1930s Art

The Reading Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. ...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) Hesiod's theogony : Gaia & Ouranos Original etching, 1932 Hand signed in pencil Numbered /50 copies On Hollande vellum size 49 x 38.5 cm (c. 19 x 15 in) P...

Joseph Delaney Nude with Hand on Hip Leaning Against Chair, circa 1935 Signed lower right Watercolor on paper Sight 12 x 8 inches Provenance: Sacks Fine Art, New York Private Collection, New York African-American artist Joseph Delaney was a folk-expressionist painter who loved New York City, both as a subject for painting and the spectacle and experience of ever-changing life and vitality. Of the city, he said: "The curtain goes up on the stage of life every time we walk into the street. In spite of New York's being the most congested city I have been in, and know about, by and large, it's just people on the move. I have enjoyed more than I can say seeing people and hearing them speak about things they love and enjoy." Delaney, the son of a Methodist minister, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1904, the ninth of ten children. It was in church that Delaney and his older brother, Beauford, began to express their art talent by drawing on Sunday School cards. He attended school there, leaving the Knoxville Colored High School at the end of the ninth grade. The next few years were spent doing odd jobs around town (caddy at the Cherokee Country Club, bell hop at the Farragut Hotel) until leaving for Chicago around 1924, where he served three years with the National Guard. He returned to Knoxville in 1929, selling insurance and helping found the city's first black Boy Scout unit. In 1930, Delaney went to New York City, studying at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton, George Bridgman and Alexander Brooke. Other students there at the time included Jackson Pollock, Henry Stair, and Bruce Mitchell. In 1932, he exhibited in the first Washington Square Outdoor Art Show. He would continue to do so for the next forty years, working as a sketch artist there, drawing such celebrities as Eartha Kitt, Arlene Francis, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Tallulah Bankhead. Delaney would spend fifty-six years living and painting in the area of lower Manhattan, SoHo and Union Square. From 1934-1940, Delaney worked for the WPA (Works' Progress Administration) on projects in New York City including the Index of Design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pier 72 mural, and the Story of the Recorded Word mural at the Public Library. He also taught at Harlem and Brooklyn settlement houses and the Art Students League while exhibiting his paintings in his studio, art galleries and other exhibitions. In 1942, Delaney received a Julius Rosenwald grant of $1200.00 to travel, sketch and later paint the Eastern seaboard. In 1964, he was a sketch artist for the New Orleans exhibit and later the Ghana exhibit at the New York City World's Fair. From 1978-1980, he worked for CETA, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, as an artist in residence at the Henry Street Settlement. In 1979, Delaney's brother, Beauford, died in Paris at St. Anne's Hospital, an insane asylum. Delaney paid over $6,000 to the French government for taxes, storage, and shipping, to have Beauford's art and personal effects shipped to the U.S. The University of Tennessee would figure strongly in Delaney's life. In 1970, the artist had an exhibition there, and his painting, "V-J Day, Times Square", was added to their collection. In 1986, the Ewing Gallery exhibited, "Joseph Delaney: A Retrospective," as part of the Homecoming '86 Festival. In that year, author Alex Haley...

'Portrait of the Nephew of the Artist', oil on canvas, by René Seyssaud (circa 1930s). Known for his use of vivid colours in his landscapes and depictions of workers in their fields,...

Rare original trio of drawings by Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) depicting: Virginia Gold Cup 1931/ Llangollen Farms 1932/ & National Horse Show 1932 Art Sz: 27 1/2"H x 11 1/2"W Fr...

This charming British still life floral oil painting is by Herbert Davis Richter. Painted circa 1930 it is a vibrant and interesting arrangement of fuchsia and geraniums in a vase ne...

Original vintage train and air travel poster for Jersey Sunshine Sands Scenery featuring a colourful countryside painting by Leonard Richmond (1889-1965) showing people at the seasid...

“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 splashed by accompanying literature from a medical physician. However, his illustrations did not depict people drinking wine...

Signed oil on board landscape circa 1930 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a view of the River Seine at dusk. The moon sits low in the ...

Triptych of original drypoint etchings by Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) depicting: Grasslands 1930/ Wissahickon Cup 1930/ & Radnor 1931 Art Sz: 27"H x 11"W Frame Sz: 33 3/4"H x 17...

Nude is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s. Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner. Good conditions. Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1938 and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve (Volume 1, Number 3). Four artists were commissioned to contribute compositions...

The Reading Girl is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1939 Charcoal and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented ...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Quarry Workers, c. 1930s, mixed media on board, unsigned, 24 x 24 inches, possibly exhibited at...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) Hesiod's theogony : the divinity and the dove Original etching, 1932 Hand signed in pencil Numbered /50 copies On Hollande vellum size 49 x 38.5 cm (c. 19...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Factory Worker, c. 1936, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 18 ¼ x 36 inches; exhibited in City ...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Abstract Street (Untitled), 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 12 x 32 inches; provenance includes a private collection in Venice, California; presented in what is likely the artist's original handmade frame About the Painting The present work is the culmination of a series of mainly horizontal urban abstractions Harari completed between 1937 and 1939. Deeply influenced by Stuart Davis, Harari’s New York streetscapes began with clearly recognizable objects and landmarks as in Into New York (1937 - Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art), New York Harbor (1937), Up and Downtown (1938), and his other mural proposals for the Nurses Home on Welfare Island (1937) and the Williamsburg Housing Project (1938). At the end of the series, Harari’s vistas became increasingly abstract with broad planes of color representing buildings and streets, the slightest cross-hatching forming a bridge or elevated train track and the vague suggestion of a streetlight looping in the right center of the composition. Figures, birds, and a street vendor’s cart are reduced to pictograms scratched into the surface of the canvas. Abstract Street (Untitled) is among Harari’s most spare works of the 1930s and 1940s and calls to mind the seemingly childlike, but deeply sophisticated works of Paul Klee from the 1920s. It serves as an excellent reminder of why Harari was heralded as one of the earliest members of the American Abstract Artists. About the Artist Hananiah Harari was an artistic polyglot who was equally at home working in styles as diverse as Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Hard Edged Abstraction and trompe l’oeil Realism. A native of Rochester, New York, Harari initially studied as a child at the Memorial Art Gallery in his hometown and later as a scholarship student at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. In 1932, Harari left for Paris where he befriended Nahum Tschacbasov, Benjamin Benno and John Graham and studied at the ateliers of Lhote, Leger and Gromaire. He also studied fresco painting at the Ecole de Fresque. By 1933, Harari had completed enough work and gained a sufficient reputation to have a solo exhibition at the American Club in Paris. The following year, Harari and his childhood friend and fellow artist Herzl Emanuel traveled to Palestine, where the artists worked hard in the orchards and fields of Kibbutz Deganiah, but produced little art. After returning to New York, Harari married Emanuel’s sister, Freda, and set out on the development of what noted scholar Gail Stavitsky has called an “original synthesis of the old and new." Harari became an early member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), an organization formed to give modernists exhibition opportunities. Harari was also a member of the socially conscious Artist’s Union and the American Artist’s Congress. From 1936 through 1942, Harari worked on the Federal Art Project and assisted Marion Greenwood on a project as part of the Mural Division, but to his disappointment did not lead his own project. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Harari completed a series of paired paintings with the same subject matter depicted in a Cubist manner and in trompe l’oeil Realism. Harari was acclaimed by Clement Greenberg and six of the artist’s works were selected for the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1943 exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists. During World War II, Harari served in the US Army Air Corps. Following the war, Harari continued to produce fine art while also producing commercial art. During the McCarthy Era, Harari’s progressive politics and leftist leaning art...

Mlle. Jeanne at the Window, No. II Charcoal on paper, 1933 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Illustrated: Gustafson, Zimmerli Museum, 1988, "Benjamin Benno: A Retrospective Ex...

Signed impressionist landscape oil on canvas circa 1930 by French painter Antoine Bouvard Snr. The work depicts a gondolier sailing a gondola on a Venetian Canal. The last light of t...

This superb Royal Academy exhibited portrait oil painting is by British artist James Cleaver ARCA. It was painted in 1937 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1939 entitled 'Carolin...

This is a very pretty sanguine chalk drawing on paper of a young woman dated 1923 by Count Mario Grixoni. Executed by one of the leading artists of the day it is a very striking and...

Step into the enchanting world of vintage poster art, where Henry Lemonnier's 1937 masterpiece, "Demandez un Camembert Georges Bisson" (Ask for a Camemb...

Ex Libris is a colored woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed on the upper margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter and engrav...

EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS French, 1882 - 1969 PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right) oil on canvas 25-3/4 x 36-1/4 inches (65 x 91.5 cm.) framed: 33-1/2 x 44-1/4 inc...

Lon Megargee 1883-1960 "Self Portrait" Wood block print Signed in plate, lower right Image size: 15.63 x 12 inches Frame size xx x xx inches Creator of S...

Signed on Corner Story: “ Wolf Pass” by William Byron Red Book Magazine May 1930 # 1774 in the Catalogue Raisonne 2009

New York Night\Lithograph, 1930 Edition: 30 Printer: Meister Schulz, Berlin Printed on heavy wove paper without watermark This lithograph was created in...

Georges Henri FAUVEL Canvas Size: 17 x 21" (42.5cm x 52.5cm) Outside Frame Size: Born in 1890 in Havre (Seine-Maritime), France Painter of animals, especially hunting dogs- his b...

Work on cardboard

Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Classic b&w c1938 photo of four Culver Academy crew team members Photo Sz: 14 1/2"H x 9"W Frame Sz: 20"H x 14'W

The Atelier is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. Alb...

Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s. Ink on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. Alberto Z...

Stylish watercolour by E. Maury signed (LL) featuring two c1930s dapper gents strolling on the beach in smart French blue attire Art Sz: 17 1/2"H x 11 3/4"W Frame Sz: 18 1/2"H x 13...

The Night is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented through deft stroke...

Lower margin contains inked directive initialed by Rackham and numerous pencil indications as well as a rough thumbnail sketch of the end papers. A fascinating look into Rackham's ...

Up for sale gorgeous original Nautical oil painting on canvas, signed by the mysterious Artist "T. Bailey" (American, 19th/20th). The painting depicts a nautical scene. A classic d...

NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century Eugene Savage (1883 – 1978) 1939 World’s Fair Mural Study 45 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas Signed lower right The painting is part of a 1,000 piece collection of art and objects from the 1939 World’s Fair. The collection as a whole is available. Savage created the mural for the facade of the Communications Building. An image of the completed mural, along with a published postcard, is part of the listing. Note the center top female figure, she resembles the figure in the offered painting. BIO Eugene Francis Savage was born in Covington, Indiana 1883. He underwent various forms of art training in the early years. He was a pupil of The Corcoran Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, and was later awarded a fellowship to study in Rome at The American Academy. While under the spell of that ancient city the young artist began to render historic figures that were suitable for the classic style needed for mural painting in the traditional manor. During this period he was able to study and observe Roman and Greek sculpture, although much of the academic training was accomplished by using plaster casts along with the incorporation of live models. This method survived and was used efficiently throughout Europe and the United States. After leaving the Academy, Savage was commissioned to paint numerous murals throughout the United States and Europe. This artist received acclaim for the works he produced while under commissions from various sources. This young master was a contemporary of Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957). In this period he was to show the influence of his contemporaries in formulating a modern style. Savage also played a vital role in the WPA Federal Art program, and he was a member of The Mural Art Guild.. Savage was elected an associate member of The National Academy of Design in 1924 and a full member in 1926. From 1947, he held a professorship at Yale University where he taught mural painting, and some of his students went on to significant positions. By this time the artist had painted large-scale murals at Columbia, Yale University, Buffalo N.Y., Dallas, Texas, Chicago, Indiana, along with other commissioned works. He also achieved recognition for a series of murals commissioned by the Matson Shipping Line and completed around 1940. For this commission, Savage made many exacting studies of customs and folkways of the Hawaiian natives. However, the award-winning murals were not installed as planned but were put in storage during the war years when the ships were used for troop transportation and were in danger of attack. However the mural images were reproduced and distributed by the shipping company including nine of the mural scenes that were made into lithographed menu covers in 1948. The American Institute of Graphic Arts awarded certificates of excellence for their graphic production, and the Smithsonian Institute exhibited the works in 1949. Today Savages' Hawaiian Art production is held in high regard by collectors of Hawaiian nostalgia. In later years the artist focused his attention on a theme that dealt with the customs and tribal traditions of the Seminole Indians of Florida. He produced many variations of this theme throughout his lifetime, and the pictures were usually modest scale easel paintings, precise and carefully delineated. Many of these pictures incorporate Surrealistic elements and show some minor stylistic influences of the painters Kay Sage...

Ex Libris - Istvan Traurig is a Woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten. Signed on plate on back. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: cm 32x24 Good conditions. ...

The Lover is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly...

Original c1930s illustration art depicting a dapper gent & fashionable lady in evening attire together w/ verso pencil head studies Art Sz: 9"H x 7"W Frame Sz: 15"H x 13"W w/ gil...

Louis Schanker was an important early American modernist painter. He was best known for his work of the 30's and 40's done in a semi-abstract mode that was influenced by European m...

Medium: lithograph. Printed in 1939 and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve (Volume 1, Number 4). The image measures 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches (160 x 140 mm); the full s...

Primo Dolzan is an Italian painter born in Tezze Sul Brenta in Veneto. Painter of landscapes and still lifes. Exhibited at the Salon of Artists in Paris between 1933 and 1935. The p...

Original vintage sport poster - Werde mitglied im Deutschen Luftsport-Verband Flugtag in Bietigheim am Ostermontag auf dem Reitturnierplatz Segelflug das fundament der Deutschen luft...

This lovely Art Deco British Post-Impressionist floral oil painting is by noted and much exhibited female flower artist Theresa Norah Copnall. She studi...

Prayer is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1947 Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. A...

Resting Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes master...

The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented through deft ...

A fine and detailed Art Deco pencil, black, red and white chalk portrait of a young woman by Hubert Williams. The work dates to circa 1930 and is very skilful in its execution. A bea...

Classic b&w c1938 photo of four Culver Academy crew team members Photo Sz: 14 1/2"H x 9"W Frame Sz: 20"H x 14'W

Colourful pair of Chinese theatrical masked characters Fig. No. 123 (Cheng En) & Fig. No. 124 (Yang Chi-lang) from the folio Le Theatre Chinois published 1935 in Peking Art Sz: 9" x...

Joan Miró rejected the constraints of traditional painting, creating works “conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” as he once said. Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, though never officially part of the group, Miró pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism—a method of “random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon. “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music,” he said. While he prized artistic freedom, Miró revered art history, basing a series of works on the Dutch Baroque interiors of Hendrick Sorgh and Jan Steen. In turn, Miró has inspired many artists—significantly Arshile Gorky, whose bold linear abstractions proved a foundational influence on Abstract Expressionism. Spanish, 1893–1983, Barcelona, Spain, based in Paris and Catalonia, Spain. Details: Joan Miró "Boy with Red Sun" Linocut, 1938 Technique: Original linocut in colours on red Wove paper Publisher: First Edition published by San Lazzaro for XXe Siecle, Paris Image dimensions: 12.37 x 9.62 in (31.5 x 24.7 cm) Signed by the artist within...

Jean Launois (1898-1942) A North African landscape, A Port (Essaouira ?) signed lower right Watercolor on paper 14 x 41.5 cm Framed : 30 x 57 cm It is most likely a view of the por...

Students is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented through deft ...

The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink on paper Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. Alberto Ziveri...

This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Music (attributed), brass and wire construction, c. 1936, 28 x 14 x 5 inches; perhaps exhibited at Hollywood Riviera Gallery, 1936 (third prize); provenance includes Estate of Jon Spencer Helfen (Los Angeles, CA About the Sculpture In 1935, Philip Paval bought a box of metal in a “blind auction.” Paval, a painter, sculptor, and jeweler, had hoped the box contained silver. To his dismay, it was brass. Seeing an opportunity, Paval started to make sculptures from the brass sheets. His subjects included Cinema, Hollywood, Radio, Dance, Aviation and Music. The works were well-received with the Hollywood crowd and critically acclaimed. Actor and comedian, Ben Bard, purchased four of them for his theater, and novelist and screenwriter, Vicki Baum ordered four more for her drawing room. Movie director King Vidor also purchased them. Los Angeles Times art critic, Arthur Millier, described Paval’s “contraptions” as “ingenious, decorative, different.” Paval exhibited these works for several years in the late 1930s, including at the American Artists’ Congress Gallery in Los Angeles in an exhibition called Formalism and Abstraction in 1938 and at a solo show at Stendahl Galleries in 1939. The appeal of these works must have been irresistible, as a 1936 Los Angeles Times article noted, “Two feet of brass art has been stolen from the Hollywood Riviera Galleries. The work is an abstraction. It portrays the spirit of music and rested on the grand piano in the main hall. The work of Philip Paval, it won third prize in the current gallery exhibition at the gallery.” One can only wonder whether this is the “contraption” which was pilfered from the gallery nearly one hundred years ago. Given the description of the work, its subject matter and size, it seems likely. About the Artist Philip Paval was a sculptor, painter, and jeweler. Born in Denmark, Paval was apprenticed to a silversmith and studied art in Denmark. He immigrated to the US in 1919 and first worked as a merchant seaman in New York. The following year, Paval settled in Los Angeles where he later opened his own jewelry shop featuring works he designed and produced. Paval became a favorite in the entertainment world, making a good living selling silver...

Colour plate Fig. No.178 (Unfrocking an Emperor) from the 1935 folio Le Theatre Chinois published in Peking Art Sz: 9"H x 7"W Frame Sz: 14"H x 12"W