Art Deco

The pastel portrait of Stella Samuel, very likely a starlet from the thirties, created in the style of Charles Sheldon, emanates timeless elegance. With a delicate interplay of color...

Leonetto Cappiello's original poster for the Bally brand, created in 1934, is an iconic work that embodies both the artist's distinctive style and the sophistication of the Swiss sho...

Hein Kaske's original poster, created in 1932 for Hapag and the Hamburg American Line's round-the-world cruise on the three-screw "Reliance", is a rema...

This is an original poster printed in lithography by the famous poster artist Leonetto Cappiello. Leonetto Cappiello was an Italian and French poster artist and painter, who lived a...

Simon's original travel poster for "Les Vosges Sports d'Hiver" encapsulates the timeless appeal of winter adventures in the Vosges Mountains, conveniently located within a short jour...

The original advertising poster for Veedol, with the slogan "Even faster, surely further", is an iconic work that embodies the spirit of innovation and performance in the automotive ...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. Paris, The Buttes Chaumont Park, circa 1930. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography Unframed. Press Photogra...

Paolo Garretto's original poster for Air France, entitled "La Flèche d'Orient", dating from 1936, is an art piece that illustrates the elegance and audacity of air travel at the time...

Golf (Wall Plaque) Polychromed ceramic, c. 1930-1 Signed with the artist's initials: VS recto Very rare, only a few produced prior to the closure of Cowan Pottery Format: Round ceramic plate, 11 1/4 inches Designed by the artist while working for Cowan Pottery in 1930. One of Cowan's clients, an interior designer, requested plates decorated with different outdoor activities. Others in the series included "Swimming," "Tennis," "Polo," and "The Hunt." According to Henry Adams, the number of examples created was very limited due to the closing of Cowan Pottery in 1931. Very rare Condition: Good, with the usual craquelure of the glazes used. Note: Industrial design democratizes high style, and Mr. Schreckengost was widely considered among the most democratic industrial designers. He made, quite literally, the stuff of life — things found routinely in homes, backyards and garages in this country and around the world. He designed bicycles for Sears and everyday china for American Limoges. He designed children’s toys and pedal cars; flashlights, furniture and fans; lawn chairs, lawn mowers and golf carts; baby walkers and artificial limbs. In 2006 Mr. Schreckengost was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the country’s highest cultural honor. His work is in the permanent collection of major museums, including the Renwick Gallery, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Schreckengost belonged to the first great generation of American industrial designers, which included luminaries like Russel Wright, Norman Bel Geddes and Raymond Loewy. The lights of New York...

The original poster by A. M. Cassandre for the 1935 "Sweepstakes Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe" is a masterpiece of advertising art. Cassandre, the famous French poster artist, created a...

Monte Carlo is situated along the French Riviera and is known widely as a place of beauty, splendor, and relaxation. This poster by Jean-Gabriel Domergue invites you to see the “most...

Ecurueil (Squirrel) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illu...

"Mercury" NYC 1931 Bronze 5th Ave Traffic Light Sculpture American Art Deco WPA In the late 1920s, Joseph Freedlander was asked by the City of New York ...

"Lady with a book" also known as "St. Suzanne" by Jan & Joël MARTEL (1896-1966) Sculpture in stone from Euville France circa 1935 height of the sculpture : 125 cm width of base : 25,4 x 21,2 cm total height with wooden base : 141 cm width of the wooden socle : 31 x 26 cm A similar model is reproduced in "Joël et Jan Martel, sculpteurs, 1896-1966", Ed. Gallimard Electa, 1996, page 150. Biography : The twins Jan and Joël Martel, born March 5, 1896 in Nantes and died respectively on March 16 and September 25, 1966 in Bois-de-Céné, were both of them French sculptors and decorators. As Parisian artists, they spent long moments in Vendée region, in their Mollin property, or in Saint-Jean-de-Monts, city in which one can see their last monumental work: "The Sea Birds". Their works were sculptures, monuments or fountains of Art Deco or Cubist inspiration. They also realized around 1920 interior fittings for villas. Jan and Joel Martel shared the same workshop and their work to the point of signing their compositions only by "Martel". The Martel brothers...

Original vintage Spanish clothing advertising poster - Industrias de Peleteria Tapbioles y Pirretas Fur Industry Barcelona - featuring an elegant Art Deco design by the Czech artist ...

Original vintage advertising poster for the Paris 1937 Exposition Internationale / International Exhibition held from May to November featuring a...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency A. Harlingue, Paris. Paris, a view of The Ile Saint Louis, circa 1930. The view is taken from the Quai d'O...

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...

"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...

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

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...

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

"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...

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 ...

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...

Fresson print, inscribed ‘LAG 17033’ (verso), 29cm x 23cm (on view), 37cm x 30.5cm (sheet size), (48cm x 41cm framed). The photograph is framed to the line and crop indicated by the photographer on the print, behind museum quality UV non-reflective glass. (A Fresson print is a type of photographic printing, created in 1899, that has been passed down in the family for four generations. Still to this day, the Fresson family keeps some elements of the process a secret but make sure it stays alive. Located in the outskirts of Paris, their workshop is the only one in the world to produce such prints.) Albin-Guillot studied drawing and painting before becoming interested in photography. In 1925, she went on to have the first one-person exhibition at the Paris Autumn Salon. She also served as president of the French Societe des Artistes Photographes and in June 1928, was included in the first independent Salon of Photography in Paris. Published in 1932, she took a series of male nudes taken for Henry de Motherlant’s La Deesse Cypris. The strongly cropped images in which the male nudes fill the entire frame accompany the author’s text about sensuality. In 1933, she collaborated with the poet Paul Valery...

Original vintage travel poster - Dans Tous Les Ciels Air France / In All Skies - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Roger de Valerio (1886-1951) depicting a propeller plane flyi...

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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....

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...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Agence Meurisse, Paris. La Santé, jailhouse in Paris, circa 1930. Features: Original silver gelatin print photography u...

Original vintage poster for the World Fair held in New York at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park from 30 April 1939 to 31 October 1940. Great Art Deco design of a smiling young lady weari...

Charcoal , signed lower right and dated 'Paris 1935' Image size: 25 x 19 inches (63.5 x 48 cm) Original oak frame An accomplished example of Russian art from the mid 20th century. ...

Portrait of the artist’s wife. Demetre Haralamb Chiparus (also known as Dumitru Chiparus) (16 September 1886 in Dorohoi, Romania - 22 January 1947 in Paris, France) was a Romanian Art Deco* era sculptor who lived and worked in Paris. He was born in Romania, the son of Haralamb and Saveta. In 1909 he went to Italy, where he attended the classes of Italian sculptor Raffaello Romanelli. In 1912 he traveled to Paris to attend the Ecole des Beaux Arts* to pursue his art at the classes of Antonin Mercie and Jean Boucher. Demetre Chiparus died in 1947 and was buried in Bagneux cemetery, just south of Paris. The first sculptures of Chiparus were created in the realistic style and were exhibited at the Salon of 1914. He employed the combination of bronze and ivory, called chryselephantine*, to great effect. Most of his renowned works were made between 1914 and 1933. The first series of sculptures manufactured by Chiparus were the series of the children. The mature style of Chiparus took shape beginning in the 1920s. His sculptures are remarkable for their bright and outstanding decorative effect. Dancers of the Russian Ballet, French theatre, and early motion pictures were among his more notable subjects and were typified by a long, slender, stylized appearance. His work was influenced by an interest in Egypt, after Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb was excavated. He worked primarily with the Edmond Etling and Cie Foundry in Paris administrated by Julien Dreyfus. Les Neveux de J. Lehmann was the second foundry which constantly worked with Chiparus and produced the sculptures of his models. Chiparus rarely exhibited at the Salon. In 1923 he showed his Javelin Thrower, and in 1928 exhibited his Ta-Keo dancer. During the period of Nazi persecution and the World War II, the foundries discontinued production of work by Chiparus. The economic situation of that time was not favorable to the development of decorative arts and circumstances for many sculptors worsened. Since the early 1940s almost no works of Chiparus were sold, but he continued sculpting for his own pleasure, depicting animals in the Art Deco style. At the 1942 Paris Salon, the plaster sculptures Polar Bear...

"Stefan Norblin 🇵🇱 (1892- 1952) was a versatile artist with a mastery of the Art Deco style, known in his day for his paintings, posters, illustrations and theater costumes, as wel...

Original vintage poster: Lavocat aliments irradies. Force, Energie par les produits. This is a classic French late Art Deco period poster featuring a buff rugby player almost outpacing a steed - due no doubt to Lavocat, an 'irradiated' food. Even today, the American FDA believes that irradiating food can burn off harmful bacteria, airborne germs, and other microbes which can adversely affect food. We love this poster's depth of color, texture, and oomph - powerful and very, very Art Deco. This poster is an original Art Deco lithograph. This poster is related more to sports and running than food, but food provides energy. Note that the red is cherry red since different monitors produce the red color of this poster in different qualities. Excellent condition, undated on the poster. Behind the rugby runner is a black horse that appears to be neck and neck...

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...

Original vintage travel poster for Air France promoting their Scandinavia flight route from Paris to Stockholm by plane and train via Brussels Hamburg Copenhagen and Malmo - featurin...

Odeon was a phonographic company of German origin, founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz in Berlin, Germany. The company takes its name from the famous Paris theater, whos...

An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Wide World Photos - New York Times in Paris. Railroad freight station in Wales, England circa 1930. Features: Original Silve...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency Trampus, Paris. On an English beach with seagulls, circa 1930. Features: Original silver gelatin print pho...

An attractive poster by J.L Beuzon, showing a game of ping-pong in the mid-1930s. The ladies are elegantly dressed for a game of table tennis. Table tennis is thought to have originated in England at...

An original silver gelatin black and white photograph shooted by photographer G. Devred for Press Agency ROL, Paris 1931. The Catherinettes March. The young girls carry a hat box in...

Original poster Italian lithograph. Tira Al Piccion - Roma. Skeet Shooting. VII World Championship “Tiro a Piccione” pre-World War II Olympic style poster. Powerful pre-world War II poster. This shows the American flag flying next to the Nazi flag for the skeet shooting championship in Italy. Note that the year 1935 corresponds with the fascist year date of XIV-XV. Museum linen backed. The USA flag is sitting right next to the German Nazi...

HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD (1907-1985) The Model - Design for Eltham Palace Coloured chalks, arched top Framed 21 by 13 cm., 8 ¼ by 5 in. (frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in...

Beautiful print of Jean Cocteau 🇫🇷 (1889-1963) a French poet, painter, draughtsman, playwright and film maker. In the workshop of Madeleine Jolly and Philippe Madeline in Villefran...