1940s Art

In addition to his very well-respected career as a major Fauve and Post -Impressionist, André Derain’s skill as a ballet set decorator also emerged, beginning in 1919 and continuing ...

This exquisite heliogravure after Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled De Profundis (Out of the Depths), from the album Georges Rouault, Stella Vespertina (Evening Star), originates f...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie L, var. 12 (Series L, Variation 12), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Th...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Kleinholz was a painter based in New York City whose work spanned several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His early works ...

Gorgeous American impressionist mid century coastal landscape painting of sailboats near Santa Barbara by John Dominque (Swedish/American, 1893 - 1994), 1946. Signed "Dominique" and ...

Work on wood Beige wooden frame 50 x 53 x 3.5 cm

Initialed lower right, 'A.E.M' for Anna Elisabeth Munch (Danish, 1876-1960) and painted circa 1940. This notable Danish Modernist first studied with Karl Jensen (1889) and C. N. Overgaard (1891–1892). She later traveled and studied in Italy and, subsequently, at the Académie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. After her return to Denmark, Munch became a student of the Impressionist Julius Paulsen (1895-1897) and made her début at the 1898 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. Munch became the first Danish woman to receive commissions for large devotional altarpieces and her early subjects were often derived from Nordic and Christian mythology. These themes were also explored in the large fresco commissions she completed after studying fresco with Joakim Skovgaard (1909-10). Munch continued her studies in both France and Italy and also traveled extensively to Sweden and Norway. Together with the writer Sophie Breum, Munch built a house on the island of Funen at the artist's colony of Kerteminde. Munch illustrated several of Breum's books and, through her, was introduced to the women's movement. She furthered her art studies with Fritz Syberg...

Anonymous Flames around St Paul's, Night Blitz in London - 1940 Lithograph 42 x 54 cm This striking lithograph depicts St Paul's Cathedral in London peaking through the swathes of...

Debout les morts is an original etching, drypoint, burnisher and roulette realized by Georges Rouault in 1948, signed in plate, watermark Ambroise Vollard, plate 54 from “Miserere”, edition 450 copies. Included a frame. In very good conditions. The artwork demonstrates three skeletons that are scared and in miserable expression, two of them in the fear of third one, who stands with a hand upward in the air. Georges Henri Rouault (1871-1958) was a French painter, print maker artist, his artworks are often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. He is well known for paintings dedicated to courts, clowns and prostitutes. He was inspired by spirituality and knowledge of medieval stained glass...

Small Amphora is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the XX Century by the French artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux (Desvres, 188...

This is an original hand signed (I believe it is also hand colored but i am not positive) Artists Proof Lithograph of a Circus scene. This depicts a Cabaret Dancer. This came from a...

Vivid mid-century floral still-life with anemones and statue by Marguerite Stuber Pearson (American, 1898-1978), circa 1940s. Signed lower right corner. Presented in rustic gilt-toned bamboo and wood frame. Image size: 20"H x 24"W. Framed size: 24"H x 28"W. Born in Philadelphia August 1, 1899, Marguerite Stuber Pearson was the daughter of confectioner, Arthur G...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Les Deux Tetus (The Two Stubborn Ones), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from the 1943 edit...

This exquisite heliogravure after Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Orientale (Oriental Woman), from the album Georges Rouault, Stella Vespertina (Evening Star), originates from th...

This exquisite heliogravure after Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Vieux Faubourg (Old Suburb), from the album Georges Rouault, Stella Vespertina (Evening Star), originates from t...

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...

This exquisite heliogravure after Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Le Fugitif (The Fugitive), from the album Georges Rouault, Stella Vespertina (Evening Star), originates from the...

A compelling 1940s WPA-era modernist watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell depicting a figurative village landscape set against mountainous terrain, where clustered houses, small hum...

1944, Color lithograph. Hans Falk was born in Zurich in 1918. He studied at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts and then completed an apprenticeship as a graphic designer. In 1942...

Work on canvas

Swiss Alps Landscape - Original Oil on Canvas Original oil landscape by Alphons Muller (Swiss, 1898-1955) depicting the Swiss Alps. Dark green trees emerge on either side, with a sm...

This 1945 original U.S. Treasury poster arrives not as a call to arms, but as a declaration of triumph — visual proof that patriotism has a monetary form. Issued in the final year of...

Important cubist still life oil painting by Douglas Warner Gorsline (1913 - 1985). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

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 1942 original travel poster, designed by Herman Verbaere, was commissioned by the Belgian National Railway (SNCB) to promote Ghent (Gand) as a premier travel destination accessi...

"Skiing Near Holy Hill" is an original silkscreen print by Schomer Lichtner. The artist initials are lower right, and the title is along the lower edge. This print depicts people skiing near Holy Hill, Wisconsin. The artist used a muted blue, a deep and dark purple, and accents of red to create this piece. 4 7/8" x 6 7/8" art 11 7/8" x 13 7/8" frame Milwaukee artist, Schomer Lichtner passed away on May 9, 2006 at the age of 101. He continued to amaze and create with his whimsical paintings of ballerinas and cows. He and his late wife Ruth Grotenrath, both well-known Wisconsin artists, began their prolific careers as muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices. Schomer Lichtner was well known for his whimsical cows and ballerinas, such as his "Ballerina Dancing on Cow" sculpture below. The late James Auer, art critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel referred to Lichtner as the artist laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the official artist of the Milwaukee Ballet. Lichtner also painted murals for industry and private clients. Schomer was a printmaker and produced block prints, lithographs, and serigraph prints. His casein (paint made from dairy products) and acrylic paintings are of the rural Wisconsin landscape and farm animals. He became interested in cows when he and Ruth spent summers near Holy Hill in Washington County. According to David Gordon, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Schomer Lichtner had a tremendous joie de vivre, " joy of life," and expressed it in his art. Schomer Lichtner was nationally known for his whimsical paintings and sculptures of black- and white-patterned Holstein cows and elegant ballerina dancers. Lichtner also painted all sorts of combinations of beautiful women, flowers and country landscapes. James Auer, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic, said that his art eventually "exploded into expressionistic design elements with bold, flat areas of color and high energy that anticipated Pop Art." Auer went on to describe Lichtner’s work as full of "wit, vigor and virtuosity." As early as 1930, Lichtner’s work was shown at the prestigious Carnegie International Exhibition in New York and at museums throughout the Midwest. As a student, he was a protégé of another icon of 20th century American art, Gustave Moeller...

Henri Matisse (After), French (1869-1954) Le Lagon II (Lagoon) Portfolio: Jazz Year: Of Original: 1947 Year Printed: 1983 Medium: Lithograph Image Size: 14.5 x 21.75 inches Size: 15...

City Park, Winter Lithograph, c. 1947 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Published by Associated American Artists Printed by George C. Miller, New York Edition: c. 250 In the Bohrod papers at Syracuse University, the artist states that it is a view of Pittsburgh. It depicts the George Washington Monument in Allegheny Commons Park, dedicated in 1891. The sculptor f the monument is Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch (1856-1931). Condition: Excellent Image size: 9 1/4 x 13 7/16 inches Frame size: 19 x 23 inches Provenance: Estate of Adolf Dehn Reference: AAA Index No. 848 Aaron Bohrod (21 November 1907 – 3 April 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings. Education Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings. Career He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. He eventually earned Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Army War Art Unit...

JOAQUÍN PEINADO (1898-1975) "Puerto fluvial" signed and dated “Peinado / 47” (lower right) oil on wood panel 15 x 21-5/8 inches (38 x 55 cm.) framed: 18-1/4 x 25 inches (46.5 x 63.5 ...

Signed lower left, 'Marshall Thomas' for Marshall F. Thomas, (American, 1916-2011), and painted circa 1945. An elegantly composed and atmospheric view of a California Main Street sh...

Fisherman on the River Nicolai Cikovsky, Russian-American (1894–1984) Date: 1949 Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 35 x 41 i...

A very nice Soviet poster from 1947, depicting the grandeur of the Soviet Navy fleet. The Soviet Navy (Russian: Военно-морской флот СССР, Voyenno-morskoy flot SSSR, literally 'Naval Military Forces of the USSR') represents the war navy...

Antique American modernist landscape painting signed "Welch '42". Oil on board, circa 1942. Signed. Image size, 16L x 14H. Housed in a modern frame.

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...

Andre JACQUEMIN Magpie Near a River 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 condi...

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Digging For Clams Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay, 1959. (Photo by Slim Aarons) silver gelatin print paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm unframed printed later edition size 150 only certificate of authenticity supplied numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency. b/w black and white music musician dining restaurant 1940 40s...

Mario Grenville made this print for the publishing program of Associated American Artists. It was issued in 1945 making it a calm antidote to the ending of World War II, although it ...

Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing. Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie O, var. 2 (Series O, Variation 2), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

An original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the beginning of her ca...

Apocalypse of John the Evangelist is an original black and white etching realized by Giorgio De Chirico in 1941. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left. ...

This original 1948 travel poster by the renowned design duo Lewitt-Him was created for American Overseas Airlines (AOA) to promote transatlantic flights between Europe and the United...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's hats. Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Watercolor and pencil ...

Hand signed and titled. Matting included. Good conditions.

This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Lithographie VII (Lithograph VII), from the album Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse (Repli, Engravings by Henri Matisse)...

Gorgeous heavily impasto landscape that captures the high summer charm. Unknown artist, (Edda or Edde) Partial illegible signature/inscribed lower r...

This lithograph is signed in pencil under the image at the lower right. Just above that, in the image, are the artist's initials and the date, 1942. This well-known walkway on the P...

Cubist gouache figural of a man wearing a sombrero and boots contrasted against a scumbled and dry-brush background of ochre, deep crimson red and umber. Signed lower left, "Jakobse...

Albert Abramovitz was an amazingly skilled wood engraver. This California Mission scene is unusual in his work, but carries the subject so well. It is signed and titled in pencil.

Barnet, Will (American 1911-2012) GO-GO. Szoke 93. Screenprint in colors, 1947. Edition of 50, printed and published by Barnet. Titled and signed in pencil. 12 x 9 1/2 inches, plus m...

Original title: “I Monarchi” Hand signed and Signed on plate.Edition of 15 prints in Roman Numerals. This is one lithograph from the series “Cavalli” published in Rome by Carlo Best...

(after) Raoul Dufy Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965. Printed signature Dimensions: 30...

A sensitively painted portrait of the artist's daughter, Nancy, aged two and a half, shown wearing a floral-striped, jade green gingham dress. Signed lower right, 'Martha Tracy Fre...

Vintage Paris School signed original oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed illegibly. Displayed in a period wood frame. Image, 12"L x 16"H.

Lucky For Some 1949: Sicilian-born gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano (1897 – 1962) walking down a street in his native Sicily, followed by local children mimicking his posture. Whils...

A mid-century, stone lithograph titled 'Christopher' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950), created in 1943 and with certification of authenticity stamped verso. A bright and...

This circa 1942 drawing, titled Les éléphants sacrés – Agra Inde, is a captivating work inspired by the style of French artist Maire André. The composition presents a richly detailed...

Roger WILD Young Girl and Musician Cupids 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...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie N Gc’S, var. 5 (Series N Gc’S, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Draw...

Signed upper left, 'Gilberg' for Robert George Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and painted circa 1948. A substantial, mid-century watercolor abstract comprising interrelated geometric...