Early 1900s Art

“Tom burst forth as a full-blown hero who had rescued the maiden from a watery grave...” Book illustration: Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out, by Louisa May Alcott; Publisher: (Litt...

Medium: Watercolor on Paper Laid to Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 20, 1908 Edward Penfield produced some of America’s finest posters. His clean style and large silhouetted shapes resulted from much careful preliminary refinement and elimination of detail. Horses and coaches were a favorite subject with him, as typified with his picture of the colonial Post Road. A notable series of his illustrations were contained in his book, Holland Sketches...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish originally published in 1858 tells the story of the love triangle between Joh...

Medium: Watercolor on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Left "Alice Barber" Men in Discussion Fireside

Medium: Ink and Gouache Signature: Signed Lower Right Story illustration for “Kit Carson, The Famous American Frontiersman” by William S. Bridgman for Munsey’s, published December 1...

Marie-Paule Carpentier French, 1876-1915 Versailles Pastel / Paper 12 by 16 in. W/frame 18 by 22 in. Signed on lower left Marie-Paule Carpentier Marie-Paule Carpentier painted i...

Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Board Signature: Unsigned Postcard illustration; publisher: (The Gray Lithograph Company), Circa 1903; The Male Gaze 120 years ago. We joke about how ridiculous it was when men got all titillated at the sight of a woman's ankles. It seems that it was thought ridiculous even then, when it was about the only part of a woman's legs a man was likely to get a glimpse of in public, as shown in this slyly humorous postcard illustration. Ostensibly, the cobbler has only a professional interest in studying the lady's footwear. In case you miss the point, he is reading the Observer and her stockings have a striking design to emphasize the ankle. As in later pinup art...

CHARLES - CLÉMENT CALDERON French, 1870 - 1906 VENICE TWILIGHT signed "C. Calderon" (lower right) oil on canvas 15-1/4 x 21-3/4 inches (38.5 x 55 cm.) ...

Date: 1908 Medium: Gouache on Three Illustration Boards Dimensions: 2.50" x 32.50"; Two at 12.50" x 9.75", Overall 12" x 53" Signature: Each Signed or Monogrammed Large group of cup...

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Center "Love Me, Love My Horse", postcard, Stokes Co., 1907 Also illustrated in "Girls of Today". Copyright by Frederi...

Medium: Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left

Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906 Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...

Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Board Signature: Signed Upper Right Dimensions: Sight Size 16.00" x 16.50;" Framed 24.50" x 25.00" The Saturday Evening Post...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right

WATELET, Charles Joseph (1867 - 1954) Portrait of a Lady with Hat Oil on oval canvas signed up right and dated 1909 Old frame gilded with leaves Dim canv...

A black dog looks down at a basket of brown puppies Karl Lindner was a 19th-century Austrian artist Date: 1907 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 10.00" x 12.00" Signature: Signed U...

Boy at doorway watching young woman play piano. “The eager young man saw the rose and was struck speechless with delight…” Illustration for Jo's Boys by Louisa May...

Story illustration for “The Land of Heart’s Desire” by Myra Kelly for McClure’s Magazine, published July 1904, illustrated page 244. The full caption reads: "Words ensued which were...

EMIL NOLDE 1867-1956 Nolde 1867 - 1956 Seebüll (German) Title: [Conversation] Unterhaltung, 1906 Technique: Original Hand Signed, Dated and Titled Etching in Colour on Heavy Van Ge...

EMIL ORLÍK 1870-1932 Prague 1870 – 1932 Berlin (Czech) Title: Hokai-bushi, 1900 Technique: Original Hand Signed Watercolour on Wove Paper Paper size: 20 x 19.3 cm. / 7.9 x 7.6 in....

Original illustration for "Andrews Railroad Raid, An Incident of the Union Campaigns of 1862 in the West-The Personal Narrative of a Survivor," for McClure's Magazine, published Sept...

SOLD UNFRAMED Les pêcheurs de Concarneau by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961) Etching 22.5 x 17.7 cm (8 ⁷/₈ x 7 inches) Inscribed and dated lower left, and signed lower right...

SOLD UNFRAMED City View by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour and ink on paper 17.8 x 22.9 cm (7 x 9 inches) Signed with Estate stamp Executed circa 1904 Provenance Priv...

Landscape with Haystacks by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour on paper 15 x 34 cm (5 ⁷/₈ x 13 ³/₈ inches) Signed with Estate stamp (initials) lower right, LR an early wor...

Charming original hand-drawn pen & ink sketches of scenes in Italy & Switzerland by R W(eniger) on (4) postcards c1910s addressed to (the philanthropist) Seymour H Knox of Buffalo, N...

Classic c1902 pen & ink sketch depicting two smartly hunt- attired Brit 'chaps' discussing, 'You look as if you had sport in at the kill?... Well, no I was in at the ditch and in at ...

Decoupage pooch clutching a $money bag w/ a January, 1907 calendar attached to his collar Image Sz: 11 5/8"H x 8 5/8"W Frame Sz: 13"H x 10"W

Classic Vanity Fair Men of The Day series featuring jockey Lester Reiff (No. DCCXC) 1900 Art Sz: 12 1/2"H x 7 5/8"W Frame Sz: 18 7/8"H x 12 3/4"W Lester Berchart Reiff (1877–1948)...

"Heah's a Few Little Trinkets I Picked Up," or "Phil and the Judge" Probable book or magazine illustration showing the character named Phil in front of a judge. Artwork Dimension...

Original watercolour depicting a lady in her garden signed FP & dated 1909 (LR) Art Sz: 5 3/4"H x 8 1/2"W Frame Sz: 14"H x 17"W

Art Sz: 9-7/8H" x 6"W Frame Sz: 16"H x 12"W

Art Sz: 9-7/8"H x 6"W Frame Sz: 16H" x 12-1/8"W

Ink & Watercolour Image size: 4 x 5 1/2 inches (10 x 14 cm) Contemporary frame Provenance Private family collection This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...

Title-page illustration published in The Odes and Epodes of Horace, (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901). A beautiful and detailed image that displays Pyle's exquisite brush work.

Frontispiece for Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott for the 1906 edition published by Little, Brown, and Company The full caption reads: "A strange dog was sitting calmly among t...

Illustration from Thornton Oakley’s series “Scenes in Lower New York” for The Century Magazine, published December 1905. The full published caption reads: “The Water Front, South S...

"She seated herself in the deep embrasure of a window close beside Tony's parapet." Illustration for the book Jerry Junior by Jean Webster (New York: The Century Co., 1907), illustra...

Date: 1904 Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Board Dimensions: 30.00" x 20.00"

Date: circa 1900 Medium: Ink on Paper Dimensions: 11.00" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left

"Constance ripped the letter open and read it aloud." Illustration for the book Jerry Junior by Jean Webster (New York: The Century Co., 1907), illustrated page 149. The illustratio...

Story illustration for “Perdita’s Christmas” by Richard Le Gallienne for The Saturday Evening Post, published December 7, 1901, page 4. The narrater centers the story around Perdit...

Date: 1909 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 30" x 20" Signature: Signed Lower Right Image of an elderly man in a gun shop. John Newton Howitt...

Original illustration for an article entitled "While the Mother Works: A Look at the Day Nurseries of New York" by Lillie Hamilton French, published in The Century Magazine...

A mother watches as her daughter rides a donkey Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Upper Left Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover, August 1905

ANDRE DERAIN 1880-1954 Chatou, Paris 1880-1954 Garches Title: Sitting Nude Technique: Original Stamped Pencil Drawing on Brown Paper size: 32.5 x 25.5...

A political satire illustration "Hanging by a Hair" originally published in the The Philadelphia North American newspaper circa 1902, edited by Edwin A Van Valkenburg and pubilshed b...

A political satire illustration “Hanging by a Hair” originally published in the The Philadelphia North American newspaper circa 1902, edited by Edwin A Van Valkenburg and pubilshed b...

Theo Van Rysselberghe Gent 1862-1926 Saint-Clair, Var Soleil couchant à Veere, 1906 Ondergaande zon te Veere Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm. Signed and dated: lower left with monogram ‘06’ Provenance: Private collection, Belgium; Sotheby’s, New York, auct. 12 November 1988, cat. no. 326; Hammer Gallery, auct. 1 February 1986; private collection, Israel; Campo, Antwerp, October 1978; Campo, Antwerp, 17 October 1977; Palais Galliéra...

The Vigil-at-Arms, illustration for a poem by William Lucius Graves published in Scribner's Magazine, December 1904 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed

Nature Morte, Compotier is a rare black and white drypoint on laid ivory-colored paper, realized by Pablo Picasso in 1909. Edition of 100. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right m...

Maurice Milliere (1871-1946) "A Close Competition" 1905 Colored Pencil on Paper Signed and Dated Lower Left Site: approx. 35 x 36 inches Framed: approx. 43 x 35 inches Born at Le Havre in Normandy on 12th December 1871, Millière began his art education in his home town but soon transferred to l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied portraiture, life drawing and figure painting in the atelier of Leon Bonnat, whose pupils included Toulouse-Lautrec and Raoul Dufy. He also studied at l'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. His skill as a draughtsman translated quickly into success as a cartoonist and illustrator and his brilliant interpretation of the "Modern Parisienne" soon became known as the "Petite femme...

Important work by one of the leading artists of the italian naturalism, influenced by Giovanni Fattori as well as the the Barbizon School in France. Provenience: Collection of the Qu...

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Joies de Bretagne (Kornfeld 7 B) zincograph, 1889, on simili Japon paper, from the second edition of circa 50 impressions, published by Ambroise Vollard afte...

Allesandro Battaglia (1870-1940, Italian) "The Flirtation" 1906 Watercolor on Paper Signed "A. Battaglia, Roma 1906" Site Size: 30 x 20 inches Framed Size: approx 41 x 33 inches Son of Clelia Bompiani and Ercole Battaglia, he was trained by his grandfather Roberto Bompiani...

Paul E. Harney, Jr. "Feeding Time" 1909 Oil on Wood Panel Signed and Dated Panel Size: approx 8 x 12 inches Framed Size: approx. 16 x 19 inches Paul Harney (1850-1915) Born in New ...

"La Cothurne" 1901 Gilt Bronze Approx 21.5" High (to raised hand) Signed and Dated Foundry Mark "Susse Freres" Originally modeled in white biscuit porcelain this Greek dancer is a from a set of eight created for a dining table. They were immediately successful when they were exhibited in the Sevres pavilion at the 1900 Exhibition. Individual figures could be ordered and "La Cothurne" proved the most popular. Their success led to the firm of Susse buying the right to cast versions in metal. Agathon Leonard (1841-1923) is one of the well-known French Art Nouveau sculptors. Born in Lille in 1841, he first studied there before moving to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Eugene Delaplanche. He gained recognition at the annual Expositiones Universelles, winning a Silver Medal there in 1889 and gold in 1900. His most important piece, Jeu L'echarpe, was the best known series of Sevres production at the turn of the century and sold out at the 1900 Expo in Paris and later was given as a gift by the French Gov't to Nicholas II at the Hermitage. His bronzes were cast at the Susse Freres Editeurs Foundry. He worked also in marble, quartz and ivory. He also produced Art Nouveau medallions...

Very rare etching by John Marin. "Ponte di Donna Onesta, Venice" 1907 Original Etching Hand Signed Lower Right Titled Lower Left Edition: c. 30 Cat. Rais: ...