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Period: 1930s
'Tree, Manhattan' — Classic American Realism
By Martin Lewis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Martin Lewis, 'Tree, Manhattan', drypoint, 1930, edition 91 (including 10 trial proofs), McCarron 87. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression, in warm black ink, on cream...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Original LOTERIE NATIONALE des PARFUMS vintage French poster lithograph
Located in Spokane, WA
LOTERIE NATIONALE des PARFUMS. Original vintage French poster, 1939 lithograph. Professional acid-free archival linen-backed, fine condition. Read...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Grand Tier and the Met
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Grand Tier at the Met
Etching, 1939
From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etchings and Engravings
Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edit...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
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
A Fine 1930's, Depiction of a Boxing Match
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930's, Depiction of a Boxing Match by Francis Chapin. This dynamic drawing captures overlapping human forms rendered in expressive, gestural lines. There is a clear sense of ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Pastel
La Cite Notre Dame, Modern Etching by Henri Matisse
Located in Long Island City, NY
Henri Matisse, French (1869 - 1954) - La Cite Notre Dame. Year: 1937, Medium: Etching, Size: 13.75 x 10.5 in. (34.93 x 26.67 cm), Reference: D 249, Description: From the collection o...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
original linocut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original linoleum cut. This linocut by Italian Futurist Gino Severini was printed in 1939 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/2 x 9...
Category
Futurist 1930s Art
Materials
Linocut
'Modern Music' — WPA Modernism, New York City El
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Potter, 'Modern Music' also Twilight Melodies', linocut, c. 1935, from the posthumous edition of 20, printed in 1977, authorized by the artist’s widow. Estate authenticated in...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Linocut
A 1930s Etching & Aquatint of Palmolive Building Chicago by S. Chester Danforth
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930s, Art Deco etching & aquatint of the Palmolive Building in Chicago by notable print maker S. Chester Danforth. Image size: 14 1/4" x 8". Archivally matted to 20" x 14".
S....
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Art Deco nude young woman in mirror Modernist portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura M. GREENWOOD (1897-1951).
Nude Woman with Tropical Plant Interior, ca. 1930's
Oil on artist panel, 16 x 20 inches.
Signed lower right. Would benefit from a cleaning. Origi...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Snaffles: 'The Timber Merchant' 1930s lithograph signed in pencil
Located in London, GB
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Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884-1967)
The Timber Merchant (c. 1932)
Lithograph
47 x 43 cm
Signed in pencil...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
A ca. 1935 Painting of a Boxing Match in Mexico City by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1935 painting of a boxing match in Mexico by artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 12" x 28". Framed size: 15 1/2" x 31 1/2". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Berty Seuron, 1st Dancer by Leon-Laurent Galand - Drawing - 43x57 cm
By Leon-Laurent Galand 1
Located in Geneva, CH
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...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Chalk, Crayon
Circa 1930 ink poster project, titled "Modes" Art deco fashion
Located in PARIS, FR
This circa 1930 ink poster project, titled "Modes," is a striking representation of Art Deco fashion illustration. Hand-drawn in black ink and wash, the artwork captures the essence ...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
California Valley, Near Capistrano, 20th Century Western Mountainous Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
California Valley, Near Capistrano, c. 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, titled verso
15 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Fr...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor
'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
A Handsome 1930s Rockwell Kent Lithograph on Paper, Titled "Canterbury Tales"
Located in Chicago, IL
A handsome 1930s Rockwell Kent lithograph on paper, titled "Canterbury Tales". Nicely matted and framed in a gold-toned frame. Image size: ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Original Boyriven Aviation Navigation Chemin de Fer art deco vintage poster 1933
Located in Spokane, WA
An authentic, original Boyriven vintage poster designed by O.K. Gerand, professionally linen-backed for durability and display. A striking composition with bold graphics and clean ty...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fauvist Oil on Board ca 1930 by Richard H Bassett
Located in Exton, PA
Exquisite and brilliantly colored oil painting on canvass laid to board by Richard Horace Bassett (1900-1995). This is a Fauvist rendition of lands...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
$520 Sale Price
62% Off
French Art Deco Woman Singing Gouache Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely gouache on cardboard painting featuring an Art Deco singer with a typical stylish outfit. Utilizing the contrast of black and white components against primary colors like y...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Gouache, Board, Cardboard
La Voix Humaine
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
" Femme de profil au téléphone " .pen , India ink and wash paper . signed Jean and dated .
executed in 1930 . original drawing certified by Madame Annie Guedras .
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
India Ink
A Fine 1930s Modern Drawing of a Figure Study Sketch Class, Artists at Easels
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Depicting an Artist's Sketch Class and a Seated Young Male Mode by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An excep...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Boy in the Field"
Located in Astoria, NY
Eric Rebane (Russian, 1922-1999), "A Boy in the Field", Oil on Canvas, 1939, signed lower right, International Art Fund Certificate of Authenticity to verso, ebonized and giltwood fr...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$550 Sale Price
35% Off
VALLEY RAMPARTS -
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869-1958)
VALLEY RAMPARTS 1933
Color block print, signed and titled in pencil. 10 1/8 x 12 inches. Very large and good impression In generally good condition. ...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Early 20th Century Ceramic Sculpture of a Polo Player and Horse
By Waylande Gregory
Located in Beachwood, OH
Waylande Gregory (American, 1905-1971)
Polo Player, c. 1930s
Ceramic
Inscribed signature on bottom
11 x 8.5 inches
Waylande Gregory was considered a major American sculptor during the 1930's, although he worked in ceramics, rather than in the more traditional bronze or marble. Exhibiting his ceramic works at such significant American venues for sculpture as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and at the venerable Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, he also showed his ceramic sculptures at leading New York City galleries. Gregory was the first modern ceramist to create large scale ceramic sculptures, some measuring more than 70 inches in height. Similar to the technique developed by the ancient Etruscans, he fired his monumental ceramic sculptures only once.
Gregory was born in 1905 in Baxter Springs, Kansas and was something of a prodigy. Growing up on a ranch near a Cherokee reservation, Gregory first became interested in ceramics as a child during a native American burial that he had witnessed. He was also musically inclined. In fact, his mother had been a concert pianist and had given her son lessons. At eleven, he was enrolled as a student at the Kansas State Teacher's College, where he studied carpentry and crafts, including ceramics.
Gregory's early development as a sculptor was shaped by the encouragement and instruction of Lorado Taft, who was considered both a major American sculptor as well as a leading American sculpture instructor. In fact, Taft's earlier students included such significant sculptors as Bessie Potter Vonnoh and Janet Scudder. But, Taft and his students had primarily worked in bronze or stone, not in clay; and, Gregory's earliest sculptural works were also not in ceramics. In 1924, Gregory moved to Chicago where he caught the attention of Taft. Gregory was invited by Taft to study with him privately for 18 months and to live and work with him at his famed "Midway Studios." The elegant studio was a complex of 13 rooms that overlooked a courtyard. Taft may have been responsible for getting the young man interested in creating large scale sculpture. However, by the 1920's, Taft's brand of academic sculpture was no longer considered progressive. Instead, Gregory was attracted to the latest trends appearing in the United States and Europe. In 1928 he visited Europe with Taft and other students.
"Kid Gregory," as he was called, was soon hired by Guy Cowan, the founder of the Cowan Pottery in Cleveland, Ohio, to become the company's only full time employee. From 1928 to 1932, Gregory served as the chief designer and sculptor at the Cowan Pottery. Just as Gregory learned about the process of creating sculpture from Taft, he literally learned about ceramics from Cowan. Cowan was one of the first graduates of Alfred, the New York School of Clayworking and Ceramics. Alfred had one of the first programs in production pottery. Cowan may have known about pottery production, but he had limited sculptural skills, as he was lacking training in sculpture. The focus of the Cowan Pottery would be on limited edition, table top or mantle sculptures. Two of the most successful of these were Gregory's "Nautch Dancer," (fig. 1) and his "Burlesque Dancer," (fig. 2). He based both sculptures on the dancing of Gilda Gray, a Ziegfield Follies girl.
Gilda Gray was of Polish origin and came to the United States as a child. By 1922, she would become one of the most popular stars in the Follies. After losing her assets in the stock market crash of 1929, she accepted other bookings outside of New York, including Cleveland, which was where Gregory first saw her onstage. She allowed Gregory to make sketches of her performances from the wings of the theatre. She explained to Gregory, "I'm too restless to pose." Gray became noted for her nautch dance, an East Indian folk dance. A nautch is a tight, fitted dress that would curl at the bottom and act like a hoop. This sculpture does not focus on Gray's face at all, but is more of a portrait of her nautch dance. It is very curvilinear, really made of a series of arches that connect in a most feminine way.
Gregory created his "Burlesque Dancer" at about the same time as "Nautch Dancer." As with the "Nautch Dancer," he focused on the movements of the body rather than on a facial portrait of Gray. Although Gregory never revealed the identity of his model for "Burlesque Dancer," a clue to her identity is revealed in the sculpture's earlier title, "Shimmy Dance." The dancer who was credited for creating the shimmy dance was also Gilda Gray. According to dance legend, Gray introduced the shimmy when she sang the "Star Spangled Banner" and forgot some of the lyrics, so, in her embarrassment, started shaking her shoulders and hips but she did not move her legs. Such movement seems to relate to the "Burlesque Dancer" sculpture, where repeated triangular forms extend from the upper torso and hips. This rapid movement suggests the influence of Italian Futurism, as well as the planar motion of Alexander Archipenko, a sculptor whom Gregory much admired.
The Cowan Pottery was a victim of the great depression, and in 1932, Gregory changed careers as a sculptor in the ceramics industry to that of an instructor at the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cranbrook was perhaps the most prestigious place to study modern design in America. Its faculty included the architect Eliel Saarinen and sculptor Carl Milles.
Although Gregory was only at Cranbrook for one and one half years, he created some of his finest works there, including his "Kansas Madonna" (fig. 3). But, after arriving at Cranbrook, the Gregory's had to face emerging financial pressures. Although Gregory and his wife were provided with complimentary lodgings, all other income had to stem from the sale of artworks and tuition from students that he, himself, had to solicit. Gregory had many people assisting him with production methods at the Cowan Pottery, but now worked largely by himself. And although he still used molds, especially in creating porcelain works, many of his major new sculptures would be unique and sculpted by hand, as is true of "Kansas Madonna." The scale of Gregory's works were getting notably larger at Cranbrook than at Cowan.
Gregory left the surface of "Kansas Madonna" totally unglazed. Although some might object to using a religious title to depict a horse nursing its colt, it was considered one of Gregory's most successful works. In fact, it had a whole color page illustration in an article about ceramic sculpture titled, "The Art with the Inferiority Complex," Fortune Magazine, December, 1937. The article notes the sculpture was romantic and expressive and the sculpture was priced at $1,500.00; the most expensive sculpture in the article. Gregory was from Kansas, and "Kansas Madonna" should be considered a major sculptural document of Regionalism.
Gregory and his wife Yolande moved to New Jersey in the summer of 1933. And the artist began construction on his new home in the Watchung Mountains of Bound Brook (Warren today) in 1938. His enormous, custom kiln was probably constructed at the start of 1938. Gregory's new sculptures were the largest ceramic sculptures in western art, in modern times. To create these works of ceramic virtuosity, the artist developed a "honeycomb" technique, in which an infrastructure of compartments was covered by a ceramic "skin."
Science and atomic energy were a theme in Gregory's most significant work, the "Fountain of the Atom" (fig. 4), at the 1939 New York's World Fair. This major work included twelve monumental ceramic figures at the fairground entrance from the newly constructed railway entrance, giving the work great visibility and prominence. The framework of the fountain itself was of steel and glass bricks. It consisted of a bluish green pool which was sixty five feet in diameter. Above it were two concentric circular tiers, or terraces, as Gregory called them; the first wider than the second. On the first terrace were eight "Electrons," comprised of four male and four female terra cotta figures, each approximately 48 inches high. These relate to the valance shell of the atom. Above them on a narrower terrace, were the much larger and heavier terra cotta figures depicting the four elements, each averaging about 78 inches in height and weighing about a ton and a half. Of the four, "Water" and "Air" were male, while "Earth" and "Fire" were female. This terrace represents the nucleus of the atom. In the center of the fountain, above the "Elements," was a central shaft comprised of sixteen glass tubes from which water tumbled down from tier to tier. At the top, a colorful flame burned constantly. The glass block tiers were lit from within, the whole creating a glowing and gurgling effect. Since the fair was temporary, the figures could be removed after its closing. But the credit for the design of the structure of the fountain belongs to collaborator Nembhard Culin, who was responsible for several other structures on the fair grounds as well.
Although Gregory created a figure of "Fire" for the "Fountain of the Atom," he also executed a second, slightly smaller but more defined version which he exhibited at various locations (including Cranbrook, Baltimore Museum, etc.) in 1940-1941, during the second year of the fair (fig.5). Measuring 61 inches in height, "Fire" may be a metaphor for sexual energy, as well as atomic energy. Gregory stated, "Fire is represented by an aquiline female figure being consumed in endless arabesques of flame."
Portraiture was also a significant focus of Gregory's sculpture. Gregory produced many commissioned portraits of local people as well as celebrities. He created Albert Einstein's portrait from life (fig. 6, ca. 1940) after Einstein had seen Gregory's "Fountain of the Atom." He also sculpted some of the leading figures in entertainment, including 2 sculptures of Henry Fonda, who became a personal friend.
Gregory also sculpted a series of idealized female heads, both in terra cotta and in porcelain. These include "Girl with Olive" (ca. 1932) and "Cretan Girl;"(ca. 1937) both are very reductive and almost abstract works that call to mind Constantine Brancusi's "Mademoiselle Pogany" (1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art). But perhaps one of his most original female heads is "Head of a Child" (fig. 7, ca. 1933), a sensitive white glazed terra cotta portrayal with elaborately crafted braded hair, was originally created as one of a pair.
Gregory also produced sculptural works for the Works Progress Administration. The WPA was a work relief project that greatly helped artists during the great depression. Founded by the Federal Government in 1935, an estimated 2500 murals were produced. Among these public works were the iconic post office murals. But, among the painted murals were also sculptural relief murals including Gregory's "R.F.D.," 1938, for the Columbus, Kansas Post Office. But, Gregory's largest WPA relief...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Ceramic
Original South Africa Express Italian Line - Genoa 1931 vintage travel poster
By Giovanni Patrone
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1931 South Africa Express Vintage Italian Cruise Line Poster - Art Deco Masterpiece - Rare Collectible. Archival linen backed in Grade A- condition. This poster features...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
ROBJ, Large Oil on canvas, Wall Panel, Couple near the Pound, 1930
By ROBJ
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas signed ROBJ, France, 1930s. Couple near the Pound. with frame - 134.6x107x7 cm - 53"x42"x2.75" ; without frame - 116x89 cm - 45.7x35 inches. 50F format. Signed "Robj" l...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French 1930s Art Deco Society Portrait, Lady with a Diamond Earring.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Art Deco, oil on canvas, society female portrait by Dembinkski (probably Anton J.) Signed, dated and located (Paris) bottom left. In later wood and gilt frame.
A charming and...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,640 Sale Price
22% Off
Arc du Carrousel du Louvre - Fauvist Figures in Cityscape Oil by Louis Valtat
By Louis Valtat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas figures in landscape by French painter Louis Valtat. The work depicts a view of the Arc du Triomphe du Carrousel from the Louvre in Paris, France. A beau...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Bouquet of Digitalis, Poppy, Iris, Snapdragons, Cornflower, Buttercup, 1936
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ture Ander (1881-1959) Sweden
A Bouquet of Digitalis, Poppy, Iris, Snapdragons, Cornflower, Buttercup. 1936
oil on board
signed and dated Ture Ander 36
board dimensions 24,41 x 18,...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$3,457 Sale Price
22% Off
Cockatoo
Located in PARIS, FR
Cockatoo
Head turned to the right, with a raised and spread out crest
by Edouard-Marcel SANDOZ (1881-1971)
A bronze sculpture with a dark brown patina nuanced with green
Signed on t...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Bronze
A Charming, Colorful 1930s Painting of a Young Woman Knitting by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, colorful 1930s painting of a young woman knitting by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. A harmonious palette of cheerful yellows, reds and blues, where a young...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
French Impressionist Barbizon School Landscape, Forest at Mont-de-l'Enclus
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of a forest by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). The painting is signed bottom left and is also titled and dated to the back of...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
The Cabaret Dancer
Located in London, GB
'The Cabaret Dancer', crayon on art paper, by Kolomon Moore (circa 1930s). The Crazy Years (les Années Folles) of Paris in the 1920s hit an abrupt end in...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$847 Sale Price
25% Off
'Interior of the Kannon Temple at Asakusa' — Tokyo Landmark, Early Edition
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
NARAZAKI EISHO (1864-1936), 'Asakusa Kannon-do no naido' (Interior of the Kannon Temple at Asakusa), color woodblock print, 1932. Signed Eisho lower right, with the artist’s red seal beneath. A fine impression with fresh colors; the full sheet with slight overall age toning, a drying tack...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Snaffles: 'The Huntsman' signed lithograph - "The 'oss loves the 'ound"
Located in London, GB
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C...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Istanbul Turkey - Irish Post Impressionist landscape oil painting female artist
By Gladys Nolan
Located in Hagley, England
This striking oil on canvas painting is by Irish artist Gladys Nolan and was painted circa 1930. This Post Impressionist view is of Istanbul, Turkey with the spires of the iconic Blu...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
"The Bather" Large Oil Painting on Canvas Signed and Dated 1936
Located in Pistoia, IT
Charles Kvapil (1884-1958) "The Bather," massive oil painting on canvas signed lower right "Kvapil 1936."
Charles Kvapil, born in Czechoslovakia and naturalized Belgian, is a painte...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Emil Ganso, (Reclining Nude)
By Emil Ganso
Located in New York, NY
A classic Emil Ganso nude. Quite large, the sheet is 14 1/8 x 21 inches and the image goes all the way across the sheet from left to right. Very delicately drawn - especially for Ganso.
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Pencil
Grapin fait le bon vin original French vintage poster
By Leon Dupin
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage 1933 poster: Graphin. The silhouette of the man is sitting on a casket of wine with a big bottle of wine resting on the ground in front ...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
Located in New York, NY
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
James McCracken (1875 – 1967)
WPA Landscape
28 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1930s
Signed lower right
...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Introspective 1930s Modern Portrait, "Acolyte" by Noted Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
An Introspective 1930s Modern Portrait, "Acolyte" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Dry watercolor on board. Artwork size: 15” x 12” (Framed size: 18 3/4” ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Pietro Perugino 'The Lamentation for Christ' 1930- Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Drawings by Italian Masters of the XV-XVIII Centuries. From a selection of 40 reproductions of the originals preserved in the Albertina Collection in Vienna. With an introduction and...
Category
Renaissance 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), original pencil drawing of Bavaria
Located in New York, NY
Marsden Hartley
ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), 1933
Pencil on cream wove paper. In original vintage frame with Zabriskie Gallery label
Sticker label, framed with Zabris...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Pencil
"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos
An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's ...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Black and White
Paris Evening
Located in Madrid, ES
EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS
French, 1882 - 1969
PARIS EVENING
signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS" (lower right)
oil on canvas
25-3/4 x 36-1/4 inches (65 x 91.5 cm.)
framed: 31-3/4 x 42-1/2 inches (80.5 x 108 cm.)
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by "Comité Édouard CORTÈS"
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, France
Edouard Léon Cortès (1882–1969) was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm.
Authentified by her son Charles Delaunay on the back.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1930s Art
Original Affiches Paul Mohr Compagnie Nationale des Papers 1932 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original small format poster Affiches Paul Mohr, 1932. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. The rare Paul Mohr posters are incredibly elusive; many have had only one remaining known copy survive. Printing method: Helio-Typo or Typelo.
Before television, beautiful lithographs adorn the streets and walls of Paris and other European cities. Art for the street, art for the public. Weather and rain would destroy these works of art by renowned artists, only to be replaced.
The artist: Paul Gustave Mohr, a French Avant-garde poster designer from the Art Deco period was born Sept. 4, 1890 in Ham, France and died on April 13, 1959 in Paris. He lived most of his life in Paris, and then settled in the small town of Asnieres, France, just outside of Paris. He attended the Sorbonne University, as well as several art schools. During World War I, he was a pilot in the French Army from 1914-1917. Paul Mohr married Jeanne Levy in 1917 and they had three daughters: Helene, Genevieve, and Jacqueline.
As an artist, he designed advertising posters from 1920 to 1940. His
posters advertised Wonder cycles, Dainty cycles, Lustucru pasta, Banania sugar, Bremsit brakes, Champigneulles beer, L'Union beer, Dubonnet wine, as well as shoes and ham.
This information was provided to me by my mother, Helene Mohr Breitenbucher, who was his eldest daughter. Carol Schuler (granddaughter)
Advertising posters, the affiches of Paul Mohr. This is an original advertising poster for the affiches (posters) created by the master artist Paul Mohr (1890-1959). Archival linen backed in very good condition. No stains, no tears, no paper loss. Grade A condition. Ready to frame. Compagnie Nationale des Papier, Paris.
The crowd on the street looks up in amazement at the art deco-style images that the artist created. Images on the wall feature incredible image that this artist created such as Lustucru, Amer...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Offset
Figurative Picasso Etching, 'Trois Femmes nues et une Coupe d’Anémones', 1933
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso's "Trois Femmes nues et une Coupe d'Anémones" (1933) is a powerful and evocative work that captures the artist's fascination with the female form and his ongoing explor...
Category
Cubist 1930s Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Arrangement de fleurs - Impressionist Still Life Painting Oil by Leon Detroy
By Leon Detroy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed still life oil on canvas circa 1930 by French impressionist painter Leon Detroy. The work depicts a vase filled with roses and peonies in deep reds and pinks.
Signature:
Sign...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Couple : The Argument - Original Lithograph
By Le Corbusier
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
Couple : The Argument, 1938
Original lithograph
Signature printed in the plate
Dated in the plate
On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch)
Very good con...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Early 20th century Art Deco Male nude oil painting of Narcissus
By George Frederick Hinchcliff
Located in Harkstead, GB
An incredibly striking study of the male form with the figure set against a colourful background with stylised organic forms. Attractively framed, the painting is ready to be hung an...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original Mossant Vintage Poster Hats by Leonetto Cappiello 1938
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is an original stone lithograph poster created by the famous poster artist, Leonetto Cappiello. It was done toward the end of his prolific career. In this image Cappiello used h...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, "Sculpteur et Modele debout, " etching, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Sculpteur et Modele debout
Year: 1933
Medium: Original etching
Edition: hand signed in pencil from an edition of 250 on small margins
Size: Frame: 27 x 2...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Desnudo de Frida Kahlo, Signed Lithograph by Diego Rivera
By Diego Rivera
Located in Long Island City, NY
This portrait depicts Rivera's second wife, the artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54), sitting on a bed wearing stockings and shoes and fastening rows of beads around her neck. An accident wh...
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
New Hope Hills
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951)
New Hope Hills, c. 1931
Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left: Fern I. Coppedge
Provenance
The artist;
Gift from the arti...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Cliffs & Hogan, Arizona, Early 20th Century Western Mountainous Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Red Cliffs and Hogan, Arizona, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
14.5 x 19 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelso...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor
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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original linocut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original linoleum cut. Printed in 1938 for the rare fourth issue of the art revue XXe Siecle . Size: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (317 x 244 mm). Signed in the block (not by hand).
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Category
1930s Art
Materials
Linocut
Frida Kahlo with Magenta Rebozo - Color Photograph, Portrait, Celebrity, Woman
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Kahlo with Magenta Rebozo, New York is a limited edition color portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. This iconic image depicts the woman artist leaning against a wall, with ...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment




