1940s Art

Henri Matisse (After), French (1869-1954) Le Destin (Destiny) Portfolio: Jazz Year: Of Original: 1947 Year Printed: 1983 Medium: Lithograph Image Size: 15 x 22.75 inches Size: 15.25...

Vintage American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 22L x 13H. Signed.

This exquisite etching by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Jeune abandonée (Abandoned Young Woman), from the album Antares, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin (Antares, Ori...

Mary Martin "South Pacific" Broadway Musical Theatre Caricature Tony Award Sam Norkin (1917-2011) Marty Martin in "South Pacific," 1949 Sight: 11 x 8 3/4 inches Ink and gouache on ...

Paul Lukas "Watch On The Rhine" - 1943 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull A 1943 black and white portrait photograph of actor Paul Lukas (Hungarian, 1894-1971) by Clarence Sincla...

Merio Ameglio Italian, 1897-1970 Parisian Street Scene Oil on Canvas 18 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 26 by 29 ½ in. Signed lower left Merio noted impr...

Chinese Vase with Nightingale is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the XX Century by the French artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux...

Another delightful large painting by the post impressionist master; Emile Albert Gruppe. The landscape take you down a snow covered road by a cool icy running stream through a New En...

"Jusqu'a L'Abstraction" is a lithograph poster by Wassily Kandinsky. This poster depicts abstract forms in purple, pink, blue, and black and was created for the Maeght gallery in Par...

Mid Century Modern Burgundy Calla Lilies in Oil on Masonite Gorgeous still life of burgundy calla lilies by listed artist Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleif...

Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This impression in violet ink was printed in France in 1944 for the rare "Correspondances" portfolio, published by Teriade in a limited editio...

Modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Unsigned. Image size, 37"L x 25"H.

Mosaic on cement panel, realized by Massimo Campigli in 1947. Unique piece, with certificate of authenticity on photograph by the artist's son Nicola Campigli on photo. Bibliograph...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Round Head of a Man with Tiny Features (Plate XVII) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Frame Size: 21" x 18"...

This rare original 1941 poster by the French illustrator André pays tribute to one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century: Django Reinhardt. Created for Disques Swing, ...

Work on watercolor paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 48 x 57 x 2.7 cm

Work on wood Golden wooden frame 41 x 57 x 3.5 cm

George Platt Lynes Photograph #7 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949. George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition. This photograph is #7 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection. George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian. Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...

Artist: Gladys Rockmore Davis, American (1901 - 1967) Title: Summer Flowers Year: circa 1940 Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right Size: 24 x 20 inches Frame: 33 x 29 inches

Untitled is a beautiful black and white xylograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by the French artist Simon Martin. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil on the lower margi...

Sexual Desire is a black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower marg...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie C, var. 4 (Series C, Variation 4), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Antique English landscape oil painting by Julian Barrow (1939 - 2013). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 10 by 12 inches overall, and 8 by 10 painting alone. In excellent or...

Symbolic figurative of woman having visions with religious themes and icons (cross, bride, salamander, crown, meeting Christ) while reading by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...

French poet, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau with actress Ricki Soma and dancer Leo Coleman New York City, 1949/printed later Estate stamp in black ink, verso Archival pigment p...

Paper Size: 40.75 x 27 inches ( 103.505 x 68.58 cm ) Image Size: 38.75 x 25 inches ( 98.425 x 63.5 cm ) Framed: No Condition: C: Several Signs of use and handling, some visible ma...

Marie LAURENCIN Young Girl with Guitar, 1945 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 8,6 inch) REFERENCES : Catalogue raisonné Marchess...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie A, var. 5 (Series A, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This is an original World War II poster designed by renowned illustrator David Stone Martin, issued as OWI Poster No. 8 by the U.S. Office of War Informat...

This interesting British landscape oil painting is by noted artist Laurence Henry Irving. Painted circa 1940 it is a Kent harvest landscape of the Rother Valley from Prospect Hill, W...

Wonderful still life of the red Flanders Field Poppy by Heide van Doren (Germany, 20th Century), circa 1940. Signed lower right "Heidi van Doren". Presented in carved gilt-toned fram...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie G, var. 3 (Series G, Variation 3), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Jeanne d'Arc is a modern artwork realized in the 1940s ca by a French Artist. Original China ink and Watercolors on paper. Passepartout is included (dimensions: 38 x 0.1 x 30 cm)....

Juan Reus (1912-2003) Original Vintage Bullfighting Poster September 1942 107cm x 53cm Juan Reus was born in 1912 in Valencia, where he became a well-known...

Isaac (sometimes Isac) Friedlander's large wood engraving, My People, 1944, reflects his genuine social interest. After a youth of extreme hardship, including incarceration in a czar...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie G, var. 1 (Series G, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Deforrest Judd (1916 - 1993) Dallas Artist Image Size: 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 Frame Size: 17 x 20.25 Medium: Lithograph 6 of 7 Dated 1942 "That Which Remains" Regionalist Biography Deforrest...

This vintage 1941 gouache painting on paper, titled Birth of Mind, signed and dated lower right, is a striking example of retrofuturism by Charles Ragland Bunnell, a prominent artist from the Broadmoor Academy...

Vintage signed large abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.

The Carousel is an original Modern Artwork realized in 1949 by the Italian artist Renzo Vespignani (Rome, 1924 - Rome, 2001). Original black ink and pen on ivory paper. Hand-sign...

This exquisite etching by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Jeune femme et son fils (Young Woman and Her Son), from the album Antares, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin (An...

This exquisite lithograph by Andre Derain (1880–1954), titled Sous-bois (Underwood), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 8, originates from the 1940 issue publis...

In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie I, var. 13 (Series I, Variation 13), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Th...

Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings. Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie G, var. 6 (Series G, Variation 6), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Micro picture, gouache on paper mounted on black leather. Belonging to the serie “Microbes”. Interestingly, it is unusually mounted on a black leather surface whose shape reminds th...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie E, var. 3 (Series E, Variation 3), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Ischia is a beautiful watercolor on paper with soft eathly color tones of a glimpse into the town of Ischia. The piece was realized by Léopold Survage in 1947. This unique piece is h...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie M, var. 6 (Series M, Variation 6), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Original oil painting on artist canvas board painting by the California artist, Fern F. Cunningham. Signed lower right. Titled in pencil on stretcher verso. Circa 1940. Condition is very good. Recently professionally cleaned. The painting is housed in its original period frame. Overall framed measurements are 14.5 by 17.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. Fern Cunningham Stone (1889-1975). She was born in Defiance, Ohio on August 4, 1889. A painter, she specialized in impressionist still life works, landscapes, and seascapes of California. Born Fern F. Smith, she married Napoleon Arthur...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie H, var. 9 (Series H, Variation 9), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Hobson Pittman (1899-1972) Signed upper left. Oil on panel. Provenance: Boca Raton Museum of Art Many examples of Pittman's paintings can be found in numerous museum collections, inc...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie J, var. 3 (Series J, Variation 3), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie H, var. 7 (Series H, Variation 7), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie G, var. 5 (Series G, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...

Hawaiian Symbolism Flowering Tree and Acolytes Symbolism Landscape Symbolic landscape with four figures worshiping flowering tree by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947)...

Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie D, var. 1 (Series D, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...