1930s Prints and Multiples

Two Medici Society Fine Art prints of preparatory drawing for paintings , Italian/ Venetian school of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Handmade pr...

Original vintage travel poster advertising London Heart of the Empire issued by GWR Great Western Railway featuring a great design by the no...

After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #22, Bildnis Baronin Bachofen-Echt; multi-color collotype after 1914-1916 painting in oil on canvas. GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN AFTERMATH), a portfolio of 30 collotypes prints, 15 are multi-color and 15 are monochrome, on chine colle paper laid down on heavy cream-wove paper with deckled edges; Max Eisler, Editor-Publisher; Osterreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Printer; in a limited edition of 500 numbered examples of which: 200 were printed in German, 150 were printed in French and 150 were printed in English; Vienna, 1931. 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s death. It is a fitting time to reflect upon the enduring legacy and deep impact of his art. Recognizing this need for posterity with uncanny foresight, the publication of Gustav Klimt: An Aftermath (Eine Nachlese) provides a rare collection of work after Klimt which has proven to be an indispensable tool for Klimt scholarship as well as a source for pure visual delight. Approximately 25 percent of the original works featured in the Aftermath portfolio have since been lost. Of those 30, six were destroyed by fire on 8 May 1945. On that fateful final day of WWII, the retreating Feldherrnhalle, a tank division of the German Army, set fire to the Schloss Immendorf which was a 16th century castle in Lower Austria used between 1942-1945 to store objects of art. All three of Klimt’s Faculty Paintings: Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence (1900-1907), originally created for the University of Vienna, were on premises at that time. Also among the inventory of Klimt paintings in storage there was art which had been confiscated by the Nazis. One of the most significant confiscated collections was the Lederer collection which featured many works by Gustav Klimt such as Girlfriends II and Garden Path with Chickens...

This beautiful original 1930's modern style poster was created for the opening of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier. The actor is dressed in a black bow tie...

La Carte Surréaliste. Première série. Vingt et une cartes is a collection of iconic surrealist images realized with the lithograph technique by Various Artists in 1937. Original Fir...

Original vintage Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) propaganda poster - Arriba Espana / Go Spain - featuring soldiers, workers, farmers, women and children rising up and marching forward ...

GEORGE GROSZ 1893-1959 1893 - Berlin - 1959 (German/American) Title: The Radio General, 1937 Technique: Titled India Ink Drawing on Thin Wove Paper Size: 66.7 x 48.3 cm. / 26.3 x...

Original vintage Guinness advertising poster - My Goodness My Guinness - featuring an iconic design by the notable artist John Gilroy (John Tho...

Landeck, Armin (American 1905-1984). YORK AVENUE TENEMENTS. Kraeft 74. Etching, 1938. Ed. 100, signed and dated in pencil. 10 1/2 x 9 inches, framed to 17 ...

Original vintage South America travel poster - Cordoba is better in winter / Cordoba es mejor en invierno. Colourful design featuring a ma...

Sloan was so fond of this composition that he made a painting after the etching ten years after its completion, in 1943. Completed in Santa Fe, the painting is now housed in the perm...

Plate 7 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa ...

According to the frontis these were produced by Hand Lithography. According to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA NY) website "Edition:300 announced; only approx. 42 issued (including regular edition of 30, deluxe edition of approx. 10, and 2 artist's proofs)" I believe these are from the deluxe edition as they are on Mould made BFK Rives French paper and the dimensions are larger than stated in the MOMA website. the sheet size here is 40X29 cm. Date 1936. Publisher:Black Sun Press, New York. Printer:George C. Miller & Son, New York. most of them are plate signed. George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his Satire and Caricature drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where his teachers were Richard Müller, Robert Sterl, and Oskar Schindler. He subsequently studied at the Berlin College of Arts and Crafts under Emil Orlik. Grosz left the Communist Party KPD in 1922 after having spent five months in Russia and meeting Lenin and Trotsky, because of his antagonism to any form of dictatorial authority. Along with Otto Dix, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit. Bitterly anti Nazi, Grosz left Germany shortly before Hitler came to power. In June 1932, he accepted an invitation to teach the summer semester at the Art Students League of New York. In October 1932, Grosz returned to Germany, but on January 12, 1933 he and his family emigrated to America. In 1946 he published his autobiography, A Little Yes and a Big No. In the 1950s he opened a private art school at his home and also worked as Artist in Residence at the Des Moines Art Center. Grosz was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician in 1950. In 1954 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Grosz worked in a style influenced by Expressionism and Futurism, as well as by popular illustration, graffiti, and children's drawings.The City (1916–17) was the first of his many paintings of the modern urban scene. Other examples include the apocalyptic Explosion (1917), Metropolis (1917), and The Funeral, a 1918 painting depicting a mad funeral procession. In his drawings, usually in pen and ink which he sometimes developed further with watercolor, Grosz did much to create the image most have of Berlin and the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Corpulent businessmen, wounded soldiers, prostitutes, sex crimes and orgies were his great subjects His draftsmanship was excellent although the works for which he is best known adopt a deliberately crude form of caricature. His oeuvre includes a few absurdist works, and also includes a number of erotic artworks. ("Ecce Homo" which saw him accused of pornography) My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. ... I drew a man, face filled with fright, washing blood from his hands ... I drew lonely little men fleeing madly through empty streets. I drew a cross-section of tenement house: through one window could be seen a man attacking his wife; through another, two people making love; from a third hung a suicide with body covered by swarming flies. I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting a violent infantryman into a strait-jacket made of a horse blanket ... I drew a skeleton...

Original cruise poster by Randall Maurice for the Blue Star Line's Mediterranean cruises. The Blue Star Line was a British shipping company that provided...

Young Boy is an original photolithograph realized by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca. With the blue stamp of” Collezione Contessa Anna Labtitia Pecci” on the rear. Excellent c...

Artist: Edouard Manet Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1932 Dimensions: 29.5 x 22 in, 75 x 55.9 cm Classic Poster Paper - Excellent Condition A This 1932 very rare lithographic poster reproduces an amazing painting by Edouard Manet entitled "Le Fifre" (the fifer), from 1866. It was displayed at the Louvre from 1914 until 1947, when it was relocated to the Musée du Jeu de Paume. In 1986, it was moved to its current home in the Musée d'Orsay, the national museum of 19th-century art. (it is now on loan to the Louvre in Abu Dhabi.) On a trip to Spain in 1865, Édouard Manet visited the Prado, where the art of Diego Velasquez...

Original vintage travel poster for Fez in Morocco North Africa - Come and visit the mysterious Fez / Venez Visiter Fez la Mysterieuse - featuring a view over the city and historic Un...

Original vintage travel poster for Canberra Federal Capital & Garden City Australia featuring a stunning scenic view by James Northfield (1888-1973) with a couple in the foreground, ...

Nice original poster of Air France from 1938. Posters are essential to the communication of Air France. It is important to note that Air France has one of the largest collections in ...

In a Custom Green Metal c10/80 Frame Cover Sz: 14 1/4"H x 10"W Frame Sz: 21"H x 16 1/4"W

Original vintage aviation sport poster advertising the 6e Fete Aerienne / 6th Air Festival at Vincennes Paris on 20-21 May 1934. Great design...

A very nice poster made around 1930 by Bourgis, to promote the Paris Fair. The Paris Fair is the largest commercial event in France. The Fair moved to the Porte de Versailles in 192...

Original vintage travel poster advertising the popular holiday resort town of Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast by the London & North Eastern railway of England and Scotland LNER - It's Quicker By Rail - featuring a scenic view by the Scottish scenographer, painter and mural artist...

Delicate and detailed etching by Orpha Klinker (American, 1891-1964). At the edge of an old Adobe building, a staircase leads to the second floor. The stucco on the walls of the building is cracked, revealing the stonework below. Next to the building is a garden with Corkscrew Willow trees. One of her first projects with which Orpha impressed the public was a notable series of her large color portraits of California pioneers in the L.A.TIMES under the heading of "Speaking Of Pioneers." This led to another series on landmarks and famous tales of early California including oil paintings of historic adobes, buildings, and trees of California. Signed in plate, lower left. Paper size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W Mat size: 10"H x 12"W Orpha Klinker (American, 1891-1964) graduated from Polytechnic High School, L.A. and later studied at U.C.L.A. Art School and at the Cannon Art School. Artists Paul Lauritz and Anna A. Hills of Laguna Beach were her first art teachers. She continued her study of art at the Julian and Colarossi Academies in Europe. Some of her earliest work was in designing. Many pages of her fine pen work drawings appeared in Los Angeles newspapers, illustrating the fashions of the day, not only in clothes but in furniture and other things. Then for a time she did her work in New York City and later with the Ladies Home Journal in Philadelphia. One of her first projects with which Orpha impressed the public was a notable series of her large color portraits of California pioneers in the L.A.TIMES under the heading of "Speaking Of Pioneers." This led to another series on landmarks and famous tales of early California including oil paintings of historic adobes, buildings, and trees of California. From the Mexican border to Death Valley she roamed, meeting and painting portraits of such characters as Death Valley Scotty, Shoshone Johnny, the ancient Indian who supposedly saw the first white man come to Death Valley, Emanuel A. Speegle, "The Last of the 49'ers" (over 90 years of age) and others. Orpha was active in keeping alive the memory of one historical event in particular, the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga ending the Mexican War...

Original American Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie „Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs“, USA 1937. Here the evil witch gives the poisoned apple to snow whit...

Refinery Scene Lithgrah, c. 1930 Signed in pencil lower right. (see photo) Edition c. 14 Two impressions in the artist's estate. The other impression I sold to Dave and Reba Willia...

Original vintage travel poster featuring a colourful scenic artwork titled In The Near East painted by Jean Jacques Midderigh (1877-1970) showing men in rowi...

Original vintage PanAm travel poster - Skyway to Inca Land It's a Small World by Pan American Airways - featuring a great design depicting people in colourful clothing standing at Ma...

'Gem Mining Company', lithograph by Arnold Ronnebeck from 1932. Colorado mining scene with several mining buildings amongst the mountains. Presented in...

Original vintage drink advertising poster featuring text in bold red and black letters framed by a green line border: Down With Guinness! - then you'll feel better. One of the world'...

Original vintage travel poster advertising Rotorua Nature's Cure New Zealand Thermal Waters Health and Recreation featuring a colourful image of people swimming and relaxing at the R...

Paul Landacre, 'Hill', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60 (only 54 printed); only 2 impressions printed in a second edition of 150. Signed, titled, and numbered '49/60' in pencil. Wien...

Nice poster of the 30's for the Czechoslovak State Railways. You can see the famous Hluboka Castle. Hluboká Castle is a tourist destination in South Bohemia, it is a neo-Gothic castle...

Leon Bibel, 'Unemployed Marchers', 2-color lithograph, c. 1938, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '2/25' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, w...

Original vintage railway travel poster - Visit England State Railways and Southern Railway Paris St Lazare London / Visitez l'Angleterre Chemins...

Original vintage travel poster - Golf and Beach Miramar / Golf y Playa Miramar - featuring a stunning Art Deco design depicting a golf player holding a golf club and looking over the...

Original Fortune Magazine 1938 vintage cover. Archival linen backed in very fine condition; ready to frame. Artist: Miguel Covarrubias (1904 – 1957) This is an Original Letter Press...

Very nice illustrated map of Italy dating from 1933. Italy - Tourism

Very beautiful illustrated map from 1934 of the main Italian popular costumes. Italy - Tourism

Original vintage men's fashion advertising poster - The clothing that classifies an Epsom man / Le vetement qui classe un homme Epsom - featuring a great Art Deco design depicting a smiling gentleman in a smart suit and green tie, holding up his hat with his gloved hand in front of an image of a stylised...

Latitude 43 was designed by the avant-garde architect Georges-Henri Pingusson. The building, listed as a historical monument in 1992, is a reference in ter...

A 1933 lithograph on cream wove paper 14 x 18 inches (354 x 452mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 17/33 in pencil, lower margin. Minor mat tone around the perimeter of t...

Pencil signed original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. from the 1930s. Abramovitz, Albert 1879-1963 Born in Riga, Latvia, Abramovitz studied art at the Imperial Art School in Odessa and at the Grande Chaumière in Paris. In Paris, he became a member of the Salon in 1911 and in 1913 he became a member of its jury. He also became a member of the Salon d'Automne. While in Europe he received a medal at Clichy as well as the Grand Prize at the Universal Exhibition in Rome and Turin, Italy in 1911. In 1916, Abramovitz emigrated to America settling...

Palazzo dell'Angelo 1931 Etching and drypoint on cream-colored, handmade laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (185 x 171 mm), edition of 100, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered "Ed. 100" in pencil, lower margin, second state (of three). Printed by Henry Carling, New York. Extremely minor mat tone and some inky residue in the top right corner, all unobtrusive and well outside of image area. An exquisite impression of this intricate image, with astonishing detail, and all the fine lines printing clearly. The image represents the first print which Arms printed on his own handmade paper. Framed handsomely with archival materials and museum grade glass in a wood gilt frame with a flower and garland motif. Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy, p. 180; Anderson, American Etchers Abroad 1880-1930; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940, p. 116. [Fletcher 233] Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912. With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etching in 1919. His first subjects were the Brooklyn Bridge, near the Navy Yard, and it was during his wartime travel that Arms created a series of extraordinarily detailed etchings based on Gothic cathedrals and churches he visited in France and Italy. He used what was available to him, namely sewing needles and a magnifying glass, to create the incredibly rich and fine detail that his etchings are known for. Upon his return to New York after the war, Arms enjoyed a successful career as a graphic artist, created a series of etchings of American cities, and published Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (Macmillan, 1934). He served as President of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and in 1933, was made a full member of the National Academy of Design. In its most modern incarnation, Palazzo dell'Angelo was constructed in or around 1570. The building, which has a rich and storied history, was erected upon the ruins of an earlier structure which predates the Gothic period. Some remnants of the earliest features of the residence were most certainly still visible when Arms visited, as they are today. Having a background in architecture, there's no question that Arms was moved by the beauty, history and ingenuity represented in the physical structure. One thing specifically gives away Arms's passion for the architecture, and that is the fact that he focused on the building's Moorish entranceway, balustrade, and two mullioned windows, and not on the curious Gothic era bas-relief of an angel nestled into the facade of the building, after which the structure is named. The sculpture itself doesn't appear in Arms's composition at all, despite the fact that it is the feature of the building that is most famous in its folklore. Arms instead focuses on the oldest portion of the architecture, even documenting some of the remnants of a fresco, and a funerary stele for the freedman Tito Mestrio Logismo, and his wife Mestria Sperata (visible above the water level, to the left of the door, behind the gondola), which was first described in 1436. Among the many notable bits of history regarding the Palazzo, it has been documented that Tintoretto painted frescos of battle scenes on the facade of the building. The paintings have been lost to time and the elements, but not entirely to history. The empty frame...

Original vintage travel poster - When you come to Germany don't miss Lake Constance / Quando vier a Allemanha nao deixe de ir ao Lago de Constanca - fea...

The Girl in Forest is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. On the lower right description in French. Very good condit...

Pencil signed original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. from the 1930s. Abramovitz, Albert 1879-1963 Born in Riga, Latvia, Abramovitz studied art at the Imperial Art School in Odessa and at the Grande Chaumière in Paris. In Paris, he became a member of the Salon in 1911 and in 1913 he became a member of its jury. He also became a member of the Salon d'Automne. While in Europe he received a medal at Clichy as well as the Grand Prize at the Universal Exhibition in Rome and Turin, Italy in 1911. In 1916, Abramovitz emigrated to America settling...

Original vintage car advertising poster - Tout est plus beau... avec une Peugeot / Everything is more beautiful... with a Peuge...

Original vintage cruise travel poster for Blue Star Cruises Norway featuring a colourful image of a ship sailing through a fjord between steep cliffs with trees in the foreground, th...

Original vintage travel poster issued by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway LMS and London North Eastern Railway LNER for Edinburgh It's Quicker By Rail featuring a great desig...

Original vintage advertising poster - Day after day Trilysin The biological hair tonic that helps! The dandruff disappears The hair loss stops The hair grows again. Scientific hair care with Trilysin and Trilysin Oil - featuring a great design by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) featuring a smiling lady wearing a colourful outfit putting some hair care on her blonde hair, a man standing behind her ready to help, and an image showing the cosmetic beauty bottles...

Original vintage ski travel poster for the FIS Ski Championships of the World Zakopane Poland 11-19 February 1939. Dynamic design depicting a skier skiing at speed in a slalom race a...

The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fûkei shû II Kansai hen), woodblock print, 1934. A very fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Signed 'Hasui' with the artist’s seal 'Kawase', lower left. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo with the Watanabe ‘D’ seal indicating an early impression printed between 1931 - 1941. Stamped faintly 'Made in Japan' in the bottom center margin, verso. Horizontal ôban; image size 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (238 x 362 mm); sheet size approximately 10 5/16 x 15 1/2 inches ( 262 x 394 mm). Collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna); Honolulu Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum in Warsaw; University of Wisconsin-Madison. ABOUT THE ARTIST “I do not paint subjective impressions. My work is based on reality...I can not falsify...(but) I can simplify…I make mental impressions of the light and color at the time of sketching. While coloring the sketch, I am already imagining the effects in a woodblock print.” — Kawase Hasui Hasui Kawase...

Original vintage naval military recruitment poster Engagez-vous dans la Marine / Join the Navy featuring dynamic artwork of a warship at sea with the num...

Original vintage travel poster for Royal Mail Line Atlantis Cruises featuring a stunning scenic view by the British poster designer, Percy Padden (1886-19...

Original 1931 collotype created from Gustav Kilmt’s Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, oil on canvas, 1916. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Vienna, in an edition of 500. In 1931, Max Eisler published the most notable posthumous collection of Gustav Klimt works to date. Using a complex gravure process, Klimt’s original oil paintings were painstakingly reproduced as collotypes on a handmade, deckled-edge cream wove paper. This world-class example of collotype captures the superb resolution and color-richness and ornamentation of the original 1916 oil painting. "Friederike-Maria suggested that Klimt should paint her in a Viennese Workshop dress; she wore these exclusively. She was also very proud of a fur coat she owned, particularly during the hardship of the First World War, and Klimt decided that she should wear the coat too, but inside out, so that the decorative lining, also by the Viennese Workshop, was visible. Klimt decided to make use of an imaginary oriental screen...

Original vintage London Transport poster featuring a programme of events from 3 to 9 April - This Week in London Ideal Home Exhibition Olympia Concerts Squash Rackets Boxing Ice Hockey - with the text in the centre and details including the London Underground stations and days and times of a symphony orchestra, piano and violin recital, non-stop concert and music competition festival as well as squash championships and amateur association boxing at the Royal Albert Hall South Kensington, and USA v Canada ice hockey test match at the ice-drome in Hammersmith, with the London Underground roundel logo in the corner and stunning Art Deco images on the side border and below depicting theatre masks with a ballet dancer under stage lights, horse racing and motorcycle racing with a greyhound dog race and spectators, a lady diving and rowers on the River Thames in a boat race, tennis players on a court with a cricket bat, ball and stumps, and people enjoying an art gallery with paintings, sculptures and flowers outside. The British commercial artist and poster designer Cecil Walter Bacon...

The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique was considered the most famous French shipping company. From 1862 to 1975, 483 ships flew the red globe flag on all the seas of the world. This beautiful poster promotes travel to Algeria and Tunisia with the Cie Gle Transatlantique...