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Period: 1930s
Portrait of Molly in Red Beret - British thirties Art Deco portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This striking Art Deco portrait oil painting is by female artist Jolan Polatschek Williams. Williams was born in Austria but settled in England in the 1920's where she remained. Pain...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
The Lady and the Jester - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The revelation is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi(Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by L...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Notre Dame de Paris II
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Notre Dame de Paris II', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). One of two paintings of Notre Dame by this artist held by our gallery, it is also an absolutely charming and now, historic depiction from the 1930s, of the most famous cathedral in France. This version uses more exaggerated brushstrokes with strong colours attesting to its expressionist roots. Notre Dame is one of the most widely recognised symbols of the city of Paris and the French nation. As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame contains the cathedra of the Archbishop of Paris. Approximately 12 million people visit Notre-Dame annually, making it the most visited monument in the city. While undergoing renovation and restoration, the roof of Notre-Dame caught fire on the evening of 15 April 2019. Burning for around 15 hours, the cathedral sustained serious damage. The government of France hopes the reconstruction can be completed by Spring 2024, in time for the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Unlike the actual cathedral, this artwork is in good condition, is newly framed and glazed and signed by the artist in the lower right hand corner. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Summer Vacation, The Saturday Evening Post cover study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Study for the Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, June 30th, 1934
LITERATURE:
C.D.B. Bryan, Mort Walker and the Art of Illustration, Architectural Digest, July 1988, ...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Composition, Le Livre Blanc, Jean Cocteau
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil with hand coloring on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Le Livre blanc, précédé d'u...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Jones & Laughlin Mills (Untitled)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jones & Laughlin Mills (Untitled), 1934, oil on panel, signed lower right, 20 x 24 inches, signed and dated August, 1934 verso, inscribed "Miss Perry" verso, nails from old exhibitio...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
original etching
By John Sloan
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Executed by John Sloan to illustrate the Somerset Maugham classic "Of Human Bondage" and published in 1938 in a limited edition of 1500 by the Yale Universi...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Portrait of Old Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized in 1930s.
Painted on both sides, recto and verso.
Good condition.
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
"In the Forest" Aquatint - Mid Century Engraving Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming vintage Aquatint/etching titled "In the Forest" from the Paris Etching Society by French artist Pierre Maulin (France, late 19th-early 20th Cent...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Engraving, Aquatint
$186 Sale Price
25% Off
Three Nudes - Original Lithograph (Morance, 1938)
By Le Corbusier
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
Three Nudes, 1938
Original lithograph
Signature printed in the plate
Dated in the plate
On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch)
Very good condition, pa...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dandy
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Our Gallery acquired the estate of a Northern California artist, Thelma Terrell. Terrell lived in Oakland and was an illustrator and profes...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Asie (Asia) from the series Atlas — Atelier 17
By Joseph Hecht
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Joseph Hecht, 'Asie (Asia) from the series Atlas', engraving, 1928, edition c. 50, Tonneau-Ryckelynck & Plumart 162. Signed and annotated 'epreuve definitive' (final proof) in pencil...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Engraving
Les Champs-Élysées, Place de la Concorde, A La gloire à Paris, Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Renaissance Man Carved and Polychromed Plaque
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
A Renaissance man,circa 1930's polychrome painting on a wood plaque .
Artist unknown
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Women entering spa resort at Cannstatt, Stuttgart Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Black and White
'Mural Study: Lower Manhattan' — WPA Era Precisionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Mural Study: Lower Manhattan', lithograph, edition 10 or fewer, 1936. Flint 135. Signed and dated in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right.
A fine, richly-inked...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Circa 1930 original travel poster by Leonard Richmond for Venice
Located in PARIS, FR
The circa 1930 original poster by Leonard Richmond for "Glorious Holidays Abroad: Venice" is an evocative representation of interwar travel, promoting Venice as a dream destination f...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Linen, Lithograph, Paper
Nude - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on board
Not signed.
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Paint
Downtown New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Downtown New York, c. 1930s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 10 x 12 inches; label verso reads: "Harry Dix / Title Downtown New York / Medium Oil"
Harry Dix was a 20th-century p...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Construction & Garment Worker, WPA Bronze by Robert Cronbach
By Robert Cronbach
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Cronbach, American (1908 - 2001)
Title: Construction & Garment Worker
Year: 1938
Medium: Bronze sculpture with Brown Patina, signature and date in the cast
Size: 18 ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Bronze
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Parc des Buttes-Chaumont' in Paris, gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). A charming depiction of well turned out Parisians enjoying a day at the park. Boaters, strollers and swans all co-mingle around the peaceful lake. The reflection of the rocky bluff in the water is superbly treated by Génin. It's a cheerful and uplifting image of days-gone-by in 1930s Paris.
The park takes its name from the 'bare hill' (chauve-mont) that once occupied the site. It became a place where gypsum was mined, and where the limestone was quarried to be used in buildings in Paris and the United States. Worse, though, it was a site that also became a dumping ground. Luckily, during the 19th-century renovation of Paris under Napoleon III, chauve-mont was chosen as a place for a large park, as part of the emperor's fascination with endowing Paris with green spaces.
The artificial lake created at that time wraps around a hilly central island. The lake attracts waterfowl and other birds and is stocked with fish. The 19th-century planners cleaned up the site and added tons of soil to fill the pits left by a limestone mining operation. Then dynamite was used to "sculpt" the site into the craggy shapes seen today, including the 50-metre-high central hill with cliffs, an interior grotto, pinnacles, and arches. Up on top, overlooking the rest of the park - and depicted in this artwork - is a small, round belvedere, based on the Roman Temple of Vesta in Italy. From that spot you can see a lovely view of Montmartre and the white cupolas of the Sacre-Coeur. The painting is in very good condition. It has been newly framed and glazed with museum-quality glass (anti-reflective and UV protection) to preserve this significant artwork for decades to come.
Dimensions with frame:
H 62 cm / 24.4"
W 76 cm / 29.9"
Dimensions without frame:
H 48.5 cm / 19.1"
W 63 cm / 24.8"
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Family - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Family is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La ...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$167 Sale Price
30% Off
Original vintage poster Tentez Votre Chance Loterie Nationale art deco litho
Located in Spokane, WA
Tentez Votre Chance Loterie Nationale original antique French art deco poster; image created by artist Francois del Ry. "Try Your Luck National Lottery." This is a small format size...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Monaca - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
La Monaca is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Fo...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Reclining Woman)
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1933 watercolor of a reclining woman in a red dress, by Malvin Marr Albright (Zsissily), the identical twin of artist Ivan Albright and son of artist Adam Le Lorraine Albright. Im...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Paper
$850 Sale Price
29% Off
Taxco, Mexico - 1930's Figurative Village Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A vintage watercolor capturing a daily scene in the Spanish colonial town of Taxco, Mexico by Theodore Ernest Langguth (German-American, 1861-1952). Titled, dated and signed lower ma...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
$552 Sale Price
35% Off
Exquisite ca. 1935 American Precisionist Painting of a Yellow Rose by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Chicago, IL
An exquisite ca. 1935 American Precisionist Painting of a Yellow Rose by Harry Lane. Image size: 13" x 9 1/2". Framed Size: 20 1/2" x 17 1/2"...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Pacific Grove Moonlight, Mid Century Nocturnal Coastal Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
"Pacific Grove Moonlight", a striking and unique mid-century nocturnal landscape of the moon rising over the ocean as seen through trees on a beach, attributed to and in the style of...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Antique American Impressionist Tropical Nassau Bahamas Seascape Sailboat
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape oil painting by Ralph Von Lehmden (Born 1908). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 15 by 22 inches overall and 13 by 20 painting alone.
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage French Watercolor Painting - Village de Provence
By Jean Lambert
Located in Houston, TX
Charming watercolor landscape painting of an arched stone entrance to a small village in Provence, France by artist Jean Lambert, circa 1940. Signed low...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Hippo" Paul Sample, Regionalist, Atmospheric Circus Performers and Aminal Scene
By Paul Sample
Located in New York, NY
Paul Sample
Hippo
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Provenance
Chidsey Collection
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1980)
Sample's attempt to impose a T...
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Trinity Church, Wall Street”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel on archival paper by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. The painting depicts Trinity Church with several of the more contemporary buildings of Wall Stre...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Action de Vin sur Le Moral (How Wine Affects the Morale)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”. -Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy’s depictions for an instant charmer of a "medical book" illustrates the myriad benefits of wine, while being sp...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Dame Ovale - Vintage Rare Book Illustrated by Max Ernst - 1934
By Max Ernst
Located in Roma, IT
La Dame Ovale is an original modern rare book written by Mary Leonora Carrington (Chorley, Lancashire 1917 – Mexico City, 2011) and illustrated by Max Ernst (1891 - 1976) in 1934.
Original edition.
Published by GLM, Paris.
535 numbered copies.
Format: small 8°.
Seven full page collages.
Unnumbered pages.
Good conditions.
Max Ernst in 1934. Originally a Dada activist in Germany, Max Ernst (1891 - 1976) became one of the early adherents of the Surrealist circle. As a child living in a small community near Cologne, Ernst had considered his existence incredible and full of wonders. In autobiographical transcripts, written mostly in the third person, he said of his birth: “Max Ernst had his first contact with the world of sense on the 2nd April 1891 at 9:45 a.m., when he emerged from the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle’s nest and which the bird had incubated for seven years”. Ernst’s service in the German army during World War I swept away his early success as an Expressionist. In his own words: “Max Ernst died on 1st August 1914. He returned to life on 11th November 1918, a young man who wanted to become a magician and find the central myth of his age. From time to time he consulted the eagle which had guarded the egg of his prenatal existence. The bird’s advice can be detected in his work”.
Mary Leonora Carrington (Chorley, Lancashire 1917 – Mexico City, 2011). Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
In 1936 Leonora saw the work of the German surrealist...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
La Femme Visible
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: La Femme Visible
MEDIUM: original Heliogravure - Etching in the book titled "La Femme Visible"
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali on the frontispie...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Composition, Picasso 1930-1935, Cahiers d'Art (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Picasso 1930-1935, 1936. Published and printed by Éditions des Cahiers d'Art, Pa...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
My Self
Located in West Hollywood, CA
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...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Christopher Street (abstract Greenwich Village cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC
Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition.
From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings.
De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium"
Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village.
Early Life
De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website.
At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers.
As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later.
In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno).
Artistic career
In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting.
Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe.
Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound
During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter.
In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa.
Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that:
the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment.
Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow."
It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day.
In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel.
Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings.
While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends."
Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York.
With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting.
In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works.
In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation.
"The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit]
Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond.
To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness."
He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller.
Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance.
The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation.
The writer and television personality Alexander King said
I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean.
King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets."
Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler.
Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
$6,000 Sale Price
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Circa 1930 Art Deco poster by the renowned French graphic artist Jean Carlu
By Jean Carlu
Located in PARIS, FR
This circa 1930 Art Deco poster, designed by the renowned French graphic artist Jean Carlu, captures the modernist spirit and technical innovation of the Théâtre Pigalle. Located in ...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
“Summer Sailing”
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful double sided oil on heavy fiber board paintings done by the well known North Fork Peconic Bay artist Caroline Bell. The coastal sailing painting is signed lower left. The haystack painting verso is signed in pencil lower right. The sailing painting is in good condition; the haystack painting is in good condition. Both done circa 1930. In a period but not original gold leaf over wood frame. Framed measurements are 19 by 23.75 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate.
(1874-1970)
Caroline Bell was the leader of a group of artists known as the Peconic Bay Impressionists...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,880 Sale Price
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Saint Tropez Latitude43 Art Deco 1936 Original Poster Côte d'Azur French Riviera
Located in PARIS, FR
Latitude 43 was designed by the avant-garde architect Georges-Henri Pingusson. The building, listed as a historical monument in 1992, is a reference in ter...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
La Promenade en Bateau - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1930s
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
La Promenade en Bateau is an original modern artwork realized by Raoul Dufy in 1930s
Original Lithograph.
Good conditions.
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) He was a French artist and design...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Seine - 1930's French Impressionist Oil on Canvas Paris River City Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “The Bride” collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #30, Brautzug; multi-color collotype after unfinished 1917/18 painting in oil on canvas.
Painted in the last months of Klimt’s life, The Bride was one...
Category
Vienna Secession 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Reclined Nude - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude with Parrot is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Oil on canvas
Beautiful and representative artwork depicting a reclin...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Combat pour Andromède entre Persée et Phinée - From "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"
Located in Roma, IT
Etching from the portfolio "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"publised by Skira in Lausanne, in 1930.
On Arches paper.
Printed by Louis Fort, Paris.
Catalogue Bloch Vol. I n. 108.
Edition of...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Paris la Bourse
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Paris, la Bourse', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Created at the beginning of the 19th century by Napoleon, la Bourse, or the Stock Exchange, was intended to assert and encourage France’s prosperity in industry and trade. In 1826 the Stock Exchange was installed in the palace that the architect Brongniart had begun in 1808. Surrounded by a large peristyle of Corinthian columns, the rectangular structure reflects the official neo-classicism of the Empire Period. The artist, Génin, depicts a typically lively 1930s day in front of the building with cars of the period zooming by pedestrians on the walkway and others on the stairs leading to the entrance. He has an extremely charming, almost childlike style particularly the way he renders the people and the vehicles. The building, on the other hand, is accurate in its detail and more seriously presented. Our gallery has held and has sold over a dozen of Genin's paintings but this one stands out for its pure stylish appeal and ability to captivate while inducing a smile in the viewer. The artwork is in good overall condition - there are some minor blemishes not on the artwork itself but on the edges of the mount to which it is attached. The frame is in fair condition showing some nicks and scratches. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request a video can be provided. Signed by the artist in the lower right hand.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Gouache
Black Broadway Street Dancers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful WPA era NYC street scene by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Jiggers on Broadway, ca. 1935. Lithograph on paper, image measures 9 x 13 inches. Full sheet measuring 11...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Verdi' — American Modernism - Italian Opera Composer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Verdi', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60, (only 14 printed), Wien 188. Signed, titled, and numbered '10/60' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream, laid Japan paper, ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait of Woman - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and representative artwork of a female...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Hebrew School, Judaica Oil Painting by Bernd Werner
By Bernd Werner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bernd Werner
Title: Hebrew School
Year: circa 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 10.5 x 12.5 in. (26.67 x 31.75 cm)
Frame Size: 14 x 16 inches
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Philip Evergood American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Still Life Interior
Located in New York, NY
Interior with Man at Table American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Painting
Philip Evergood (1901 - 1973) Untitled (Interior with Man at ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Discussion
Located in London, GB
In this charming regionalist lithograph, Benton captures a classic Midwestern American scene: two men talking, drinking, and smoking together in a bar. Titled 'Discussion', the artwo...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rainy Day / Fifth Avenue in New York
By Levon West
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare New York image by Levon West
Levon West, who also used the name Ivan Dimitri, was born on February 3, 1900 in Centerville, North Dakota. ...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,200 Sale Price
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"Flowers in Vase with Handles, " Pastel on Paperboard signed by F. Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Flowers in Vase with Handles" is an original pastel drawing on paperboard by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This drawing depicts a bouquet of wa...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Board
Flood of the Seine River in Paris, 1930s, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare, unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Agence Meurisse, Paris, circa 1930. The flood of the Seine River at Port de la Tournelle.
Features:
Original silv...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Man In His Search for God, 1939 WPA Era Original Grey Scale Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This striking vintage 1939 original painting, titled Man In His Search for God, is a powerful piece from Charles Bunnell’s renowned Black and Blue Series. The artwork is painted in i...
Category
Futurist 1930s Art
Materials
Gouache
Studio Stove, Colorful Cubist Oil painting, Cleveland School female artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
My Studio Stove, 1936
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right, titled verso
23.5 x 19.5 inches
29.75 x 25.5 inches, f...
Category
Cubist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
"Adventures in Literature" Figurative 1930's Illustration art
Located in Soquel, CA
A wonderful original figure painting for a 1930's illustration by Charles Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). A woman in a plaid green skirt and mustard yel...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
"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...
Category
Performance 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite