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Period: 1930s
"Circus Scene, " 1930s Painting with Barker in Orange & Green, American Flags
By Iver Rose
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A riot of color and movement, much like the experience of walking around the circus in its heyday in 1930s America, this scene by Iver Rose depicts a barker at his podium, positioned...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Zodiac Clock, " Spectacular Art Deco Sculptural Clock in Wrought Iron and Copper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most unusual and spectacular Art Deco pieces we have ever offered, this large Art Deco clock is composed of fer forgé or wrought iron a...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Wall Clocks
Materials
Copper, Wrought Iron
"Aloha, The Universal Word, " Art Deco Study for Hawaiian Mural Series by Savage
By Eugene Francis Savage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Extremely rare and important, this painting by Eugene Savage served as the preparatory study for one of six monumental Art Deco murals commissioned by the Matson Shipping company in ...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Verdigris Bronze Art Deco Centerpiece Supported by Three Nude Male Figures
By Maurice Guiraud-Rivière
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Spectacular and very rare, this large, high style Art Deco bronze centerpiece with a beautiful verdigris patina, consisting of a semi-spherical dish richly decorated with a dense pat...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Centerpieces
Materials
Bronze
"Family in Italy, " 1930s Art Deco Wall Charger with Father, Mother and Son
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Strikingly composed and beautifully glazed, this large wall charger -- designed with display in mind -- features the idealized Italian family as res...
Category
Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
"Wine and Fruit Served, " Cubist-Art Deco Painting in Red and Blue, France
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Clearly showing the influence of French Cubism and Art Deco, this gorgeous, brilliantly-hued painting depicts a bottle of wine, a bowl of fruit, a wine b...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Parrots and Trees, " Art Deco Painted Advertising Panel for Poll Parrot Shoes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted by a commercial artist, this large, rare sign panel may have been the most ambitious marketing piece ever created by the Poll-Parrot Shoe Company, one of America’s leading purveyors of children’s shoes...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Gathering Water, " Fabulous Art Deco Vase with Female Nudes by Nylund/Rorstrand
By Gunnar Nylund
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully conceived and executed, this elegant vase designed by Gunnar Nylund for the famed Rorstrand porcelain works in Sweden depicts two pairs of nude women, all collecting wate...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Vases
Materials
Porcelain
"Wheat Harvest, " Unique Art Deco Vase with Semi-Nude Worker by Nylund, Sweden
By Gunnar Nylund
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Created in 1934 and commissioned by Från Nyman as a gift to Eric Tiblom, this unique vase depicts a shirtless farmworker using his scythe to cut wheat in a field, all glazed in warm,...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Vases
Materials
Porcelain
"Summoned Reverie, " Superb Surrealist Painting with Nudes by Ames, 1939
By Arthur Ames
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in soft, dreamlike colors and depicting a magical landscape of attenuated nude figures dominated by a painter and his muse, this extremely fine Surrealist work was painted by Arthur Ames in 1939. Here he used egg tempera on gesso-finished board -- a favorite medium among painters such as Paul Cadmus, Jared French and others in the 1930s, 40s and 50s -- to create a highly detailed view of an imagined landscape. Behind the central couple and the painting on its easel, there is a retreating woman in a flowing, Classical robe, and in the far distance a couple embracing on a mountain top. Ames was born in the Midwest but studied on the West Coast and became a California artist through and through; he participated in the Federal Art Project, and worked with his fiancée, Jean Goodwin...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Archer and Standing Nude, " Early Art Deco Drawing by Donald De Lue
By Donald De Lue
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Created early in De Lue's career, possibly when he worked in the New York studio of Bryant Baker, this handsome Art Deco drawing depicts a nude male figur...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Guinea Baboon, " Masterpiece of Art Deco Painting in Lacquer by Margat, 1938
By André Margat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A year after André Margat received a gold medal for his lacquerwork at the Exposition Universelle of 1937, the artist painted this beautiful and expressiv...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Lacquer
"Man in Black and White, " Remarkable Portrait of Young Man by Cohen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold and intense, this portrait -- or perhaps self-portrait -- of a young man with pale skin, dark, flowing hair and a direct stare was painted by T. Cohen in the first decades of th...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Western Ceres, " Art Deco Painting with Goddess of Fertility and Agriculture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A color-rich reimagining of the mythological tale of Ceres, the Goddess of fertility and agriculture, this marvelous Art Deco painting shows a modern Ceres holding a pineapple in one...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Rhythm, " Design for Art Deco Folding Screen w/ Nudes, Gold, Magenta & Charcoal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dating to the late 1930s or early 1940s, this fabulous design -- entitled "Rhythm" -- for an Art Deco folding screen depicts several nude figur...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Through the Archway, " Atmospheric Watercolor Scene in Gray and Red by Storck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Atmospheric and full of depth, this view of an old European archway, with high-chimneyed houses beyond and crowds of people below, was painted in the 1930s by J. Alvin Storck, a Chic...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Fruits of Land and Sea, " Pair of Art Deco Mural Studies with Mermaids by Briggs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Classic and beautiful examples of Art Deco allegorical painting, this pair of mural studies depicts nude mermaid figures, each holding symbols of the fruits of land and sea. One is holding ears of corn and other produce from the earth, while the other is holding a strand of pearls and a cornucopia with coral and other living things from the ocean. Both figures are surrounded by the undulating waves of the ocean in a lovely blue. The paintings are by Adelaide Briggs...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Scene from Northern Basque Country, " Monumental Art Deco Platter, Sèvres, 1936
By Jean Beaumont
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly designed by Jean Beaumont and beautifully glazed by Charles Fritz for the famed Sèvres Porcelain works in 1936, this enormous, unique platter...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
"Siamese Twins, " Fabulous Art Deco Portrait with Siamese Cat and Female Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The artist behind this striking and original Art Deco portrait -- Agnes Tait -- is clearly emphasizing the parallels between a female figure and her Siamese cat, both shown with heavily-shadowed blue eyes and short, dark hair, the feline crouching familiarly on the shoulder of her companion. Because Tait painted a series of portraits for Florenz Ziegfeld of the young women who performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1932, it's possible that the figure here was one of her subjects. The woman is wearing an elegant black gown that bares her upper chest, and the background is a lovely shade of reddish purple. Tait was a native New Yorker, studying in her youth at the National Academy of Design under Leon Kroll and others, before becoming a WPA painter in the 1930s. She painted a series of tropical scenes for the United Fruit Company...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Art Deco Cabinet in Deep Red Leather, France, with Bronze Mounts by Renard
By Marcel Renard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully proportioned, constructed and finished, this unique and remarkable Art Deco cabinet is covered with leather dyed a rich, deep red color, and features four Art Deco bronze...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Leather, Wood
"Standing Male Nude, " Extraordinary Drawing for Boxer Sculptures by Cecil Howard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exquisitely drawn in pencil and a feather, light ink wash, creating a pale, ghostly image that is refined and haunting, this full length male nude was accomplished by Cecil de Blaquiere Howard...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Male Nude, Side View, " Ghostly Drawing for Boxer Sculptures by Cecil Howard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exquisitely drawn in pencil and a feather light ink wash, creating a pale, ghostly image that is refined and haunting, this full length view of a male nude from the side was accomplished by Cecil de...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Morning Chat, " Moody, Atmospheric Painting by Daniel Koerner, WPA Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Clearly showing the influence of German Expressionism and American film noir, this deeply atmospheric, moody painting depicts two male figures in the foreground, deep in conversation...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Pomona, Leda and the Swan, " Pair of Rare Art Deco Porcelain Luminaires by Lenox
By Geza De Vegh
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The only examples we have ever seen, this extraordinarily rare pair of creamy-white porcelain luminaires featuring Leda and the Swan on one side and Pomona on the other, internally-l...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
"Processional, " Jewel-Toned Mural Study w/ Prayer Under Starlit Sky by Hoeckner
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although Carl Hoeckner is best known for his sombre prints and paintings protesting the brutality of war, he is also known for a series of murals in public spaces across Chicago and the Midwest, so this brilliantly-hued painting may have served as a mural study. Here the artist depicts a long procession of figures in jewel-toned garments, their faces careworn and bent in prayer, facing toward a priest surrounded by a group of choir boys...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Rear View, " Superb Ink Drawing by John K. Green, Circle of Benjamin Britten
By John Kenneth Green
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Finely detailed in ink on paper, this drawing of a nude male figure's back side was made by John Kenneth Green, a prolific and successful English artist who is best known for his portraits. Green came from Suffolk, England, and won a scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art, after which he traveled and exhibited widely, including a trip to America in the early 1930s which led to an exhibition at Feragil Galleries in New York. He had a place in a circle of gay artists, and in 1943 painted a lovely portrait of one of England's foremost gay couples -- Benjamin Britten...
Category
Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Penguin Charger, " Rare Art Deco Charger in Glazed Aluminum by Bach
By Oscar Bruno Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking and rare, this glinting charger featuring a penguin standing atop an Art Deco ledge is composed of a silvery aluminum finished in a subtly iridescent glaze. This piece, alon...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
"Forest Nymphs, " Pair of Art Deco Female Nude Sculptures, Alabaster, 1937
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully sculpted and highly dramatic, this pair of large Art Deco sculptures in creamy alabaster depict two female nude figures resting on leafy tree boughs, their hair streaming...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
"Arcadian Scene with Lute, Lyre & Guitar, " Detailed Art Deco Drawing by Ulreich
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Drawn by one of the great muralists for Radio City Music Hall -- Eduard Buk Ulreich -- this beautifully detailed Art Deco scene shows a caped nude figure ...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Lifeguard and Bather, " Stylized Art Deco Beach Scene by MacGurrin, 1938
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Reminiscent of the work of Gerald Murphy in its use of strong colors and flat, highly-stylized forms, this depiction of a lifeguard in profile, a female ...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Epergne with Squirrel Motif, " Art Deco Sculptural Centerpiece by Oscar Bach
By Oscar Bruno Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Both high style and highly rare, this centerpiece or epergne surmounted by a silvered bronze squirrel was created by the celebrated Oscar Bach studio in New York. Oscar Bach was, along with Samuel Yellin, one of America's premier metalworkers in the 1920s and 1930s. He crafted enormous metal sculptures designed by Hildreth Meière...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Centerpieces
Materials
Metal
"Hauling the Net, " Rare Art Deco Bronze with Nude Male Fisherman
By Alexandre Ouline
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This powerful bronze -- depicting a nude fisherman hauling in his net -- is a superb example of Art Deco sculpture influenced by Auguste Rodin's emphasis on the emotion and physicali...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Eve and the Serpent, " Unique, Carved Art Deco Ceramic Sculpture by Merignargues
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Superbly carved -- not molded -- and beautifully glazed, this stylized figure of Eve, sensuously encircled and surmounted by a powerful serpent, was sculpted by Marcel Merignargues, ...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Allegory of Speed, " Art Deco Bronze Depicting the Ecstasy of Athletic Effort
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large, rare and dramatic, this Art Deco bronze by Robert Delandre, circa 1930, depicts three nude male athletes all straining to reach the finish line of the race, their arms straini...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Ode to Music, " Exceptional Art Deco Vase with Bars of Music by Kåge, 1938
By Wilhelm Kage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stunning and elegant, this unique 1938 vase by Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg demonstrates the clean, unfussy lines that Scandinavian Art Deco is known for, yet tells a complex, fascin...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Vases
Materials
Porcelain
"Mannerist Nudes, " Spectacular Art Deco Enamel with Female Nudes in Blue & Gold
By Edward Winter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Created by the greatest master of enamel painting in America's Art Deco period -- Edward Winter -- this large and spectacular panel features two female nude figures, impossibly elong...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel
"Golden Fields, " Allegorical Mural Study with Laborer Embracing Wheat Sheaf
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by one of America's most important mural painters in the 1930s, this allegorical celebration of American agriculture was made by Edwin Boyd Johnson for a larger work that may never have been executed. Johnson is best known for a series of murals in Chicago; Melrose Park, East Aurora, and Tuscola, Illinois; Dickson, Tennessee; and Sioux Falls...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Asleep in the Hay, " Art Deco Print with Half-Nude Male by Lynd Ward, 1932
By Lynd Ward
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Famed for his woodcut book illustrations in the Art Deco era, Lynd Ward produced a series of dramatic images that reminded the reader of film noirs of the era, with spotlit figures in dark settings that seemed to presage flight, fear, hope and death. Unsigned plates from the books he illustrated are not uncommon, but signed prints such as this are rare. This image was an illustration for "Wild Pilgrimage" by Ward, published by Harrison Smith...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Prints
Materials
Paper
"Elizabethan Couple, " Male and Female Bronze Bookends by Jackson Co., Brooklyn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Made by the Wm. H. Jackson Company, which -- astonishingly -- has made high-quality objects from iron, bronze and brass since 1827 in Brooklyn -- this rare...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Bookends
Materials
Bronze
"Leaping Stag Bowl, " Rare Art Deco Bowl with Sculptural Relief by Oscar Bach
By Oscar Bruno Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most iconic, though rare, pieces ever made by Oscar Bach, this bowl features an iconic leaping stag in high Art Deco style, executed in a silvery aluminum finished in a subtly iridescent glaze. This bowl, and a series of rare chargers in the same series, were molded in an enormous hydraulic press by the Sterling Bronze company for Bach. The artist was, along with Samuel Yellin, one of America's premier metalworkers in the 1920s and 1930s. He crafted enormous metal sculptures designed by Hildreth...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Decorative Bowls
Materials
Aluminum
"Contemplation, " Brilliantly-Hued Pastel Drawing of Standing Male Nude by Cox
By Allyn Cox
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sensuous and vividly-hued, this pastel drawing of a standing male nude with his head resting against the wall was made by Allyn Cox, son of the famous muralist Kenyon Cox...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Europa & the Bull, " Art Deco Masterpiece in Engraved Glass by Waugh for Steuben
By Sidney Waugh, Steuben Glass
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of world's greatest achievements in Art Deco artisanry, the famed "Europa and the Bull" spherical bowl was designed by Sidney Waugh and executed by the Steuben Glass division of corning glass in the 1930s. Waugh had been hired by Steuben as its chief designer in 1933, and over the next 20 years he designed a wide array of bowls, vases and other glass objects that were decorated with high-style Art Deco figures executed via copper-wheel engraving. Arthur Amory Houghton, grandson of the founder of Corning, took the Steuben division in a new and modern direction when he hired John Monteith Gates to be its managing director and Waugh to be its first designer. Steuben became known as one of the globe's great modern glass companies, and from the 1930s-1950s, Steuben rivaled Orrefors in Sweden and Lobmeyr in Austria for the finest engraved Art Deco glass work...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass
"Le Fer, " Art Deco Sculptural Relief with Blacksmith, Airplane, Oil Derrick
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare and beautifully executed, this copper dish with a central relief featuring a shirtless young blacksmith forging a piece of wrought iron, is teeming with symbols of modernity made from iron or steel: an airplane, oil derrick...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Ashtrays
Materials
Copper
"Mermaid's Reign, " Art Deco Bowl with Underwater Scene in Emerald Green and Gold
By Auguste Heiligenstein, Odette Chatrousse-Heiligenstein
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Glazed in gorgeous jewel tones, emerald green and sapphire blue, this unique and extraordinary Art Deco bowl was created by an artistic husband-and-wife team in France: Auguste and O...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
"Picnic Apocryphal, " Sophisticated Art Deco Drawing by Benito, Vogue Pioneer
By Edouard Garcia Benito
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This large and important drawing was made by Eduardo Benito, the pioneering artist who helped to establish the impossibly sophisticated images of modern...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Archer, " Rare, Sensuous Art Deco Bronze Sculpture with Male Nude by Gemignani
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large, extremely rare and highly sensuous, this Art Deco bronze sculpture shows a nude male figure, kneeling on his right leg and bracing himself on his left, arching his bow in read...
Category
Vintage 1930s German Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Bricklayer at Rest, " Monumental WPA Period Painting of Worker with Landscape
By Paul Ulen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the finest depictions of an American worker from the 1930s that we have seen, this monumental painting of a shirtless bricklayer, resting against a curved brick niche, with a ...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Budapest along the Danube, " Vivid 1930s Cubist Painting in Blues and Purple
By Aurel Richter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perhaps the finest work of Aurel Richter's (1870-1957) career, this vividly-painted, Art Deco - Cubist view of central Budapest in the 1930s depicts the pinnacled Liberty Bridge, the sparkling blue...
Category
Vintage 1930s Hungarian Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Dividing His Cloak , " Monumental Art Deco Ptg with Nudes, St. Martin of Tours
By Ernst Georg Martin Hildebrand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dramatically illustrating the legend that says that St. Martin of Tours used his sword to divide his cloak and share it with a naked beggar, this large and striking Art Deco painting depicts St. Martin riding a pale gray horse, with the beggar standing beside him, in the midst of a dark forest with starlit sky overhead. The two figures are accompanied by a running hound, and overhead a pair of geese...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Two Centaurs, " Highly Important Original Maquette for Palais de Tokyo, 1937
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A classic and important example of stylized Art Deco figural sculpture, this bas relief of two centaurs -- a father centaur being embraced by a baby centaur -- is the original plaster maquette by Marcel Armand Gaumont for a sculpture adorning the facade of the Palais de Tokyo...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"Black Dancer, " Art Deco Depiction of African American Female Figure, Rare
By William Wallace Rosenbauer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
With her elbows jutting to the side and her hips thrust forward, the viewer can almost picture this dancer out on the floor, her dress flaring and her shoulders glistening from the h...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"SAAR, 1918-1935, " Rare Art Deco Relief Sculpture of Nude, Kneeling Worker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Extraordinarily rare, and perhaps unique, this Art Deco-Moderne sculpture of a kneeling, nude male figure, clearly representing the workers of the coal mining and manufacturing Saar ...
Category
Vintage 1930s German Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Iron
"Love in the Woods, " Rare View of Bucolic, Gay Outing with Male Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of atmosphere and fresh color, this watercolor painting depicts a group of eight nude male figures in a wooded setting, holding hands, talking, admiring the view, and stealing o...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Seated Black Male Figure, " Art Deco Watercolor Painting, Brown County, Indiana
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Strikingly executed in rich tones of brown and charcoal contrasting with brighter colors, this watercolor depiction of a seated African American man, with one arm raised to his neck, is beautiful and evocative. The figure's skin tones are captured in a rich array of tans, ruddy browns and gold, and the air around him seems to vibrate in tones of blue, yellow and green. Although not signed, this piece was executed by an artist associated with the famed Brown County Art...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Exchange of Cultures, " High Style Art Deco Porcelain Lamp Base w/ Nudes by Robj
By ROBJ
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Illustrated in "Ceramiche Robj" and considered a major design by the renowned sculptor and ceramicist, this large piece was probably made in early 1930s to coincide with the debut of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris, which attracted almost 9 million visitors in less than a year. Rare and striking, this porcelain table lamp base depicts the globe surmounted by a tightly composed cluster of nude and semi-nude female figures representing cultures around the world. The women depicted here, all glazed in a gorgeous snow-white glaze highlighted in gold, are clearly representing a range of nations in Asia and Africa, probably coinciding with the nations that were part of the French Colonial Empire in the 1930s, before they won their freedom. Much like the one surviving building from the Exposition, now the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, which features a massive bas relief mural...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
"Stone Lifter, " Monumental, Rare Art Deco Sculpture with Nude Male, 1936
By Henry Schoenbauer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A remarkable depiction of a strong, muscled nude male figure bent over in a monumental effort to move a large stone, this sculpture was made by the Hungarian-American sculptor Henry Schoenbauer. By the 1920s, many sculptors had created some version of "Man Against Nature," typically a an exaggeratedly strong male figure, often nude, working to lift a rock, pull a rope, or labor against impossible odds. Schoenbauer's "Stone Lifter...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"Bellerophon and Pegasus, " Rare Art Deco Vase with Nude Male by Lindstrand
By Vicke Lindstrand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare and remarkable Art Deco vase -- created by one of the masters of engraved glass art in the 1930s -- depicts Bellerophon taming the wild, flying figure of Pegasus, having la...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Vases
Materials
Glass
"Female Nude with Lyre, " Spectacular, Rare Art Deco Framed Tile by Greek Artist
By S.S. Simonaky
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dominated by an elegant female nude embracing a Greek lyre, this spectacular framed Art Deco glazed panel shows the period's fascination with Classical imagery interpreted in a modern way. Awash in tones of rose and blue highlighted in a metallic gold glaze, both the nude's hair and robes are depicted as flowing waves of dreamy color. The Greek artist...
Category
Vintage 1930s Greek Art Deco Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
"Agriculture, " Bronze, Allegorical Art Deco Sculptural Relief Celebrating Labor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Classic example of WPA-era sculpture celebrating the worker, this beautiful bronze bas relief depicts a shirtless laborer in the fields, with a scythe in one hand and a sheaf of wh...
Category
Vintage 1930s Hungarian Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Rower, " Large and Rare Art Deco Painting of Oarsman for Mosaic Urn in Bordeaux
By René Buthaud
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An iconic and splendid example of high style Art Deco painting by René Buthaud, one of the French masters, this stylized depiction of a rower were made in preparation for the creation of four, 12-foot high monumental mosaic...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
