Decorative Art

1956 Xaviar Amiana Dancers & Drummers painting. Oil on board. As found wood frame. Purchased directly from the artist in 1956 in Port Au Prince, Haiti b...

French Faience Oyster Plate Moustiers Style, circa 1940.

Rudolph Weisenborn (1879-1974) Colorful abstract painting in heavy impasto oil on canvas by renowned Chicago artist Rudolph Weisenborn. Signed on bottom right front Wesisenborn '57. In original wood frame. BORN: October 30, 1879[1] Chicago DIED: March 15, 1974 Chicago MARRIED: 1922 Alfreda “Fritzi” Gordon[2] of St. Joseph, MO TRAINING 1898 University of North Dakota 1905-1907 Students School of Art, Denver, Henry Reed[3] 1907-1910 Jean Mannheim School of Art, Denver ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT[4] c.1910 Commercial illustration, Denver c.1910 Portrait sketches, Denver Post 1913 Window designer for Marshall Field and Company 1922 Illustrated for The Wave c.1930s Diorama, Fight Against Soil Erosion, Tennessee Valley Authority[5] 1931 Lecture, The Abstract in Painting, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago 1933 Mural Machine Movement[6], Pavilion No. 4, General Exhibits Building, A Century of Progress World’s Fair, Chicago[7] 1934-1939 Federal Art Project, easel and mural division[8] 1936 Mural, Contemporary Chicago, Louis Nettelhorst Elementary School, Chicago[9] 1937 Mural, Richard Crane Technical High School, Chicago: Electricians; Boilermakers Pipe Fitters, and Architects and Steelworkers[10] TEACHING 1922 Chicago Hull House[11] 1920-1937,[12] 1939[13] Chicago Academy of Fine Arts 1935-1964 Weisenborn School of Modern Art [privately], Chicago[14] RESIDENCES 1879-1888 Chicago 1888-1905 North Dakota 1893 Wisconsin 1894 Minnesota and Oklahoma 1905-1910 Colorado 1910-1913 Cripple Creek, CO c.1913[15]-c.1960 Chicago;[16] 1940s-1960s Santa Fe, New Mexico (summers)[17] c.1960-1974 Oak Park, Illinois TRAVEL c.1930s Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1950 Provincetown, Massachusetts[18] MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts (advisory board 1926) American Abstract Artists[19] Artists’ Equity Association, Midwest (president 1952) Artists’ League of the Midwest (charter member 1947)[20] Artists’ Union, Chicago Chapter (executive committee/founder)[21] Cor Ardens (vice president, 1921-1922; treasurer 1922-1923) Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists (founder, president 1922-1926)[22] Chicago Society of Artists (board 1926-1927) Independent Society of Artists, Chicago Introspectives, Chicago[23] Neo-Arlimusc (founder, president 1926-1928)[24] Palette & Chisel Club Society of Independent Artists HONORS 1928 Honorable Mention architectural subject, Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual[25] 1931 Third Honorable Mention, Ninety and Nine Artists[26] 1941 Prize, Laura Davidson Sears Academy of Fine Arts, Elgin, Contemporary American Art 1957 William H. Tuthill Prize, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity JURIES SERVED Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1923 Chicago Society of Artists annual 1924 Covenant Club under auspices of American Jewish Artists Club, First Annual Exhibition by Jewish Artists of Chicago and Vicinity 1936[27] Jewish Education Building, Chicago under auspices of American Jewish Artists Club, Annual Exhibition by Jewish Artists of Chicago and Vicinity 1955, 1956[28] Sears Academy of Fine Arts annual, Elgin, Illinois 1941 South Side Swedish Club, Chicago Artists of Swedish Descent GROUP EXHIBITIONS All-Illinois Society of Fine Art annual 1926, 1927 American Abstract Artists, annuals 1938-on American Art Congress 1937 Art Institute of Chicago, A Half Century of American Art 1939 Art Institute of Chicago, Abstract and Surrealist American Art 1947 Art Institute of Chicago, Abstractions By Eight Artists 1942 Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual 1928, 1929, 1939, 1941-1943, 1945, 1947 Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolors 1923, 1925,[29] 1931, 1934, 1942-1944, 1946, 1949 Art Institute of Chicago, Federal Art Project 1938[30] Art Institute of Chicago, Room of Chicago Art 1945 Art Institute of Chicago, Society For Contemporary American Art 1953 Art Institute of Chicago, Work by 17 Chicago Artists, [work from the W.P.A.] 1936[31] Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1943, 1948, 1949 Artists Equity Association, Chicago 1950, 1951 Artists League of the Midwest 1947, c.1950 Associated American Artists Galleries, Chicago 1950 Association of American Artists, Chicago, Artists-Teachers 1950 Cedar Rapids Art Association 1921[32] Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists 1922-1926,[33] 1928[34]-1931,[35] 1932, 1934, 1938, 1941, 1957[36] Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists directors at Moulin Rouge café, Chicago 1926 Cor Ardens, Arts Club of Chicago 1922 Elizabeth Nelson Galleries, Chicago, Chicago Artists 1950 European Art Tour, under auspices of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter of Chicago 1924[37] Evansville, IN 1922[38] Findlay Gallery, Chicago, Best Paintings by Chicago Modernists 1933[39] Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Frank Holland...

Ceramic hand painted large artwork of birds by Catalan artist Diaz Costa, circa 1960. Framed. Signed. In original condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a ...

Ceramic hand painted artwork of bird by Catalan artist Diaz Costa, circa 1960. Framed. Signed. In original condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a beautiu...

Vintage letter R in solid brass, covered with old paint (red & gold), Sweden ca 1940's. Wear and patina consistent with age and use. Paint loss as see...

A brilliant set of 2 vintage original 1960's LUI magazines, featuring standout Brigit Bardot covers. Offered here are the full magazines; intact; in good ...

French Faience rustic oyster plate Moustiers style, circa 1940. Painting of birds and flowers.

Framed print of Georgia O'Keefe's, painting "New York Night" first created in 1929. The print focuses on the Benjamin tower formally, Hotel Beverly. O'Keeffe originally drew her pain...

An orignal enamel sign that was used as a warning for the people on one the ABC Islands. Papiamentu (or Papiamento) is a mixture of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, a...

A unique and rather large ceramic wall plaque with an abstract pattern of a peacock and amazing colors from Tilgmans, Sweden. The amazing gla...

Roger Capron (1922-2006) Roger Capron studied at Art appliqués of Paris from 1938 to 1943 before teaching drawing in the same establishment from 1945. In 1946, he settled in Vallauri...

Pair of engravings "Caesar's Baths in Calabria" "The Temple of the Sun in Palmyra" by Jean T. Prestel (1739-1808) With original frames.

Midcentury round dish with handle by Robert Picault Vallauris. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After the...

Wonderful asymmetrical shaped crystal vase A great piece of sculpture as well as functional. Good size, perfect condition. Makers mark on the base. Not clear but it is prob...

This is a super rare opportunity to acquire a pair of these beautifully reduced versions of the facade bas-relief of the Folies-Bergères cabaret. One time designer, Pico who created ...

SUPERB ! MID-CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT HANDCRAFTED TILE MOSAIC DIMENSIONS: Approx. 26" by 14" Dated 1953 This magnificent mosaic wall art work is...

A European French hanging sign for "Radio Sonora, Clear As A Bell, Phono" featuring a steel frame and glass. This piece brings a touch of vintage charm with its steel frame with two mounting eye pins at the top, evoking the essence of classic French radio...

A European French "coiffure" sign, translating to "hairdressing," with a double-sided steel frame. This vintage piece captures the spirit of old hairdressing salons, featuring a stee...

Anonymous oil painting on abstract canvas, circa 1950.

Unusual handcrafted rattan bamboo fish figure wall mirror, France, 1950s. This spectacular mirror has a design combining the Mid-century taste from the French Riviera with oriental a...

18th century Italian gilded base with a polished green lava glass point and adorned with green mother of pearl with gold highlights and mounted on an antique metal crown base. The g...

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...

Pablo Picasso France, 1956 “Les Peintres Témoins de leur Temps” Musée Galliéra. Vintage exhibition poster. Measures: H 78.5 x W 53 x D 2.5 cm.

Large Majolica wall platter Vallauris, circa 1950. A large crab in high relief on the center surrounded by seaweeds, one fish, shells and a slice of lemon.

A beautiful hand painted and thickly glazed decorative wall tile by an unknown artist, influenced by the works of Pablo Picasso. The wall plaque is decorated with a dove in differen...

Mid-Century Majolica Palissy Lobster Platter Vallauris. Mussels.shells,seaweeds. Diameter / 9.8 nches.

Super images by Carstairs Originally plates from Punch or The London Charivari Published 1934 The measurement given is the actual image. Not the paper size

Antique Turkish Oriental Framed Needlepoint Rug Fragment 18thC Measures- 47.75''H x 18''W x .75''D; 15.25'' x 45'' sight

Vintage letter O in solid brass, covered with old paint (red & gold), Sweden ca 1940's. Wear and patina consistent with age and use. Paint loss as see...

Mid-Century round dish with handle by Robert Picault Vallauris. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After th...

Piranesi 2 engravings "Frontals of Trajan's column pedestal" XVIII

1950's Stitched Leather Baromètre By Jacques Adnet Great condition Don't if it walk

Vintage letter C in solid brass, covered with old paint (red & gold), Sweden ca 1940's. Wear and patina consistent with age and use. Paint loss as see...

Vintage Marc Chagall color print, 1954. This decorative print featuring the work of famed French artist Marc Chagall is professionally framed. It is a commemorative work featuring bright colors and figures. Measures: 20 7/8" W x 28 7/8" H x 1 1/2" D This Marc Chagall print...

Mid-Century Set of 6 flowers dessert plates by Robert Picault Vallauris. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris....

French Faience Blue & White Fish Platter Henriot Quimper, Circa 1930.

Vintage French Aubusson Tapestry Rug Art Nouveau Bold Square 9x9 8'5" x 9'4" 256cm x 285cm "A rare, magnificent vintage French Aubusson tapestry with unique Art Nouveau design, i...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original 17th century Dutch, oil on canvas painting of a noble gentleman. The condition of the oil is very good, the frame is distr...

Wonderful collaged Printing Block wall hanging made from old printing blocks and an old drawer. Made in the 1960s it has the feeling of the artist Louise Nevelson but at a fraction...

Rare Oyster Plate signed Robert Picault. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After the war he spent a short ...

Green Majolica leaf plate Circa 1950.

The measurements are: A=21x21inches high B=22x23inches high C= 22X21.5inches high D= 21x20inches high E=22x21.5inches high F=21.5x23inches high H=22x28inches high G=22x28.5 inches hi...

A stunning and large scale Italian 18th century Baroque period Giltwood wall decor panel. At the center of this very decorative panel is a protruding central medallion with carved fo...

Italian mid-century modern red graphic Ceat advertising sign, 1950s Rectangular aluminum sign or billboard. It features an advertising graphic from "Ceat", a well-known tire brand, w...

A wonderful original Art Deco Clarice Cliff pottery wall vase, mask, 1936. Clarice Cliff was possibly the most celebrated pottery designer of th...

Lovely image by Edmund Dulac Lithograph. Published circa 1930 The measurement given is the paper size not the actual image.

17th century Italian hand-painted ecclesiastical architectural element adorned with carnelian pebbles, gold-plated crystals, blue and yellow raw agate, and b...

A delightful watercolour etching depicting the ruins of Carthage, remnants of the Temple of Mars. This type of engraving was mainly produced on copper and is known as an "optical vie...

Sculptural 18th century Italian gilded fragment artifact with phantom quartz and mounted on raw agate. The piece originally comes from a historical church ...

French faience oyster plate signed Henriot Quimper, circa 1930.

Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950. High relief of 2 fishs, seaweeds, shells, crab, oyster. Nautical style. 10 inches diameter  

Great images of crabs Copper-plate engraving after Moses Griffiths Published C.1790 Unframed. Free shipping.

On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning, hand painted upholstered safari panels and room divider you could hope to find. Outstanding design is exhibited throughout. Jus...

An oil on copper painting of a hawking scene attributed to Carel Van Falens. Circa 1700. A fascinating picture showing elegant mounted figures with t...

Super cricket image Originally a plate from Punch or The London Charivari Published 1934 The measurement given is the paper size

Bjørn Wiinblad (1918-2006) for Nymølle, Denmark. "Galop" wall plaque and four faience salt cellars. Classic Bjørn Wiinblad scenes. Salt cellars with H. C. Andersen motifs. 1960s/197...

Beer Stein / Mug Pub Sign. Mid Century Wall Hanging Folk Art Sign. 1940´s. Bar Collectible. Perfect gift for any Beer fan. Perfect for ...