20th Century Art

Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate C...

Original factory issue, Porsche Wins Road America Can-Am, 1973 vintage poster. Photo by Reichert. Reference page 74, Porsche die Rennplakate. Arc...

Beautiful original poster by Hervé Morvan entitled "Bouquet d'affiches". Having produced over 500 posters throughout his career, Hervé Morvan has earned a solid international reputat...

Beautiful watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the well known Maine artist Bill Paxton. The watercolor depicts what Portland harbor in Maine looked like in 1910 with sailing vessels of the era moored in the harbor. Signed lower right by the artist. Titled verso. Circa 1975. Condition is excellent and is finely matted and framed. The artwork is matted and framed in a thin gold leaf custom gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 17.5 by 21.75 inches. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida estate. William (Bill) Paxton 1930—2007 William Paxton, born August 5, 1930 in Lewiston, was one of Maine’s top selling artists. He had a passion for painting and from a young age he was known for his talents in sketching. Paxton captured many popular Maine scenes with watercolor, acrylic, and oils. His work also includes historical scenes he referenced in books from as early as the 1920’s, painting locomotives, aircraft, and war scenes. Paxton’s art is sold all over the world. As a student at Bridgton Academy, he was featured in his yearbook. It states, “When artist Bill picks up his pen, we all stand at attention, for his remarks and pictures are certainly worth mention.” He wanted to pursue a career selling his art, but it was during the time of the Great Depression. Also in his younger years, Paxton had an interest in skiing and won a medal for Second Highest Ski Jump. From there he went to flying and received a certification for Second-in-Command, to fly alongside the captain in a C-46F type of aircraft. He then joined the Air Force in the 40’s, although his passion and talents for art were constant throughout his life. Paxton quickly became the front line military sketch...

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Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee. Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one is influenced by California Abstract Expressionist artist Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...

Original poster on the theme of winter sports. Made by Machatchek in 1952, this poster was intended to promote different ski sites in France. Indeed we can appreciate a view of the ...

Work on canvas Brown wooden frame 59 x 86 x 5 cm

The Greek American artist, Theodoros Stamos, was born in 1922 in New York City into a family of Greek immigrants. He was a member of The Irascibles group which consisted of the first...

Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is p...

Work on canvas Golden and black wooden frame 68 x 84 x 3 cm

Original SGTM Societe Generale de Transports Maritimes vintage poster created by Bernard Villemot. Ref: Embracing an Icon, Posters of Berna...

Artist: Igor Galanin, Russian/American (1937 - ) Title: Shar-Pei Year: circa 1985 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Paper Size: 42.5 in. x 35.5 in. (107...

Desert Icon II Screen print, c. 1968 Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition 100 (17/100) Printed by the artist This image is the most elaborate of three color var...

Original poster, made in the 1940's to promote Blackfield shoes. These shoes, timeless, were sold at the time, exclusively in spring. Every elegant man wears Blackfield shoes, the m...

Millennium

Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...

A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim...

Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. Visual Description: A skiier crests a snow-covered mountain in Sugarbush, Vermont, in 1960. Numbered and stamped by ...

American author and journalist William F. Buckley Jr. and his wife Patricia take a sleigh ride from the Chateau de Rougemont in Switzerland, 1986. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certi...

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour with biro on artist paper, unframed stamped verso size: 10 x 8.5 inches condition: very good and read...

This came from the collection of the Horace Richter Gallery, Old jaffa, Israel These were done in the 1990's Hand signed and dated. titled Old Jaffa. Jay Milder (born 1934) is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter of the second generation New York School. Old Testament themes such as Jacob's Ladder and Noah’s Ark, and the Jewish mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah, are recurring themes in Milder’s paintings which are presented as archetypal images that recur in the basic karma, make-up and need of human nature. Internationally exhibited, Milder is included in the collections of many national and international museums. He has been the subject of two, recent retrospectives in Brazil in 2007 at the National Museum Brasilia and, in 2006, at the Museum of Modern Art, in Rio de Janeiro. He is renowned in Sao Paulo, one of the major international centers for street and public art, as a seminal influence on graffiti artists. Jay Milder was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1934. His grandparents, who came from the Ukraine, were descendants of the Hasidic mystic, Rabbi Nachman. As he listened to family stories his interest in spiritualism and mysticism increased, and became an important influence on his philosophy of life and art. Later, when he arrived in New York, he was drawn to the Theosophical Society and the teaching of Helena Blavatsky. In 1954 Milder visited Europe where he studied painting with André L’Hote, and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine. He spent much time studying at the Louvre Museum, and at the studio of Stanley Hayter. During his Paris years the paintings of the Jewish painter Chaim Soutine, primarily influenced him. Milder returned to the United States in 1956, and he began studying painting at the Chicago Art Institute. He exhibited with the Momentum Group, an alliance of artists who were particularly dedicated to the progression of figurative art and its global origins. In 1957, Milder spent the summer in Mexico for a summer where he exhibited in Puebla. That year he received the Mexican Government’s Honor Award for artists. In the summer of 1958, Milder studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He exhibited his work at the Sun Gallery, with his contemporaries, including Mary Frank, Red Grooms, Bob Thompson...

Original artwork for Manville Card Company. Circa 1975. Condition is very good. Watercolor and gouache on heavy card stock. Will be sold with original Christmas card with notations. Sheet size 9 by 10...

A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim...

Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this v...

Color lithograph after the 1935 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300. The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...

Sonia Terk Delaunay ( 1885 - 1979 ) - hand-signed color silk-screen - 80 x 57 cm, 1970 Additional information: Material: Color Silk-screen on pape...

The Castello di Paraggi near Portofino, Italy, August 1977. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collecto...

The Mountain and the Rose is a beautiful offset realized after Gino Marotta. Good conditions. Colored poster from a photograph by Gino Marotta.

Original vintage advertising poster - Mass halten bier trinken / Drink beer moderately - featuring a great design depicting a colourful spinning top toy and the shadows on a blue background, the title text and a beer glass as part of the i in bier below. Large size. Good condition, folds, creasing, tears on edges, ink stamp...

after Henri MATISSE Edition of 200 with the printed signature, as issued 76 x 56 cm With stamp of the Succession Matisse References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse

Vivid mid-century painting of desert in bloom by Gail Pace (American, 20th Century), 1961. Signed "G. Pace" and dated '61 lower right corner. Unframed....

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Victor Vasarely Majus II, 1974 is a screenprint on polyester on metal that is hand-signed by Victor Vasarely (Hungary, 1906 – France, 1997) in pen and ink the lower right margin and...

This rich, vibrant Slim Aarons Estate Edition photograph depicts a swimming pool at the glamorous Villa Igiea, in the Sicilian cultural, economic and tourism capital of Palermo, on t...

Artist: Jay Rosenblum, American (1933-1989 Title: Cycle 3 Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition size: 250 Size: 25 in. x 25 in. (63.5 cm x 63.5 cm)

Deckchairs lined up beside a swimming pool in Acapulco, February 1966. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant...

'The Racing Horses', gouache on art paper (circa 1970s), by Pierre Gaillardot. France has produced some of the world’s greatest horses and riders, wi...

February 1989: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Aut...

The Trevi Fountain in Rome, September 1978. The Roman god Nepture stands in the central niche, framed by the facade of the Palazzo Poli. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of ...

Sea Drive by Slim Aarons Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an 'Amphicar' across the harbour at Nassau. The children are Bianca Juarez (Bobo's daughter from another relationship) and Siobhan, Branwell and Saoirse McClory, 1967. An absolute classic 'Slim' - this photograph epitomises the vintage style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. The film producer, his wife with a pink parasol...

Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Num...

Geometrical Cloud configurations by Clifford Singer.

Original "Children's Year" Health of the Child is Power of the Nation vintage poster. Archival linen backed original 1919 horizontal. Lathrop, the Children's Bureau's first director, soon commissioned several studies to investigate the causes and conditions of infant mortality. She wanted hard data to dispel the notions that child death was inevitable or an act of God, and to prove that infant mortality was not about genetics but rather environment. Lathrop's research showed that children often died from infections and conditions that could be prevented. To spread the facts, the Bureau published a series of advice pamphlets on infant care. Children's Bureau under Lathrop created a powerful, lasting legacy in the U.S. — the idea that every child has a right to a childhood. "That every kid has a right to dependency," she says. "That they don't have to support themselves, and that the government is the parent of last resort if everything else fails." Rare horizontal poster...

A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967 Visual Description: A woman seated in a wicker chair i...

Aubrey Penny Original Collage "Mind-Line" Sussex Series 10-5557, Signed and dated 1980 Size: 19" x 24" Aubrey Penny (American 1917-2000) was an innovative California abstract artis...

Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Cipriani motor launch with the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore on San Giorgio Maggiore island beyond, in Venice, Italy, in September 1978. Slim Aarons ...

Skiers at Verbier, 1964. Skiers in red, blue, and taupe skiwear adjust their gear against a perfect azure ski in Verbier, Switzerland. Snowy mountains rise in the background. Verbier is a stunning mountain and winter ski destination in the Swiss Alps, known for its notoriously challenging slopes as well as its famous apres-ski scene. Slim Aarons Verbier Skiers...

Woman With A Flower is a colored lithograph on Fabriano paper realized by the artist Michael Ciomakov in the 1970s . Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lowe...

The Castello di Paraggi near Portofino, Italy, August 1977. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collecto...

Laura Hawk, assistant to the Slim Aarons, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von Pantz's Marbella home, September 1st, 1985. Slim Aarons Marbella Pool Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Collector will get the next number in the edition Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Internal: Mid-Century Vintage Marbella...

Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper 53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins) Edition of 35, Set of 24 Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35 Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London Prin...

Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collector w...

Original vintage ski travel poster for Canada featuring skiers skiing down a mountain slope leaving trails in the snow behind them, the bold black lettering with the maple leaf Canadian flag...

The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Chromogenic...

VERDEROSSORUBINO 1990 Vynil on canvas cm 130 x 160 Signed lower left: Accardi ‘90 Work registered with the Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome Photo certificate i...

Maritime Impressionist painting in somber night sky colors.

Beautiful poster created by Kurt Krepcik. Krepcik won the 5th prize in the international competition for this beautiful poster. ERP We are building a new Europe. The European Recover...