Early 1900s Art

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Drypoint on gewöhnlichem aber holzfreiem vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the album, Verzeichnis Des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs Bis 1...

Drypoint on gewöhnlichem aber holzfreiem vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the album, Verzeichnis Des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs Bis 1...

Signed by the photographer

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: ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00", Framed 30.00" x 27.00" Cover of Saturday Evening Post Magazine, October 31, 1908. Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC The National Arts Club NYC Jan 6- 19 2013 Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014 Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the most famous and prolific illustrators of his time and painted one less cover for The Saturday Evening Post than Norman Rockwell. He was the creator of the cherubic New Year’s Baby and the handsome Arrow Shirt Man who set the style for men’s fashion for decades. In addition to his beautiful men, women and children, Leyendecker’s covers and advertisements depicted subjects ranging from sports to war to politics. This 1908 Post cover shows a young newsboy holding pictures of William Howard Taft...

Presenting an early hand hammered copper sculpture, "Satyr", by Dutch artist Max Zeitz. "Satyr", is an original, very early (1910) hand h...