1940s Art

Antique American winter landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 26 by 30 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Han...

A Painting depicting an amusement park exploding in vibrant colors. The painting is signed "William Wright" lower right. Oil on Canvas. 20 x 24. Nicely framed.

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Sophisticated Lady", a lithograph, is an exemplary work indicative of DuBuffet's early work and style. It is a playful and iron...

Marital portrait is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio in 1948. Pencil on paper. Hand signed by the artist and dedicated to Raffaele Carrieri. Certificate of authenticity by Ruggero Savinio...

A Quirky, Humorous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cartoon Illustration Ink Drawing Depicting a Women's Committee Meeting by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwor...

A Autograph Letter Signed by Filippo de Pisis accompanies a b/w photographic portrait (cm 11 x 9) of the young Italian artist, with his Basque-hat on his head, smoking a pipe and with his parrot on his shoulder. This composition, in perfect condition, is mounted under passepartout, plexiglass, and gilded frame (cm 40.5 x 2 x 54.5). The manuscript is addresses to Gaetano Chiurazzi. Venice, January 20th 1947. One page, single-sided. On letterhead paper “Ne nous embarbouillons pas dans les métaphores” (Balzac). cm 23 x 14.5. In 16°. In Italian. Signed “F. de Pisis”. Excellent condition, except for usual folds. Perfectly readable An affectionate greeting letter written with a rapid calligraphy by the artist had just returned to Italy, to Venice, after a short stay in Paris, with the first symptoms of a disease that will lead him to death. The artist writes to his friend, the Italian gallerist, Gaetano Chiurazzi (Naples,1899- Rome,1967), best-known as "Tanino". This letter will be delivered to Tanino by a great admirer and collector of de Pesis. A manuscript demonstrates how de Pisis spent his life: between Rome, Paris and Venice, living a very extravagant lifestyle; he had a pet parrot named Coco, and in Venice he was one of a handful of residents at the time who used a gondola. He had two personal gondoliers on 24-hour duty, who wore black-and-gold livery. Filippo de Pisis (born Luigi Filippo Tibertelli, Ferrara 1896 – Brugherio 1956) When he was 20 years old, the young painter from Ferrara had a meeting that changed his life. During his military service, he met the "Dioscuri", the brothers De Chirico and then Carrà. He was sure impressed by their way of seeing painting and, at the beginning, shared the metaphysical style. After a short stay in Rome and Paris, at the beginning of the 1920's, he started to rework his style, made of suggestions and original subjects, where the pictorial line is fragmented and, therefore, defined by Eugenio Montale as "fly-paw painting". The friendship with Julius Evola...

Yellow and blue-toned abstract impressionist portrait of a boy by Danish artist Hans Christian Bärenholdt. Signed by the artist at the bottom right. Hung in a gold carved frame. Dim...

Henri Matisse (After), French (1869-1954) Le Lagon (Lagoon) Portfolio: Jazz Year: Of Original: 1947 Year Printed: 1983 Medium: Lithograph Size: 15.25 x 23.5 in. (38.74 x 59.69 cm) F...

Beautiful desert canyon landscape of Black Canyon, Arizona featuring Adobe home in foreground by Claire McAnear (American, 1989 - 1986), 1945. Presented in aged gilt-toned wood fram...

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...

Original Winston Churchill Poster Lithograph 51 x 40 cm c.1940-1945 "Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few." ...

This moving original poster created in 1946 by French artist Guy Georget was produced for the "Journées Nationales du Souvenir" held in Compiègne from 15 to 18 August 1946, one of th...

Charles CAMOIN The Rest : Woman on a Bed, 1946 Original etching Hand signed in pencil Numbered / XX copies On Lana vellum 26 x 36 cm (c. 10.2 x 14 inch...

Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to...

This elegant and serene original travel poster from the 1940s, designed by the artist Olivier, was produced for the SNCF, the French national railway, to promote the thermal spa dest...

“Late Afternoon Landscape” is set in the golden light of evening painted in the mid-west town of Utica, Michigan. It has the atmosphere of when work is done and peace and quiet blanket the countryside. The The farm machinery has ceased its racket as has the family dog wandering about for one last sniff. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and conservative glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...

Modernist Still Life Signed Bovy Lysberg, 1943 – Surrealist Symbolist Oil on Canvas This exceptional oil on canvas signed Bovy Lysberg and dated 1943 presents a striking modernist st...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.39), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 16 x 11 in. (40.64 x 27.94 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's unique...

The Singing Of The Cart is an artwork realized after the Italian artist  Renato Guttuso  (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1947. Phototype print..  Good condition. Italian title on...

Untitled (Aztec heads in profile) A Prelimimary Study for a Mural watercolor, goucahe, ink and colored pencil on paper, 1943-1946 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Kiriki Metzo (his daughter) Fletcher Gallery (her agent) Inspired by the artist's trip to ancient Aztec Mexico with fellow surrealist artist Carlos Merida (1891-1985) Influence of Carlos Merida interaction with de Diego How Carlos Mérida's Mayan-inspired modernism and Mexican folk motifs specifically transformed Julio de Diego's surrealist compositions and color palette in the 1940s Carlos Mérida’s Mayan inspired modernism pushed Julio de Diego’s 1940s surrealism away from purely European, dream like imagery toward hybrid, flatter, more patterned compositions built from stylized “Mexican” motifs, while situating his use of color within the vibrant, abstract field and pattern approach associated with modernized Mayan art—even though surviving texts describe Mérida’s palette much more explicitly than de Diego’s. Mérida’s Mayan modernism: form and color • Mérida is described as a key modernist who fused Surrealism, Cubism, muralism and European abstraction with pre Columbian Mayan...

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An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion". Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...

Beautiful oil on canvas painting with aerosol spray paint of two reclining figures by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed upper right and dated 1949. ...

(after) Georges Braque, (1882 - 1963) La Mandoline (1943) Lithograph and stencil On vellum 40 x 48 cm (c. 16 x19 inch) Printed signature in the plate Edition of 300 Very good co...

Vintage American modernist abstract cubist oil painting by Irving Resnikoff (1897 - 1988). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 29 by 23 inches overall, and 28 by 22 painting a...

This fantastic British 1940's figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Leonard Fuller. Painted circa 1940, the colourful composition is looking into a busy Woolworths stor...

China ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition except for some halos in the top and bottom corners.

Oil on canvas

Work on canvas With frame : 57 x 74 x 3 cm Paul GAGARIN (1885-c.1980), Pavel Konstantinovich GAGARIN. Russian painter, emigrated to France in 1921 then worked in Brazil where he die...

Work on canvas

Hand colored original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “AP” lower left for artist proof in pencil. Signed by the artist lower...

Drawing on paper, 1944. Dimensions: 43 x 35 cm Hand signed. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an arti...

Norman Parkinson's iconic image of models wear a variety of hats on the roof of the Condé Nast building on Lexington Avenue, New York City. Published in American Vogue on 15th Octobe...

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...

To see our other original vintage public information posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the poster you want. Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (1887 - 1965) Careless Talk Costs Lives (circa 1940) Lithographic poster 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 in) Version printed on thicker paper. "But of course it mustn't go any further" - in the luggage compartments...

Jean FRELAUT Superlative Sunrise Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Printed in Haasen workshop in 1943 Excellent condition

Color cliché print after Pablo Picasso, titled “Composition”, edited by Editions du Chêne, Paris, France, 1943. This rare color cliché print presents a striking composition that ref...

Pencil drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1945 ca. Hand signed in the lower center. Very good condition.

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China ink drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1940 ca. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.

A captivating 1944 oil on board, still-life painting of the artist's studio by Harold Haydon. The painting is oil on board, framed in a dark brown, painted wood frame. Artwork size...

Insetto is an original artwork realized by Ivan Mosca in 1945. Original Drawing. Colored pencils on cardboard. Hand-signed and titled by the artist on the lower right corner. Very good conditions. Very fresh and delicate artwork representing an insect in foreground realized with colored pens. Ivan Mosca (Parma, 1915 - Rome, 2005) was an Italian artist and painter. He moved to Milan where he attended the School of Book and the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Monza. He was interested by the abstract art and met the artists of the Gallery "Il Milione", such as Osvaldo Licini...

'Lobsterman's Wharf, Maine' is an original lithograph signed by Malvin Marr "Zsissly" Albright. While Malvin Marr – along with his better-known identical twin Ivan Albright – was known for his meticulous and unsettling magic realist compositions, he and his brother were also prolific in capturing landscapes of the coast of Maine where the two spent several consecutive summers away from Chicago over their lives. Sometimes these Maine landscapes and views would be painterly and seemingly antithetical to the careful realism of his other work; but in this example, however, the wharf is treated with the same macabre decay as his human subjects. In the composition, the shack...

Kenneth Hills Geometric Fabric Design Gouache 39 x 31 cm Signed top left Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell Little is known about the artist other than the fact that he st...

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Maurice SAVIN Gallant Love : Woman with a Rose Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Printed in Haasen workshop in 1943 Exce...

Work on cardboard signed Paul Mathey and dated (19)44 Dimension with frame :41 x 49 x 4 cm Original figurative painting depicting two thrushes, executed with a confident and express...

Work on wood Black and gold wooden frame 77.5 x 56.5 x 3.5 cm Illegible signature "Valley landscape at the foot of the mountains" On the back of the work

Work on wood

The original 1946 Soviet propaganda poster titled "Vive la Marine Soviétique!" is a powerful visual representation of the Soviet Union's maritime strength and national pride. Created...

Medium: lithograph (after the original Edouard Vuillard lithograph). Printed on Renage wove paper in 1948 by the atelier Mourlot and published in an edition of 2500. Size: 12 3/8 x 9...

This circa 1941 drawing, Les éléphants sacrés – Madurai, created in the style of Maire André, beautifully captures the grandeur and spiritual essence of one of India’s most sacred ci...

Rustic, vibrant, and undeniably French, this charming circa 1940 original painting captures the nostalgic warmth of local advertising through gouache and watercolor. Celebrating Calv...

The 1944 original map "Atlas de la France Vinicole – Les vins de Champagne – Montagne de Reims" by Louis Larmat is an exquisite piece of cartography that reflects both the history an...

Vintage American impressionist coastal seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. ...

Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring Joan Crawford and John Garfield. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramatic rooftop scen...

Emerging from the ashes of World War II, France sought not only to rebuild its cities and institutions, but also to rekindle its cultural flame. Among the many initiatives aimed at n...

Clayton Knight drew a careful rendering of the plane -- even showing how it would look in the air as it banked. Edward Stinson was an accomplished, eve...

La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1941 Se presenta enmarcada la pintura (el marco presenta algunas leves faltas) El estado de la obra es buen...

Original oil on canvas still life painting by the well known American artist Ly Stellar Harding. Signed by the artist lower right. Circa 1940. Condition is very good; no restoration...