1930s Art

A post impressionist Paris School landscape, possibly of Corsica, by Belgian Artist Charles Kvapil. The painting is signed and dated bottom left. Presented in fine carved and gilt Mo...

Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953) The Comedy Bronze sculpture with black patina signed on the base "P. Poisson" Cast by Valsuani (with the foundry stamp) Raised on a stone base Fra...

Original vintage Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933) poster - Scottish Oat Harvest - featuring artwork by George Houston (1869-1947) depicting hay bales in a field with the wheat ...

Original vintage travel poster advertising Magyar Kir. Folyam-es Tengerhajozasi R.T. Turista-Es udulo Hajojaratok a Dunan / Hungarian Ex. River and sea navigation R.T. tourist and re...

Fabulously fun, mixed media painting, probably done during the WPA period. Mostly oil with a little bit of collage of the music notes. It is painted on cardboard or very thick paper....

Original vintage travel poster advertising Yeoward Line Sunshine Cruises to Lisbon Madeira Canary Islands featuring an ocean liner at sea sailing towards the viewer on the blue water...

Original vintage advertising poster for the Open Air Plays in Szeged Hungary from 28 July to 15 August 1939 including Aida The Tragedy of Man Hungarian Passion Play Byzantium Turando...

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. 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...

Rare original vintage Guinness advertising poster - Bottle Royal Guinness Is Good For You - featuring a fun Alice in Wonderland themed illustration by the notable artist John Gilroy ...

Paper Size: 16.25 x 13 inches ( 41.275 x 33.02 cm ) Image Size: 11 x 7.75 inches ( 27.94 x 19.685 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling...

Original vintage advertising poster for Peugeot bicycles featuring a countryside scene depicting a young boy showing off his shiny new Peugeot bike with Dunlop tyres to a man in a bl...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Puszta Hongrie Hungary Ungarn Ungheria featuring a view of the the Great Hungarian Plain with a horse and rider holding up a whip on th...

Paper Size: 14 x 15.5 inches ( 35.56 x 39.37 cm ) Image Size: 8.75 x 10.25 inches ( 22.225 x 26.035 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handli...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Travel Luxuriously in the World's largest airliners Europe Africa India Far East Imperial Airways The Greatest Air Service in the World -...

Vintage country road landscape oil painting on wood by French artist, Albert Regagnon, it's from the 1930's and signed in the lower left corner. A woman walks down a country pathway...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Joshua and the stone of Sichem (Josué et la pierre de Sichem), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm ...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Joshua with the Angel with the sword (Josué devant l'ange à l'épée), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33...

Original vintage travel poster advertising A Winter Cruise by P&O on the Viceroy of India departing on 29 December 1933 on a 45 day trip visiting West Indies Rio de Janeiro Sierra Le...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Aaron and the Candle (Menorah), (Aaron et le chandelier), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 1...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Dance of Mary, sister of Moses, (Danse de Marie, sœur de Moïse), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 c...

La Petite Rivière Vezillon by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on board 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 ¹/₈ inches) Signed lower left, manzana. Pissarro Executed circa 1935 This work is...

This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Alfred Broge (1870-1955) depicts a gently-lit coastal view with boats. It’s a beautiful work with the setting sun, low in the sk...

"No Trespassing" is a 24 x 30 inches, New Hampshire autumn scene of two hunters walking with their dog through the woods. Painted by female, American Realist painter, Molly Luce, th...

"Harvest" is a 30 x 40 inches landscape with farm workers by female, American Realist painter, Molly Luce. The painting is signed Molly Luce in the lower right. "Harvest" was include...

Portrait of Albert Dubarry by Léon-Ernest DRIVIER (1878-1951) Bronze with a nuanced greenish dark brown patina signed "Drivier" cast by "Montagutelli, Paris, cire perdue" (with the ...

Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Titled ‘Death Valley’ with negative code on the back of mount. Negative cod DV-39C-9G. Edward Weston was the first photographer ever to wi...

An original antique watercolor painting by well listed Austrian artist Franz Weidinger. This work is signed and titled lower left and housed in a be...

After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #19, Bildnis einer alten Dame; sepia-toned monochrome collotype after the 1917 painting in oil on canvas. GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLI...

Boris Margo Cave Drama, 1938 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 22 x 30 inches Best known as a painter of surrealist imagery, Boris Margo was born in Wolotschisk, Ukraine, i...

Gwendolyn Collins was a wealthy painter who did most of work between 1922 - 1933. She lived in a Mount Street in Mayfair and did not join any art groups or societies. When her st...

Ink print on tracing paper, signed bottom right and entitled bottom left Image size: 6 x 8 inches (15.25 x 20.25 cm) Mounted Barnstaple is a river port town in North Devon. The anci...

Original vintage poster - Timber Stacking - issued by the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933) featuring artwork by the notable Burmese artist Ba Nyan (1897-1945) depicting a man r...

Original vintage skiing and winter sport train travel poster - Ski in Canada Canadian National Railways Powder snow Rolling hills Fast trails - featuring a colourful Art Deco design ...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Imperial Airways Luxury in the new Empire Flying-Boats to Europe Africa India China Australia - featuring colourful artwork of smartly dr...

The 1933 original poster by Jiri Kojina for "Vysoke Tatry Hohe Tatra Auf Urlaub in die Tschechoslowakei" captures the allure of the High Tatras in Czechoslovakia, inviting travelers ...

Original vintage poster - Rangoon Port - issued by the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933) featuring artwork by the notable Burmese artist Ba Nyan (1897-1945) depicting men rowing...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Imperial Airways Lunching in the Air! The most comfortable air line is Imperial Airways to Europe Africa Asia Australia - featuring a fli...

The 1932 original poster by Paul Iribe, titled "Emblême de notre race inspiration de nos poêtes - Champagne," is a captivating homage to the cultural heritage and artistic inspiratio...

Original vintage poster - Paddy Field Burmah - issued by the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933) featuring artwork by the notable Burmese artist Ba Nyan (1897-1945) depicting farm...

The 1939 original poster by Paul Colin delivers a powerful message with its simple yet striking design. Bearing the inscription "Silence, l'ennemi guette vos confidences," which tran...

The original poster from Uzbekistan encourages farmers to engage in sericulture, highlighting the potential for increased income on their farms. Through its simple yet powerful messa...

After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plates #13-16, black & white collotypes after the 1911 cartoon originally in crayon, graphite pencil, gouache and metal powders. #13 Der Lebensbaum (An...

The 1932 original poster by Paul Iribe, titled "Fierté Française Champagne" exudes the essence of French pride and elegance. Crafted during the height of the Art Deco movement, this ...

The 1932 original poster by Paul Iribe, titled "Baptêmes Champagne," encapsulates the spirit of celebration and luxury associated with the world of champagne. Created during the gold...

The 1930 original poster by Francis Bernard for the VIIe Salon des Arts Ménagers is a remarkable testament to the intersection of art, design, and domesticity. Created during a perio...

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 ...

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 ...

Old charcoal drawing on paper " nude lady with cigarette " Italian school 2Oth This exceptionally beautiful charcoal drawing sits in a brand new frame, and sealed under the authenti...

Deux nus Dansant Fernand Leger, French (1881–1955) Date: circa 1932 Drypoint Etching Image Size: 8.5 x 7.5 inches Size: 14.75 x 11 in. (37.47 x 27.94 cm) From the collection of the l...

Exquisite floral still life of wild meadow flowers by Anna Westphal (Denmark, 1858-1950). Signed "A. Westphal" and dated "1937" lower right. Presented in...

Although the title 'Lobster Fleet' calls to mind numerous vessels at sea in a single spot (and there's a group in the distance), in fact the print features a lone fisherman in a smal...

Original vintage poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933): Herring Drifters In The North Sea featuring stunning artwork by the British painter, illustrator and pos...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Imperial Airways The British Air Line Travel in perfect comfort by the largest air liners in the World to Europe Africa India and the Eas...

Original vintage railway travel poster for Devon issued by Great Western Railway GWR featuring a great illustration by the notable British poster artist Frank Sherwin (1896-1996) of ...

Dramatic, monumental oil painting laid to Masonite by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959). Painter, illustrator and muralist, Harding was born in Philadelphia. He studied at the Pyle...

Beautifully vivid early 20th century Pebble Beach, Carmel landscape. Signed illegibly lower right. Condition: Good. Presented in vintage frame with new mat. Image size: 7"H x 10"W.

Jozef Popczyk Cubist Art Deco Painting Music Group oil on canvas. Joseph Popczyk Polish artist known for his vivid palette and love of Cubism, and in ...

After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #29, Am Attersee; brown-toned monochrome collotype after the 1915-16 painting in oil on canvas. GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN AFTE...