1940s Art

Browne, Byron (American, 1907-1961). UNTITLED PORTRAIT (Self Portrait?). watercolor and pencil, 1942. Signed and dated, lower right. 14 x 11 inches. Matted to 20 x 16 inches In e...

Warmly hued watercolor landscape of a old church perched atop a rural hillside by French artist R.D. Flament, 1940. Signed lower left and titled and dated lower right. Original art...

Work on paper without frame

Evocative watercolor landscape painting of the Moulin de la Galette, a landmark windmill in the Montmartre neighborhood on a wintry Paris day, by R. Holstein, 1948. Signed and dated ...

Original Christmas Mailing Time vintage poster: Artist: Bogorad. Original World War I (2) U. S. Army and Navy Postal Service. Linen backed in B co...

Original OUR AMERICA TRANSPORTATION #4, horizontal vintage WWII time frame Transportation creates new wonders. Professional acid-free archival linen backed mint condition. This #4 for Transportation has two variations produced by Coca-Cola to feature the future of modern air travel. This is a rare variation of the Coca-Cola Our America transportation series. This poster #4 for transportation is the only Coca-Cola Our America poster that had two different versions. This poster is in excellent condition. The initially issued fold narks were flattened, and the touch-up work is exceptionally well done. So well done, you would have to look to find them! As mint as this poster can be! A futuristic plane design is shown as "transportation creates new wonders' as the double-decker plane with lower and upper passenger loading. You can stop and drop off passengers directly at the plane from your car! You can arrive by boat or water taxi or by using the new suspended freeways. The scene has semi-delivery trucks driving directly to the loading bays. The airplane engines...

Andre Masson, French (1896–1987) Date: 1945 Lithograph on Pur Fil Marais, signed and numbered in pencil Edition, 30 Image Size: 12.5 x 8.5 inches Size: 19.75 x 13 in. (50.17 x 33.02 ...

Lively acrylic painting in hues of blues depicts several campers enjoying their evening by French artist Sellés, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displaye...

This elegant original poster, created circa 1940 by renowned maritime artist Charles Edward Turner, showcases the iconic R.M.S. Caronia, one of the most celebrated ocean liners of th...

Original military poster: Make this Pledge I Pay No More Than Top Legal Prices. This is the larger size format of this vintage poster (small size was 10 x 14) Artist: Frede...

Original poster: Radio L.M.T. "La Meilleure Tonalite". Elle l'aime tant. French antique vintage poster for the L. M. T. Radio. The radio wit...

Alvin H. Schwartz (American, 1916-2000), "The Excursion Incident" Edition 3/9, Figurative/ Illustration Lithograph signed and numbered in Pencil, 11 x 14, Mid 20th Century, 1940 Col...

Original Philips Infra-Rouge vintage poster. Size: 23" x 31". Archival linen-backed French antique poster. It is archival linen backed and ready to frame. This fun kitchen poster...

"Jazz Dancers" by Charles Hewitt A series of images showing British jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton playing while the wife of band member Mick Mullig...

"Fill Her Up" by Bert Hardy 24th May 1947: Pit staff filling up Louis Chiron's (1899 - 1979) Maserati. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4364 - Road Racing In Jersey - pub. 1947 ...

"Dominion Monarch" by Harry Todd The 26,263 ton Shaw Savill liner Dominion Monarch dwarfs the surrounding houses in Saville Road from her dry dock at the King George V docks in Lond...

The 1948 travel poster “Périgord” by Mac'Avoy for SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français) is a stunning representation of the Périgord region in southwestern France. Kno...

Elizabeth Gutman Kaye, younger sister of Adele Gutman Nathan, grew up in the same atmosphere of artistic edification as her siblings. Whereas Adele became a director and writer, Eliz...

Work on canvas Gilded wood frame 28,5 x 38 x 3 cm

FRANCISCO MORA (1922 - 2002) DUELO (Duel) c. 1945 Lithograph signed in pencil. Published by the TGP Taller de Grafica Popular. Label on verso. 9 5/8 x...

New Planets-5.7 Lithograph with pink, blue and yellow highlights 1946 Signed in pencil lower right corner (see photo) Dated lower right "'46" (see photo) Very rare surrelist color li...

The present mid-century work features two taboos in one painting. In 1949, it was verboten to glamorize gay life and even more prohibited to show interracial love. This work by Dan A...

Work on cardboard signed Brown wooden frame with glass pane Dimension with frame : 40 x 46.5 x 1.5 cm This work depicts a snowy village with remarkable precision, capturing the essen...

Three velvet-capped women huddle in gossip as another looks on during an October 1949 Vogue photoshoot entitled "Young Velvets, Young Prices". Taken from the roof of the Condé Nast ...

Original Avenge December 7th vintage poster. Linen backed; excellent condition. Artist: Bernard Perlin. Office of War Information, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-491978 Dramatic original World War II poster depicting a sailor with his fist raised, standing above a scene of an exploding battleship, with the words “Avenge December 7” in red across the middle of the poster. The striking image on OWI “Poster No. 15,” memorializing the events of December 7, 1941, was created by artist Bernard Perlin. U. S. Government Printing Office. Year: 1942 As a Life Magazine war art correspondent living in Europe during the 1940s and 1950s, Perlin continued to document social change uniquely. An American painter primarily known for creating many American posters during WWII and for magic realism...

Original vintage poster: Make your own Declaration of War, Buy War Bonds. Size 22" x 28:. Original 1942 World War II (WWII) American military vintage poster. Archival linen backed with the original U. S. Government poster...

Autograph Christmas Card Signed by Afro Basaldella and his wife Maria to the Countess A.L.Pecci-Blunt. Around 1940. In 24°. In Italian. Excellent condition: As good as New. The Italian artist wrote this kind autograph card to his mentor and patron of arts, best-known to the artists as "Mimì", the Countess Pecci-Bluunt, the volcanic woman that, together with the Italian poet Libero De Libero, founded in 1935 the Cometa Gallery and promoted the Roman School. An international world was been born in Rome, in which artists and intellectuals like Afro, Mirko, Cagli Mafai, Guttuso and Capogrossi, Severini, Martini, Janni, Melli, Ziveri, Pirandello, Savinio graviteted. At the sime time the Countess, organised literary presentations by writers like Cecchi, Moravia, Montale, lectures by Valéry and Mauriac; music night by Stravinskij, Petrassi, Milhaud, Honegger, Poulenc, Auric. During the summer, cosmopolitan worldliness was hold at the grand villa...

Just discovered, a rare, surrealist painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited thro...

The 1945 original poster by Bouchenaf for Vol à Voile Sport Sans Rival created for the Fédération Nationale des Sports Aériens is a testament to the post-war fascination with aviatio...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P5.52), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15.5 x 21 in. (39.37 x 53.34 cm), Description: Moored along the wate...

Wonderful French mid-20th-century portrait of a young girl holding her hand up. The artist was a highly talented painter in the Cubist style. He painted interiors, portraits, and la...

This circa 1940 original travel poster by French artist Jean Even promotes the winter resort of Le Mont-Dore, located in the volcanic mountains of Auvergne. The poster features a pl...

Le Cow-boy (The Cowboy) Henri Matisse (After) French (1869–1954) Portfolio: Jazz Date: Of Original: 1947 Year Printed: 1983 Lithograph Size: 15.25 x 23.5 in. (38.74 x 59.69 cm) Fr...

The Lady in Yellow, Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed by the artist on the lower right ha...

1940 Abstract Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern WPA Era Abstraction John Deforest Stull (1910-1972) "Abstract" Oil on Canvas 24 x 30 inches Signed and dated '40 lower right Fra...

Abstract Composition is an original screenprint realized by Henry Miller in the late 1940s for the illustrated book "Into the Night Life" (published in 1947 by Miller himself and by Bezazel Schatz). Bon à...

Cafe De Flore (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) Additional Information: Unframed Paper S...

Original Swiss poster: Apollo Stumpen Cigars. Johannes Handschin created this Swiss poster. Swiss size of 35" x 49". Professional acid-free archival linen backed, ready to frame. The colors are vibrant and intense. Great colors. Rare original Swiss (Switzerland) vintage poster. This is the rarer large format, the rarest version of the poster. The small format is 20 x 27, about 1/2 the size. There is a flaw in the lower section of the man’s covering, the lower left of his chin. Shown in images. Switzerland was known for some of the better printing of their posters and the use of more expensive inks, thus richer colors in the posters that survive today. This art deco-style cigar poster...

This original vintage World War II propaganda poster, For the Conquered – Steel! Not Bread!, was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer in 1942 and distributed by Abbott Laboratories as...

Original Victory Loan vintage poster. “In the Strength of Great Hope we must shoulder our common load” .. Buy Victory Bonds. Linen backed in very fin...

Butterfly is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence) Lithograph print, mid-20th century. Very good conditions. J...

Handball In Central Park (1948) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL (Photo By Slim Aarons) A group of young men playing handball at a court in the 95th Street playground, Central ...

The Walls of Jericho." This is an original 1948 half-sheet movie poster for the film " The poster features a striking image of Cornel Wilde and Linda Darnell...

Thomas Cantrell Dugdale RA RP ROI Paratrooper Oil on canvas 44 x 46 cm Signed to bottom right (painted faintly) Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1880–1952) was a British painter and illust...

Original. “OUR AMERICA, #3 USING MOTION PICTURES FOR SOCIAL VALUE.” vintage poster. Presented by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. This poster displays the benefits of American Motion Picture making on society as a whole and is number three in the series of Our America, Motion Pictures. From leisure, as in entertainment, to the practical, like legal documentation and recording important events, are displayed in this poster. These benefits are shown in eight small windows along either side of a large ninth window, which is all brought into harmony by the use of green tones, and that the windows are set upon a mint green background. Presenting Facts of History. Our America Motion Pictures # 3. Using Motion Pictures for Social Values. 1. Using cartoons for amusement. 2. Reporting an important event. 3. Making biography dramatic. 4. Reporting athletic events. 5. Dramatizing a famous book. 6. Showing places of natural beauty. Y. Using motion pictures in legal cases. 8. Making pictures true to facts. We Can All Do Our Part! In 1943, during World War II, Coca-Cola created the “Our America” series of vintage motion picture posters...

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...

A captivating, 1940s Modern painting of a seated nude on a garden bench by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrait of a young female mode...

Work on canvas

"Moghanzi du Sultan" translated to "The Sultan's Moghazni" is plate number 4 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of the people of Mo...

This original 1942 propaganda poster, designed by Rowland Hilder, was commissioned during World War II to encourage the British public to invest in National Savings Certificates as a...

Wonderful painting of the Maine coast in Ogunquit. Oil on Canvas, signed lower right. Titled on reverse, A Fair Day - Ogunquit. 24" by 30" sight. George Franklin Wing (1869–1961) ...

Original vintage poster: Musical Dance Flamenco Spanish Caseres & Arseni Theatrical/Musical Theatrical 1940s. Ballet Teatro. 1941. Artists: AMADEU ASENSI AND RAFAEL CASERES The ...

Artwork measures 48" x 30" and framed 56 ¼" x 38 ¼" x 3" Provenance: John Heller Gallery, NYC, circa 1975 (label verso) The artist's daughter Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL (1990)...

Landscape is an original etching, realized by Otto B. De Kat in 1944, signed and dated on the lower left. The State of preservation is good. Included a Passepartout: 50x 32.5 cm. ...

This poster was made around 1940s by Henry Lemonnier 🇫🇷 (1890-1954) a French poster artist. He worked for various printers as well as in advertising. The original Cordial - Médoc ...

Unknown Artist Rust & Dust - Ford F3 Truck, 1948 Photographic Print (already matted) Year: Unknown 9.44 x 14.96 on 17.71 x 22.83 inches (24 x 38 cm on 45 x 58 cm) Unsigned as issued ...

Original "World Premiere." Vintage movie poster. Linen-backed and in good condition for a poster created during World War 2. NSS: 41/347. Certificate of Authenticity. This is an original, theater-used US 1-sheet to the comedy starring John Barrymore...

Abraham Rattner (after) Title: Unknown Year: Unknown Lithograph Size: 26.25x20 inches Esther Gentle, Reproduction, 1952 Signed in the stone Annotated verso COA provided Ref.: 924802-...

Andre Masson, French (1896–1987) Date: 1945 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition, Epreuve d'artiste Image Size: 11.25 x 14.5 inches Size: 14 x 16.25 in. (35.56 x 41.28 cm)

Swiss painter Sculptor, painter and ceramist. Landscape. Wall painting and drawing Artwork on cardboard