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Period: Early 1900s
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1902 for the special Felix Vallotton issue of L'Assiette au Beurre on the theme of Crimes et Chatiments (Crime and Punnishment). Size...
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Early 1900s Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1902 for the special Felix Vallotton issue of L'Assiette au Beurre on the theme of Crimes et Chatiment...
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Early 1900s Art

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Lithograph

Country landscape and peasants mowing hay
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Beige wooden frame 61 x 78.5 x 5 cm
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Modern Early 1900s Art

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Oil

Tree-Filled Valley and Mountains in West Brighton Staten Island Watercolor 1905
Located in Soquel, CA
Tree-Filled Valley and Mountains in West Brighton Staten Island Watercolor 1905 Detailed watercolor by W. Lund (19th Century). This piece depicts a valley with lush trees an greener...
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American Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Paper, Watercolor

"San Gimignano Colline Poggio" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This impression in sepia on watermarked laid paper was printed in 1907 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate s...
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Early 1900s Art

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Etching

"La vallee fertile, pres Monte Oliveto Maggiore" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Tabanelli 199. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1906 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate size: 4 x 8 1/2 inches ...
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Early 1900s Art

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Etching

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1902 for the special Felix Vallotton issue of L'Assiette au Beurre on the theme of Crimes et Chatiments (Crime and Punnishment). Size...
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Early 1900s Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1902 for the special Felix Vallotton issue of L'Assiette au Beurre on the theme of Crimes et Chatiments (Crime and Punnishment). Size...
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Early 1900s Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1902 for the special Felix Vallotton issue of L'Assiette au Beurre on the theme of Crimes et Chatiments (Crime and Punnishment). Size...
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Early 1900s Art

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Lithograph

Woman portrait by Armand Cacheux - Oil on canvas 92x73 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas without frame Painter born in Geneva in 1868. Died in 1965.
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Modern Early 1900s Art

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Oil

Fishing boats on the lagoon of Venice
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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Modern Early 1900s Art

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Oil

Circa 1900 Original poster of Henri Toussaint for St Pol de Leon - Ile de Jersey
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles Henri Toussaint known as Henri Toussaint 🇫🇷 (1849-1911), is a French painter, illustrator and engraver. He is the father of the painter and illustrator Maurice Toussaint (...
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Early 1900s Art

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Sunset, Sables - Figurative Realist Oil, Boats in Seascape -Georges Maroniez
By Georges Maroniez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed realist oil on canvas seascape circa 1900 by French painter Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez. This stunning painting depicts two fishermen looking out over the harbour at Le...
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Realist Early 1900s Art

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Oil, Canvas

French in Africa - Woodcut - 1903
Located in Roma, IT
French in Africa is a woodcut on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous French artist in 1903. Signed on the plate on the lower right, illegible. Good Conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is created in a realistic style...
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Modern Early 1900s Art

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Woodcut

"La ruelle du pecheur" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Sanchez and Seydoux 1903-11. This delightful etching was published in Paris in 1903 by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The plate measures 8 5/8...
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Early 1900s Art

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Etching

Early 20th century French oil, seated ballerina adjusting her ballet slipper.
Located in Woodbury, CT
Very Impressive French Impressionist figure study of a Ballerina seated in an interior. A very decorative and very desirable oil on canvas dating from the early 1900's The painting...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Canvas, Oil

La Morte Amoureuse - Rare Book by A. P. Lauren/E. Decisy - 1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 300 copies including illustrations by A.-P. Lauren engraved by E. Decisy. Very fine copy belonging to the series of 100 on Japon Impérial and valid d'Arches, including the...
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Modern Early 1900s Art

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Paper

Old Man - Drawing By Ricardo Florés - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Old Man is a pencil and charcoal Drawing realized by Ricardo Flores in 1900. Good condition on a cream colored cardboard. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner. Rica...
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Modern Early 1900s Art

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Charcoal, Pencil

The New Batman Adventures Original Production Cel on Original Background: Batman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel on Original Background IMAGE SIZE: 10.5" x 9" PRODUCTION: The New Batman Adventures, Torch Song SKU: IFA6192 THE IMAGE: The New Batman Adventures i...
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Pop Art Early 1900s Art

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Paint, Paper, Pen, Pencil

Cobb's Creek (Large Signed Original Watercolor, c. 1905, Penns. Academy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sorry for the reflections on the glass - I did not want to disassemble the ornate antique gold frame in order to photograph the art. At any rate - this is a beautifully accomplished turn-of-the-century watercolor by the American painter Frank English...
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Romantic Early 1900s Art

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Watercolor

The Cottage Garden, Oil on Canvas Painting by Henry Stannard
Located in Long Island City, NY
A neoclassical oil painting on canvas by British artist Henry John Sylvester Stannard. The scene depicts a woman cleaning a bucket outside her house while a dog nestled in a dog house watches on. The painting is signed by the artist as “Sylvester Stannard”. The Cottage Garden...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Oil, Canvas

Fruit Trees by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime landscape collotype, 1908-1912
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Impressionist Fruit Trees landscape, painted in 1901. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300. Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art

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Paper

William Glackens Drawing Titled "M. Durand... Arrived on the Scene", Dated 1903
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938 M. Durand... Arrived on the Scene, 1903 Ink, wash, charcoal and Chinese white on paper Signed (at lower left): W. Glackens...
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Early 1900s Art

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Charcoal

Art nouveau style poster presenting Le Bruyant Alexandre - Cabaret - Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Art nouveau style poster from the beginning of the 20th century presenting Le Bruyant Alexandre in his realistic cabaret printed by the Thill printing ho...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Oil Painting by Maurice Levis "Le Moulin de Jarcy"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Maurice Levis "Le Moulin de Jarcy" S.F.A 1860 - 1940 French painter of landscapes and town views, pupil of Harpignies and member of the French Artists where he was a...
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Early 1900s Art

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Oil

Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles "Thigley" circa 1905
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles "Thigley" French School (possibly Franck Burty Haviland) Lost wax bronze casting Circa 1910 5 7/8 x 9 x 3 1/4 A sophisticated bronze casting of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel made in lost wax casting (cire perdue) from the beginning of the 20th century by Valsuani Foundry. This an unusual bronze approached in its aesthetic that’s reminiscent of the work of great animal sculptors of the second half of the 19th century except in this presentation which is more avant-garde for the time with a much looser, more impressionistic execution. The patina is a superb bronze color, brown and slightly greenish, going in places towards a more antique green. The attitude of the dog is extremely well and sensitively rendered with the placement of material unlike the renderings of a bronze by Barye...
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French School Early 1900s Art

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Bronze

'The Feather Boa, ' a large oil painting of Miss Crofton by Herbert Sidney
Located in London, GB
'The Feather Boa,' a large oil painting of Miss Crofton by Herbert Sidney British, 1901 Frame: height 193cm, width 115cm, depth 6cm Canvas: height 143, width 77cm, depth 3cm By the ...
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Victorian Early 1900s Art

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Canvas, Oil

William Glackens Charcoal on Paper Drawing, Dated 1902
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938 Dubourg Drew from his Basket his Mechanical Syringe, 1902 Charcoal, gouache and white chalk on paper Signed (at bottom cen...
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Early 1900s Art

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Charcoal

A large portrait of Vivien Chartres, by Vittorio Matteo Corcos
Located in London, GB
A large portrait of Vivien Chartres, by Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Italian/British, 1907 Frame: height 175cm, width 95cm, depth 5cm Canvas: height ...
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Early 1900s Art

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Canvas, Oil

William Glackens Watercolor on Paper, "Criticizing Ernest Lawson’s Art Class"
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938 Criticizing Ernest Lawson’s Art Class, ca. 1907 Watercolor and pencil on paper Signed (at lower left): Glackens Inscribed ...
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Early 1900s Art

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Watercolor

Peasant woman at work in the fields of Capri
By Charles Caryl Coleman
Located in Roma, RM
Charles Caryl Coleman (Buffalo 1840 – Capri 1928), Peasant woman at work in the fields of Capri (1901) Oil painting on canvas 35 x 49 cm, signed, located and dated Capri 1901 lower ...
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American Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Painting of a Dog: "Red Terrier" circa 1910, European School
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique painting a of a dog "Red Terrier" Possibly Dutch School Oil on wood panel, circa 1910 Initialed lower left 7 1/2 x 7 (12 x 11 1/2 frame) inches  A charming and thoughtfully...
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Realist Early 1900s Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

Barbizon Fontainebleau region Impressionist French summer landscape with figure
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful view of the heartbreakingly beautiful Fontainebleau/Barbizon region, which was home to some of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th Century. The particular spot presented here is the river Loing at Montigny-sur-Loing, where Cezanne and Sisley loved to paint. The village is just a short walk away from Grez-sur-Loing, where John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, Robert Vonnoh, Edward Simmons...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Nautical Seascape Sailboat Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape painting by Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868 - 1924). Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed....
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Oil, Canvas

Paul Berthon - Sarah Bernhardt La Princesse Lointaine " The Faraway Princess "
Located in PARIS, FR
Paul Emile Berthon ( 1872- 1909 ), was a French decorative artist. He began studying painting in Villefranche. From 1893, he moved to Paris, where he attended the École normale d'enseignement du dessin. Among the courses taken at the time, those of the professor of decorative art Eugène Grasset had the greatest impact on him. The first works of Paul Berthon (around 1896) show a style close to that of Grasset. By freeing himself from the style of his master, his own style develops based on a palette of autumnal pastels with sharp lines and contours. This is his most famous lithograph, a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of "La Princesse Lointaine...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Linen, Lithograph, Paper

Original advertising poster of the beginning of the XXth century Tunmer & Co
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful advertising poster of the beginning of the XXth century and of Art Nouveau style, signed P. F. Grignon. It is an advertisement for the brand A. A. Tunmer & Co and its vario...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Alabaster Cleopatra Sculpture, Unsigned, Attributed to Battiglia circa 1900
Located in San Antonio, TX
White Alabaster Sculpture of Cleopatra, semi-nude in repose. Great detail in clothing and headdress. Face is sharply carved. Sculpture is strongly attributed to Eugenio Battiglia based on the style and theme. Battiglia recreated this particular Cleopatra sculpture...
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Other Art Style Early 1900s Art

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Alabaster

Lake landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood 33 x 40.5 x 4 cm
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Early 1900s Art

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Oil

Fine 1900's French Belle Epoque Period Portrait of a Lady, signed & dated oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Belle Epoque Lady French School, signed and dated 1907 oil painting on canvas: 24 x 19.5 inches antique original gilt frame: 29 x 24 inches condition:...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Oil, Canvas

Circa 1900 Original poster by Dudley Hardy : An Artist's Model
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful poster of the beginning of the XIXth century by Dudley Hardy : An Artist's Model - George Edwardes company Dudley Hardy (1867 - 1922) was an English painter and illustrator. His interest in illustration led him to produce posters of French graphic influence, including the Yellow Girl...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Whalers Shack on the Northern California Coast - Watercolor Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of a Whaling shack circa 1900 near Davenport, California attributed to Lillian Josephine (Dake) Heath (19th century). Monogram on Verso "J. H. 1900". Dated and initialed on verso "J. H. Feb. 1900" Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing. Mat size: 14"H x 18"W Paper size: 9.25"H x 13.25"W Lillian Heath was one of the Jolly Daubers at the turn of the 19th-century and as a young student, married the senior artist and instructor, Frank Heath...
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American Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

La Toilette
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Toilette Drypoint, 1908 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos) Edition: 65 this state (35/65) Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Drypoint

Still-Life With Roses and China Jewel Box
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Hortense DURY-VASSELON (1860-1924) Still Life with Roses and China Jewel Box Oil on canvas signed and dated 1905 low left DIm canvas : 63 X 50 cm Di...
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Academic Early 1900s Art

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Oil

Last Light - French Impressionist Oil, Garden Landscape by Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist oil on panel landscape by French painter Henri Duhem. The piece depicts a view of a garden beside a house in autumn. The leaves if the trees are turning shades b...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Panel, Oil

La Seine, Denys Puech, dated 1901
By Denys Puech
Located in San Antonio, TX
Marble Sculpture titled “La Seine” in reference to the main Parisian River. Sculpture is signed "Denys Puech, OLRY-ROEDERER" and dated 1901. Presumably m...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Marble

Sundown at the Village
By James Whitelaw Hamilton
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited: Venice, Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Citta di Venezia, 1905, (no. 40, Tramonto sul villaggio)
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Sunlit Forest Interior Rare Original Oil Painting
By Richard Kruger
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting . Oil on canvas, circa 1910. Signed. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 16"L x 20"H.
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Canvas, Oil

En passant (Passing by)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En passant (Passing by) Drypoint, 1909 Unsigned (as issued in the deluxe portfolio) From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration) Edition: 30, this state with remarque Published by Gustav Pellet, Paris A very rich impression wwith burr Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches Reference: Arwas 391a (remarque) Exteens 277 i/II IFF 148 (portfolio) Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops. Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all." Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891. In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes). Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Drypoint

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Danaë" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Danaë, no. 2 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Danae originates from Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the King of Argos. Because a...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art

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Paper

Miss Taylor
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Miss Taylor Drypoint, c. 1900 Signed in pencil lower left (see photo) Small edition, about 10 Very rich impression, full of burr Condition: Excellent Image size: 21-1/4 x 13-1/4" Sheet size: 25 3/8 x 18 5/8" Reference: Montesquiou XII Paul César Helleu was born in Vannes, Brittany, France. His father, who was a customs inspector, died when Helleu was in his teens. Despite opposition from his mother, he then went to Paris and studied at Lycée Chaptal. In 1876, at age 16, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, beginning academic training in art with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Helleu attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition in the same year, and made his first acquaintances with John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet. He was struck by their modern, bold alla prima technique and outdoor scenes, so far removed from the studio. Following graduation, Helleu took a job with the firm Théodore Deck Ceramique Française hand-painting fine decorative plates. At this same time, he met Giovanni Boldini, a portrait painter with a facile, bravura style, who became a mentor and comrade, and strongly influenced his future artistic style. When he was 18 years old, Helleu established a close friendship with John Singer Sargent, four years his senior, that was to last his lifetime. Already becoming established, Sargent was receiving commissions for his work. Helleu had not sold anything, and was deeply discouraged almost to the point of abandoning his studies. When Sargent heard this, he went to Helleu and picked one of his paintings, praising his technique. Flattered that Sargent would praise his work, he offered to give it to him. Sargent replied, "I shall gladly accept this, Helleu, but not as a gift. I sell my own pictures, and I know what they cost me by the time they are out of my hand. I should never enjoy this pastel if I hadn't paid you a fair and honest price for it." With this he paid him a thousand-franc note. Helleu was commissioned in 1884 to paint a portrait of a young woman named Alice Guérin (1870–1933). They fell in love, and married on 28 July 1886. Throughout their lives together, she was his favourite model. Charming, refined and graceful, she helped introduce them to the aristocratic circles of Paris, where they became popular fixtures. On a trip to London with Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1885, Helleu met Whistler again and visited other prominent artists. His introduction to James Jacques Tissot, an accomplished society painter from France who made his career in England, proved a revelation. In Tissot, Helleu saw, for the first time, the possibilities of drypoint etching with a diamond point stylus directly on a copper plate. Helleu quickly became a virtuoso of the technique, drawing with the same dynamic and sophisticated freedom with his stylus as with his pastels. His prints were very well received, and they had the added advantage that a sitter could have several proofs printed to give to relations or friends. Over the course of his career, Helleu produced more than 2,000 drypoint prints. Soon, Helleu was displaying works to much acclaim at several galleries. Degas encouraged him to submit paintings to the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition in May and June 1886. The show was installed in a Paris apartment at 1 rue Laffitte, which ran concurrently with the official Salon that year to make a statement. Although 17 artists joined the famous exhibit that included the first Neo-Impressionistic works, Helleu, like Monet, refused to participate. Paul Helleu Sketching with His Wife (1889), by John Singer Sargent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York In 1886, Helleu befriended Robert de Montesquiou, the poet and aesthete, who bought six of his drypoints to add to his large print collection. Montesquiou later wrote a book about Helleu that was published in 1913 with reproductions of 100 of his prints and drawings. This volume remains the definitive biography of Helleu. Montesquiou introduced Helleu to Parisian literary salons, where he met Marcel Proust, who also became a friend. Proust created a literary picture of Helleu in his novel Remembrance of Things Past as the painter Elstir. (Later, Helleu engraved a well-known portrait of Proust on his deathbed.) Montesquiou's cousin, the Countess Greffulhe, enabled Helleu to expand his career as a portrait artist to elegant women in the highest ranks of Paris society, portraits that provide the basis for his modern reputation. His subjects included the Duchess of Marlborough, the Marchesa Casati...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Drypoint

Sweet Peas, 1907
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy. Lora Webb Nichols Sweet Peas, 1907 15 x 12 inch gelatin silver print Image Size: 14 x 8.5 inches Frame size: 22.5 x 17.5 x 2 Edition of 15 Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us. At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...
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Other Art Style Early 1900s Art

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Silver Gelatin

Early 20th Century Winter Snowy Cabin Oil Painting Signed Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful snowy landscape with footprints leading to cabin in valley circa 1940. Signed lower left "Gruber." Image has painted "mat" effect. Inside image is 12.50"H x 18.38"W. Unfram...
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Realist Early 1900s Art

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Oil, Board

Pair of Portraits, Captain and Mrs. Evelyn R. Le Marchant
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This charming and distinguished looking couple still survive in the radiance of their youth captured for all time by the Plymouth portraitist W. Andresen. Although we know little about the artist, his skill is evident in the fine quality of these images. Captain Evelyn R. le Marchant, commander of his Britannic majesty's battleship `Nile', posed for this portrait in Plymouth, England in January 1906. His vessel, one of the earliest battleships to operate without sails, is shown anchored in the background. The following month his lovely wife Edith posed for her portrait. These two fine images show an interesting balance with the man of the sea in his element and his shoreside wife surrounded by her garden. Both paintings are very well done in watercolor with added body color, pencil, and charcoal. Their condition is outstanding and both are mounted in their original period frames with antique glass. Sight Size: 41 Inches x 29¾ Inches each. Each painting signed LR: W. Andresen, Plymouth Vallejo Gallery features the finest in marine and maritime antiques...
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Early 1900s Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Large American Impressionist Signed Women Bathers Nude Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist painting of two nude bathers in a landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed lower right. ...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait de petite fille, en buste, cheveux sur les epaules (Ellen 14 ans)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de petite fille, en buste, cheveux sur les epaules (Ellen 14 ans) Portrait of a little girl, bust, hair on shoulders) Drypoint, 1902 Signed lower right corner Very small edition Portrait of the artist's daughter Ellen, at age 14. Title inscribed into the plate upper left Brilliant impression full of burr No stated edition, proofs only, less than 10 imps Unidnetified collector's mark verso: Initials "PH", not in Lugt Reference: Laran, IFF No. 390 Condition: Excellent Image/Plate eize: 14 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches Sheet size: 25 x 16 inches "Paul César Helleu was born in Vannes, Brittany, France. His father, who was a customs inspector, died when Helleu was in his teens. Despite opposition from his mother, he then went to Paris and studied at Lycée Chaptal. In 1876, at age 16, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, beginning academic training in art with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Helleu attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition in the same year, and made his first acquaintances with John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet. He was struck by their modern, bold alla prima technique and outdoor scenes, so far removed from the studio. Following graduation, Helleu took a job with the firm Théodore Deck Ceramique Française hand-painting fine decorative plates. At this same time, he met Giovanni Boldini, a portrait painter with a facile, bravura style, who became a mentor and comrade, and strongly influenced his future artistic style. When he was 18 years old, Helleu established a close friendship with John Singer Sargent, four years his senior, that was to last his lifetime. Already becoming established, Sargent was receiving commissions for his work. Helleu had not sold anything, and was deeply discouraged almost to the point of abandoning his studies. When Sargent heard this, he went to Helleu and picked one of his paintings, praising his technique. Flattered that Sargent would praise his work, he offered to give it to him. Sargent replied, "I shall gladly accept this, Helleu, but not as a gift. I sell my own pictures, and I know what they cost me by the time they are out of my hand. I should never enjoy this pastel if I hadn't paid you a fair and honest price for it." With this he paid him a thousand-franc note. Helleu was commissioned in 1884 to paint a portrait of a young woman named Alice Guérin (1870–1933). They fell in love, and married on 28 July 1886. Throughout their lives together, she was his favourite model. Charming, refined and graceful, she helped introduce them to the aristocratic circles of Paris, where they became popular fixtures. On a trip to London with Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1885, Helleu met Whistler again and visited other prominent artists. His introduction to James Jacques Tissot, an accomplished society painter from France who made his career in England, proved a revelation. In Tissot, Helleu saw, for the first time, the possibilities of drypoint etching with a diamond point stylus directly on a copper plate. Helleu quickly became a virtuoso of the technique, drawing with the same dynamic and sophisticated freedom with his stylus as with his pastels. His prints were very well received, and they had the added advantage that a sitter could have several proofs printed to give to relations or friends. Over the course of his career, Helleu produced more than 2,000 drypoint prints. Soon, Helleu was displaying works to much acclaim at several galleries. Degas encouraged him to submit paintings to the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition in May and June 1886. The show was installed in a Paris apartment at 1 rue Laffitte, which ran concurrently with the official Salon that year to make a statement. Although 17 artists joined the famous exhibit that included the first Neo-Impressionistic works, Helleu, like Monet, refused to participate. Paul Helleu Sketching with His Wife (1889), by John Singer Sargent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York In 1886, Helleu befriended Robert de Montesquiou, the poet and aesthete, who bought six of his drypoints to add to his large print collection. Montesquiou later wrote a book about Helleu that was published in 1913 with reproductions of 100 of his prints and drawings. This volume remains the definitive biography of Helleu. Montesquiou introduced Helleu to Parisian literary salons, where he met Marcel Proust, who also became a friend. Proust created a literary picture of Helleu in his novel Remembrance of Things Past as the painter Elstir. (Later, Helleu engraved a well-known portrait of Proust on his deathbed.) Montesquiou's cousin, the Countess Greffulhe, enabled Helleu to expand his career as a portrait artist to elegant women in the highest ranks of Paris society, portraits that provide the basis for his modern reputation. His subjects included the Duchess of Marlborough, the Marchesa Casati, Belle da Costa Greene, Louise Chéruit, and Helena Rubinstein. Looking for new inspiration, Helleu began a series of paintings and color prints of cathedrals and stained glass windows in 1893, followed by flower studies and landscapes of parks in Versailles. Helleu took up sailing, owning four yachts over his life. Ships, harbor views, life at port in Deauville, and women in their fashionable seaside attire became subjects for many vivid and spirited works. In 1904, Helleu was awarded the Légion d'honneur and became one of the most celebrated artists of the Edwardian era in both Paris and London. He was an honorary member in important beaux-arts societies, including the International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, headed by Auguste Rodin, and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. On his second trip to the United States in 1912, Helleu was awarded the commission to design was the ceiling decoration in New York City's Grand Central Terminal. He decided on a mural of a blue-green night...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

Materials

Drypoint

Sitting Pretty (Pomeranian Pups)
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1901' lower left
Category

Academic Early 1900s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful art nouveau style poster by Lewis Baumer illustrating the seasons of fall and winter. Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer is best known as an Engli...
Category

Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

Materials

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Jardin eclaire par la lune - Impressionist Oil, Night Landscape by Marie Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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Category

Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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