Art Deco

The original Chemins de Fer de l'État poster by Hermine David in 1937, entitled "Le Réseau de la Mer Bretagne", is a true masterpiece of French advertising art. Hermine David, a tale...

"Panthers resting" by Maximilien FIOT (1886-1953) Outstanding and rare sculpture in white marble France circa 1930 height 40 cm length 66 cm Provenance : By Descent of the Boardman, Devitt and Dawkins families, New England and California. Biography : Louis-Maximilien Fiot, known as Maximilien Fiot (1886-1953) was a French sculptor. Student of the sculptor Prosper Lecourtier, he exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1910 to 1914. Member of the Salon of French Artists, Fiot obtained a third medal in 1911, then a second medal in 1913. As an animal artist, he also participated during the period between the two World Wars, like many of his confreres, in the production of war memorials. In 1930, he realized for the city of La Ferté-Alais, where his mother lived, "The Lion watching...

"In triptych form, the mythical Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet is in a way the ancestor of the animated gif! A simple, poetic visual narrative wrapped in a humorous tone. A silhouette darkens as the Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet sequence progresses. Some say that it's these gestures and features that have given rise to our image of the aperitif. Cheers, Cassandra! Today, the Evin law would forbid this type of alcohol promotion, but that hasn't stopped this poster from becoming a cult image, taken up and quoted by every generation of graphic designers. Dubonnet is a brand of vermouth flavored mainly with cinchona, available in red and white. It was created by French chemist Joseph Dubonnet. It was in Paris, near the future site of the Garnier opera house, that Joseph Dubonnet developed his cinchona wine in 1846. To combat malaria, he developed this bitter-tasting medicine, which he masked with a strong-tasting decoction of herbs and spices. Soldiers in the Foreign Legion...

« Ave Maria – Gratia Plena » Hail Mary full of grace by François-Emile Decorchemont (1880-1971) A large and exceptional stained-glass window. Masterpiece by François Décorchemont. Stained glass colored in the mass and worked in relief. Blackened metal frame, cement joints. SIgned and dated 1934 France height 125 cm width 175 cm It was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes décorateurs in 1934. This very rare stained glass...

Original antique train travel advertising poster - Great Western Railway Plymouth The centre of 100 tours in sunny South Devon - featuring a colourful Art Deco style illustration of ...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in a Blum's Vogue ad. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chica...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in Western wear. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in a Saks Fifth Avenue ad. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of ...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency Keystone View Co, Paris. Paris during the Great Depression, circa 1930...

A French art deco pastel portrait by Louis-Jean Beaupuy. The work is signed and dated bottom right. Presented in carved and gilded wood frame. Beaupuy has captured all the charm and...

MARIE PALMER-SMITH (1899-1997) Lallia Bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse Gouache, unframed in mount 24 by 17 cm., 9 ½ by 6 ¾ in. (mount size 39 by 31 cm., 15 ¼ by 12 ¼ in....

A very charming and stylish Art Deco costume study of a lady in a blue butterfly costume by the French costume designer Jean Aumond. Jean Aumond (Fre...

Sanglier (Wild Boar) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of ill...

This outdoor lamp "Ikosaeder" is for the garden or entrance area. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. This lamp impresses her un...

"Apollo" by Henri Bouchard (1875-1960) An Art Deco period masterpiece! Exceptional bronze sculpture with a golden-brown patina Signed " H. Bouchard " Unique piece This work personifies Apollo, god of the Arts. Represented here as Apollo Musagète, leader of the procession of muses and winner of the serpent Python. This subject was commissioned to adorn the entrance to the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and whose monumental bronze is still exhibited there. To participate in the Venice Biennale in 1938, Henri Bouchard had reduced in 1937 the large Apollo of the Palais de Chaillot, which had not yet been installed. Vintage cast by Bisceglia (cast founder stamp) made during the artist's lifetime. Incised dedication below signature : " à mon cher ami E. Sandoz " This is a unique cast made for the sculptor Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971). This cast was exhibited at the 1938 Venice Biennale. France 1937 height : 82 cm width : 45 cm depth : 30 cm weight : 31,2 kgs Stickers under the bronze cast : - Sticker mentioning that this cast has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 1938 under the number 354 ("Biennale Internaz. d'Arte Venezia – 1938 – XVI – 354"). - Sticker mentioning that this cast went through Italian customs ("ne – merci – dogana italiana – visitate - 9622") - Damaged Sticker mentioning the name ("A…") and the address ("25…") of the owner of the cast (maybe for the workshop "Atelier Henri Bouchard", 25 rue d’Yvettes, 75016 Paris). Provenance : - Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Paris, according to the dedication. - Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein (entrepreneur and founder of Sire Records, famous American record label ; and avid collector of 19th and 20th century fine art...

Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Showgirls Cartoon for Life Magazine, 1934. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, matting window measures 16.5 x 13 inches; sheet measures 19 x 15 inches; Matting panel measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition with discoloration and toning in margins. Unframed. Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques. He found that talent in Barbara Shermund. For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice. Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence. “Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League. In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.” “While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund. And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...

A rare, small edition, color woodblock print, titled "Randolph Street- Chicago", from the series "Chicago Moods in Color", by Chicago artist Charles Turza...

Original Vintage French Travel Poster "LE HOHWALD" by ROGER BRODERS ca. 1930. Size: 24.5" x 39.25". Archival linen-backed antique skiing French vinta...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in a hat and Marshall Field coat. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Instit...

"Eternity" Mixed media work on wood 18.5" x 71" inch by Alfons Louis Wooden works with Mixed Media (Bronze) ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – Member of plastic art Egypt, member of Atelier Alexandria And member of Alexandria Work shop center...

Heron Butor - Bittern French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of il...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. Paris, The Parc Monceau public garden, 20th June 1926. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography Unframed. Press Photography. Press Agency: Anonymous. Photographer: Anonymous. Title: Paris, The Parc Monceau public garden, June 20th, 1926. View of the Roman colonnades in the garden. Provenance: Private collection. Image Size: 4.57 in. high (11.6 cm) x 6.22 in. wide (15.8 cm) - Archivally matted in a 17 x 13 mat. The piece will be shipped in a mat (17 x 13 in.) that fits a standard-sized frame. No ink stamp, no legend. (The last picture shows you the Parc and the Roman colonnades as it is today). About: Parc Monceau is a public park located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the junction of Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony, and Rue Georges...

Flower labyrinth Original floral painting on canvas 70x70 cm

A rare, small edition, color woodblock print, titled "Loop Alley", by Chicago artist Charles Turzak. In the 1930s, Turzak created a series of fine and dramatic prints depicting the ...

This torch is the eye-catcher in your garden. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. Due to good air supply, you can very quickly l...

Florencio Gelabert Y Perez (Cuban, 1904-1995) Hand carved, signed; 1979 Materials: Cuban wood (mahogany?) Dimensions 23 X 4 X 4 inches Label affixed to underside: National Registry of Cultural Assets of the Republic of Cuba Ministry of Culture. Provenance: Art Master Collection, Miami, Florida. Florencio Gelabert, with a style reminiscent of Art Deco and Art Nouveau in a Latin American Expressionist stylization. Carved wood sculpture. Depicts a modernist stylized form of a man in a streamline moderne style. José Florencio Gelabert Pérez (Caibarien, 1904 - Havana, 1995) Cuban musician, sculptor, draftsman and teacher. He graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He received numerous awards, mentions and recognitions in Fine Arts Halls and Circles. His works are in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Florencio Gelabert is a renowned sculptor, who made more than twenty solo exhibitions beginning in 1929, several in the National Museum of Fine Arts, and participated in more than thirty collectives in Cuba, Spain and Brazil, the latter in the Sao Paulo Biennial. he traveled from Caibarién to Santa Clara in 1928 to audition to enter the famous San Alejandro Fine Arts School in Havana. He obtained one of the five vacancies. Already in the Cuban capital, he combined fine arts and music. When he graduated, he became a professor in San Alejandro and the academy’s principal in 1960. With a calling common to wood sculptors –which began with his primary school carving carpentry classes and the active life of his home town’s shipyards, his chisels and gouges feverishly turned mahogany, “ácana” and ebony into female heads with black African features dating back to 1930. In 1938 he used his savings to explore Europe: France (Paris, Marseilles), Italy (Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice), Belgium (Malina). His encounter with the works by Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Ossip Zadkine, Constantin Brancusi and even with Wifredo Lam, who was also born in another Cuban coastal area, Sagua la Grande, and his encounter with the nude marble David sculpture...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a hat advertisement for Chicago's most notable department store, Marshall Field & Company. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman seated with hat and gloves. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency, Paris 1925. International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, October 1925, The Collector Pavilion. On t...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography, The International Autumn Fair in Lyon, France, 19th of March 1927. A view of the parking lot at the International Autum...

MARIE PALMER-SMITH (1899-1997) Olivia Bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse Gouache on textured paper, unframed in mount 22 by 17 cm., 8 ¾ by 6 ¾ in. (mount size 37 by 31 cm....

Mouflon French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of...

Outdoor lamp "Globe" d = 55 cm galvanized outdoor. Outdoor light for the house and garden as well as entrance area. This lamp impresses their unique shadow projection. The ball is d...

This outdoor fire pit "globe" is the eye-catcher in your garden. Due to good air supply, you can very quickly light a beautiful fire. There are already individual lava stones in the...

A very charming and stylish Art Deco costume study of a lady in a yellow butterfly costume by the French costume designer Jean Aumond. Jean Aumond (F...

URBAN SERENADE by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques(not a photo reproduction or digital print) on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. URBAN SERENADE is a contemporary musical portrait portraying a woman violinist with long wavy red hair dressed in a form fitting orange evening dress as she plays her violin; an Art Deco inspired city building...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina. There are already individual lava stones in th...

Heron Bihoreau - Black Crowned Night Heron French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrati...

"Confluence" Mixed media work on wood 102" x 3" x 10" inch by Alfons Louis ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – M...

Becassine - Snipe French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illust...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a hat advertisement for a hat, suit and purse. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art...

This outdoor fireplace "Globe" is the eye-catcher in your garden. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. (Optional prepared for nat...

Original poster by Edmond Maurus for Air France in 1946, promoting the African destinations of French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa. The poster depicted a plane flying ove...

This magnificent original poster from the late Art Deco period was created for the Lavocat brand. It shows a rugby player running at stallion speed - no d...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Agence Meurisse, Paris. Car racing in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, circa 1911. Features: Original silver gelatin print pho...

Tuareg Rider in the Desert, 1908 Paul Jouve (1878-1973) Oil on panel, signed lower right. 27 ½ × 24 inches (21 ¾ × 17 1/2 frame) inches Paul Jouve’s work has been celebrated and col...

This painting sends a message to the world to maintain peace for the welfare of mankind. There is the figure of a woman who is standing alone with her eyes staring at the future, on ...

Sublime Art Deco poster designed by Monneret in 1979 to promote the 90th Salon des Indépendants, held from February 8 to March 5, 1979 at the Grand Palais in Paris. The Salon des In...

Isaac Grünewald ( 1889-1946 ) Swedish Expressionist painter . Rare & unique ceramic work ( 1940's ) Glazed stoneware . signed . decorated with n...

This captivating piece titled 'Orange Bikini Swimmer on the Sand' beckons for a contemplative pause. The figurative drawing in watercolor, with ink accen...

Pastel and watercolour, signed lower right Image size: 24 ½ x 19 ½ inches (62 x 49.5 cm) Art deco style hand made frame Transport posters of the past created some of the most visua...

Grebe Huppe - Grebe Oreillard - Great Crested Grebe French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of i...

Oedicneme Criard - Eurasian Stone Curlew French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustration...

Porphyrion ou Poule Sultane - Western Swamphen French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illust...

Foulque - Common Coot French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of il...

Rale D'Eau - Water Rail French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195...

Rale des Genets - Corn Crake French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. ...

Heron Blongios - Little Bittern French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of bird...