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Period: 1930s
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
Toadstool - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher in 1931.
It belongs to the series "Emblemata".
Monogrammed in the plate lower left.
Excellent condition.
Ref. F.H. Bool, J.R. Kist, J.L. Locher a...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled from XXe Siecle No. 4
By Jean Hélion
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Jean Helion
Title: Untitled
Portfolio: XXe Siecle No. 4
Medium: Linocut
Date: 1938
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 12 5/8" x 9 5/8"
Signature: U...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Linocut
Original Vintage French Bourin Quinquina Liquor Poster 1936 by Bellenger
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Jacques and Pierre Bellenger designed this original vintage poster in 1936. This clever image shows that Bourin Quinquina is the perfect versatile bev...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
Cubist Portrait
Located in OPOLE, PL
Georges Braque (1882-1963) - Cubist Portrait
Lithograph from 1939.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure ...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$895 Sale Price
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"TEXAS HILLS AND VALLEYS" HILLCOUNTRY
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas
(1910-1973)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 9 x 7
Frame Size: 18 x 22.5
Medium: Oil
Circa late 1930s early 40s
"Texas Hills & Valleys"
Porfirio Salinas was a self-tau...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
"View in the Court of Rue Du' Jardinet"
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a oil on academy board painting by the American artist, Alvin Raffel. Signed and titled verso. Circa 1930's. Condition is good. Small puncture in the ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
$600 Sale Price
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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
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Standing Male, Torso)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, 1930s Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Model (Torso) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execut...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
'Spiderboy' — American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'Spiderboy', 1937, etching, edition 40, Ryan 86. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 7/8 inches). A s...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
'Near Locranan, Brittany', Paris, Charlottenborg, Bornholm School, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Mogens Hertz' (Danish, 1909-1999) and painted circa 1935.
This notable Impressionist first studied with the classically-trained Academician, Laurits Ring and, su...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Plywood
Norman Parkinson 'For ballerinas on the beach and in the swim, 1939'
Located in New York, NY
Fashion model Pamela Minchin photographed on the Isle of Wight wearing Fortnum and Mason’s dark burgundy Lastex satin swimsuit with ballet skirt, Harper’s Bazaar, July 1939.
'For ba...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marine Painting "Trois Pêcheurs" Louis Pastour (France, 1876-1948)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Trois Pêcheurs"
Louis Pastour (France, 1876-1948)
Oil on board
Signed l.l.
7 7/8 x 4 7/8 (8 1/8 x 11 1/8 frame) inches
Louis Pastour was called the “...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Board, Oil
$1,960 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
Passing the Bar
Located in Paonia, CO
artist: Adrien Barrere (1877-1931)
title: Passing the Bar
medium: Lithograph
paper size: 19.75 x 25.50
image size: 18 x 24.25
French caricaturist...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape - Drawing by Armando Cermignani - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized by Armando Cermignani (1888-1957) in 1930s.
Hand signed and dated.
Excellent condition.
Armando Cermignani was an Italian painter, engraver, ceramist and p...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
'The Bather' — Iconic American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'The Bather', wood engraving, 1931, edition 120, Burne Jones 63. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the following public collections: Burne Jones Collection (Illinois), Chazen Museum of Art, Chegodaev Collection (Moscow), Kent Collection (New York), National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; SUNY Plattsburg Art Museum, Princeton University Library, Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection (New York), University of Illinois.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Daphnes and Chloé, Planche XLI
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Daphnes and Chloé, Planche XLI
Lithograph from 1961.
Dimensions of work: 43 x 66 cm.
Enhanced with gouache. Examined and identified by a French gallery ...
Category
Symbolist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$11,789 Sale Price
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Decheance de al Buveuse d'Eau(Downfall of a Lady Teetotaler)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”. -Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy’s depictions for an instant charmer of a "medical book" illustrates the myriad benefits of wine, while being sp...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
The swamp, Troinex Geneva by John Henry Deluc - oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
$624 Sale Price
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'Mountain Climber' — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Mountain Climber', wood engraving, 1933, edition 250, Burne Jones 93. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 9/16 to 3 5/8 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge verso, where previously hinged; otherwise, in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (200 x 149 mm); sheet size 14 x 11 1/8 inches (356 x 283 mm).
Printed by Pynson Printers, New York. Distributed by The Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No. 11, 1933.
Literature: 'Rockwellkentiana,' Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933. '101 of The World’s Greatest Books', edited by Spencer Armstrong, 1950.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Akron Art Institute, Burne Jones Collection, IL; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Davis Museum at Wellesley College; Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; H. M. de Young Museum; Hermitage Museum; Kent Collection, NY; Library of Congress; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY; SUNY, Plattsburg.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in nature. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York, and in 1907, he was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. The following year he married his first wife, Kathleen Whiting (Thayer’s niece), with whom he had five children. The couple divorced in 1924, and Kent married Frances Lee the following year. They divorced after 15 years of marriage, and the artist married Sally Johnstone.
For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took several extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, elemental locations inspired his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often allude to the mythic themes of isolation, individualism, heroism, and the quest for self-connection. Important exhibitions of works from these travels include the Knoedler Gallery’s shows in 1919 and 1920, featuring Kent’s Alaska drawings...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
1930's California Mountain Trail Landscape
By Sidney L. Brock
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful 1930's landscape titled "Trail into California Mountains" by Oklahoman artist Sidney Lorenzo Brock (American, 1869-1943). Presented in ...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
$1,580 Sale Price
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1936 french poster by Paul Colin - French National Lottery - Grand prix de Paris
By Paul Colin
Located in PARIS, FR
In this dynamic and visually compelling poster from 1936, renowned French poster artist Paul Colin celebrates the excitement of horse racing and its association with the French Natio...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Portrait of Two Seated Nude Women - British Modernist 1930's oil painting
By Lionel Ellis
Located in Hagley, England
This lovely British Modernist portrait oil painting is by noted artist Lionel Ellis. The painting comes from a collection of works by the artist, previously owned by his wife. Painte...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Bedrich Fritta (1906-1944).
Portrait of a Young Woman in Profile, ca. 1930.
Pencil on irregular paper sheet measuring 3.25 x 7 inches. Mounted on thin backing measuring 9 x 12 inc...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Maquette right panel...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Bertozzi Original Vintage Poster 1930 Parmigiano Reggiano by Achille Mauzan
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Achille Mauzan created this vintage poster in 1924 to advertise the Bertozzi brand of cheeses. Three judges with expressive faces lean over the cheese, giving us a sense of the fragr...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
"Belleville" 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
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
Moody Old New York at Night - Entrance to the El
Located in Miami, FL
Eugene Camille Fitsch paints a quick and loose impression of Old New York at night.
In the foreground, we see people entering the El and some standing in front of a Newsstand. The ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daphne and Chloe - Lithograph by Pierre Bonnard - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Daphne and Chloe is a beautiful black and white lithograph on paper by Pierre Bonnard in 1930s.
Not signed, as issued.
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
“Boats on the Seine, Paris”
By Lucien Génin
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original gouache of a busy Seine River scene with advertising boats and a figure along the shore with the city of Paris in the background. Signed lower left. Condition is...
Category
Post-Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper, Board
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
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
Le Banquet (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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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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"Montparnasse" 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
Caerulea - British Art Deco c1935 watercolour and ink figurative painting
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful British Art Deco 1930's water colour and ink painting on paper is by well respected artist Averil Mary Burleigh. Painted circa 1935 the composition is of three female figures with flowing robes and head dresses with slender tree trunks beyond them and vivid blue of the sky meeting the sea. (Caerula pertains to the colour of the sky and sea). They are playing between them with two balls or globes. A beautiful painting full of fun and movement and that amazing blue.
Signed lower left, and inscribed on a label verso.
Provenance: Surrey estate.
Condition. Water colour and ink on paper. Image size is 24 inches by 16 inches and in excellent condition.
Frame. Housed in a gilt frame. Framed size is 30 inches by 22 inches and in good condition.
Averil Mary Burleigh born Averil Mary Dell (1883 – 1949) was a British artist and painter. Based in Sussex, Burleigh was known for painting in egg tempera with the subject usually involving a central figure. Her husband and daughter also painted but she is the best regarded of the three. Burleigh was born in 1883 in Hassocks in West Sussex and went on to study at the Brighton School of Art. She married the painter Charles Burleigh and they lived and worked together as artists in Hove and Sussex. They designed a house with a large sun-lit top floor studio. Their daughter Veronica, who would also become a notable artist, was born there in 1909. The family never became rich from their works, and often relied on Burleigh's flair for buying and selling shares. In 1911 Burleigh illustrated a book of John Keats' poetry and went on to illustrate plays by Shakespeare. In 1913 she was featured in Studio magazine. In 1927 Burleigh illustrated Thistledown by Leolyn Louise Everett. From 1939 she was a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours. Burleigh became very ill in the 1940s, dying in 1949. Shortly before she died, Burleigh was elected an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society. Burleigh specialised in tempera painting, although she also worked in chalk and watercolour. Her works tend to have a bright colour palette with contrasting colours to lead the eye around the picture. A sharp luminosity and strong sense of design govern Burleigh's tempera and watercolour paintings. Frequently, her works portray decorative renaissance subjects, usually dominated by a female figure who is regularly modelled on her daughter, Veronica Burleigh...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Averil BurleighCaerulea - British Art Deco c1935 watercolour and ink figurative painting, Circa 1935
$12,892 Sale Price
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Wind Flowers in a Tzu Chow Vase
By Ethelyn Cosby Stewart
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wind Flowers in a Tzu Chow Vase, 1933, oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower right, 20 x 16 inches, label verso with title and original price ($185.00), exhibited 44th Annual E...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
RFD#1
By Dale Nichols
Located in Los Angeles, CA
RFD #1, 1937, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, titled verso, 24 x 30 inches
Iowa had Grant Wood. Missouri had Thomas Hart Benton. Kansas had John Steuart Curry. And, Neb...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$75,000
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (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
Charcoal, Paper
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
Frida Painting "Two Fridas" - Black and White Photograph, Portrait, Frida Kahlo
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Painting "Two Fridas" by Nickolas Muray is a limited edition black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in her studio, sitting in front of her famous painting, The...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Located in New York, NY
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Cecil Bell (1906 – 1970)
Street Life Under the EL
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1930s
Signed upper...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Source Verdier Original Vintage Poster by Henri le Monnier 1931
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This image was created in 1931 by the talented French artist, Henri Le Monnier (1893 - 1978) for the company that produced bottled water under the name Source Verdier. It is an elega...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Street View in Paris in the 1930s Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin photograph capturing a timeless black and white street scene in Paris, France, circa 1930—a rare and authentic glimpse into the rhythm of a bygone era.
Fea...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Neighbors
By Norman Barr
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Neighbors, 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 22 x 26 inches
Norman Barr was an American Scene painter and muralist known for his poignant depictions of working-clas...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rites of Winter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rites of Winter, by 1939, oil on canvas, 32 x 40 inches, exhibited: 134th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, January 29 – March 5, 1939, no...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “House in a Garden” collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #9, Haus Im Garten; aka Forester’s House in Weissenbach II; multi-color collotype after 1914 painting in oil on canvas.
GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GU...
Category
Vienna Secession 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Down the River
Located in London, GB
In this sentimental work from 1939, Benton expresses his admiration for the rural lifestyle of the Midwest. He highlights the connection between man and the land by depicting two fig...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1939
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Femme au Chapeau (Woman with a Hat), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 5–6, originates from the ...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Antique Folk Art Figurative Oil Painting " Tony"s Fruit Market" 1930
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3787 Antique folk art oil painting
Image size 17x23.5"
Folk art wood frame
Category
1930s Art
Materials
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
"Place Jeanne D'Arc, Paris, " Jules Herve, French Impressionism, Cityscape Street
Located in New York, NY
Jules Herve (French, 1887 - 1981)
Place Jeanne D'Arc, Paris, circa 1930
Oil on canvas
8 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches
Signed lower right; signed on the reverse
Jules Rene Herve, an impression...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
Cityscape
36 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1930. lower right
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
ACA Galleries, New York
Exhibited
New York, Frank Rehn Gallery, Changing Old New York, 1931.
New York, ACA Galleries, Ernest Fiene: Art of the City, 1925-1955, May 2-23, 1981, n.p., no. 5.
BIO
Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923.
Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925.
In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects.
By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City.
With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well.
Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy.
On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes.
Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
circa 1930 original gouache painting by Grinsson "Balade sur la Côte d’Azur"
Located in PARIS, FR
This circa 1930 original gouache painting by Grinsson, titled "Balade sur la Côte d’Azur", perfectly captures the spirit of the Roaring Twenties and early 1930s, an era defined by el...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Gouache
Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) A Summer landscape, Oil on panel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Léon Frédéric (1856-1940)
A Summer landscape
signed at the lower left
Oil on canvas transfered on panel
29 x 44 cm
Framed : 39 x 54.5 cm
in good condition, However, there is a cr...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Composition, Le Livre Blanc, Jean Cocteau
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil with hand coloring on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Le Livre blanc, précédé d'u...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,036 Sale Price
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