1940s Art

The Boss is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945 ca. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Italian...

The Dictator is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, J...

Turkish and American is a Watercolour Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Si...

General and Girl is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1947 ca Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition, with slight folding. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, J...

Gustl Stark (1917 Mainz - 2009 ibid.), Small Nude, 1946. Oil on canvas, marouflaged, 54 x 25 cm (picture), 30 x 60 cm (frame), signed "Stark" top left, verso twice signed "Gustav Stark", inscribed by hand as "Small Nude" and dated by hand "1946". With label of the exhibition of the Bundeshaus Bonn from 1956. - Rubbed area in the lower third of the body, at the same level a retouch in the ochre background. I provisional frame. - Abstract Figurativity - About the artwork During the war, Gustl Stark suffered a particularly severe blow for an artist: he lost his right arm. Nevertheless, he continued to devote himself to art, and the painting, created in 1946, immediately after the end of the Nazi reign of terror, testifies to the dawn of a new era. At the same time, the work is a rare example of the artist's early figurative work, as Stark turned entirely to abstract painting as early as 1950. And even this painting is by no means purely figurative; rather, it already illustrates Stark's turn toward abstraction. We see a female nude, but one that remains faceless. This can be read symbolically and in relation to the immediate past epoch, which, in the face of horrors, silences and blinds - literally renders faceless. In this sense, the figure is positioned to 'look back'. But she does not look. While this meaning may resonate and make the painting an important work of the immediate postwar period, Gustl Stark is primarily concerned with something else here, namely art itself. The absence of the face leads to the body becoming something flat. Due to the de-individualization, we do not see a concrete person with his individual features, but a body surface. And indeed, the body is constructed through an extremely planar design. Even the contour lines that form the corporeality have a planar rather than a linear character, especially where they merge into shadow zones of almost the same color. And the surfaces themselves are not modeled. The incarnate parts do not show any plastic gradations; the corporeality is completely withdrawn into the plane, which is also true for the hair. In addition, there is no uniform background against which the figure could appear; rather, the area next to the hair is kept bluish, creating a succession of earth-toned colored areas, which again binds the figure to the surface. Last but not least, the flatness is also forced by the painting technique. Gustl Stark paints directly, a la prima, onto the coarse canvas, whereby the structure of the painting support remains visible in the picture, and in places - around the hair, for example - the canvas itself can be seen. This structural all-over lends the picture a certain flatness. Gustl Stark thus uses the very motif that stands for the corporeality of art par excellence - the female nude - to transform the spatiality of the traditional picture into a flatness characteristic of modern art. And yet, a strong impression of corporeality is created, without being produced by a painterly modeling of the body. The oscillation between flatness and corporeality creates the intense tension of this groundbreaking painting. In Gustl Stark's oeuvre, as a consequence of the abstraction we see here, the figurative is completely stripped away in a further step, which is also a loss when looking at this early key work. About the artist Gustl Stark was the son of a woodcarver and, after an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, attended the State School of Arts and Crafts in Mainz from 1936 to 1937. Although he was severely wounded in the war and lost his right arm, he studied at the Würzburg School of Painting and Drawing from 1943-1944 and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1944-1948. He won a state scholarship at the state art competition in Bad Ischl. Numerous study trips to Sylt, Paris, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Holland and Belgium followed. Gustl Stark worked in Mainz and was the first artist there to focus on abstract painting. His work quickly gained international recognition, including the Salon Réaliés Nouvelles in Paris. From 1963-1970 he taught at the State University Institute for Art and Work Education in Mainz and from 1970-1975 at the Johannes Gutenberg University. Gustl Stark became particularly famous for his color embossed prints, for which he invented his own technique. Gustl Stark received numerous awards for his work. He received the Art Prize for Painting of the City of Mainz in 1962, the State Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1984, and the Gutenberg Bust of the City of Mainz in 1987. Selected Bibliography Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts, Vierter Band, Leipzig 1958, S. 344. Hans H...

Faces is a linocut realized by Mino Maccari in the 1940s. 50 x 30 cm. Hand signed in the lower right part. Edition of 12 copies. Reference; Cat. Meloni , pag 367, n.1741. Good c...

Superfluous is a sketch for a cover of the Magazine "Il Superfluo Illustrato" by Ennio Flaiano, realized in Pen and Watercolor by Mino Maccari (1924-198...

Original vintage Pan Am travel advertising map poster - South America Continent of Contrasts served by Pan American World Airways and Pan American Grace ...

Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades, 1948. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing av...

The Kiss is a China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Ital...

Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades, 1948 by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing avai...

Girl With Parasols 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades, 1948. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing a...

Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1948 by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples -...

Police and Guys is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1947 ca. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an...

Figure is a watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945. Hand-signed on the lower, with another drawing on the rear. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 192...

Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades, 1948. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing ava...

Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1948. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples ...

Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1948 by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples -...

Beachwear Fashion Shoot 1944 Model in a beachwear for a Vogue fashion shoot, Florida, USA, 1944. by Toni Frissell 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Archival pigment print...

Authograph Letter Signed by Milena Pavlovic-Barilli to the Countess A.L. Pecci-Blunt. Washington, May 19th 1943. In Italian. One page, bilateral Perfectly readable, Excellent condi...

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[World War Two map] Dunkirk to Berlin June 1940 - July 1945 - A Map of the Journeys Undertaken by The Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M. C.H. in Defence of the British Commonwealth and Empire. London, George Philip & Son Ltd., 1947. The map provides a record of Winston Churchill's journeys in the Second World War and the means by which the travels were made. His journeyswere to numerous political conferences from New York to Moscow, beginning with the ‘Atlantic Charter’ in 1941, which was the product of his meeting at sea with Roosevelt that established the general desire on both sides for a democratic, progressive post-war world. After a number of intercontinental circuits the map brings his journeys to an end at the Potsdam Conference of 1945, the historic meeting of the ‘Big Three’ (Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin), to negotiate the post-war treatment of Germany. In addition, the map also illustrates Churchill's 1944 tours of the beaches of Normandy and the invasion coasts of Italy and Southern France. Featured at the bottom are illustrations of his travelling crafts, including the ships ‘King...

Evening Gown 1948 Fashion shoot featuring a model in an evening gown, 1948. by Toni Frissell 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing ...

Evening Gown 1948 Fashion shoot featuring a model in an evening gown, 1948. by Toni Frissell 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing ...

Floating 1947 A model floats in an evening dress, shot from underwater, 1947. by Toni Frissell 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing...

Florida Vogue 1944 February 1944 Vogue Florida Fashion shoot featuring a model in a pink bathing suit next to a parasol on a beach with the sky and ocean behind her. by Toni Fris...

Girl On The Beach 1947 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1947. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples -...

The Interview is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1940s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an ...

Girl In Yellow 1944 Model in a yellow dress with matching yellow hat, USA, 1944. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (frami...

Bondage is a beautiful black and white linocut on paper, realized in 1945 by the Italian artist, Mino Maccari. Hand-signed as "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower margin. Ed...

Girl On The Beach 1947 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1947. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples -...

Girl On The Beach 1947 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1947. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples -...

Girl On The Beach 1947 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1947. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples -...

Girl On The Beach 1947 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1947. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples -...

Girl On The Beach 1947 Beachwear fashion shoot, 1947. by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples -...

Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades, 1948 by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing avail...

Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades, 1948 by Toni Frissell 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing avail...

The Couple is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945 ca. Monogrammed on the lower margin. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was ...

Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946. Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm

Bird and Melancholy is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989...

Watercolor and carbon pencil on paper wooden frame with glass Total size with frame is 47x36 cm Émile François Chambon, born January 10, 1905 in Geneva and died October 28, 1993 in...

Smokers is a Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1940s. Monogrammed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an...

Original vintage winter sport travel poster for the ski resort of St Moritz featuring a great design by the Swiss artist Franco Barberis (1905-1992) depicting the St Moritz smiling s...

Police and Woman is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1945. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) wa...

Original vintage cruise travel poster - Cie Gle Transatlantique French Line Le Havre Southampton New York - featuring artwork by the French artist Albert Brenet (1903-2005) depicting an ocean liner sailing at sea with the stylised title text above and against the choppy white waves below. Founded in 1861 (having been established in 1855 by the brothers Emile and Issac Pereire), the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique CGT was a French shipping company known as French Line and Transat; it merged with Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes...

Faces is a linocut realized by Mino Maccari in the 1940s. 50 x 30 cm. Handisigned in the lower right part. Edition of 12 copies. Reference; Cat. Meloni , pag 367, n.1741. Good c...

Faces is a linocut realized by Mino Maccari in the 1940s. 50 x 30 cm. Handisigned in the lower right part. Edition of 12 copies. Reference; Cat. Meloni , pag 367, n.1741. Good c...

Sketch is a Pen and Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, ...

Joaquín Asensio Mariné (1890-1961) - Still life of flowers - Oil on canvas Oil measures 38x46 cm. Frame measures 62x70 cm. Asensio Mariné (Barcelona, 1890-1961) was a painter who sp...

Beltempo (Good Time) is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1940s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little paper, artist proof for the co...

Original vintage Pan Am travel advertising map poster - On the routes of the Flying Clipper Ships - featuring a pictorial map by Kenneth W. Thompson (1907-1996) of Latin America with images of points of interest, cities, animals and people including ancient Maya ruins and Inca ruins, the Iguassu Falls, Amazon...

Ex Libris is an Artwork realized in 1948. Woodcut print on paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 21 x 15 cm. Good conditions. The artist wants to define a well...

Scholar is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1940s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924...

Original vintage skiing poster advertising Winter Sports in France / Wintersport in Frankreich - featuring a great design depicting a couple on skis enjoying the view of the snowy mo...

Composition - Vintage Poster is an original artwork realized for Exhibition at Maurice Garnier Gallery by Bernard Buffet in 1942. Offset and Lithogra...

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Spanish and Dutch Soldiers is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions. Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...

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