About Renaissance Man Antiques
Renaissance Man Antiques is America's only antique gallery to focus on pieces that celebrate the beauty and power of the human figure, and many of them are Art Deco or Mid-Century in style. We offer paintings, prints, drawings, bronzes, ceramic and glass pieces, and other antiques that include male and female nudes, allegorical subjects, portraits and architecture-related pieces. Most of the pieces we offer are unique or rare, and we love to share our knowledge, so you will see that our descriptions are as detailed as possible. We encourage visits by appointment, and ...Read More
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Featured Pieces
"Conscripts", Striking Print Showing Nude Males Joining French Military, 1894
By Pierre Georges Jeanniot
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perhaps no man is as vulnerable as he is when he has been drafted into the army, stripped of his clothes and dignity, awaiting an uncertain fate. Certainly this group of nude conscr...
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Antique 1890s Swiss Belle Époque Drawings
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Paper
"Biscayne Holiday", Important Final Study for Seminole Painting by Eugene Savage
By Eugene Francis Savage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and important, this drawing is the final study for "Biscayne Holiday," one of the famed Seminole paintings created by Eugene Savage starting in 1935 during his first visit to F...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Jared French and Calvarymen Crossing", Important Photograph by Lynes, WPA Mural
By George Platt Lynes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An extraordinary confluence of George Platt Lynes, Jared French and a renowned WPA mural with hints of homoeroticism can be seen in this photograph by Lynes in 1939, taken as French ...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Photography
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Paper
"Hercules and the Minotaur", Large, Very Rare Art Deco Vase by Goor for Mougin
By Gaston Goor, Mougin Frères
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The product of King Minos of Crete's wife, Queen Pasiphaë, and a white bull provided to the king by Poseidon, the Minotaur was a much-feared monster who was doomed to wander the hall...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Vases
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Ceramic
"Standing Male Nude" by Rosella Hartman, Guggenheim Award Winner, 1930s
By Rosella Hartman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This handsome pencil drawing of a standing nude male figure on tracing paper was made by Rosella Hartman, an important printmaker active between 1923 and 1959. The modeling of the f...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Virgo", Brilliant Art Deco Wall Art in Black, Canary, Deep Red by Szoeke
By Andrew Szoeke
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In a brilliant interpretation of the Classic zodiac symbol for Virgo, Andrew Szoeke here depicts a nude female rising from a burst of flames in brilliant shades of yellow, orange and...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Decorative Art
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Felt
"Cubist Dance Costume Design" in Canary, Periwinkle, Sky Blue, Brick Red, 1920s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brilliant painting of a Cubist-inspired dancer's costume -- executed in vivid tones of canary yellow, periwinkle/purple, sky blue, and brick red -- is a classic illustration of ...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Black Couple at Rest", Superb WPA-Era Bookends with African American Figures
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stylized, warm and poignant, this unique pair of bookends glazed in dark pink and black -- depicting a Black couple asleep in each other's arms -- is a superb example of WPA-period s...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Bookends
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Ceramic
"Man in White Suit", Men's Fashion Painting by Wiencke for Berlin Clothing Shop
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This original painting, commissioned by a fashionable men's store in 1920s Berlin, features a handsome and debonair man wearing a white fedora, a double-breasted white suit, a blue a...
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Vintage 1920s German Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Nudes with Waterfall Hair", Rare Pair of Art Deco Glass Bookends by Etling
By Etling Paris
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perhaps the most spectacular, high style glass Art Deco bookends ever produced in France, this pair depicting seated nude female figures, their hair falling down like waterfalls, was...
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Bookends
Materials
Glass
"Cross Country Runners", Mid Century Painting of Two Male Figures, Venice
By Edward Melcarth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Executed by an American artist living in Venice, this depiction of two long distance runners, exhausted and gasping for breath at the end of the race, is a superb example of Mid Cent...
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Orpheus and Pan", Sensuous Art Deco Print with Nude Male Figures by Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sensuous and charming at the same time, this depiction of two important figures from Greek mythology -- Orpheus and Pan -- quietly sitting together in conversation, was made by Alber...
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Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Prints
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Paper
