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Style: Art Deco
Marinas II
Located in Miami, FL
“Marinas III”
2021
Enamel Paint on Wallpaper
51 1/2 x 38 3/4 inches
$3000 USD
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Laura Gonballes is an artist who lives and works in Barcelona, Spain with visual language in...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Bamboo Paper
Sailor’s Ball
By Margrete Levy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Margrete Levy
1881-1962
Levy was a Danish artist; she worked in Paris from 1905-1911.
Levy was niece to the Danish master painter Kristian Zartmann.
She married French author Lou...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Regattas day (a tribute to Seurat). Large format Riverside scene with figures.
Located in Segovia, ES
Reggatas day (tribute to Seurat), by Fabio Hurtado, is an oil painting on canvas which was created in 1995 and which obtained the Honorary Medal at the C...
Category
1990s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Art Deco Style Portrait of Lady Bobbed Hair Red Jacket Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lady in Red
British School, 20th century
signed oil on board, framed in heavy thick wooden frame
framed: 30 x 23 inches
board: 23 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
c...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
YVES DIEY The Nude, Oil on canvas, 1930s
By Yves Diey
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Yves DIEY (1892-1984), France. The Nude. With frame : 99x54 cm - 39x21.25 inches ; without frame : 90x45 cm - 35.4x17.7 inches. Signed "Yves Dieÿ" lower right (see p...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
EARLY / MID 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL Oil Painting - Portrait Of Seated Lady
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Early / Mid 20th Century English School
TITLE: "Portrait Of A Lady"
SIGNED: appears unsigned
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 77cm x 67cm inc frame
CONDITION: very good - ne...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sarah Burkhard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Framed size 38 x 52 x 3 inches.
Philippe Henri Noyer
1917-1985
Philippe Henri Noyer was born on June 28, 1917 in Lyons, France. After a traditional education at the elite Ecole ...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A Bouquet of anemones, signed pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
A Bouquet of anemones
Pastel on paper
Signed upper left
44.5 x 36.5 cm
Framed : 53.5 x 45.5 cm
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scévola was ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Ivory and Ebony: two girls friends in a landscape. Art Deco
Located in Firenze, IT
Ivory and Ebony: two girls friends in a landscape. Art Deco
Circa 1930 - 1940.
Medium-large format painting from the Art Deco period.
The two girl friends.
Painting signed lower ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint, Canvas
Dance, Large Art Deco Painting by Giancarlo Impiglia
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940-)
Title: Dance
Year: 1987
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 84 in. x 84 in. (213.36 cm x 213.36 cm)
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco Spanish Woman Fashion Illustration
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elegant and glamorous fashion illustration from the 1920's,
Original signed gouache painting on paper.
Monogrammed V.S. lower right.
Site: 10"x 7.75" Frame: 19.25"x 17"
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Art Deco Cubist Monkey by Gabriel Beauvais 1930s Ceramic
Located in Oakland, CA
French modernist glazed ceramic monkey sculpture by Gabriel Beauvais,1930. This sculpture was made in a turquoise blue glaze ceramic, a stunning color most likely by Kaza Edition in ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ceramic
Portrait of a Woman in Purple - Parisian Art Deco Female Figurative
By Dominique Amendola
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman in Purple - Parisian Art Deco Female Figurative
Colorful and quirky art deco style figure painting of a seated Parisian woman dressed in light purple with decora...
Category
1990s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Hortense (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative Art
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Hortense (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Framed in a light gold...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Pipe Fitters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Byron Gere (1898 - 1962) was active/lived in United States. Byron Gere is known for Painting.
Byron Gere. Pipe Fitters. American signed dated 1951.
It has a cool provenance. This p...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871-1950) Portrait of Lady, oil sketch signed
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950)
Portrait of a lady, a sketch
signed lower right
Oil on canvas transfered on cardboard
25 x 18 cm oval
Framed : 31 x 24.5 cm
This port...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Place De La Concorde, Paris' Antique oil painting on canvas
By Louis Icart
Located in St. Albans, GB
Louis Icart
(1880-1950)
Canvas Size: 18 x 22" (46 x 55cm)
Outside Frame Size: 26 x 30" (65 x 76cm)
Signed and titled on the reverse.
When Louis Icart returned to Paris after his s...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
On Stage: Art Deco Diva in Red, Paris Theatre, geometric modernist decor
Located in Norwich, GB
There is a great exhibition on in Paris at the Petit Palais at the moment, entitled "Modern Paris/Le Paris de la Modernité 1905-1925" . Here is a painting that would fit into the exh...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Jute, Oil
painting with romantic symbolism style "Seven Elephants of Happiness"
Located in Sempach, LU
The painting is sold framed. Size with frame 70x50.
The painting "Seven Elephants of Happiness" will perfectly fit into any interior.
Everyone wants happiness, and 7 ELEPHANTS will...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
TARKAY, ITZCHAK "SOPHIE" 2000, ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 30X40
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK
Title: Sophie
Year: 2000-2010
Size: 30 X 40 INCHES
Medium: ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
Edition: ORIGINAL 1/1
Description: Hand signed by the artist.
The artwor...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
TARKAY, ITZCHAK "CAF'E TAMAR" 2000, ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 30X40
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK
Title: Caf'e Tamar
Year: 2000-2010
Size: 30 X 40 INCHES
Medium: ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
Edition: ORIGINAL 1/1
Description: Hand signed by the artist.
The a...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Lady of the Cliffs, 1927. Nude Clifftop Sunbathing. French Arts Décoratifs.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the French artist Raymond Moritz and dates from 1927.
The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted with new fixtures.
The canvas and the painted surface have benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval.
This vintage painting is now in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The painting is signed lower left.
A later dedication to “Louise” dated April 1942 in the artist’s hand is set around the earlier signing.
Raymond Moritz was a French impressionist artist and illustrator. He was born in Paris on 8 July 1891. His family came from the Alsace region and were poor and Catholic. On his mother’s side, the Staubs were from Wihr-au-Val where they had been coopers for several generations. His uncle, Marie Clement Staub, was the founder in Canada of the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc.
Moritz fought during the Great War in the Picardy region of the Somme with the 2nd machine gunner company. He won the French 1914-1918 War medal with bronze palm attachment, which signifies that the awardee was mentioned in dispatches at army level. Moritz obviously created some art during the war because during the inauguration of the new town hall in the town of Albert he was congratulated by the French President, Albert Lebrun, and the British press for the paintings he had produced. Albert was the main town behind the lines for the Allies on the Somme battle fields...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
United
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Young Damsel" is an artwork that captures the essence of youth, beauty, and innocence. The title itself suggests a depiction of a young woman, embodying qualities of charm, grace, a...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic, Pencil
Take #44
By Wencke Uhl
Located in Bonn, NW
The hair is made of actual gold leaf (imitation), so the hair shines and sparkles nicely in light.
Original painting. Acrylic, oil, paper and gold leaf on high quality linen canvas s...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Charles PICART LE DOUX, Bouquet of Wild Flowers, 1934
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Charles PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959), France, 1934. Bouquet of Wild Flowers. Artwork typical of the manner of Charles Picart Le Doux. However, the robust and contrasti...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
United
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Young Damsel" is an artwork that captures the essence of youth, beauty, and innocence. The title itself suggests a depiction of a young woman, embodying qualities of charm, grace, a...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic, Pencil
The Wrestlers (Illustration for Homer's Odyssey)
Located in London, GB
Painted engraved wood, 20.5cm x 13.5cm, (41cm x 34cm framed). (Provenance: Félix Marcilhac, a French art historian who collected Art Deco objects; Sotheby’s, Paris, 11 March 2014)
A painter, wood engraver, printer, editor, illustrator, and bookbinder of Swiss origin, Schmied established himself in France, where he was later naturalized. He is considered a major artist in the Art Deco style, particularly in the area of publishing. His books were very expensive...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Art Deco Costume Design - Eva
Located in Miami, FL
The paper in some of these photos looks overly textured due to the sharpness of the high-res digital camera.
In person, with the human eye, the paper looks reasonably smooth with out blemishes.
For this fashion illustration, Georges Lepape paints a stunning abstract pattern for the subject dress that is repeated in her hair. The work represents an early use of metallic paint, with silver metallic in the dress and bronze metallic in the blouse. Lepape's highly detailed drawing becomes more evident the closer you look. It's quite amazing how deftly he rendered facial feature on such a small scale. "Eva" 1918 Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper Signed and dated, lower right: '1918' Inscribed, verso: "Costume for L'enfantement du mort, (miracle en pourpre, et or.). Devised by Marcel L'Herbier and performed at the Théatre Edouard VII and the Comédie des Champs-Elysées, 1919" Provenance: Ex-collection Lucien...
Category
1910s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Two Boys (Art Deco Knickers Suit Bicycle riding Attire Fashion Illustration).
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Marc-Luc (French, active 1920s-30s). Boys Fashion Illustration, ca. 1920s. Watercolor and pencil on paper, image measures 8 x 11 inches on panel measuring 12.5 x 18 inches. Signed lo...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
Illustration for Homer's Odyssey
Located in London, GB
Painted engraved wood, 20.5cm x 13.5cm, (41cm x 34cm framed). (Provenance: Félix Marcilhac, a French art historian who collected Art Deco objects; Sotheby’s, Paris, 11 March 2014)
A painter, wood engraver, printer, editor, illustrator, and bookbinder of Swiss origin, Schmied established himself in France, where he was later naturalized. He is considered a major artist in the Art Deco style, particularly in the area of publishing. His books were very expensive...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Untitled Fashion Design, 1920
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled (Fashion Design) was created for Harper's Bazar and appeared in the February, 1920 edition of the magazine. This is a gouache painting on tissue paper measuring approximately 10 x 6.5 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Les Rois des Lègendes, Costume pour femme ésclave, 1919
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Les Rois des Lègendes, Costume pour femme ésclave from 1919 is a gouache painting on black paper, 10.75 x 9 inches, framed in a custom, closed-corner, Art Deco frame, 24 x 20 inches....
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Troisemmè Dame, 1919
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Troisemmè Dame from 1919 is a gouache painting on paper, 12 x 9.5 inches, framed in a custom, closed-corner, Art Deco frame to 20.25 x 18 inches. Signed recto 'Erté' mid lower right ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Martha, Act I (Chicago Opera), 1925
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Martha, Act I (Chicago Opera) from 1925 is a gouache on paper measuring approximately 9 x 7 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner frame. Signed recto 'Erté' mid-right and stam...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
La Pendule (Au Réveil de Passé), 1923
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
La Pendule from Au Réveil de Passé was created in 1923 and is a gouache on paper measuring approximately 15 x 10.75 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Optimism and Pessimism, 1927 (Harper's Bazar Cover - May 1929)
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Optimism and Pessimism, created in 1927, was the cover design for Harper's Bazar in May 1929. This is a gouache painting on board, signed recto 'Erté' lower right in the image, and f...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
The Treasures of Indo-China, 1922
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Treasures of Indo-China, created in 1922, is a gouache on paper, 15 x 11.25 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco frame. Signed rec...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Demeter (Les Idoles, Folies Bergère), 1924
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Déméter from Les Idoles, Folies Bergère was created in 1924 and is a gouache on paper measuring approximately 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Mother and Child Bathing - British Slade School 30's Art Deco nude oil painting
Located in London, GB
An intriguing 1930's Art Deco Slade School oil on canvas painting. The work depicts a mother and child bathing, surrounded by other bathers. It possibly has religious overtones. This...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Roi Yvetot, 1919 (no. 227)
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Le Roi Yvetot (no. 227) from 1919 is a gouache painting on tissue paper mounted on board. The image size is 9.25 x 6 inches, framed in a gold-tone frame, 22.5 x 19 inches. Signed recto 'Erté' lower right, in the image and annotated verso, 'Les Rois des Lègendes, No 8, Le Roi Yvetot 227'. Erte name and 'Composition originale' stamps verso.
Le Roi Yvetot is a design by Erte for the 1919 theater production of Les Rois des Lègendes.
The King of Yvetot
William Makepeace Thackeray: 1811 –1863
There was a king of Yvetot, Of whom renown hath little said,
Who let all thoughts of glory go, And dawdled half his days a-bed;
And every night, as night came round, By Jenny, with a nightcap crowned,
Slept very sound: Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
That's the kind of king for me.
And every day it came to pass, That four lusty meals made he;
And, step by step, upon an ass, Rode abroad, his realms to see;
And wherever he did stir, What think you was his escort, sir?
Why, an old cur. Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
If e'er he went into excess, 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst;
But he who would his subjects bless, Odd's fish!—must wet his whistle first;
And sofrom every cask they got, Our king did to himself allot,
At least a pot. Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
To all the ladies of the land, A courteous king, and kind, was he;
The reason why you'll understand, They named him Pater Patriae.
Each year he called his fighting men, And marched a...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Oil on canvas, Naked woman lying in front of her mirror
By Robert Louis Raymond Duflos
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Robert Louis Raymond DUFLOS (1898-1929), France, 1920s. Naked woman lying in front of her mirror. With frame: 95x61.5 cm - 37.4x24.2 inches - without frame: 73x40cm ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The rock" by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 46x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category
1990s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alexandria
By Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BUCKLEY MACGURRIN
"ALEXANDRIA"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED
AMERICAN, DATED 1949
EXHIBITED: DALZELL-HATFIELD GALLERY
14 X 20 INCHES
Buckley MacGurrin
1896 –1971
Buckley MacG...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
R.B. FELTRAP, Oil on canvas, Nude, 1937
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas signed R.B.FELTRAP, France, 1937. Nude. With frame : 101.5x82.5 cm - 40x32.5 inches ; without frame : 92x73 cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. Format 30F. Signed and dated "R.B.Fe...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style
Located in Woodbury, CT
Davis Kemp
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style.
Very well drawn nude study of two women from 1928 in t...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style
Located in Woodbury, CT
Davis Kemp
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style.
Very well drawn nude study of two women from 1928 in t...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A bunch of flowers, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
A Bunch of flowers
Oil on on canvas
Signed upper left
38 x 46 cm
In a nice modern frame : 53 x 61 cm
Lucien...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco Female Nude By George J. Illian
Located in Norwood, NJ
Female nude by George John Illian (1894-1932), American exhibited at the Salmagundi Club Annual Exhibition. George John Illian born in 1894 and was largely inspired by the 1900s and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Au Cafe
By Francois Chabrier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
FRANCOIS CHABRIER
“”AU CAFE"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1960
32.5 X 39.5 INCHES
Framed 41 x 48 inches.
François Chabrier
Born 1916
François Chabrier was born in 1916 in Bel...
Category
1960s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arabian Nights - Guard and Sitting King - Islamic Golden Age - Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
One Thousand and One Nights - It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. What is notable about this work is how magnificently composed, designed, and rendered it is. Its l...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Jonah before Nineveh
By David Sharir
Located in Jerusalem, IL
The art of David Sharir draws upon many elements. He has found inspiration from such forms of art as the calligraphy of Torah scribes, medieval Hebrew manuscripts...
Category
1960s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
MADELEINE (ORIGINAL GOUCHE)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled top front with studio catalog number on verso. Sheet size 10.7...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Art Deco Fantasy Charcoal Drawing Lithograph Print by Adolf Uzarski
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning charcoal drawing lithograph print on paper depicting a fanciful lion kidnapping a young woman was designed by Adolf Uzarski (1885-1970), a German artist. This drawing i...
Category
1910s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Life Magazine Art Deco Showgirls Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Showgirls Cartoon for Life Magazine, 1934. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, matting window measures 16.5 x 13 inches; sheet measures 19 x 15 inches; Matting panel measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition with discoloration and toning in margins. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Duet #3, Large Art Deco Painting by Erik Freyman
By Erik Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Duet #3" is an original painting on canvas measuring 48 x 36 inches by Erik Freyman. The artist is best known for his 80's style which draws heavily on Art Deco and Cubism.
Frey...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Study for Marjanah
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful art deco portrait by well listed American Ashcan School artist Alexander Oscar Levy. This piece was featured in the American Art Review article about the Levy retrospect...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Intermission (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Intermission (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Recently framed in a gold Louis XV style frame
Framed size: 39" x 33"
Canvas size: 30" x 24"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Port Orange, FL; acquired from Herbert Arnot Gallery, New York, NY in the early 1970's. Titled by Fried on verso. The artist's copyright stamp and various reference number on verso.
Biography:
Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
'Ginette', French Art Deco Portrait
Located in Cotignac, FR
French oil on canvas portrait of a young beauty by Charles Alexandre René Picart Le Doux. Signed and dated bottom right. There is an exhibition label with number and title 'Ginette' ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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