish Study...

First edition of Chagall's autobiography. Limited edition of 1650 specimens. Format: In-8° Pages: 253 32 reproductions of drawings of Chagall's youth. Good conditions.

"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...

The Execution is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris...

Womanly is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. On the lower right description in French. ...

The Stranger Woman is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier...

Metamorphosis is an original pencil drawing on paper realized by Lucien Coutaud in 1945. Stamped on the rear "Fond Coutaud" Included a Passepartout: 4...

August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...

Plate 7 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa ...

Keith Murray, architect and industrial designer, created this particular vase, "Chinese Lantern" in moonstone white ( shape no.3765) Made in England. Priced individually at $1200 each, we have this same vase in Yellow and in Green. A quote can be given for additional pieces. We have yellow green and moonstone in bombe in small and large sizes. We have celadon bowls, yellow bowls, and small moonstone pot with lid. All c. 1935 art deco style made in England. All in excellent condition. These are the most desirable classic examples of pottery by Architect Keith Murray produced for Wedgwood in the 1930's. Published and illustrated in the book "Wedgwood Ceramics...

Original vintage travel poster - Jetzt Urlaub nehmen! Winterreisen mit Kraft durch Freude reiseprogramme / Take a holiday now! Winter travel with strength through joy travel programme - featuring two cross country skiers...

*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Mother and Child by BÉLA KÁDÁR (1877-1955) Gouache on paper 86 x 56.8 cm (33 7/8 x 22 3/8 inches) Signed lower right Kádár Béla This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Gábor Einspach on behalf of The First Hungarian Painting Expert's Office. Provenance Private collection, Israel 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...

Road to Gayhead (Martha's Vineyard) Lithograph, 1935 Signed, dated. editoned & titled in pencil Printer: George Miller, New York A famous view of Martha's Vinyard Illustrated: Adams, Fig. 10.14, Page 234 Edition: 40 Printed chine collee Annotated: "For Gene" Reference: Lumsdaine & O'Sullivan 293 Incorporated in 1870. Aquinnah is the center of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah. A Federally recognized Native American People. It is located at the tip of Martha's Vinyard. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah became a federally acknowledged tribe on April 10, 1987 through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Tribe is preserving its history, culture and language. The town was called Gay Head until 1997 when the Tribe won the right to change the name of the town back to the original Wampanoag name. The smallest town on the Island at 5.4 miles of land area. The drive to Aquinnah is beautiful. You will notice that the three down-Island towns, Vineyard Haven, Oak Bluffs...

A 'View of Saint-Médard Church, Paris', gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). As viewed from the Rue Mouffetard, the church, which dates from the mid-1400s, continues ...

Perot, Roger. Cycles Peugeot, 1931. Color lithograph Linen backed. Peugeot was a major advertiser in France between the wars, commissioning innumerab...

Sailboat,Sea,France,Port,Boat ,Landscape ,Britain , Atlantic Ocean, Blu , Grey . Label on the back Galleria Pirra Torino This work is more than 50 year...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) signed lithograph. Pencil signed and dated "S. Simkhovitch 1933" lower center. Title "Island Beach," in pencil lower left of sheet. Numbered "44/50" in pencil lower right. (it is either Island Beach Wisconsin or New Jersey) 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. 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...

(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray...

Aristocrat Watching An Artwork is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 1...

The Spiritual Speech is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions with small foxing. Paul Baudier, (born O...

Oil on artist board painting of a misty morning in Gloucester Harbor by the Provincetown artist, Kay Kellogg. Signed lower left. Circa 1935. The painting d...

Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a career that stretched for more than 75 years. Born in 1889, Scarlett had his first retrospective by 1928. He subscribed fully to the modernist credo. Interviewed at the time, he said: "If a futuristic painting brings the casual gallery patron to an abrupt stop and forces him to spend five minutes in front of the painting, then the ends of modernism have been served," A major proponent of non-objective painting, Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. His work, along with that of Kandinsky, Klee, and German artist Rudolph Bauer...

"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA. 8 x 10 ¾ inches. Graphite on paper, 1936. Initialed on lower right. The play opens October 14, 1936 at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre. Handwritten title, date, and signature on lower center of original matte which is now affixed to the verso. Inscription on lower right of matte reads, "For Prince & Barbara - Jo Mielziner...

Louis Bosa (American, 1905–1981) Bucks County, 1934 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 17.5 x 21.5 inches 25.5 x 29 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only a f...

Reading News in Cafe is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. On the lower right description in French. Very good con...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Les Andelys, la Place Saint Michel by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour on paper 22 x 29 cm (8 ⁵/₈ x ...

The Theatre Passion is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in ...

The Torture and Execution is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 18...

Jules Herve (French, 1887 - 1981) Place Jeanne D'Arc, Paris, circa 1930 Oil on canvas 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches Signed lower right; signed on the reverse Jules Rene Herve, an impression...

The Primitive Family is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions except for small spots. Paul Baudier, (born Octobe...

The Romance is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18...

The Visit in The Hospital is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Pari...

The Speech of Authoritarian is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Pa...

John Ayres Head in Hand May 1, 1937 Charcoal on Paper 25"x19", unframed $1250 Signed and dated in charcoal top right *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...

Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by Ardengo Soffici in 1932. Pencil on laid paper. Hand signed lower right. Left margin restoration sign, generally in good conditi...

Vibrant late 1930's landscape painted in a colorful spectrum of a pathway leading through trees to a glassy lake framed by distant mountains and a multicolored sky by A. Griffin (Ame...

Saul Kovner: 1904-1981. Well listed American artist. He was born in Russia, but studied and lived in NYC and California. This is a rare etching, as I can n...

Womanly Preoccupation is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. On the lower right description in French. Very good con...

We are proud to have discovered and now present a rare original self portrait by Austrian Expressionist artist, Franz Bergmann (1998-1977) "My Self", is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1938, with an image dimension of 29 x 24 inches. The painting is in good original condition, the frame has been restored. A biography on the artist appears below, please contact the gallery with any question. Franz Bergmann 1898 - 1977 Franz Walter Bergmann was born on August 6, 1898, in Dimling, Austria, a town northwest of Vienna. His parents were both involved in the arts: his mother was a pianist, and his father was an amateur artist and a violinist. After serving in World War I for three years, he enrolled in the National Academy of Art in Vienna and embarked on a seven-year course of study, focusing on figure painting and portraiture. Although schooled in the academic tradition, Bergmann also adopted elements derived from the more avant-garde German Expressionist style. By 1924 he was exhibiting in Vienna and Stockholm. The following year, he graduated with honors. He left Vienna to tour Europe, and in early 1926 he traveled to the United States. After a brief stay in New York, he moved to Chicago, where he obtained a commission to paint murals for theaters owned by Balaban & Katz. That year his mural sketches were exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then moved to New York, where he joined the staff of the noted Austrian architect and designer Josef Urban...

The Lady in The Museum is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good condition. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 i...

Monarchist is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by French artist André Baudier in the 1930s. On the lower right description in French. Very good conditions.

The Sick and Compassionate is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. On the lower right description in French. Very goo...

The Deep Conversation is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris an...

The Conversation in The Balcony is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 ...

The Camp of General is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris and ...

The Lunchtime is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October ...

The Nobleman on The Table is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Par...

The Speech is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18,...

The Sick Mother is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions with some spots. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 i...

Egyptian Princess is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born Octo...

The Motivational Speech For Soldiers is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier( 1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1...

The Romantic Kiss is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris and di...

The Nobel Holiday is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris and di...

The Plea is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1...

Interior of Studio is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris and d...

The Disastrous War is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris and d...