Art Deco Collection Decorative

Original midcentury art exhibition poster of Salvador Dali’s work. This poster shows the master's interesting depiction of a woman holding a bouq...

Ava de Lagercrantz, (1862-1938) Classic Swedish artist who was a royal painter who worked in New York and Paris. She painted reigning monarchs. In 1909 she painted King Gustav wh...

Original French poster for the Exposition International in Paris, 1937. This award-winning Art Deco design was created by Eugene Beaudoin (1898-1983) and Marcel Lods...

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...

Beautiful oil on canvas of reclining blonde nude on a white bed sheet. Framed. Signed (see attached photo). 20th century. Painting dimensions: H. 20...

A beautiful woman portrait in the glass closed. A stained glass technique in glass gives a magical atmosphere when light falls and changes the color palette intensity during the course of the day. An Antique stained glass panel...

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

A true embodiment of the Artist's style of combining different mediums, this wall sculpture echoes a festive moment in time, Drawing inspiration from the Artist's moroccan roots. This sculpture is an hommage to the talented women weavers of Morocco that the artist got to meet on her last weaving in retreat in Marrakech. This wall hanging shaped out of hand wrapped manila rope using naturally dyed recycled silk yarn, sisal and. raffia. The ceramic face...

Circa 1880s by Alfred De Breanski Sr., (1852 - 1928), England. This lovely oil on canvas, using the impedimenti technique of layering and glazing...

Georges Spiro, 1909-1994. Surrealist /still life painting of the well known Polish/French artist, oil on board, signed., actual size of art work, is 13 x...

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

Zodiac copper wall art. Diameter:50 cm. Depth:3 cm.