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Period: 1930s
"Le Parc Monceau" original etching
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
Early 20th Century Ceramic Bust of a Woman, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Edris Eckhardt (American, 1905-1998)
Bust, 1933
Ceramic
Signed and dated base
8.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches, including base
Born in Cleveland, Ohio January 28, 1905, Edris was given the na...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Ceramic
Le Serment des femmes (Bloch 267-272; Cramer 24), Lysistrata, Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 11.5 x 9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Lysistrata, 1934. Published by The Limited E...
Category
Cubist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
$11,596 Sale Price
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Modèle Contemplant un Groupe Sculpté /// Picasso La Suite Vollard Marie-Thérèse
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Title: "Modèle Contemplant un Groupe Sculpté (Model Contemplating a Sculpted Group)" (Plate 66)
Portfolio: La Suite Vollard
*Signed by Pica...
Category
Cubist 1930s Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Intaglio
The Highlands Point Lobos Carmel California 1930 Thomas O. Sheckell Original Oil
Located in Soquel, CA
Thomas Owings Sheckell (1883 - 1943) was active/lived in New York. Thomas Sheckell is known for Trees, landscape, snow scenes, coastal view and industrial scene painting...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Antique American Realist Nude Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 26 by 34 inches overall and 20 by 28 painting alone. In excellent condition. Handsomely framed in a period ar...
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Deux Femmes Nues - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on wove Arches paper.
Hand signed and numbered in ink. Edition of 81/125 prints.
Published by Editions Albert Skira, Paris, in 1930.
Very good condition.
Catalogue Bloch no. ...
Category
Cubist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen Bütten paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Der Mensch ist kein Haustier, 1937. Published by...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
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Vivien Leigh
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a photolithograph from the original negative by Laszlo Willinger, original shot in 1937 and printed at a later date. It depicts English actress, Vivien Leigh...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
'Still Life of Flowers', San Francisco Bay Area Modernist, NY MoMA, LACMA, AIC
By Tom Lewis
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Tom E. Lewis' (American, 1909-1979) and created circa 1935. Accompanied by old backing with label.
A period Modernist still-life of flowers informally arranged...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Monoprint
Tiger Lily
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tiger Lily
Color woodcut, 1939
Unsigned (as usual)
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
(active Yokohama 1926-1940)
Condition: Excellent
Image/sheet size: 15 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches
Provenance: Robert O. Muller Estate
Biography
Hodo Nishimura...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Poster made in 1933 to promote the Grand Prix du Tremblay which was a horse race
Located in PARIS, FR
Poster made in 1933 to promote the Grand Prix du Tremblay which was a horse race.
Horse riding
Sports company of France
Pailhé
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Girlfriends II" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #1, Die Freundinnen II; multi-color collotype after 1916/17 painting in oil on canvas which was destroyed by fire in May 1945 at Immendorf Castle Lower Austria.
Eisler’s choice to begin his 1931 portfolio of works by Klimt with Girlfriends II was both bold and prescient. Just 14 years later, the painting was tragically destroyed in a fire. With such a loss, this rare and exquisite image is all the more valuable by virtue of having been made in color. In works from his late period, Klimt continued his fascination with exploring female dynamics and their various forms of love. Girlfriends II is a fine example of how space, color and ornament play a noticeable role in the evolution of his symbolic language. Wide swaths of space in the background as well as the two female forms create the structure. Klimt’s strong brushstrokes show a painterly quality and a new move toward abstraction which feels very far away from his earlier work. Nor should Klimt’s economy of line be overlooked. His draughtsmanship is what infuses the female bodies with movement, emotion and a profundity of life. Both women confront the viewer’s gaze unselfconsciously, as if they are modern-day Viennese women stepping out of a Klimtesque ukiyo-e print. Characteristic of this late period, Klimt uses ornament...
Category
Vienna Secession 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
1930's English Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Still Life Thick Impasto Paint
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Still Life
by Harry Bloomfield (British, 1883-1940) *see notes below
signed verso oil on canvas, framed
framed: 28 x 24 inches
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
Provenance: private co...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Marc Chagall, Spring, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1938
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Printemps (Spring), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 3, originat...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,276 Sale Price
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Prodigal Son
Located in London, GB
A man raises his hand to his chin, his neck tilted and face turned to look at a dilapidated farmhouse, barely held together by planks of wood and exposed to the elements. Behind him ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
New York Skyline, NY; East River
By Leon Dolice
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on medium stock, cream wove paper, 5 15/16 x 10 3/16 inches (151 x 259 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A fine and detailed impression in dark bl...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
The Disastrous War - Woodcut Print by Paul Baudier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Disastrous War is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s.
Good conditions.
Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris and d...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Antique Glouster Harbor New England Fishing Boat Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5169 Antique American Large Impressionist seascape oil painting .Oil on canvas circa 1930
Framed
Image size 15.5x19.5"
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Erotic - Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic is an original pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in 1930s.
The little drawing is in good condition on a yellowed paper.
On the back the stamp of the collection by Comtesse Anna Laetitia...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Pencil
'Sunset, Paris', Russian-American, New York, Artist's Union, National Art Club
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Podryski' for Misha Podryski, also spelled Podrisky, (Russian-American, 1903-1989), titled, 'Paris' and dated 1934.
Displayed in a substantial, silver-gilt, swept frame.
Framed dimensions: 31.75 H x 2 D x 38.75 W inches
A substantial oil landscape showing a view of a barge moored to the bank of the Seine with a view beyond to an arched, stone bridge beneath a luminous evening sky.
Born in Estonia, this Russian-American painter first attended Moscow University before moving to France where he continued his education at the American Conservatory in Paris, the School of Fine Arts at Fontainebleau and, later, in Italy. This educational path explains the polished salon portrait manner seen in his Paris canvases from the period and in his later New York portrait...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
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
$876 Sale Price
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Purple Iris Still Life
By (after) Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Houston, TX
Gorgeous still life lithograph of a a vibrant purple Iris made in the 1930's by artist unknown in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, The Three Musicians, from Chroniques du Jour, 1930 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled Les Trois Musiciens (The Three Musicians), from the album, Pablo Picasso, 1930, originates from the 1930 edition published by Editions des Chroniques du Jour, Paris, and printed by L'Atelier Desjobert, Paris, 1930. Les Trois Musiciens (The Three Musicians) captures Picasso’s Cubist mastery at its height, translating one of his most celebrated compositions into the refined medium of lithograph and pochoir. The scene depicts three abstracted figures—a harlequin, a monk, and a pierrot—arranged in a complex geometric harmony that embodies both the structure and rhythm of modernity. Through vivid color and precise pochoir layering, Picasso’s interplay of form, shadow, and light transforms the musicians into a symphony of shape and sound, reflecting the artist’s enduring fascination with the relationship between visual art and music.
Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 9.09 x 11.38 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of Editions des Chroniques du Jour and the technical excellence of L'Atelier Desjobert, one of the premier Parisian workshops specializing in pochoir and fine art lithography.
Artwork Details:
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
Title: Les Trois Musiciens (The Three Musicians), from the album, Pablo Picasso, 1930
Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper
Dimensions: 9.09 x 11.38 inches (23.1 x 28.9 cm)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Date: 1930
Publisher: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, Paris
Printer: L'Atelier Desjobert, Paris
Catalogue raisonne references: Cramer, Patrick. Pablo Picasso, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonne. Patrick Cramer, 1983, illustration 18; Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso: Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904–1967. Kornfeld & Klipstein, 1968, illustration 98; Reusse, Gerhard. Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue Raisonne. Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1983, illustration 31
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the album, Pablo Picasso, published by Editions des Chroniques du Jour, Paris, and printed by L'Atelier Desjobert, Paris, 1930
Notes:
Excerpted from the album, This volume has been printed in MCC numbered examples, of which DL (LI to DC) constitute the edition in French and DCL (DCI to MCCL). The edition in English has been printed on behalf of E. Weyhe, 794 Lexington Avenue, New York (DCI to MC) and of A. Zwemmer, 78 Charing Cross Road, London, W. C.2. (MCI to MCCL). There have also been printed L examples on Arches paper with a lithograph by Picasso (I to L) distributed between the two editions, and some press examples.
About the Publication:
The album Pablo Picasso, published in 1930 by Editions des Chroniques du Jour, Paris, under the direction of Christian Zervos, stands among the earliest major printed tributes to the artist’s emerging international acclaim. Conceived as part of the publisher’s broader initiative to document and celebrate the modernist vanguard, the volume presented a series of lithographs and pochoirs interpreting Picasso’s drawings, watercolors, and gouaches from the preceding decade. Executed at the esteemed Atelier Desjobert, the edition combined the lithographic precision of line with the pochoir method’s hand-applied color, producing images of exceptional tonal depth and fidelity. Issued in both French and English, with distribution in Paris, New York, and London through E. Weyhe and A. Zwemmer, the album was limited to MCC copies, including a special suite of L examples on Arches paper containing an original lithograph by Picasso. The publication represented a vital collaboration between artist, publisher, and printer—uniting the intellectual rigor of Zervos’s art criticism with the material beauty of fine French printmaking. Today, Pablo Picasso, 1930 is recognized as a landmark in 20th-century art publishing, reflecting both the refinement of interwar Parisian craftsmanship and the international reach of Picasso’s genius.
About the Artist:
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist whose extraordinary vision revolutionized modern art and defined the visual language of the 20th century. A child prodigy from Malaga, Spain, Picasso's career spanned more than seven decades and encompassed an astonishing range of styles and innovations—from the melancholic Blue and romantic Rose periods to his pioneering invention of Cubism with Georges Braque, which shattered conventional notions of perspective and form. Influenced by the bold expressiveness of El Greco, the structure of Cezanne, and the vitality of African and Iberian sculpture, Picasso became a central figure of the Paris avant-garde, working in creative dialogue with contemporaries such as Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. His insatiable experimentation extended across painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture, forever expanding the boundaries of artistic expression. A master of reinvention, Picasso profoundly shaped generations of artists who followed—from Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, and Jean-Michel Basquiat to Jeff Koons and Banksy—cementing his status as a timeless cultural icon whose works remain among the most sought after worldwide. His landmark painting Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) achieved a record-breaking sale of 179,365,000 USD at Christie's, New York, on May 11, 2015, affirming Picasso's enduring legacy as one of the most influential and valuable artists in history.
Pablo Picasso Les Trois Musiciens (The Three Musicians), Picasso 1930, Picasso Desjobert, Picasso pochoir...
Category
Cubist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,396 Sale Price
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original linocut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original linoleum cut. Printed in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 4) and and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (317 x 243 m...
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1930s Art
Materials
Linocut
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
Black Spaniel with Rabbit original signed etching by Leon Danchin
By Leon Danchin
Located in Paonia, CO
Black spaniel with Rabbit is an original signed etching by Leon Danchin with a very faint water stain on lower right side background that can be seen in the photo section. My ph...
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
$550 Sale Price
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Colorful, 1930s American Scene Painting "House with Gable" by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant 1930s American Scene painting of a sunlit Victorian house by noted American Modern painter Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Very reminiscent of Edward Hopper's artwork, the...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
North on West Street (West Side Highway NYC Cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). North on West Street , 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15 x 22 inches. Framed measurement: 27 x 34 inched. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC
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
$3,750 Sale Price
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The Corner Barber Shop
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
The Corner Barber Shop...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Hygieia” collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #10, Ausschnitt aus dem Bilde “Medizin”; multi-color collotype detail from Medicine, one of the faculty paintings for the Uni...
Category
Vienna Secession 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
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
$375 Sale Price
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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
Portrait of James McBey.
Located in Storrs, CT
James McBey. 1931. Drypoint. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 ). An extremely rich impression with drypoint burr, printed by the artist on cream wove paper. Signed in the plate lower ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Nude of Woman - Oil on Canvas by Donato Frisia - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Outstanding painting by the italian artist Donato Frisia, dated 1930. Signed lower left in red.
A sensual nude of woman reclined on a sofa is depicted with, at the same time, appeal...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady in Green Dress - Scottish 1930's Art Deco oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb Art Deco British portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist David Cowan Dobson, better known as Cowan Dobson. Painted in 1931, it is a portrait of a striking darkh...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Nature-scape Gilt Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Early American school modernist abstract landscape. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed.
Category
Abstract 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Framed Young Woman Portrait Social Realist Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American school modernist portrait. Oil on canvas. Framed. Ready to hang excellent condition.
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
American Surrealist pipes and playing cards spirit of Magritte abstract Montage
Located in Norwich, GB
I love this extraordinary American surrealist piece - a collage/montage, an assembly of objects in a velvet-clad box/frame - for a number of reasons reasons.
I love the fact that it depicts pipes, among the most iconic images of the surrealist movement, rooted in Magritte’s famous 1929 painting which depicts a pipe accompanied by the caption “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe). Marcel Duchamp loved using pipes...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Art
Materials
Clay, Glass, Paper, Found Objects, Wood
YVES DIEY The Nude, Oil on canvas, 1930s
By Yves Diey
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Yves Dieÿ (1892-1984), France – The Nude. A striking oil on canvas by the renowned French artist Yves Dieÿ (1892-1984), depicting a sensual and elegant nude. This wo...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Washington Assumes Command - Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Washington Assumes Command - Etching in Ink on Paper
Historical engraving by Ralph Ludwig Boyer (American, 1879-1952). George Washington is shown holding a sword, with an army stand...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Lithograph
"L'Aviation" pochoir for Les Joies du Sport
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir. Printed in Paris in 1932 on Velin du Marais paper at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet for the Les Joies du Sport portfolio and issued in an edition of 750. This was pub...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
The Graf Zeppelin, Framed Black and White Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Repairing the hull of the Graf Zeppelin during the flight over the Atlantic, 1934 by Alfred Eisenstaedt"
The Graf Zeppelin
Alfred Eisenstaedt, German (1898–1995)
Date: 1934 (Printe...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pablo Picasso, Le Repos du Sculpteur II, from La Suite Vollard, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
Le Repos du Sculpteur II, from La Suite Vollard
Hand signed by Picasso in pencil in the lower right, Watermark "Vollard"
Reference: Bloch 172; Baer 325
Original etching...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Feuille d'etudes Techniques: Neuf Tetes
Located in New York, NY
Etching and drypoint on laid paper, 1934. With Picasso's ink stamped signature lower right, and numbered 29/50 in pencil lower left.
Image 12.25 x 8.75 inches, full sheet 19.5 x 13...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Portrait of Baroness Bachofen-Echt” collotype
Located in Palm Beach, FL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #22, Bildnis Baronin Bachofen-Echt; multi-color collotype after 1914-1916 painting in oil on canvas.
GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN AFTERMATH), a portfolio of 30 collotypes prints, 15 are multi-color and 15 are monochrome, on chine colle paper laid down on heavy cream-wove paper with deckled edges; Max Eisler, Editor-Publisher; Osterreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Printer; in a limited edition of 500 numbered examples of which: 200 were printed in German, 150 were printed in French and 150 were printed in English; Vienna, 1931.
2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s death. It is a fitting time to reflect upon the enduring legacy and deep impact of his art. Recognizing this need for posterity with uncanny foresight, the publication of Gustav Klimt: An Aftermath (Eine Nachlese) provides a rare collection of work after Klimt which has proven to be an indispensable tool for Klimt scholarship as well as a source for pure visual delight.
Approximately 25 percent of the original works featured in the Aftermath portfolio have since been lost. Of those 30, six were destroyed by fire on 8 May 1945. On that fateful final day of WWII, the retreating Feldherrnhalle, a tank division of the German Army, set fire to the Schloss Immendorf which was a 16th century castle in Lower Austria used between 1942-1945 to store objects of art. All three of Klimt’s Faculty Paintings: Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence (1900-1907), originally created for the University of Vienna, were on premises at that time. Also among the inventory of Klimt paintings in storage there was art which had been confiscated by the Nazis. One of the most significant confiscated collections was the Lederer collection which featured many works by Gustav Klimt such as Girlfriends II and Garden Path with Chickens...
Category
Vienna Secession 1930s Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Antique American Framed Impressionist Venice Sunset Cityscape Gondola Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist sunset landscape oil painting by Louis Saphier (1875/77 - 1954). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 30 by 43 inches overall, and 24 by 36 pai...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lloyd Moylan 1930s Western Watercolor Painting, Horses and Foal, Southwest Art
By Lloyd Moylan
Located in Denver, CO
Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of the American Southwest with this exceptional vintage watercolor and gouache painting by renowned Western artist Lloyd Moylan (1893–1963). P...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
1930s Mexican Ex Voto Retablo – Healing Miracle After Fall from Church Tower
Located in Denver, CO
An extraordinary example of Mexican devotional folk art, this 1934 oil and ink painting on tin—known as an Ex Voto—depicts a miraculous healing following a life-threatening fall from...
Category
Folk Art 1930s Art
Materials
Metal
$2,300 Sale Price
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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “The Embrace (Fulfillment)” collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #17, Aus dem Stoclet-Fries: Die Umarmung; multi-color collotype after the cartoon for the 1910-1911 mosaic frieze on the east wall of the dining hall o...
Category
Vienna Secession 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Winter Landscape with Red Cabin - Oil on Canvas 1930´s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Winter Landscape with Red Cottage by Otto Lindberg 1930
This oil on canvas, signed and dated “Otto Lindberg 1930”, captures a serene winter scene in Sweden. A low winter sun filters ...
Category
Naturalistic 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man on Horseback Sculpture
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#9-031 Man on horseback , 1930's figurative sculpture,finely detailed metal casting .
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage American Impressionist Sunlit Farm Valley Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American impressionist farm landscape oil painting by Stephen Voorhies (Born 1898). Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 27 by 31 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone. I...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"SUNSET GLOW GUADLUPE MOUNTAINS, TEXAS" EAST OF EL PASO PAINTED CIRCA 1930s
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lewis Teel
(1883-1960)
El Paso Artist
Image Size: 21 x 28
Frame Size: 27 x 34
Medium: Oil on Board
Signed Lower Left and on original price tag on verso
Circa 1930s
"Sunset Glow" Guad...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, c. 1930-40s, oil on panel, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches
Jeanette Maxfield Lewis was a California-based landscape painter and etcher. Born in Oakland, she spent much...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Queen Street, Exeter watercolour by Louis Osman FRIBA
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Original SEDUCTION AUTOMATIQUE - early car radio vintage French poster linen
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Séduction Master Automatique” Vintage Poster – Designed by A. Molusson. Translation: “Radio as if you were at home... with the Séduction ‘master’ automatic car radio.” Arch...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
"Snowy City Scene"
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower lef...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mid Century San Diego Impressionist Seascape by Georgia Crittenden Bemis, 1939
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century impressionist seascape of Southern California coastal rocks and waves by Georgia Crittenden Bemis (American, 1908-2008), 1939. Signed lower left corner and on verso. Presented in gilt-toned gesso frame of period. Image size: 30"H x 36"W. Framed size; 34"H x 40"W. Painting was exhibited at the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, 1939.
Georgia Crittenden Bemis was born in Delano, MN on Jan. 13, 1908. Bemis moved to San Diego, CA in 1928. She studied there at the Academy of Fine Arts and with Pauline DeVol, Charles Reiffel, Otto Schneider...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Linen, Oil





