Delcourt, André. Wall Decorations

Oil on canvas painting signed Hilgers bottom right. 1930s, depicting a young woman naked kind of Olympia in the Art Deco style.

Oil painting on canvas signed Hilgers in the lower right, from the 1930s, representing a young woman sort of naked Olympia in the Art Deco style. Canvas size 100 x 50 cm and frame di...

An extraordinary example of Art Deco painting with allegorical meaning -- like so many murals painted in the 1920s and 1930s -- this large work by William L'Engle depicts five nude male figures laboring in the field, symbolizing life in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A Black male figure in the foreground is planting crops, while two other figures in the distance are pulling a rope, perhaps alluding to fishing boats tied up at the dock, while another nude seems to be sinking into sleep beneath a pier -- all with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the background. L'Engle called this "The Five Josephs," perhaps referring to Joseph of Arimathea and other figures in the New Testament. William L'Engle was a towering figure in the Provincetown art colony, and was extremely well connected with America's artistic elite, starting with his trip to Europe as a young man with Waldo Pierce and George Biddle. Over time, William and his life Lucy became close to a wide range of important figures in painting, theater and the arts, including Charles Hawthorne, Eugene O'Neill, Gerrit Beneker, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, William and Marguerite Zorach, Edna St. Vincent-Millay, Charles Demuth, Childe Hassam, George Biddle, Edwin Dickinson...

Painted by Antoinette Schulte, a widely-respected artist in New York, who exhibited and taught widely, this painting depicts male and female nudes sheltered by the boughs of a tree h...

Painted by Dunbar Beck, one of America's most accomplished and successful muralists, this painting of a half-nude man floating over a succession of dancing couples below was one of a...

Bold and striking, this high style Art Deco painting depicts a nude male archer with his bow stretched and his arrow aiming toward a flock of geese overhead. In the background is a ...

Art Deco Nude by John Montroue, signed in lower right corner and reverse reads - "Grace" Air brush technique by John Montroue, 8/70. Dramatic silhouette of a female nude, cubist/mode...

Full of drama and intrigue, both sensual and classical, this depiction of a female nude tiptoeing toward a curtain being pulled aside by a threatening, unseen figure, has all the noc...

Beautifully executed French Art Deco female nude oil on canvas, signed by listed artist Gustave Florot, circa 1930.

Stupendous pastel painting designed by Fried Pal in the 1930s,the theme of the nude in the Art Deco period was of important relevance,the author in this painting demonstrates great s...

Impressionist landscape painting signed Bret Andre and dated 1952, and titled on back. Oil on canvas, in carved wood frame with green velvet liner, France, mid-20th century. Canvas ...

French oil painting "Female Nude" from the 1930s signed Chavarot,the author succeeds in excellently depicting one of the characteristic motifs of the period,female sensuality,using a...