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Period: 1930s
Jeune fille
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Jeune fille
Photogravure from 1937.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Art
Materials
Photogravure
$848 Sale Price
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Mount Hood From Clear Lake, Early 20th Century Large-Scale Panoramic Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mount Hood From Clear Lake, Early 20th Century Large-Scale Panoramic Landscape
Large-scale panoramic oil painting landscape of Mount Hood from Clear Lake by William M. Lemos (Ameri...
Category
Hudson River School 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars
'Judgment of Souls' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'Judgment of Souls', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '17/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full marg...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
" double face " original drawing by Jean Cocteau . certified
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
original drawing by Jean Cocteau , certified and signed .
exceptionnel "Oedipe " drawing 27,7 x 22, 6 cm .
with book !! ( around 16 original drawings )
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Ink
Arc du Carrousel du Louvre - Fauvist Figures in Cityscape Oil by Louis Valtat
By Louis Valtat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas figures in landscape by French painter Louis Valtat. The work depicts a view of the Arc du Triomphe du Carrousel from the Louvre in Paris, France. A beau...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) The House of the artist, Oil on canvas, signed
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
The House of the painter, Neuilly
signed lower left
oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm
Framed : 63 x 54 cm
The subject of this painting is fairly easy to identi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse), c. 1930s, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, signed lower right; presented in a newer silver painted frame
About the Painting
Writing about an exhibition of Charles W. Adams’ work at the Eighth Street Art Gallery in the mid-1930s, Emily Grenauer observed in The World-Telegram that the artist’s paintings were “distinguished for their solid form, well organized design and sumptuous color” and the art critic for The Herald Tribune found Adam’s work “a strong, formal realization of his subject . . . he paints with vital emphasis on structure and composition.” Although we do not know which works these critics referenced, it is likely they were writing about paintings like Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse). With its carefully designed reality, strong angles, solid forms, and well-disciplined puffs of smoke in the background, Adams presents a highly structured version of the Greenwich Village landmark, the Jefferson Market Library, which was a courthouse at the time Adams completed this work. The Jefferson Market Library was a prized subject for downtown painters, including the Ashcan School painter, John Sloan, the modernist, Stuart Davis, and the precisionist, Francis Criss...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Lady - Oil on Canvas by Carlo Socrate - 1930
By Carlo Socrate
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Lady is an original oil on canvas artwork realized by Carlo Socrate (1889-1967) in 1930.
A beautiful portrait of a woman by one of the major exponents of the association of painters that came to be known as Scuola Romana (Roman School).
Very good conditions.
Collect a masterpiece of the XX century.
Carlo Socrate (Mezzana Bigli -Pavia 1889 – Rome 1967)
He is the son of actors and lives in Argentina until the age of nine years.
Once returned to Italy, he begins attending the Free School of the Nude and in 1914, he goes to Rome, where a year later he would study at Villa Strohl-Fern.
In 1917, he worked for the company, Ballets Russes by Diaghilev; he also collaborated with the scenography for Las Meninas and prepared the scenes for Les femmes de bonne humeur (The Good Humored Ladies) by Léon Bakst. During this period, he meets Picasso, whom he follows to Paris, collaborating with him on scenes from Parade. During his stay in Paris, he meets Derain and other exponents of the cultural environment.
With Picasso, he visited Barcelona and then Madrid where, together, they visited The Prado Museum.
In 1918, at the Casina Valadier on the Pincian Hill (Rome), he exhibits his Still Life with a Dish of Apples and Onions, which arouses perplexity in the Roman environment for his personal rare “neoclassicism” but at the same time, attentive to European situation in those years.
After Portatrice di Frutta (Fruit Carrier) (1924), which is one of his masterpieces, he exhibits i Cacciatori (The Hunters), a very challenging painting, at the “Novecento Italiano...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huntress with Borzoi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A stunning French Art Deco figural group depicting a Huntress and her Borzoi.
The bronze has a beautiful warm patina and the base is two types of marble.
It is signed on the base and...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Feuille d'etudes Techniques: Neuf Tetes
Located in New York, NY
Etching and drypoint on laid paper, 1934. With Picasso's ink stamped signature lower right, and numbered 29/50 in pencil lower left.
Image 12.25 x 8.75 inches, full sheet 19.5 x 13...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
1937 original poster - Musée de la France d’Outremer et son Aquarium
Located in PARIS, FR
Designed in 1937 by Marcel Mouillot, this captivating poster invites viewers to visit the Musée de la France d’Outremer et son Aquarium at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris. Crea...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Linen, Lithograph, Paper
Antique American Signed Winter Impressionist Roxbury Boston Town Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist winter cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 20 by 24 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone. In excellent original cond...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm.
Authentified by her son Charles Delaunay on the back.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1930s Art
Original Vintage Poster for New York World's Fair 1939 by Staehle in large forma
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This striking original vintage poster was created by John Atherton Staehle (1906–1963) for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The fair, held at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, N...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Art Deco travel poster by Swiss artist Vera Hirzel - Lausanne - Ouchy, Suisse
Located in PARIS, FR
This elegant Art Deco travel poster by Swiss artist Vera Hirzel, dating from around 1935, invites viewers to explore the charm and heritage of Lausanne and...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper, Linen
English Newlyn school Impressionist Fishermen sorting fish in Mevagissey Harbour
Located in Woodbury, CT
Roland Fisher
“Fishermen in Mevagissey Harbour”, circa 1930
Oil on canvas Signed lower right
This compelling maritime scene by Roland Fisher captures a moment of industrious calm a...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Panther sniffing
Located in PARIS, FR
Panther sniffing
by Georges GUYOT (1885-1972)
Rare sculpture in bronze with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed on the base " Guyot "
Cast by " Susse Frères Editeurs Paris " (with the foundry mark)
France
circa 1935
height 33,5 cm
length 49 cm
depth 12 cm
Biography :
Georges Lucien Guyot (1885-1973) known as Georges Guyot was a French animal artist. From an early age, he showed artistic abilities, but the modest conditions of his parents did not allow him to study art. He was doing his apprenticeship with a woodcarver. Guyot then excelled at copying works of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but soon he showed a special attraction for nature. This attraction led him to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris where he could study wild animals and translated his observations into sculpture and painting.
As a famous figure of Montmartre, he was the host of the Bateau-Lavoir from the time of Cubism. In 1931, Georges Guyot joined the group of "The Twelve", created by François Pompon and Jane Poupelet, gathering sculptors like Marcel Lémar, Paul Jouve, André Margat, Jean-Claude de Saint-Marceaux, Georges Hilbert, or even the painter Adrienne Jouclard...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Bronze
Charis Nude, 1934
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by Edward Weston's son Cole Weston. Stamped and signed on verso.
Framed with a grey mat and black wood frame. I have inspected the photograph and it is in pristine cond...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$3,500 Sale Price
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Original Lisieux Centre Mondial de Pelerinage (pilgrimage) vintage French poster
By Fred Money
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed Lisieux travel poster, printed by the French State Railways. Centre Mondial de Pèlerinage. Archival linen-backed and in very fine condition, ready for framing. Artist: Fred...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Offset
1933 original movie poster for "Il était une fois" (Once Upon a Time) - Cinema
Located in PARIS, FR
the 1933 original poster for "Il était une fois" (Once Upon a Time) stands as a captivating introduction to a timeless story of transformation and re...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
'Still Life with Imari Bowl', Paris, Post-Impressionist Oil, Royal Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Still Life with Imari Bowl' by Victor Isbrand.
Paris, Post-Impressionist Oil, Royal Academy
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Signed upper right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and painte...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude "odalisque Aux Pantins" Belgian Modern School By Georges Brasseur 1930
Located in Gavere, BE
"Nude "odalisque Aux Pantins" Belgian Modern School By Georges Brasseur 1930"
Georges BRASSEUR was an artist born in Belgium in 1880 and died in 1950....
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
20th Century Impressionist Style Painting of Le Havre by Binet
Located in London, GB
20th century Impressionist style painting of Le Havre by Binet
French, 1934
Canvas: Height 98cm, width 147cm
Frame: Height 126cm, width 174cm, depth 8cm
A luminous celebration of light, leisure, and local identity, this painting is a superb example of Georges Jules Ernest Binet...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$30,305 Sale Price
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Vernal Fall from Lady Franklin Rock, Yosemite
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This early silver gelatin print on semi-matte paper with margins was likely printed in the 1930s. This is an extremely rare variant of an image published in "The Four Seasons of Yose...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Maquette right panel...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Post Impressionist Lithograh entitled “LE HAVRE” by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New York, NY
This losely rendered and highly narrative Post Impressionist Lithograh entitled “LE HAVRE” by Raoul Dufy originates from France, Circa 1930. A striking composition, this lithograph f...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original poster, by Pierre Commarmond - Saint-Germain-En-Laye - Railway
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster, with the magnificent colors, realized by Pierre Commarmond 🇫🇷 (1897-1983) who was a French painter and poster designer.
He notably realized numerous posters for t...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
The Pink Bonnet - Scottish art oil pastel portrait painting of artist's wife
Located in Hagley, England
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...
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
La Voix Humaine
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
" Femme de profil au téléphone " .pen , India ink and wash paper . signed Jean and dated .
executed in 1930 . original drawing certified by Madame Annie Guedras .
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
India Ink
Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet in Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'The Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, Paris', gouache on art paper by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). In Paris' 5th Arrondissement the site in which Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet is ...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Landscape - Drawing by Ardengo Soffici - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by Ardengo Soffici in 1930s.
Pencil on paper.
Hand signed lower right.
Includes frame.
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
BENKEI BRIDGE
By Tsuchiya Koitsu
Located in Portland, ME
Koitsu, Tsuchiya (Japanese, 1870-1949). BENKEI BRIDGE. Color Woodblock, 1933. Printed signature and other information in the margins left and right. Vertical Oban. 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 inc...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Sunflower Floral Arrangement - French 1930's Art Deco flower oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This vibrant French Art Deco floral oil painting is by noted French artist Jacques Emile Blanche. Painted circa 1930, the palette is of wonderful tones of yellow and orange with spla...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Tattoo Parlor Sailor (WPA era woman artist)
By Helen Malta
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Helen Malta (b.1912). Tattoo Parlor, ca. 1935. Oil on canvas, 20 x 33 inches. Signed lower right. Metropolitan Museum of Art reproduction rights stamp on r...
Category
Abstract 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
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'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Antique American Impressionist Sailboat Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 26 by 30 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone. In excellent original conditio...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting Framed, Signed
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5149 Antique French Impressionist oil painting landscape
Signed lower left
Image size
22x18"
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
'Four Women' from the suite 'The Beggar's Opera'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Mariette Lydis, 'Four Women' from the suite 'The Beggar's Opera', lithograph, edition unknown but small, 1937. Signed in pencil; initialed in the stone, low...
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Leonard Pytlak, (Industrial Landscape, New York City)
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed and number in pencil. It is numbered 18/18 indicating there were 18 impressions of this subject printed.
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Femme au Chapeau, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Frog - Drawing in pencil by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is a drawing in pencil realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934)
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes.
Emmanuel Gondouin is a French Cubist...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Pencil
Water tower
Located in Genève, GE
Work on panel
Golden wooden frame
41 x 51.5 x 4.5 cm
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Sunset on the Coast - Early 20th Century Italian Seascape Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1930's Italian oil on canvas depicting sunset on the coast with sailing boats and figures on the shore, by Luigi Salvi.
Excellent quality and condition work, signed lowe...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Ledge
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 – 1976) The Ledge, by 1931, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 32 1/8 x 50 1/8 inches, exhibited: 1) 44th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings & Sculptur...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco : The Palm Tree under the Sun, 1933 - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques Camus
The Palm Tree under the Sun, 1933
Original lithograph and stencil
Unsigned
On paper 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4 inch)
INFORMATION : This lithograph is part of the "Idé...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
"Motif aus Improvisation 25: The Garden of Love" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 105. Printed in Paris in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 3). Image size: 8 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (217 x 220 mm). Sh...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
On the Road near Paris 1930, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique, original silver gelatin black and white photograph. A family on the road near Paris, France, circa 1930. The car in the background is a Renault KZ.
Features:
Original Silv...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
English Impressionist still life of flowers, Poppies or Peonies in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderfully painted early 20th century English still life of flowers.
The artist has painted these flowers in an Impressionist manner but with the traditional use of layers and lay...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
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Woman and Child, Early 20th Century Ceramic, Female Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1903-1977)
Woman and Child, c. 1935
Glazed stoneware, painted plaster
14 x 7 x 5.875 inches
Thelma Frazier Wint...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Stoneware, Plaster, Glaze
La Maison Tellier - Vintage Rare Book Illustrated after Edgar Degas - 1934
By Edgar Degas
Located in Roma, IT
La Maison Tellier is an original modern rare book illustrated by Edgar Degas (Paris, 1834 – Paris, 1917) and written by Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (Tourville-sur-Arques, 185...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Figurative Picasso Etching, 'Minotaure Endormi Contemplé Par Une Femme', 1933
Located in New York, NY
"Minotaure Endormi Contemplé Par Une Femme" (1933) is a striking and emotionally charged work by Pablo Picasso, capturing the artist’s complex engagement with mythology, surrealism, ...
Category
Cubist 1930s Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
$28,000 Sale Price
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Thomas Hart Benton Original Lithograph, 1939 - "Shallow Creek"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original stone lithograph by well-known Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975).
Titled: "Shallow Creek.” The print has full margins and is in excellent condition.
AAA print creat...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
'Laguna Cove' — American Modernism, California
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Laguna Cove', wood engraving, 1935; edition 60 (16 printed), 2nd edition 150 (6 printed), Woodcut Society 200, Wien 247. Signed and titled in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (3/4 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
This impression is from the edition published for the Twentieth Presentation Print of the Woodcut Society, 1941. Printed by Torch Press, Cedar Rapids.
Literature: Reproduced in 'James Swann...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
" Nijinsky " dans Shéhérazade . certified .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 )
Nijinsky dancer in Shéhérazade .
circa 1930 .
dessin original encre de chine et crayon .
certificat Madame Annie Guedras N° 6668 D
dessin : 27 x 21 c...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Archival Paper
"Le Rugby" pochoir for Les Joies du Sport
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir. Printed in Paris in 1932 on Velin du Marais paper at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet for the Les Joies du Sport portfolio and issued in an edition of 750. This was pub...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Mainbocher Corset
Located in New York, NY
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil with artist's copyright stamp on verso, blind-stamped on recto. Includes black frame.
Taken on August 11, 1939, this is Horst's most recognizable...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Sea And Sky' — 1930s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Sea and Sky', wood engraving, edition 150, 1931 (published 1932). A brilliant, richly-inked impression on cream wove Japan; the full sheet with margins (2 to 2 1/2 in...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932
Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow)
Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist
Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699
Provenance:
Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame
Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil Crayon
Vogue Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
"Mademoiselle X" story illustration
for Vogue February 1, 1934, watercolor and ink, reverse signed in pencil "Benito for Madame X," pencil inscription "Feb.1, 1934 / Page 51 / 316," ...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor