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Original Watercolor Rendering for 1956 Living Room by Leleu Firm, Paris
By Jules Leleu
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This gorgeous, original elevation watercolor, depicting a living room wall centered around a baronial fireplace with deep red brick hearth, was prepared for Madame Keime by the celebrated Leleu firm, in the years when Jules Leleu was passing the baton to his sons André and Jean and his daughter Paule. At the height of the Art Deco period, Jules was known for his sumptuous furniture with inlays of exotic woods such as Macassar ebony, amboyna and palisander, as well as designs for illustrious projects such as the SS Normandie and SS Ile de France...
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Drawings

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Paint

"Twisting Male Nude, " Art Deco Drawing by Pioneering Native American, 1934
By Joe Waano-Gano
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This nude figure, decked out in an Errol Flynn moustache and slicked-back hair, was executed in dark red pencil by Joe Waano-Gano, an important Native American artist with a prestigious career in California in the 1930s and 1940s. Born a Cherokee Indian...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings

"First Bloom, " Large Art Deco Painting w/ Female Nude. California artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold and extraordinary and clearly influenced by Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo and the Mexican muralists, this large painting by John Greathead depicts a nude American Indian woman...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Paint

"Cubist Figure, " Brilliant Painting by Béla Kádár, Hungarian Master
By Bela Kadar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in striking shades of tomato red, green-blue and chalky white, this painting was made by Béla Kádár, increasingly appreciated and collected today as Hungary's ...
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Vintage 1920s Hungarian Art Deco Paintings

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Gouache

"Tropical Fish, " Brilliant Art Deco Undersea Painting, Hawaii, 1942
By Robert O. Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The American public was fascinated with all things exotic in the 1930s and 1940s, including aquatic and seaside themes and Art Deco hotels and residential interiors often featured pa...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

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Paint

"Hawaiiana, " Extraordinary Art Deco Cubist Surreal Painting after Pearl Harbor
By Robert O. Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Saturated with the brilliant hues of earth and sea, and filled with symbols and signs of Hawaii's spectacular landscape and rich history -- including an angry Hawaiian king with his traditional feathered headdress or "mahiole" -- this watercolor was painted in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

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Watercolor

"Eight Nudes, " Monumental Drawing with Male Nudes Attributed to Davies
By Arthur Bowen Davies
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An arresting assemblage of nude figures, executed in white chalk on a dramatic black background, this drawing shows the artist's mastery of the human figure in various poses supine, ...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Drawings

"Weatherhead Award, " Rare Art Deco Bronze Panel for Excellence in Aerospace
By Walter Sinz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sculpted by Walter Sinz, one of Cleveland's most celebrated sculptors in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, this rare bronze panel recognized leading manufacturers in the aerospace industry, in this case an aircraft electronics company in Philadelphia. Like a rocket exploding out of its launching pad, this panel depicts a nude female figure shooting into the sky, in classic Art Deco stylized form. Sinz designed the Thompson Trophy, awarded by one of the prominent air races...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Bronze

"Eve and Adam in Eden, " Magnificent, Art Deco-WPA Sculptural Panel
By Waylande Gregory
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A magnificent example of WPA sculptor Waylande Gregory's work at the height of his career in the 1930s, when he was creating major fountains, public monuments and World's Fair sculpt...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Clay

"Secessionist Scene in the Tyrol, " Brilliant Fauvist Painting, Austria
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Making brilliant use of a Fauvist palette and a Secessionist vocabulary, this remarkable painting depicts three figures in the Austrian region of the Tyrol, just south of Bavaria. Th...
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Vintage 1910s Austrian Art Deco Paintings

"Bathers", Art Deco Folding Screen in Blue & Green, Sennhauser, Gracie & Sons
By John Sennhauser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A vivid example of late Art Deco painting, executed in a pointillist manner, this four-panel screen was created by John Sennhauser, a Swiss-born artist who was active in New York fro...
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Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers

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Wood

"Europa Spirited off to Crete, " Important Art Deco Mural Study by Giovannozzi
By Ezio Giovannozzi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An especially lovely and fresh take on the Classic Europa and the Bull myth that so intrigued artists in the Art Deco era, this impressionistic study by Ezio Giovannozzi was probably...
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Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Paintings

"Two Female Nudes, " Mid-Century, Finely Detailed Masterpiece, Alexander Cañedo
By Alexandro De Canedo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Author of "How Cañedo Draws the Figure" and one of the acknowledged masters of the nude in the Art Deco and Mid-Century periods, Alexander Cañedo painted this remarkable scene of two female...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

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Paint

"Two Women with Peony Blossom, " Superb Art Deco Painting, circa 1939
By Margaret Thomas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Quintessentially western and modern and yet hinting at classical Chinese painting also, this double portrait of two stylized women, one holding a pink peony blossom, is a lovely example of decorative Art Deco work. The figures are expressed in lovely shades of gouache, while the background and highlights are executed in silver paint. The painter may have been Margaret Thomas...
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Paintings

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Gouache

"Home Front Fox Hole, " Vivid Depiction of American Life During World War II
By Joseph E. Bolden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pulsating with life and color, this depiction of a crowded mom-and-pop store in wartime America, filled with a sailor in full regalia, homemakers and children, grandmothers and worki...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

"Spiny Fish, " Rare Art Deco Tile with Quartersawn Oak Frame
By Mosaic Tile Co.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Cleanly designed and beautifully glazed by the Mosaic Tile Company of Zanesville, Ohio in the 1930s, this Classic Art Deco tile is framed in its original quartersawn oak frame. Founded in the 1890s, the Mosaic company reached its peak in the 1920s and 1930s, attracting major talent such as Frederick Hurten...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Decorative Art

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Clay

"Nude Shepherd Playing Pipes, " Unique Art Deco Sculptural Panel, 1940
By Jolan Cser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Somehow naively charming and sophisticated at the same time, this pierced sculptural panel by Jolan Cser, a Hungarian artist, depicts a nude shepherd youth playing the pipes, accompa...
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Vintage 1940s Hungarian Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Ceramic

"Falling Man, " Striking Art Deco Print from "Tales of the Parrot" by Uzarski
By Adolf Uzarski
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This striking, signed print depicting a nude male figure falling from a bridge, is from a set of prints made by Adolf Uzarski, a German artist, illustrating scenes from the ancient T...
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Vintage 1910s German Art Deco Prints

"Female Nude with Deer, " Arresting Art Deco Painting by WPA Artist
By Frederick Massa
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An early and important work of Frederick Massa, who is best known for his murals for the Fort Ticonderoga Post Office and the Pacific Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, this fair...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Gouache

"Under the Apple Tree, " Tour de Force Enamel Painting with Two Women
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly executed in jewel tones of sapphire, garnet and emerald, this superb enamel painting, though executed in 1963, is strongly reminiscent of WPA paintings...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

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Enamel

"Seated Male Nude, " Superb Drawing by Allyn Cox, US Capitol Muralist
By Allyn Cox
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This handsome drawing of a seated male nude, executed in pastel, demonstrates Allyn Cox's superb draftsmanship and mastery of color. Depicting his subject from behind, as he leans to his left, is reminiscent of the work of the great masters from the Renaissance, the 18th century and 19th century. Cox spent 20 years painting and restoring murals at the US Capitol...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Drawings

"Horses in the Sun, " Remarkable Woodblock Print by Charles Kassler, Art Deco
By Charles Kassler
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare, perhaps unique, woodblock print by Charles Kassler positively radiates Art Deco energy -- both from the sun at the upper left corner, and from the pair of black horses, wh...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Prints

"Tony, " Superb 1940s Portrait of Male Youth by Marion Huse, Hawthorne Pupil
By Marion Huse
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking in conception and execution, this half-portrait of a handsome, blue-eyed young man -- his back to a mirror and his arm folded over a chair -- was painted by Marion Huse, who...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

"Herdsman, Asterion & Chara, " Rare Art Deco Mural Study, Bushnell Auditorium
By Barry Faulkner
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by the renowned muralist, Barry Faulkner, in 1929 for the ceiling of the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall in Hartford, Connecticut, this remarkable Art Deco study depicts Canes Venatici, or the Herdsman holding two hounds, Asterion and Chara, by the leash as they chase Ursa Major around the Pole. The overall theme of the ceiling mural is "Drama" and it is reputed to be the largest and most ambitious in America, featuring the allegorical figure of Drama surrounded by the constellations and the Zodiac, as well as modern symbols of America including Al Jolson...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings

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Paper

"Mailman, " Rare and Important WPA Maquette and Bronze by Rudolf Henn
By Rudolph Henn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare and important pairing of plaster maquette and bronze panel, sculpted in preparation for a WPA bas relief at the post office in Loudonville, Ohio, was created by Rudolf Henn in 1938. Henn was a respected and successful sculptor in Germany before moving to America at the end of the Depression, creating the boy with fish...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Bronze

"Work and Industry", Large Allegorical Relief Panel w/ Half Nude American Indian
By Rudolf Mayer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare and magnificent bas relief panel by Rudolf Mayer entitled "Handel Und Industrie" or "Work and Industry," makes fascinating use of German workers and a Native American to re...
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Antique Early 1900s German Beaux Arts Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Metal

"Bearded Egyptian, " Vivid and Unique Mosaic Panel, Art Deco Mid-Century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Made up of a rich variety of color-drenched ceramic tesserae, this unique mosaic panel depicts a bearded Egyptian head in profile, his headdress vivid in tones of periwinkle and purp...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Ceramic

"One United Nations Indivisible, " Stunning, Original Painting for UN Poster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of graphic design in the 1940s, which was moving from elegant Art Deco stylization to a looser, collage-like assemblage of overlapping images, this original painti...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

"Living Room with Aquatic-Themed Painting, " Art Deco Watercolor, Blue and Peach
By William Lentz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Gorgeous in conception and execution, this vivid and beautiful watercolor rendering, original to the 1930s, depicts an airy and open living space in 1930s modern style. The dramatic black stone...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Fabulous Pair of Art Deco Masks in Asian Headdresses, Shadow Boxed
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stunning and exotic, this pair of Art Deco masks, framed in deep shadow boxes, are beautifully sculpted and painted, each with gilded South Asian headdresses...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures

"Nude in Tropical Garden, " Brilliantly-Hued Art Deco Painting by Cenci, 1949
By Gustavo Cenci
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perfumed with the heady colors and forms of tropical flowers such poppy and hibiscus, this arresting Art Deco watercolor was painted by Gustavo Cenci, best known for his part in pain...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

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Watercolor

"The Cloud, " Spectacular Triptych Painting Inspired by Shelley Poem, 1959
By Milton Bond
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A cross between a drawing by William Blake from the late 18th century and a psychedelic painting from the late 1960s, this fever dream of a painti...
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Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Paintings

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Watercolor

"Harp and Guitar, " Fabulous Cubist-Art Deco Bas Relief Plaques, Terra Cotta
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Superb in conception and execution, this pair of terra cotta plaques, depicting the pairing of a harp and guitar in the manner of Gris or Braque, is...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Terracotta

Mid Century Painting with "Song of Solomon" Theme, by Lenson
By Michael Lenson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Entitled "Return, Return, O Shulemite," with a scene taken from the Song of Solomon, this painting depicts the legendary wife of King Solomon, who was ...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

"The Old Elm, " 1934 Etching by Luigi Lucioni
By Luigi Lucioni
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully capturing a lovely scene of rollings hills, planted fields, rail fences and an old elm tree in the foreground, this is one of Luigi Lucioni's finest prints. Lucioni is best known as a realist, producing still lifes, landscapes and portraits with beautiful, fine detail, as is evident here. Lucioni was also friends with a circle of gay artists...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Prints

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Paper

"The Return of Timothy Pickering, " WPA Mural Study Painting, 1939
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of atmosphere, rich color and drama, this mural study by Dunbar Beck was executed in preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts. Until it...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Gouache

"Cavorting Nudes & Nymphs in Moonlight, " Surrealist Painting by Janschka
By Fritz Janschka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A cross between "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights," this marvelous painting depicts an interlaced group of faeries and nymphs, all with lilacs and d...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

"Nude with Totem Pole, " Rare Surrealist Drawing by Dunbar Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Best known for his WPA and World's Fair murals, this drawing is a rare example of Dunbar Beck's foray into Surrealism. His depiction of a nude male facing a Totem pole with one arm o...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings

"Opposition, " Rare Art Deco Cloisonné Tile with Anti-Nazi Theme, 1945
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare and remarkable tile produced at the close of World War II in Delft, depicting the Nazi dragon being slayed by the Dutch people, is a superb example of Art Deco cloisonné...
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Vintage 1940s Dutch Art Deco Ceramics

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Clay

"Standing Male Nude, " Pastel Drawing by Allyn Cox, US Capitol Muralist
By Allyn Cox
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully executed in warm, roseate colors -- coral, terra cotta, brick and ivory -- this drawing was made by Allyn Cox, probably as a study for one of many murals he was commissioned to paint at the US Capitol...
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Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Drawings

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Paper

"Fresh New World, " 1944 Masterpiece Depicting Early Suburban Life in America
By Allan Dudley Jones
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A true masterpiece of genre painting, with its depiction of idyllic World War II-era suburban life filled with children playing and adults attending to their homes and chores, this piece was created by Allan Jones in 1944. It is a stunningly beautiful spring day, and the view is looking through an open window with a blackbird sitting on the sill, into the backyards of a half dozen tidy brick and wood houses. The homeowners are attending to their Victory Gardens...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

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Tempera

Exotic Bird Frieze, Art Deco Decorative Painting by Dunbar Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In a superb example of Art Deco decorative painting influenced by Medieval motifs, this frieze painting by famous muralist Dunbar Beck is saturated wit...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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"Three Doves, " Art Deco Painting with Surrealistic Edge by Hentschel
By William Hentschel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A wonderful example of Art Deco painting by William Hentschel, this piece also reflects the influence of Surrealism in the stylized arch that seems to be made of fabric, and the plat...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Gouache

"Woodstock Society of Chambers, " Important Art Colony Drawing, 1951
By John Pike
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An original ink drawing by John Pike, the well-known illustrator and watercolorist who was an important fixture of the Woodstock Art Colony, this piece advertised the Woodstock Socie...
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Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Drawings

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Paper

"Nude with Basket, " Striking Art Deco Gouache Painting by Hentschel
By William Hentschel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by William Hentschel, one of Rookwood Pottery's most celebrated artisans in the Art Deco era, this very rare gouache depicts a half-nude female figure carrying a basket fille...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Paper

"Nymph and Fawn in Paradise, " Superb Art Deco Mural Study Painting by Petersen
By Einar Petersen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This quintessential Art Deco scene, with its nymph in Arabian costume offering a dish of water to a spotted fawn, was painted by Einar Petersen, a California artist known for his exo...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings

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Gouache

"Pan in Paradise, " Superb Art Deco Mural Study by Petersen
By Einar Petersen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Gorgeously detailed and voluptuously painted, this superb depiction of pan playing his pipes in a paradise full of extravagant life -- including rabbits, squirrels, crested birds and...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings

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"Standing Male Nude, " Preparatory Drawing by Dunbar Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This ethereal drawing by Dunbar Beck demonstrates his mastery of the human figure, with antecedents in Renaissance and Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Beck was one of America's most accomp...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings

"Nudes Stepping Forth, " Large Theatrical Sketch by Raoul Pene du Bois
By Raoul Pene du Bois
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This very large and energetic sketch, depicting several nude figures stepping forward through a circular opening, was painted by Raoul Pene du Bois, probably as a preparatory piece f...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

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Gouache

"Archer, " Lovely Art Deco Aquatone by Louis Kabrin, High Style Art Deco
By Louis Kabrin
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine example of Art Deco printmaking at its most stylized and lovely, "Archer" is a unique airbrush print -- what the artist sometimes called a "aquatone" -- made by Louis Kabrin, a Cincinnati...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Prints

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Paper

"Battle of the Gods, " Mural Preparatory Drawing by Dunbar Beck, Art Deco
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of drama and a tour de force of figurative drawing heavily influenced by Renaissance masters, this piece was made by Dunbar Beck in preparation for a large mural painting...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings

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Paper

"Artist and Nude Model" Painting by Adolf Konrad, 1952
By Adolf Konrad
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This lovely depiction of the painter with his nude model provides an interesting variation on a Classic theme, in this instance placing the artist behind his model, allowing the fema...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

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Paint

"Placing the Sandal, " Bas Relief Masterpiece with Nudes by Levillain
By Ferdinand Levillain
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This very fine carved relief panel was sculpted by Ferdinand Levillain, France's master of bas relief at the turn of the last century. Levillain was famous for his low reliefs in med...
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Antique 1890s French Beaux Arts Sculptures

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Wood

"Salome, " Important Art Deco Painting by Dunbar Beck, WPA Muralist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Depicting a Salome who is both ravishing and terrifying, with her auburn tresses rising up as if on fire, this remarkable work was painted by Dunbar Beck, famed for his WPA and New Y...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas

"Nude Male and Draped Female, " Study for Painting by Dunbar Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Always a master draftsman, this lovely drawing by Dunbar Beck demonstrates his mastery of the human figure, with antecedents in Renaissance and Pre-Raphaelite paintings. The drapery ...
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Vintage 1930s American Drawings

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Pencil, Paper

"Orpheus Over the Globe, " Important Mural Study for 1939-1940 NY World's Fair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Dunbar Beck, one of America's finest muralists in the 1930s and 1940s, this classic example of Art Deco stylized allegorical painting served as a study for a series of mur...
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Vintage 1930s American Paintings

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Paper

"Expressionist Cafe, " Rare Print from Weimar Germany by Eberz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of Germany's great inter-war expressionists, strongly influenced by Cubism, Josef Eberz painted a number of brilliantly hued, high energy paintings as well as a series of prints ...
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Early 20th Century German Prints

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Ink, Paper

"Football Field, " Rare Linoleum Panel Mounted on Wood, circa 1930
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Graphically strong and very appealing, this stylized depiction of a football field and two players is an original linoleum panel produced by the Armstrong Company in Lancaster, Penns...
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Vintage 1930s American Decorative Art

"Standing Nude with Upraised Arms, " Important Art Deco Print by Eberz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of Germany's great inter-war Expressionists, strongly influenced by Cubism, Josef Eberz painted a number of brilliantly-hued, high-energy paintings as well as a series of prints ...
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Early 20th Century German Art Deco Drawings

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Ink, Paper

"Classical Nude with Flowers and Temple, " Important WPA Period Painting
By Arthur D. Brooks
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exhibited at the Thirteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1933, this large WPA-influenced painting by Arthur D. Brooks depicts a nude female torso in a classical setting, complete with columned temple front, scroll and Greek urn. The artist includes a cluster of column elements to one side, including an Ionic column capita and a fluted column shaft, as well as an arched Roman facade, and a Greek pedimented...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas

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