Renaissance Man Antiques

Eine seltene Glastasse, die durch das Silber isoliert wird. Der Holzgriff bildet eine wunderbare Ergänzung zu den beiden anderen Materialien.

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...

ANDRÉ-VINCENT BECQUEREL silvered bronze circa 1930. 7 swallows on a weather vane mounted on a surfine black marble base from Belgium. Note 2 small chips on the marble . Total height...

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 stunning vintage Boho original oil painting. A chic male nude signed and dated 1962. Beautiful vintage frame. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Schale FILA by WMF, versilbert, 1950er, Schale auf 3 Füsschen, versilbert, anlaufgeschützt Hinweis: Mit diesem Kleinod werden Süssigkeiten zum Kaffee gereicht, zum Verzücken aller G...

Exceptional centerpiece bowl decorated in marbled lustre glazes. Its made from faience/ceramic and the color palet burst out in a vibrancy of pink, orange, brown, black, grey and whi...

Male nude oil on canvas by New Hope School modernist Faye Swengel Badura (1904-1991). 23.75"Wide x 37.5"High Gilt WoodFramed, Canvas is 19.25"Wide x 33.5...

Cream white glazed ceramic bull made by Bruno Gambone in the 1970s, signed Gambone on the bottom.

Italian male nude oil painting on wood panel, circa 1930. Stunning and unusual framed Italian male nude oil painting on a wood panel. This Italian A...

A charming ceramic vase by C.A.S. Vietri, Italy, ca'1950's.

Ceramic hand designed by Ugo La Pietra in 2018 and produced by Rometti ceramiche. Ceramic hand with ironic and nonconformist tatoo. The history of Ceramiche Rometti begins in the lat...