1930s Art

Summer in the 1930s Captured in 1936 by German photographer Heinz Pollmann, this evocative image shows a young woman peacefully paddling across a lake in a classic Klepper folding k...

Black and white original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “Artist Proof lower left in pencil. Signed by the artist lower righ...

San Gabriel Foothills and Lake By Lionel Edwards San Gabriel Lake by Lionel Louis Edwards (American, 1874-1954). Oil on canvas illustration board. San Gabriel Lake. Impasto layers an...

Joseph Hecht, 'Asie (Asia) from the series Atlas', engraving, 1928, edition c. 50, Tonneau-Ryckelynck & Plumart 162. Signed and annotated 'epreuve definitive' (final proof) in pencil...

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...

Joseph Hecht, 'Lion Défendant sa Proie (Lion Defending Its Prey)', engraving, 1931, edition 50, Tonneau-Ryckelynck & Plumart 215. Signed and numbered '18/50' in pencil. A fine impres...

Self-portrait is a beautiful original lithograph on paper realized by Diego Pettinelli Monogrammed and dated on the lower right, DP. 1939. Sheet dimension: 39.5 x 32 good conditio...

Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - Eloge de Raoul Dufy, Year: circa 1930, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 28/31, Image Size: 10 x 8.75 inches, Size: 12.75 ...

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right 1930 Biography Hazel Finck Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Hazel Finck studied art with Guy Wiggins and Sigismund Ivanowski, a Russi...

Leon Dolice Chrysler Building Signed lower right Watercolor on paper 19 x 12 inches The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the yo...

"Rocky Shore" is an original oil painting on board by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece with his signature stamp in the lower right. Land and water are clearly demarcat...

L.A.S. addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt. Portofino, September 16, 1937. In English.

DINNER AT EIGHT, Jean Harlow, 1933/ Everett Collection. stunning and vivid photograph of the first sex symbol, Jean Harlow. 12x16 inches Archival Pigment...

This circa 1930 original poster by René Vincent was designed to promote Tapis Ameublement at the prestigious Au Bon Marché department store in Paris. Reflecting the refined elegance ...

Tete (From Poesie) Henri Matisse French (1869–1954) Date: 1932 Etching Edition of 145 Image Size: 10 x 7.5 inches Frame Size: 16 x 13.75 inches Printer: Roger Lacourière, Paris Pub...

Lalibela is an original etching on paper realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1939. Hand-signed in pencil. Image Dimensions: 31 x 49.5 cm. Num...

Work on paper

English Soldiers in Tientsin is a b/w photographic print on polished paper, taken on July 31, 1939 by World Photos (England). Stamp and stereotype in ...

Original EXPRESS Chemins de Fer Francais vintage travel French poster. SNCF French railroad poster. Professionally backed on acid-free archiv...

Original 1934 L’Action Combattante de l’ U.N.C. French vintage poster. Linen-backed. This striking 1934 lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, the "Father of Modern Advertising," is a p...

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with no ...

Adriaan Lubbers, 'Skyline from Jersey Heights', lithograph, 1930, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '4/XXV' in pencil. Dated 'Paris 1930' in pencil. A fine impression, on crea...

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...

Ex Libris - H. Malz is a colored Woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. The artwork is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 29 x 22.5...

Italian opera of the 1930s , Venice , a beautiful day on the Giudecca Canal Work signed on the back Giovanni Guarlotti was born in Galliate (Novara) on November 9, 1869. Guarlotti w...

'Bassets Ardennais'. 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 i...

Lalibela is an original etching on paper realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1939-1943. Hand-signed in pencil. Image Dimensions: 36 x 45 cm. Nu...

This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled La Lune (The Moon), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 2, originates from the 1938 issue published ...

Moses Oley drew an industrial scene, but one very much in isolation. The quarry equipment looks both imposing and busy. There appears to be smoke coming fro...

Louis Bosa (American, 1905–1981) Two Wagons, Bucks County, PA, 1934 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 20 x 24 inches 30 x 34 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small villag...

This refined 1930 aquatint by Jules Pascin, titled Salomé dansant devant le roi Hérode, offers a poetic and dream-like interpretation of the biblical scene of Salome before King Hero...

This lovely original poster was created by Ondine Magnard-Vlach 🇫🇷 (1904-1968), a French painter. Her work includes this beautiful poster commissioned by the SNCF in 1937. This ori...

Allen Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Extremely well listed and important African-American artist. He lived and worked mostly in Massachusetts Boston area. He has had Auction records for a L...

Signed lower left, "E Hansen" for Ejnar Hansen (American, 1884-1965) and dated 1936. Ejnar Hansen studied at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Art before moving to the United States in ...

Dancer is a drawing in Sanguina on paper realized by Anonymous Artist of the 20th Century. In good condition, except for small folding. Sheet dimension: 31 x 17.5 The artwork repr...

“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...

This 1930s poster was created by Henry George Gawthorn (1879-1941). Gawthorn began his artistic career as an architect and only later turned to a...

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...

Edition of 1000 copies including illustrations by Cartégle. Very rare copy on Japon Imperial (one of only 67 copies). Uncut. Wore on binding and some flowering on cover. Internal pag...

Deluxe edition of only 23 copies including 40 original etchings by L. Marcoussis, including the title and a portrait of Apollinaire. One of the 20 copies on vélin d'Arches numbered i...

Harald Julius Niels Pryn, or Pryene, was born in 1891 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was a well-known Danish landscape painter. His specialty and main subjects were light-filled sea...

Coulon's circa 1930 poster, bearing the message "Jeunes Gens, Engagez-vous dans les Troupes de la Métropole" (Young people, enlist in the troops of the metropolis) for the Ministry o...

Antique American impressionist Texas landscape oil painting by Harry Anthony De Young (1893 - 1956). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 12H. Dedicated by the artist as a wedding anniversary gift. Artist bio: Harry Anthony DeYoung was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 5, 1893. He was a landscape, figure, genre, and portrait painter, muralist, draftsman and teacher. He studied with Edward John Lake...

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...

This unique Autograph Correspondence by Paul Valery to the Countess Pecci Blunt is composed of 4 items, realized at the end of 1930's. In excellent condit...

Josef Albers, 'Segments', linoleum cut, 1934, edition 20, 25, plus proofs, Danilowitz 79. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated '(proof)' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on...

"Still Life" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Thomas Hart Benton Student Daniel Celentano (1902-1980) "Still Life" 14 1/8 x 10 1/2 Oil on canvas Signed lower left and on str...

Sold without the frame. Léon Laurent Galand is a French painter and illustrator born April 18, 1872 in Montpellier (Hérault) and died November 4, 1960 in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine). L...

This is a modernist view of a New York City park. It's interesting because we're given so much detail and yet it's drawing style also keep things hidden. Really I think it's about Cu...

Woodcut print realized by Escher in 1931. It belongs to the series "Emblemata". Monogrammed in plate upper left. Excellent condition. Ref. F.H. Bool, J.R. Kist, J.L. Locher and F...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Joseph recognized by his brothers (Joseph reconnu par ses frères), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5...

This is an original poster printed in lithography by the famous poster artist Leonetto Cappiello. Leonetto Cappiello was an Italian and French poster ar...

Original poster Italian lithograph. Tira Al Piccion - Roma. Skeet Shooting. VII World Championship “Tiro a Piccione” pre-World War II Olympic style poster. Powerful pre-world War II poster. This shows the American flag flying next to the Nazi flag for the skeet shooting championship in Italy. Note that the year 1935 corresponds with the fascist year date of XIV-XV. Museum linen backed. The USA flag is sitting right next to the German Nazi...

Nude is an oil on cavas realized by the italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Following a post-impressionst style, the painter represents a half nude model sitting on a sofa....

Portrait of Woman is an original oil on canvas realized in 1930s by Antonio Feltrinelli. Very good condition. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) He was ...

Sketches is a double side Ink and watercolor drawing realized by Karl Hanny in 1934 and 1949. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing.

John Taylor Arms, 'Limoges (French Church Series #32)', etching, 1932, edition 142, third (final) state impressions, Fletcher 244. Signed, dated, and annotated 'Ed 100 III' in pencil. A superb, finely detailed impression, in warm black ink, on antique, pale gray laid paper, with full margins (1 1/16 to 1 1/2 inches); adhesive stains in the bottom left and right sheet corners, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. A view of Limoges, France and the Saint-Martial Bridge from the far side of the Vienne river. According to Fletcher, author of the catalogue raisonné on the artist's graphic work, this etching is among the artist’s preferred plates. Published references: "An Appreciation to John Taylor Arms 1887-1953", in PRINT, Vol. VIII #5 P. viii, Feb.-March 1954. Impressions of this print are in the permanent collections of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, National Gallery of Art, Saint John’s University, Smithsonian Institution, and Wake Forest University. ABOUT THE ARTIST “John Taylor Arms will live on and on and future generations centuries from now will marvel at his work... . As a friend and as a man, he fully matched his superb work.” —John Winkler, printmaker Born in Washington, D.C. in 1887, John Taylor Arms attended the Lawrenceville School and began the study of law at Princeton University. In 1907, he transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and took up the study of architecture. Arms evolved his unique drafting style, with its highly realistic, precise detail and exquisitely rendered effects of light, from his experience and practice as an architectural student. He graduated in 1911 and completed a master’s degree the following year. He then worked as a draftsman with the well-known Carrere and Hastings Company in New York. In 1913 Arms was given a hobbyist’s etching set, and he began to dabble with copperplate and acid. In 1915, after copying a handful of prints by Jongkind and other Etching Revivalists, Arms created his first original etching. His early experiments were picturesque views of European villages, reflecting the influence of Whistler. He inked and printed several of these plates in color in the manner of Charles Mielatz...

CYRIL POWER (1872 – 1951) THE EIGHT 1930 (Coppel CEP 18: V. 18) Color linocut. Unsigned. A printer’s counterproof (?) in reverse, on newsprint. Only two...

Numbered and signed. Limited edition of 100 pieces. Excellent conditions. Aurelio Mistruzzi was an Italian sculptor and medalist. He attended the Udine School of Art with professor ...

Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945) Nude Walking, 1930 Bronze Signed and dated on base 17 x 9 x 4 inches Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti and Herbert Adams...