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Period: 1920s
Composition, Vers un monde volage, Marcel Gromaire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Éditions Marcel Seheur, Paris; printed by Atelier d'art Paul Haasen, Paris, Septembe...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Ex Libris Verein' — 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Ex Libris Verein' (New Year's Ex Libris Club Announcement), etching, 1924. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 167' in pencil. Signed and dated in...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Au Presser Le Raisin Fut Foule', 1922 Intaglio by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Au Presser Le Raisin Fut Foule’ (In the Winepress the Grapes were Crushed ) from the Misere Series, Plate #48
Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958)
Date: 1922
Intaglio, signed and date...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen, "Seated Female Nude w/Orange Drapery" Collotype
Located in Chicago, IL
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight...
Category
Vienna Secession 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Figure Reading - Etching - Fauvism - French Art
Located in London, GB
HENRI MATISSE 1869-1954
(Emile Benoît)
Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869-1954 Nice (French)
Title: Figure Reading Figure lisant, 1929
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching o...
Category
Fauvist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vintage Etching - Love & Ballet
By Ernst Oppler
Located in Houston, TX
Romantic black and white etching of a pair of ballet dancers performing on stage by artist Ernst Oppler (1867-1929), circa 1920. Signed lower right, numbered 88 of 100 lower left.
...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Ink, Paper
Siesta by Lon Megargee 1929, Archival Pigmrnt Print
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Tequila Siesta
Lon Megargee
Archival Pigment Print
100% 300 gram cotton rag paper
Size: 22.5 x 27 inches
Paper size: 24 x 28.5 inches
Creator of the iconic logo for the Stetson Hat Company, " Last Drop From his Stetson", still in use today.
Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee
At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar Ranch . . . and, after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Harbor with Sailboats — Early 20th-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, Untitled (Harbor with Sailboats) ', linocut, 1923, edition 35. Signed, dated, and annotated '4/35' in pencil. Initialed 'G J' in ...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Matisse, Plume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mademoiselle Sorel en grand habit - Pochoir by Georges Barbier - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Pochoir. This is one of the artworks in the portfolio 'Le Bonheur du Jour', by George Barbier.
Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm
Image Dimensions : 31.5 x 20.5 cm
This artwork is s...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
'Hostellerie des Chiens du Guet' — British Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sybil Andrews, 'Hostellerie des Chiens du Guet', color monotype, c. 1925; edition 2, proof 1. Signed 'Sybil Andrews pinx et imp' and titled in pencil. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/8 to 1 3/4 inches). Printed by the artist. The artist’s original archival mounting tape remains in the four sheet corners, recto (well away from the image), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. A unique impression.
Image size 8 15/16 x 11 15/16 inches (227 x 303 mm); sheet size 12 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (311 x 394 mm).
ABOUT THIS WORK
In addition to her almost 80 celebrated modernist color linocuts, Sybil Andrews also worked in the monotype technique. She typically produced two or three impressions (or pulls) from each hand-painted plate, each proof unique in its qualities of color values and vibrancy.
In 1933, Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power had an exhibition of their color monotypes and linocuts at the Redfern Gallery. Most of Andrews' monotypes were destroyed by a fire in an Ottawa gallery in 1959, and they now rarely come to the market.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
The Hostellerie des Chiens du Guet is a small hotel at the edge of...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Monotype
"Dolly (I Love you!), " Original Color Lithograph Poster by the Clérice Frères
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dolly" is an original color lithograph poster by The Clérice Frères (The Clérice Brothers), signed within the composition on the lower left edge, just ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Deux Matrones, Art Nouveau Etching by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Georges Rouault, French (1871 - 1958)
Title: Les Deux Matrones from Le Reincarnations du Pere Ubu
Year: 1928
Medium: Aquatint on Arches, signed in the...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as ...
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Female Nude - Lithograph by Nicolas Gloutchenko - 1928
By Nicolas Gloutchenko
Located in Roma, IT
Female nude is an original artwork realized by Nicolas Gloutchenko in 1928.
Lithograph on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower and numbered, edition of 8/12 prin...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Soirs d'Opium - Woodcut after Jean Paul Sauget - 1921
Located in Roma, IT
Les Soirs d'Opium is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium.
Published in 1921.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) - Manhattan Mary IV: serigraph Broadway musical
By Erté
Located in London, GB
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) (1892-1990)
'Manhattan Mary IV'
Serigraph (Silk screen print)
(Artist's Proof IL/L)
Signed in pencil
70 x 56cm (sheet) 41.5 x 3...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
AGONY
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERT PHILIPPI (Austrian 1877-1959)
KNEELING NUDE. c. 1923 (Chrastek, Widder 2019, p. 162, N° 461) (in Rifkind Collection, LACMA: From a portfolio of 1...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rest - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Rest is a vintage lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued.
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Factory - Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1925
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
The factoryis an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is from the book Kobes by Heinrich Man, that was illustrated by Grosz with 10 lithographs and ...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma Navarre paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the album, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Masturbating Woman Surrounded by Black
Located in Chicago, IL
Published anonymously c. 1920, Vienna, in an edition of 100, after the original gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper, signed and dated in the plate by the artist in middle right: ...
Category
Vienna Secession 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Play, " Figurative Etching Nude with Children signed by Kenneth Hayes Miller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Play" is an original etching by Kenneth Hayes Miller. The artist signed the piece in pencil and in the plate. This piece features a nude figure with two smaller doll-like figures.
...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cornetto Con Fiori Di Campo - 1920s - Giorgio Morandi - Etching - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Cornetto con fiori di campo is an original artwork realized by Giorgio Morandi in 1924. Etching on paper. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right margin. Edition of 50 prints includ...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Max Weber Woodcut Print from "Primitives" Poetry Book Signed
By Max Weber
Located in Detroit, MI
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This woodcut print is an expressionist print on one of the poems from Max Weber's poetry collection "Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts". This work is signed in penci...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le Poeme (The Poem)
By Louis Icart
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Etching and aquatint
Dimensions: 22.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Pencil Signed Bottom Reft, Copyright Date and Artist Name at Upper Left
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Night Time, Dieppe.
Located in Storrs, CT
Night Time, Dieppe. 1926-27. Drypoint. Appleby 123. 7 7/8 x 11/ Edition 100. A fine impression printed on cream laid paper with full margins. Signed in penc...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Les Biches, Marie Laurencin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier vélin des Manufactures d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Biches, 1924. Published by Édi...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Bon Electeur, 1928 Aquatint on Arches by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bon Electeur from Le Reincarnations du Pere Ubu
Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958)
Date: 1928
Aquatint on Arches, signed in the plate
Image Size: 10 x 7 inches
Size: 17 x 13 in. (43...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Die Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius - Original Lithograph by A. Kubin - 1922
By Alfred Kubin
Located in Roma, IT
Die Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius is an original lithograph on simili japanese paper, realized by Alfred Kubin in 1922, Hand-signed, edition of 100 copies.
Ref.: Arnason & Wheel...
Category
Symbolist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Commuters' — Early 20th-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, 'Commuters', linocut, 1922-23, edition 20. Signed, dated '22, titled, and annotated '9/20' in pencil. Initialed in the block 'G.J....
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Henri Laurens “Tete de Femme a L’eventail’
Located in San Francisco, CA
Henri Laurens: 1885-1954. Well listed French artist with Auction records in the millions of dollars and over $8000 for a print. This rare print came in a small edition of Which I believe was only 30. This is number 22 which it is pencil marked and also pencil signed by the artist. The print itself measures seven and three-quarter inches high by 5 3/8 inches wide. The paper measures approximately 12 inches high by 9 3/4 inches wide. It is housed in a fabulous vintage hand carved Munn frame...
Category
Cubist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
Romantic 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Beauty Enjoying Summer Fireworks
By Ito Shinsui
Located in Burbank, CA
Title: Fireworks 花火
Series: The Second Collection of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin shū dai nishū 現代美人集第二輯)
Date: 1932
A young woman is shown enjoying the summer fireworks, her face shown in profile as she looks towards the display. She holds a summer fan on her lap, and her kimono features large blue stripes and is tied with a colorful obi that features a morning glory pattern. The summer evening sky is a soft grey rather than a deep black, perhaps reflecting the brightness of the fireworks. Numbered verso, from a limited edition of 250 prints.
Condition: Excellent impression, color and condition.
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô
Literature: See “All the Woodblock Prints of Shinsui Ito...
Category
Showa 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Harry Wickey, Snug Harbor (Riverside Drive, NYC)
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
The sailors are still in uniform in this post-World War I print of young people meeting at a semi-secluded park setting, Snug Harbor, along Riverside Drive...
Category
Ashcan School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Separe - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Separe is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n.22 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Malik-Ve...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma Navarre paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the album, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Masque De La Mort Rouge - Phototype after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Le Masque De La Mort Rouge is a phototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon.
They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felu...
Category
Symbolist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
Romantic 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Promenade - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Promenade is an original offset and lithograph print realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n.28 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of De...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Opium Night - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Opium Night is an Etching realized by Edouard Chimot in 1930s.
The very beautiful artwork is in good condition.
No Signature.
Represents a young lady with red hair...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
Romantic 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
THE KNAVE OF HEARTS
Located in Portland, ME
Parrish, Maxfield. THE KNAVE OF HEARTS. 1925. 14 full page and many smaller color plates. A Fine copy of Parrish's most elaborate book. A highlight among American children's books, b...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Soup
Located in Storrs, CT
Soup. 1920. Drypoint. Appleby 65. 9 x 8 1/8 (sheet 15 x 11 9/16). Edition 100. Illlustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 13 (1926): 85. Signed in pencil.
Edmund Blampied was a painter, etcher, lithographer and sculptor. Born in 1886 to a family of three boys in St. Martin, Jersey, Blampied became interested in drawing at an early age. After visiting the studio of John Helier Lander in 1899, Blampied decided to make a career as an artist. In 1903 he went to London to attend Lambeth Art School, where he studied etching under Walter Seymour.
In 1905, he joined the Daily Chronicle as an artist. In that year he was awarded a scholarship to Bolt Court Scool of Photo-engraving and Lithography.
In 1912 he left the Chronicle and established his own studio. He earned a living by illustrating novels and short stories.
In 1913, he had his first exhibition at the Leicester Gallery in London. The following year he married Marianne Van Abbé.
During the 1920's, he became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. During the 1920s Blampied became a member of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers and exhibited in London to critical acclaim. He produced a folio of comic drawings in the 1930s which was published in New York in 1934 and another that was published in London in 1936. The Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum published a mongraph on his work. His London exhibitions were highly successful.
In 1938, he moved to Bulwarks, St.Aubin in Jersey, but at the onset of the Occupation, had to relocate to Route Orange, St. Brelade. remained there throughout World War II during the German Occupation, despite the fact that his wife was Jewish. During the Occupation he designed bank...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Original Cordial Topaze Bordeaux red wine, 1924 lithograph vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French poster: CORDIAL TOPAZE; Marie Brizard & Roger Bordeaux wine; original lithographic French 1924 antique poster. Signed but an illegible signature. Size: 18" x 24"...
Category
Conceptual 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Musicians Viewing the Full Moon', Large Japanese Color Woodblock Print, Biwa
By Ogyu Tensen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, lower right, with artist's chop mark in Hiragana, 'Tensen-e' 天泉絵, for Ogyū Tensen 荻生天泉 (Japanese, 1882-1947)
A large, early-20th-century, hand-colored Japanese woodblock showing elegantly-robed figures seated beside musical instruments in a panoramic landscape and viewing the full moon through golden clouds. An elegant example composed with clear artistic vision and printed with a consummate mastery of a challenging medium.
Nihonga style painter Ogyu Tensen was born in present-day Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture. He studied at the Tokyo Fine Arts School, where he was taught by the well-known Kanō school painter Gahō Hashimoto (1835-1908), who was instrumental in the development of nihonga painting. Tensen was selected to participate in the first Bunten exhibition (Ministry of Education Fine Arts Exhibition) in 1907, in which he won an award. He went on to win many other awards at the Bunten exhibitions and the exhibitions of its successor organizations, the Teiten (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts) and Shin Bunten along with exhibitions of the Japan Arts Institute (Nihon Bijutsuin) and the post-war 1946 Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition). Along with his work in printmaking, the Imperial Court commissioned paintings by him.
Tensen was a member of the Futaba kai artist...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Paper, Fiberboard
Blue Christmas - Woodcut Hand Colored in Tempera on Paper - Art Deco - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 19.4 x 12.7 cm.
Blue Christmas is an original xylograph on laid ivory-colored paper, hand-watercolored by an anonymous artist at the beginning of XX century.
This is a modern artwork representing a Santa Claus in blue dress, sitting on a grey pouf...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Tempera, Woodcut
Study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku" 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road
Located in Soquel, CA
Study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku" 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road
Hand painted study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku", (by unknown artist), from "53 Station...
Category
Edo 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
Original "Ring It Again, Third Liberty Loan vintage WW1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Ring it Again Third Liberty Loan. Buy U. S. Gov't Bonds. World War 1 lithograph poster over 100 years old. It is mounted on acid-free archival linen. It looks l...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Two Girls with Horses and Dog - Signed Stone Lithograph - 1928
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Two Girls with Horses and Dog (1928)
Stone Lithograph
Printed in Atelier Mourlot
Printed signature in the plate
On China paper 31 x 42 c...
Category
Realist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ballet und Pantomime "Grille" (Cricket), plate #13.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.
In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color.
SCHNACKENBERG BALLET UND PANTOMIME...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
DeVilbiss Purfume Art Deco Poster by George Petty for the A.C. Schultz Company
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful Art Deco poster was realized by the esteemed American Artist George Petty for the A.C. Schultz Company in 1926. The work is an advertisement for DeVilbiss Perfume, which depicts a "Petty Girl" (as they came to be known) in the center of the composition floating in a pentagonal black color block. With short cropped silvery white hair and red lipstick, the female figure in center (suggestive of a stylized flapper) squeezes the atomizer of her perfume bottle misting herself in fragrance. Skyscraper style geometric forms suggesting elaborately faceted gemstones- in hues of rose, lavender, orange sapphire and yellow diamond- explode around her, suggesting the stage design for the set of the iconic film "Metropolis". The top of the composition features a bronze color block reading "DeVilbiss Perfume sprays" and in scrolling Deco lettering text reads “A drop of perfume bursting into myriad atoms of fragrance makes the use of perfume an added delight” near the bottom of the piece. Additionally, there is a solid black color block with crystalline black forms emanating outwards at the base of the composition, as well as a geometric abstract form on the right side of the piece imbuing it with a distinctly modernist inflection. With its quintessentially Art Deco sensibility, this piece is sure to delight discerning collectors of the period as well as those with a distinct appreciation for unusual (and stunning) fine art pieces. its vibrant palate and clean modernist lines make this piece a winning addition to any style of interior from classic Deco to contemporary. The piece comes presented in a custom gallery frame and is in excellent vintage condition.
George Petty was an American illustrator known for his series of pin-ups known as "Petty Girls" which he created for Esquire magazine. The Petty Girl were coquettish women whose legs were elongated to create idealized female forms. They were featured on magazine centerfolds, billboards, and calendars for companies such as Ridgid Tools. Born George Brown Petty IV on April 27, 1894 in Abbeville, LA, Petty received his formal training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under Ruth Van Sickle Ford...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
