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Seaside houses by N. Busnelli - Oil on canvas 47x55 cm
Seaside houses by N. Busnelli - Oil on canvas 47x55 cm

Seaside houses by N. Busnelli - Oil on canvas 47x55 cm

Located in Geneva, CH

Oil on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 58x67 cm Signed N. Busnelli, artist unknown from the gallery Dated 1935

Category

Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil

Frank Sinatra "Selfie" in the Medicine Cabinet
Frank Sinatra "Selfie" in the Medicine Cabinet

Frank Sinatra "Selfie" in the Medicine Cabinet

By Frank Sinatra

Located in Chicago, IL

An early Self Portrait of Frank Sinatra circa late 1930s. At home in Hoboken, NJ. One of the earliest photos found in the family archive and perhaps, like in many things, Sinatra was...

Category

Contemporary 1930s Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée

"Animal Friends" by Fox Photos

"Animal Friends" by Fox Photos

Located in London, GB

"Animal Friends" by Fox Photos 15th July 1931: Two women in bathing suits share a snack with a couple of sea lions during a display in Paris. Unframed Pape...

Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Black and White

Ducks
Ducks

Ducks

Located in PARIS, FR

Ducks by Josette HEBERT-COEFFIN (1906-1973) Sculpture made in stone signed on the base "J. H. Coëffin" France circa 1930 height 10 cm width 16,5 cm depth 14,1 cm Biography : Jose...

Category

French School 1930s Art

Materials

Limestone

"Seine, berceau de Paris" original etching
"Seine, berceau de Paris" original etching

"Seine, berceau de Paris" original etching

By Jean Puy

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Category

1930s Art

Materials

Etching

The Ex Lady (1933) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

The Ex Lady (1933) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Located in London, GB

The Ex Lady (1933) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (photo by United Archives/ Alamy Archives) Directed by Robert Florey in 1933, BETTE DAVIS and GENE RAYMOND star in Ex Lady. Although ...

Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Evening by the Fire
Evening by the Fire

Evening by the Fire

By Haddon Hubbard Sundblom

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Magazine illustration for "Home for Lunch," published in Ladies' Home Journal, March 1940. Oil on canvas. 27 x 32 inches. Signed "Sundblom" in lower left image. Medium: Oil on Canva...

Category

Other Art Style 1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Relativity, Liberty Magazine Cover
Relativity, Liberty Magazine Cover

Relativity, Liberty Magazine Cover

By Leslie Thrasher

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published October 17, 1931. As Lil’s Aunt Ruby, a “social gadabout” and “blithe widow of many years’ standing” arrives at the Jenkins family home for a visit, Sandy tries to hide his irritation once he sees the massive amount of luggage she had in tow. Aunt Ruby shows off an enormous new diamond ring and coyly announces she is to be married that fall and that her new fiance would be arriving shortly. As Lil scrambles up some hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, Sandy hears a car pull up to the house and is shocked to discover that Aunt Ruby’s future husband is none other than Sandy’s boss! (Liberty magazine, October 17, 1931, p. 37) “For the Love o’ Lil: The Picture Story of an American Family” In 1926, under his long-term contract to produce a cover per week for Liberty magazine, Leslie Thrasher introduced a signature cast of characters that appeared each week, telling a serialized story through his illustrations. Liberty touted its new cover serial as “something no magazine has ever done before…Heretofore, all magazine cover...

Category

1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mediterranean Costal Town (South of France)
Mediterranean Costal Town (South of France)

Mediterranean Costal Town (South of France)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Charles Evans (1907-1992) Mediterranean Costal Town, 1932. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Sheet measures 8.5 x 10 inches; mounted in frame measuring 8.5 x 10 inches. Signed and dated lower left. Charles Evans was a modernist known for his abstract style of painting. He studied at New York's Art Students League and Parsons School of Design, and later in Paris with Fernand Lger at the Acadmie Moderne. In 1930, Evans and his wife spent a year living in what was Paul Cezanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence, France. The following year, Evans purchased the old silk mill in New Hope and became involved in the area's modernist movement, joining the Independents in 1932. By 1935, he began to work collaboratively with Louis Stone, whom he had met in 1929 while studying with Hans Hofman in Saint Tropez, and with Charles F. Ramsey, teaching art classes and working on the Cooperative Painting Project. Every week, the three were joined by the abstract painter, Lee Gatch, in discussions at Ledger's Inn in Lambertville. In 1948 Evans co-founded the New Hope Gazette with Walter M. Teller. The same year he created set designs for St. John Terrell's Lambertville Music Circus. He also designed sets for the Bucks County Playhouse and Philadelphia's Playhouse in the Park. He later served as Set Designer for the Fred Miller...

Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Whimsical Illustration "Snow" Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Whimsical Illustration "Snow" Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig

Whimsical Illustration "Snow" Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig

By William Steig (b.1907)

Located in Surfside, FL

Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country Snow Shoes signed "W. Steig" Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at...

Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board

Brittany Spaniel, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1931
Brittany Spaniel, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1931

Brittany Spaniel, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1931

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Category

Art Deco 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

'The Visitor' — Surrealist Fantasy
'The Visitor' — Surrealist Fantasy

'The Visitor' — Surrealist Fantasy

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Zena Kavin, 'The Visitor', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '9/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/...

Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

L' aéroplane de Papa

L' aéroplane de Papa

By Robert Doisneau

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Robert Doisneau 1912-1994 L' aéroplane de Papa, 1934 Signed in ink on recto; Titled and dated in ink on verso Gelatin silver print Image 9-1/2 x 12", Paper 12 x 6", Mat 16 x 20

Category

1930s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Suite Of 13 Sporting Cigarette Cards
Suite Of 13 Sporting Cigarette Cards

Suite Of 13 Sporting Cigarette Cards

Located in Bristol, CT

Suite of 13 cigarette cards depicting: Cricket/ Polo/ Fox-Hunting/ Crew, & Motorboat Racing c1930s Art Sz: 18"H x 17"W Frame Sz: 19"H x 18'W

Category

1930s Art

Materials

Cardboard

From a Balcony, French Quarter, New Orleans
From a Balcony, French Quarter, New Orleans

From a Balcony, French Quarter, New Orleans

By Wayman Adams

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Wayman Elbridge Adams (1883-1959). From a Balcony, New Orleans, French Quarter, ca.1930. Oil on masonite panel, 12 x 16 inches; 17.5 x 21.5 inches framed. Excellent condition. ...

Category

1930s Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)

LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)

By Kurt Seligmann

Located in Santa Monica, CA

KURT SELIGMANN (1900–1962 American, born in Switzerland,) LA SORCIERE - (The Witch) 1934 Etching and aquatint, unsigned ? possibly a proof aside from The ...

Category

Surrealist 1930s Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Saint Roch with Dog, 1930
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Saint Roch with Dog, 1930

20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Saint Roch with Dog, 1930

Located in Vicoforte, IT

Great Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a religious subject Saint Roch with dog and stick of good pictor...

Category

1930s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Magnificent Mountain View from Hålland, Åre, Sweden
Magnificent Mountain View from Hålland, Åre, Sweden

Magnificent Mountain View from Hålland, Åre, Sweden

Located in Stockholm, SE

Mountain View from Hålland, 1931 by Ante Karlsson-Stig We are delighted to present a painting titled "Mountain View from Hålland" by the Swedish artist Ante Karlsson-Stig. This artw...

Category

Realist 1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figures - Pencil and Oil Pastel on Paper by O. Roche - 1938

Figures - Pencil and Oil Pastel on Paper by O. Roche - 1938

Located in Roma, IT

Figures is an original modern drawing in pencil and pastels on paper realized by O.Roche in 1938 Sheet dimension: 25 x 32 good conditions except for a cutaway at the top margin tha...

Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Pencil, Oil Pastel

1939 Powerful WWII french poster - Subscribe to Armament Bonds
1939 Powerful WWII french poster - Subscribe to Armament Bonds

1939 Powerful WWII french poster - Subscribe to Armament Bonds

Located in PARIS, FR

Designed by J. Kap in 1939, this powerful poster titled "Souscrivez aux Bons d’Armement" (Subscribe to Armament Bonds) was a key piece of French wartime propaganda at the dawn of Wor...

Category

1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

SURREALIST LANDSCAPE
SURREALIST LANDSCAPE

Edward HagedornSURREALIST LANDSCAPE

$3,000Sale Price|33% Off

SURREALIST LANDSCAPE

By Edward Hagedorn

Located in Santa Monica, CA

EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982) SURREAL LANDSCAPE 1931 mixed media on paper, Graphite, ink and watercolor. Unsigned. Dtaed 2/26/31, in ink lower left margin. Image 13 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches. On a large sheet 20 x 25 inches. Provenance: Hagedorn estate, Around the mid 1980's The Hagedorn estate was dispersed in Berkeley by a local dealer. This drawing was part of a group of Hagedorn works on paper that I acquired from that dispersal. Much of the balance was later acquired the Struart Denenberg Fine Art. Denenberg published a very fine book on the artist's work. EDWARD HAGEDORN: CALIFORNIA MODERNIST, RESTLESSNESS AND RESTRAINT Hardcover – January 1, 2009 Subsequently Hagedorn's works on paper have been acquired by many museums and some accompanying exhibitions. ALL OF THE COMMENTS BELOW ARE FROM THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITION EDWARD HAGEDORN (1902-1982) American Modernist A New Traveling Exhibition “VOLCANOS, WRECKS, RIOTS, & NUDES”, EDWARD HAGEDORN (1902-1982) premiere at the Danforth Museum. Framingham, MA, in March 2016. The exhibition includes 75 works of art in various mediums and is accompanied by the first monograph devoted to the artist’s work with essays by leading curators, critics, and art historians. Edward Hagedorn was a true Modernist who created a trove of powerful works on paper--drawings, watercolors, oils, and original graphics that reveal the hand of a master draftsman and the mind of an astute political observer. He rejected the general trend in early 20th century California of local landscapes and coastal views, becoming virtually the single voice of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression years between the two World Wars, 1925- 1935, more forcefully than any of his contemporaries, influenced by German art of the time, engaging in modernist styles of Expressionism and Surrealism. Hagedorn’s skeletons are ferocious yet somehow endearing; printed in deep black ink on off-white paper, they march across Lilliputian landscapes of grim disorder and destruction. Comets and volcanoes explode in fauvist colors, their other-worldly fluorescent temperas framed in black, while nude female figures, executed in exquisitely refined pen and ink, or graphite line drawings, are as economical in their means as Matisse, and can be compared with the neo-classical drawings of Picasso. Among his most lyrical works of the 1920s is a series of rhythmically abstracted watercolor and ink views of Golden Gate Park, evoking the sensual demi-geometries of Balthus, Derain , and early Mondrian. American Modernist Edward Hagedorn (1902-1982) was born in San Francisco of German descent; his mother (née Kafka) died in childbirth, and he was legally adopted and raised by his grandmother and aunt. After attendance at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s, by age 22 he had a studio in the famed "100" block of Montgomery Street ("the Monkey Block,") then a haven for bohemians. In 1926, a year of tremendous importance in California artists' embrace of modern art, the Oakland Art Gallery, with the guidance and inspiration of their European representative Emmy (Galka) Scheyer, was the first museum in the United States to show the art of the "Blue Four," among the leading artists of International Modernism--Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky...

Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)
Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)

Icart, Sans titre, 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

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing

By (after) Alexander Calder

Located in Surfside, FL

(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper a reproduction lithograph after the drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...

Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

1930s Nude Figure Study
1930s Nude Figure Study

1930s Nude Figure Study, 1937

$1,080Sale Price|20% Off

1930s Nude Figure Study

Located in Soquel, CA

Gorgeous 1930s figure drawing of a seated female nude by student of Lee Fritz Randolph (American, 1880-1956), 1937. Signed "Randolph," "C.S.F.A." for California School of Fine Art and dated "6/28/37" upper right. "C.S.F.A" and "6/28/37" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 25"H x 10"L. We believe a student of Lee Randolph...

Category

American Realist 1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Pencil

Jean Lurcat, S.O.S., from Eight Drawings, 1933 (after)
Jean Lurcat, S.O.S., from Eight Drawings, 1933 (after)

Jean Lurcat, S.O.S., from Eight Drawings, 1933 (after)

By Jean Lurçat

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite heliogravure after Jean Lurcat (1892–1966), titled S.O.S., from the folio Jean Lurcat Huit Dessins (Jean Lurcat Eight Drawings), originates from the 1933 edition publi...

Category

Surrealist 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas
Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas

Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas

By Louis Latapie

Located in London, GB

'Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas', wax crayon on paper, by French artist, Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitabilit...

Category

1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Wax Crayon

Joan Miro, The Air, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1938
Joan Miro, The Air, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1938

Joan Miro, The Air, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1938

By Joan Miró

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled L'air (The Air), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 3, originates from the 1938 issue published by Editions de la revue Verve, Paris, under the direction of Teriade, Editeur, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1938. This lyrical and atmospheric composition embodies Miro's fascination with the invisible rhythms of nature and the poetry of movement. L'air captures the ethereal and weightless essence of the natural world through his fluid linework and organic forms, evoking a sense of freedom and transformation. The work reflects Miro's deep belief in the interconnectedness of all living things and his pursuit of an art that transcends material boundaries to reach the spiritual realm. Created during one of the artist's most innovative periods, this piece demonstrates the harmony between abstraction and imagination that defines his unique visual language. Executed as a lithograph on velin du Marais paper, this work measures 14 x 10.5 inches. Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the superb craftsmanship of the Mourlot Freres atelier, renowned for its collaborations with the leading modernists of the 20th century. Artwork Details: Artist: Joan Miro (1893–1983) Title: L'air (The Air), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 3, 1938 Medium: Lithograph on velin du Marais paper Dimensions: 14 x 10.5 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1938 Publisher: Editions de la revue Verve, Paris, under the direction of Teriade, Editeur, Paris Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris Catalogue raisonne references: Dupin, Jacques, et al. Miro Graveur. D. Lelong, 1984, illustration 1310. Miro, Joan, et al. Joan Miro: Lithographs. Leon Amiel, 1972, illustration 6. Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 3, published by Editions de la revue Verve, Paris, 1938 About the Publication: Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire was one of the most influential art periodicals of the 20th century, founded in Paris in 1937 by the visionary Greek-born publisher Teriade (Stratis Eleftheriades). Conceived as a synthesis of art and literature, Verve brought together the greatest modern artists and writers of its time—Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Joan Miro, Fernand Leger, and others—alongside poets and philosophers such as Paul Eluard, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Each issue was a work of art in itself, luxuriously printed by master lithographers such as Mourlot Freres and produced in collaboration with leading typographers and designers. Verve became a platform for avant-garde creativity, publishing original lithographs and essays that reflected the evolving spirit of modernism. Matisse collaborated closely with Teriade from the magazine's inception, producing some of its most iconic issues, including those devoted to his paper cut-outs. The final Verve issue of 1958, which featured La Tristesse du Roi and the Nu Bleu series, stands as a testament to Matisse's enduring genius and to the publication's legacy as the definitive meeting of art, poetry, and printing craftsmanship in 20th-century France. About the Artist: Joan Miro (1893–1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist whose visionary imagination and lyrical abstraction made him one of the most influential and beloved artists of the 20th century. Born in Barcelona, Miro drew inspiration from Catalan folk art, Romanesque frescoes, and the luminous landscapes of Mont-roig del Camp, developing a deep connection to nature that infused his work with vitality and symbolism. After formal training at the Escola d'Art in Barcelona, he absorbed the lessons of Post-Impressionism and Cubism before moving to Paris in the early 1920s, where he became a leading figure in the Surrealist movement. There, Miro forged a personal visual language of biomorphic shapes, floating symbols, and radiant color harmonies that reflected both spontaneity and spiritual depth. In creative dialogue with peers such as Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, he helped revolutionize modern art by dissolving the boundaries between abstraction and dream imagery. Miro's inventive approach extended far beyond painting, embracing sculpture, ceramics, and monumental public commissions that redefined how art could interact with space and emotion. His expressive freedom and gestural abstraction profoundly influenced later artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tapies, and Joan Mitchell, inspiring generations who sought to merge instinct, color, and imagination. Today, Miro's work remains a cornerstone of modernism, prized by collectors and celebrated in major museums worldwide. His highest auction record was achieved by Peinture (Etoile Bleue) (1927), which sold for £23,561,250 (approximately $37 million) at Sotheby's, London, on June 19, 2012. Joan Miro L'air, Miro Verve...

Category

Surrealist 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph