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A fun abstract painting on a merlot background in its original walnut & gilt frame with antique glass. We have not been able to find any information on the artist, but it is signed a...

20th century French leather doors with applied leather and stud motif. Leather has been completely reconditioned and has beautiful patina. Signed C. Desse. - France Would be a great ...

13 jugendstil wall hooks. Polished and stove enameled. priced and sold per piece.

Art Deco painting depicting panther in the wild. Unusual dimensional treatment with all the paint. Look closely at the texture of this piece. In an original frame that also has a pai...

Benjamin Jorj Harris, Newman Decor - American Art Deco airbrush painting on illustration board - featuring an over-sized group of white gardenia blossoms ...

Heavy palette floral still life done in primarily blues and greens. Painted by midcentury artist Etta Cien.

Step into a realm of extraordinary beauty with this gemstone artwork, a homage to the masterpiece "Summer" by Alphonse Mucha, transformed by a breathtaking mosaic of precious stones....

An extraordinary gemstone artwork, inspired by Alphonse Mucha's "Autumn". Executed on the reverse of glass and adorned with a myriad of precious gemstones to evoke a luminous, irides...

American intra-war artist and illustrator Porter Woodruff (1894-1959). Arabian Horse scene, oil and gold leaf on board with chalky gouache. Signed Woodruff on lower right of painting. Signature somewhat obscured by frame. His Art Deco-influenced paintings are highly decorative and appealing, the compositions complex and well-thought out. The gold leaf background is decorative and elegant. His are rare Modernist paintings by an artist who found himself at the very heart of design, fashion and celebrity life in the early part of the century. Label at back for Pitt & Scott Ltd London - well known for its expertise in handling antiques, works of art and fragile artefacts. Dimensions: 11.5"h x 15.5"w (sight) 12.5"h x 17.5"w (frame) Porter Woodruff, was an illustrator artist and contributor to Vogue Magazine and Home & Garden (including covers for both). He was one of five artists stationed in Paris in 1923 for Vogue. Woodruff spent considerable time in Tunisia, North Africa, residing with his romantic partner, Romanian socialite George Sebastian. Sebastian owned a lavish, coastal property in then-trendy Hammamet, near Tunis on the Mediterranean. Sebastian fell in love with the simple beauty of the quiet fishing port of Hammamet and was the first of the international set of the times to build his villa there. He started a trend that has never ceased. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have claimed Dar Sebastian to be ”the most beautiful house I have ever seen”. American and European intelligentsia and upper-crust were attracted to the area between the wars. The artists Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Klee, Andre Gide, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton enjoyed visiting, partying, and undertaking what someone once described as indulging the opportunity to do 'some rather elaborate sinning'. Other visitors included Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank, Wallis Simpson, Somerset Maugham, and Greta Garbo, among others. The onset of war disrupted this scene and it never truly regained its former glory. Dar Sebastian was requisitioned by the 'Desert Fox', German General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...

A set of five beautiful art nouveau wall tiles in a wooden frame. Each individual tile is approximately 6" square. The factory that made these tiles is: "Villeroy & Boch, Mettlach",...

Beautiful French Majolica wall plate from the Jugendstil / Art Nouveau period (ca 1900). Elegant design with a lovely lady in the middle. Numbered on the back 1386 with a signature a...

A very stylish German Jugendstil iron industrial style owl wall hanging match box holder designed by Hugo Berger for Goberg and dating from around 191...