1944 Original poster steeped in history - French Resistance in occupied France
Located in PARIS, FR
The Forces françaises de l'intérieur (FFI) represented the main military groupings of the French Resistance in occupied France: the Secret Army (AS, Gaullist, comprising Combat, Libé...
Paper, Lithograph
Original Vintage WWII Poster French Resistance Voix Du Maquis Fighters Magazine
Located in London, GB
Formed in c.1943, the Maquis French Resistance guerrilla Anti-Fascism fighters lived in camps operating from the forests and mountain areas to resist the German Nazi occupation of Fr...
Paper
$45,000
Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry - Nancy Wake 933
Located in New York, NY
After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined an escape network.
Metal
Original Vintage WWII Film Poster Service Secret Mission Spy War Drama Movie Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for a 1942 World War Two drama film - Secret Mission an exciting adventure / Service Secret une aventure passionnante - about British spies and a French...
Paper
Pair of Art Deco Glass Figurines Piranha Molded Fish By Ferjac France 1920s
By Ferjac
Located in Bochum, NRW
Pol Ferjac (1900-1979) was a French artist, French Resistance member, and father of actress Anouk Ferjac.
Granite
$704Sale Price|20% Off
French Antique Lithograph in Gilt Frame 'La Douce Résistance'
By Louis Leopold Boilly
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Lithograph by Italian artist Salvatore Tresca (1750–1815) after an original painting by French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845) of a work entitled 'La Douce Résistance' (The S...
Giltwood
'The Soul is Music' France, Provence, California, Post Impressionist Figural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Additionally signed and titled, and with figural drawing, verso; Previously with: Chabot Gallery, Campbell, California Born in a tiny jungle village in Mozambique to a Portuguese...
Canvas, Oil
Willy Mucha Painting, 1950's
Located in Dallas, TX
After fighting for the French Resistance during WWII he settled in Collioure in the south of France where his work was inspired by the Mediterranean light and its infinite horizon.
Canvas, Paint
French Contemporary Photo by Jean-Charles Mandou - Resistance
Located in Paris, IDF
Printed on Acrylic Jean-Charles Mandou is a French photographer born in 1962 who lives between France & Brazil. He studied at Ecole du Louve in Paris. He works also in theater & cin...
Digital
Time Out, Raymonde Desabres (1925-2020)
Located in Southampton, NJ
Painting is in beautiful condition. Born in Le Chatlet, France. As a teenager, Desabres Plaut became a member of the French Resistance where she engaged in intelligence activities a...
Acrylic
The Pond - Annick Du Charme
Located in North Clarendon, VT
We do know that she was a member of the French Resistance and then emigrated to the US with her American husband around 1951.
Oil
Original Lithograph 124/260 signed Hoi Lebadang (1921-2015)
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Pasadena, CA
OriginalL ithograph 124/260 signed Hoi Lebadang (1921-2015); He was born in Vietnam and emigrated to France as a teenager. He fought in the French Resistance movement against the ...
C Print
René Mathieu for Lunel Wall Lamp Circa 1950s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Beginning his career in furniture design in the 1930s, he embraced modern materials such as metal, glass and plastic, helping to shape the clean, functional aesthetic of post-war Fre...
Brass
René Mathieu for Lunel 'Diablo' Wall Lamp Circa 1950s
Located in Gloucester, GB
Beginning his career in furniture design in the 1930s, he embraced modern materials such as metal, glass and plastic, helping to shape the clean, functional aesthetic of post-war Fre...
Brass
Price Upon Request
Mathieu Matégot - Sans titre, tapestry, french, modern, abstract, wool, design
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in London, GB
Matégot volunteered for the French resistance at the start of the Second World War, only to be captured by the Nazis.
Tapestry
Price Upon Request
Mathieu Matégot - Castille, tapestry, french, modern, abstract, aubusson, design
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in London, GB
Matégot volunteered for the French resistance at the start of the Second World War, only to be captured by the Nazis.
Tapestry
Price Upon Request
Mathieu Matégot - Oberon, tapestry, french, modern, abstract, wool, design
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in London, GB
Matégot volunteered for the French resistance at the start of the Second World War, only to be captured by the Nazis.
Tapestry
Price Upon Request
Mathieu Matégot - Apollo, tapestry, french, modern, abstract, aubusson, design
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in London, GB
Matégot volunteered for the French resistance at the start of the Second World War, only to be captured by the Nazis.
Tapestry
$550Sale Price|20% Off
French Mid 20th Century Exhibition Poster Study for WWII Normandy Landings
By Anne Marie Migette Perard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rendered in expressive watercolor and ink, the piece features bold text, explosive orange and yellow bursts symbolizing the intensity of battle, and the Cross of Lorraine—a widely re...
Ink, Watercolor
$35,000
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Sculptural Wall Tapestry - Noor Inayat Khan 1131
Located in New York, NY
Noor Inayat Khan 1131 features Noor Inayat Khan, a Special Operations Executive agent, who became the first female radio operator to be sent from Britain to aid the French resistance...
Metal
"Claudine" Marcel Dyf, Impressionist Painter, Female Portrait, French, Interior
By Marcel Dyf
Located in New York, NY
By 1935, he had returned to Paris, and during World War II he joined the French Resistance, operating out of the Corrèze region—an experience that marked a significant chapter in his...
Canvas, Oil
Jacques Martin Ferrieres 'French 1893-1972' Landscape
By Jacques Martin-Ferrières
Located in Dallas, TX
Martin-Ferrieres interrupted his painting career to serve in the French resistance movement during World War II. Although he lost an eye while a prisoner of war, he resumed his art e...
Paint
$1,045Sale Price|20% Off
SOPHIE DANIELLE RUBINSTAIN (1922-2018) HUGE 1960s FRENCH SURREALIST SIGNED OIL
By Sophie Danielle Rubinstain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rubinstain served in the French Resistance during the latter part of World War II (from 1943 to 1944), aged just 21 years old.
Oil
Original Vintage WWII Poster Salut A La Resistance Et En Avant! Forward Fighters
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Salute to the Resistance and forward / Salut a la Resistance et en avant! - featuring artwork of resistance fighters in the foreground, two me...
Paper
$1,346Sale Price|20% Off
Alabaster Bust of Joan of Arc Attributed to Giuseppe Bessi Early XX Century
By Giuseppe Bessi
Located in Milano, MI
Despite his tragic end, Joan of Arc became a symbol of French resistance and patriotism. Its story has been the subject of numerous literary works, artistic and cinematographic.
Alabaster
Japan Japanese Garden by French naive outsider folk art primitive artist, 1975
By Maurice Loirand
Located in Norwich, GB
During the Second World War, he joined the French Resistance, where he met painters, poets and intellectuals who introduced him to an artistic world far removed from his origins.
Canvas, Oil
$880Sale Price|20% Off
Large 1960's French Portrait of Lady in Red signed
By Sophie Danielle Rubinstain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rubinstain served in the French Resistance during the latter part of World War II (from 1943 to 1944), aged just 21 years old.
Oil
$880Sale Price|20% Off
Large 1960's French Modernist Portrait Woman in Blue Jacket
By Sophie Danielle Rubinstain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rubinstain served in the French Resistance during the latter part of World War II (from 1943 to 1944), aged just 21 years old.
Oil
$412Sale Price|20% Off
SOPHIE DANIELLE RUBINSTAIN (1922-2018) HUGE 1960s FRENCH SURREALIST PORTRAIT MAN
By Sophie Danielle Rubinstain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rubinstain served in the French Resistance during the latter part of World War II (from 1943 to 1944), aged just 21 years old.
Oil
Jacques Martin-Ferrières 'French, 1893-1972'
By Jacques Martin-Ferrières
Located in Dallas, TX
Martin-Ferrieres interrupted his painting career to serve in the French resistance movement during World War II. Although he lost an eye while a prisoner of war, he resumed his art e...
Paint
Hoi Lebadang Horse in Red Lithograph, Signed , Numbered & Framed
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Plainview, NY
Born in 1921 in Bich-La-Dong, Vietnam, Lebadang emigrated to Paris in 1939 where he fought in the French Resistance Army against the Nazi invasion.
Lithograph
'Eryx' Yacht Half Hull Model, circa 1962
Located in London, GB
During the WWII occupation of France, de Vogüé was heavily involved in the activities of the French Resistance, secretly heading its political wing in the eastern part of France.
Wood
1944 propaganda poster by Jean Carlu - Second World War
By Jean Carlu
Located in PARIS, FR
A hammer bearing the flags of the Allied nations presses downward onto a fractured swastika, which rests upon an anvil marked with the Cross of Lorraine — emblem of the Free French r...
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
"Roses and Anthemis" French 20th century still life oil on canvas
By Marcel Dyf
Located in New York, NY
Dyf decided to join French resistance forces in Correze and the Dordogne.
Canvas, Oil
Original 1944 poster titled Paris se libère (“Paris is liberated”) - WWII
Located in PARIS, FR
Commissioned by L’Avenir-Garde, the youth journal of the French Communist resistance, this wartime piece celebrates the unity and bravery of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) a...
Paper, Lithograph
"The Golf" Chiberta in Southern France Post-Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting
By Marcel Dyf
Located in New York, NY
He quickly joined the French Resistance in Corrèze and the Dordogne.[2][3] He later moved back to Paris, and finally moved in Saint-Paul-de- Vence.
Canvas, Oil
Estuary landscape, possibly Morbihan, France.
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
During World War II, his artistic career was interrupted when he joined the French Resistance. After the war, he resumed painting with renewed vigour, dividing his time between Paris...
Paper, Watercolor
"Le Bassin des Tuileries a Paris" Marcel Dyf, Impressionist Garden Fountain
By Marcel Dyf
Located in New York, NY
By 1935, he had returned to Paris, and during World War II he joined the French Resistance, operating out of the Corrèze region—an experience that marked a significant chapter in his...
Canvas, Oil
$30,124Sale Price|20% Off
Glacier
By Émile Gilioli
Located in PARIS, FR
His art was associated in a way with facts of the French Resistance. In 1947, he exhibited at the Salon des ‘Réalités Nouvelles’ in Paris.
Marble
$14,400Sale Price|20% Off
Raymond C. Boothe, Starlings in a Winter Landscape, 1976
By Raymond C. Booth
Located in New York, NY
Tiercet was born in Belgium but lived in France most of his life. His wife Jenny and he actively fought in the French resistance during WW2 prior to coming to live in the US.
Canvas, Wood, Paint
After the Flood
By Zvi Raphaeli
Located in New York, NY
He was a member of the French Resistance during World War II, and lived in Israel where he moved to, in 1945 at the age of 21.
Gouache
$1,320Sale Price|20% Off
Abstract Mountains, Stylised Scene, Colourful Oil Painting, Signed
By Sophie Danielle Rubinstain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rubinstain served in the French Resistance during the latter part of World War II (from 1943 to 1944), aged just 21 years old.
Oil
$990Sale Price|20% Off
Fiery Abstract, Orange Colour, Original Oil Painting
By Sophie Danielle Rubinstain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rubinstain served in the French Resistance during the latter part of World War II (from 1943 to 1944), aged just 21 years old.
Oil
$1,000
Oval Dove of Peace Abstract Carborundum etching with embossing, Signed/N, Frame
By Max Papart
Located in New York, NY
During the war he returned to Marseille and studied at the Auzias Academy while also fighting with the French Resistance and eventually helping to liberate the town.
Etching, Graphite
Marcel Dyf Leccon De Musique
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Dallas, TX
He quickly joined the French Resistance in Corrèze and the Dordogne. He later moved back to Paris and finally moved in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
Paint
$254Sale Price|20% Off
Decorative Engraved Panthéon Paris in the 1800s by Bry & Benoist
Located in Langweer, NL
**Jean Jaurès** (1859–1914) - French socialist leader. 9. **Jean Moulin** (1899–1943) - A high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II. 10.
Paper
$2,200Sale Price|50% Off
Lunch at Chez Louis, Expressionist Oil on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1970s
By Roland Dubuc
Located in London, GB
Even the freedom fighters of the French Revolution and later the French Resistance would meet in cafés to plot their course.
Canvas, Oil
$2,120Sale Price|20% Off
"Petite fille avec sa poupée" Parisian Girl with Her Doll Figurative 1962
By Roger Etienne
Located in Soquel, CA
While in Europe, Etienne took part in the French Resistance during World War II and apprenticed under Pablo Picasso in his youth.
Paper, Gouache, Newsprint
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Petite Fille de Fleur - Mid Century Parisian Flower Girl Figurative
By Roger Etienne
Located in Soquel, CA
While in Europe, Etienne took part in the French Resistance during World War II and apprenticed under Pablo Picasso in his youth.
Paper, Gouache, Newsprint
"The Gypsy" Pensive Girl Sitting in a Field Oil on Canvas Impressionist Painting
By Marcel Dyf
Located in New York, NY
He quickly joined the French Resistance in Corrèze and the Dordogne. He later moved back to Paris, and finally moved in Saint-Paul-de- Vence.
Canvas, Oil
Marcel Dyf Leccon De Musique
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Dallas, TX
He quickly joined the French Resistance in Corrèze and the Dordogne. He later moved back to Paris and finally moved in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
Paint
$141Sale Price|20% Off
Maid of Orléans: A Symbol of Valor, 1847
Located in Langweer, NL
She stands in a martial pose, evoking her status as a warrior and symbol of French resistance and nationalism. She is attired in a simple blue tunic, which falls modestly to her mid...
Paper
Wayne Benter Jung, Fashion Sketch of Josephine Baker, Post WWII
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Although often associated with her Parisian rise during the 1920s Jazz Age, Baker continued to embody glamour and modernity well into the 1940s and beyond, performing throughout wart...
Paper, Lacquer
$800
French Surrealist Lithograph Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Third Eye Surrealism
By Marcel Marceau
Located in Surfside, FL
His cousin Georges Loinger, one of the members of the French Jewish Resistance in France (Organisation Juive de Combat-OJC, aka Armée Juive), urged him to join in order to help rescu...
Lithograph
$800
French Surrealist Lithograph Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Third Eye Surrealism
By Marcel Marceau
Located in Surfside, FL
His cousin Georges Loinger, one of the members of the French Jewish Resistance in France (Organisation Juive de Combat-OJC, aka Armée Juive), urged him to join in order to help rescu...
Lithograph
$800
French Surrealist Lithograph Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Third Eye Surrealism
By Marcel Marceau
Located in Surfside, FL
His cousin Georges Loinger, one of the members of the French Jewish Resistance in France (Organisation Juive de Combat-OJC, aka Armée Juive), urged him to join in order to help rescu...
Lithograph
$800
French Surrealist Lithograph Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Third Eye Surrealism
By Marcel Marceau
Located in Surfside, FL
His cousin Georges Loinger, one of the members of the French Jewish Resistance in France (Organisation Juive de Combat-OJC, aka Armée Juive), urged him to join in order to help rescu...
Lithograph
Unavailable
H 31.89 in W 23.63 in
Original Vintage WWII Poster French Resistance Voix Du Maquis Fighters Magazine
Located in London, GB
Formed in c.1943, the Maquis French Resistance guerrilla Anti-Fascism fighters lived in camps operating from the forests and mountain areas to resist the German Nazi occupation of Fr...
Paper
Unavailable
H 62.6 in W 46.86 in
Original Vintage WWII Film Poster Service Secret Mission Spy War Drama Movie Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for a 1942 World War Two drama film - Secret Mission an exciting adventure / Service Secret une aventure passionnante - about British spies and a French...
Paper
"To Have And Have Not" Film Poster, 1944
Located in London, GB
In Vichy France, fishing boat captain Harry (Humphrey Bogart) avoids getting involved in politics, refusing to smuggle French Resistance fighters into Martinique.
Holhot
By Marc Riboud
Located in Atlanta, GA
He was active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945, then studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale from1945 to 1948.
Silver Gelatin
Hulong Snow
By Marc Riboud
Located in Atlanta, GA
He was active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945, then studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale from1945 to 1948.
Silver Gelatin
Shaanxi, China
By Marc Riboud
Located in Atlanta, GA
He was active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945, then studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale from1945 to 1948.
Silver Gelatin
The Eiffel Tower Painter, Paris
By Marc Riboud
Located in London, GB
After being active in the French Resistance and studying engineering, Riboud started as a freelance photographer and moved to Paris in 1952, where he was invited by Cartier-Bresson a...
Silver Gelatin
Allegorical Painting by Robert Heitz
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
He was a painter, author, art critic, member of the French resistance and held political offices. Heitz was close to the 'Groupe de Mai’ formed in 1919 by Alsatian painters and in 19...
Paint, Wood
Unavailable
H 11.75 in W 7 in D 4 in
Hagenauer Modernist Sculpture Josephine Baker Made in Vienna Rare
Located in Oakland, CA
Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalized French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and...
Silver, Bronze
Josephine Baker's Farewell Appearance Gala Célébrations
Located in New York, NY
Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975) renounced her U.S. citizenship to became a French national and American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rig...
Silver Gelatin
French Walnut Vaisselier
Located in Chicago, IL
The use of walnut as the primary wood, the extraordinary inlays and marquetry, unusual spindles work brass escutcheons and studs all show the fine craftsmanship that made this early ...
Ebony, Fruitwood, Walnut
Bust of a Beauty
By Naum Aronson
Located in Oakland, CA
When the train finally stopped in one of the French villages, the artworks, including Aronson’s sculptures, were unloaded, clandestinely handed over to the French Resistance and subs...
Marble
Josephine Baker Resistance painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
two sided painting of Josephine baker as a French Resistance icon hovering over Vichy French Moroccan soldiers.
Watercolor, Paper
Theodore Fried, 1902-1980, "The Bridge, " Oil on Board
Located in Port Jervis, NY
He immigrated to the USA during the war after working with the French resistance and continued painting in NY. This painting I believe to be painted in France in the late 1930s.
"Boats in a Mediterranean Harbor" by Henry Malfroy
By Henry Malfroy
Located in Wiscasset, ME
A member of the French Resistance during the Second World War, Malfroy was arrested and died in Buchenwald concentration camp.
Paint
Sold
H 52 in W 34.5 in D 6 in
19th Century French Louis XV Rococo Carved Giltwood Mirror with Pierced Motifs
Located in Dallas, TX
For information, the mirror was the property of Jean Moulin family, a hero and the face of the French Resistance during World War II (see last picture!)
Mirror, Wood
"Sailor and Soldier in Morocco, " Watercolor by Van Moppes
By Maurice Van Moppes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This highly evocative watercolor by illustrator and French Resistance figure Maurice Van Moppes depicts a French sailor and soldier in pre-War Morocco, each encountering the worldly ...
Watercolor, Paper, Pen
Josephine Baker Dancing Statue by Hagenauer
By Karl Hagenauer
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Josephine Baker was an American-born French dancer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist.
Brass, Nickel
Sold
H 26 in W 33 in D 30 in
Pair of Pierre Paulin "Mushroom" Lounge Chairs for Artifort, circa 1960, France
By Pierre Paulin, Artifort
Located in Girona, Spain
His uncle Georges Paulin was a part-time automobile designer and invented the mechanical retractible hardtop, who was later executed by the Nazis in 1941 as a hero of the French Resi...
Velvet
Paul Daum Mado Nancy Vase c1925
By Daum
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
His is a tragic a sad story, Paul Daum joined the French resistance, was captured and sent to aconcentration camp, he died just before the end of the war.
Art Glass
Sold
H 61.03 in W 45.28 in
Mathieu Matégot - Partage difficile, tapestry, french, modern, abstract, aubusson
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in London, GB
Matégot volunteered for the French resistance at the start of the Second World War, only to be captured by the Nazis.
Tapestry
'Champs de Ble' by Marcel Dyf '1899-1985'
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
By the time of the German invasion in 1940, Dyf joined the French Resistance in Corrèze and the Dordogne. After the war he spent his summers in Cannes, where he began to attract the ...
Canvas, Paint
Sold
H 16.15 in W 12.6 in D 0.4 in
Collection Of Vintage Original Portraits Of French & Hollywood Movie Stars 1950s
Located in Bristol, GB
The only Etienne Petrovitch I can find of the period is Etienne Pedro Petrovitch (1909-1989), who was born in Romania and fought for the French Resistance in WWII, so it would make s...
Paper
Create silence
By Pierre Soulages
Located in Paris, FR
This work is part of a tribute paid to one of the most important figures of the French art scene: Jean Cassou (1897-1986) -first director of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, high f...
Lithograph
Emma Irlam Briggs Woman with Violin Watercolor
By Emma Irlam Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Tiercet was born in Belgium but lived in France most of his life. His wife Jenny and he actively fought in the French resistance during WW2 prior to coming to live in the US.
Paint
Bay Area / Ukrainian Artist Alexander P Sachal Abstract of a Rooster
By Alexander Sachal
Located in Oakland, CA
He was able to escape and fled to France were he joined The French Resistance, he was wounded during a conflict and had to go into hiding to recover and avoid capture.
Canvas
Tapestry by Jean Lurcat
By Jean Lurçat
Located in New York, NY
He lived through two world wars and fought alongside distinguished comrades in the French Resistance. Lurcat's works combine surrealist elements, modernism and classicism.
Wool
Sold
H 36 in W 29 in D 1 in
Large Ominous Sunset Abstract, Yellow, Original Oil Painting
By Sophie Danielle Rubinstain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rubinstain served in the French Resistance during the latter part of World War II (from 1943 to 1944), aged just 21 years old.
Oil