1940s Decorative Art
Period: 1940s
Color: Gray
Women Bathing - France, 1945
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Classically inspired painting of an idyllic setting. In the foreground, two women lounge around a basin, one bathing and one reclining as a Russian Wolfhound looks on. Behind them is...
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French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Set of 6 1940s Dutch Herbarium or Botanicals
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Set of 6 Dutch framed herbariums dating from the 1940's.
They are framed in an A3 frame with A4 mount.
These are a sample of what we have to offer. W...
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German Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Plastic
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Rambam' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
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Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Bar-Kokhba' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is written in bolt blue letters over a white background, alluding to the colors of the national flag of the newly established state. The sign names the street 'Bar Kokhba' in Israel in both Hebrew and English letters. (In transliteration), as well as in Arabic.
Simon ben...
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Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Yitshak Katzenelson' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Sinai' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Dan' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
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Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Shapira' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'Daliya' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'El'azar' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli 'S'madar' Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Traditional Decorative Modernist Ceramic Spanish Tile, circa 1940
By Antoni Gaudí
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Traditional Spanish decorative ceramic tile. Made in the iconic designs of Catalan Modernism.
Manufactured by unknown artist in Spain, circa 1940....
Category
Spanish Jugendstil Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Six 1940s Disney Print Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Steel printmaking plates from various Disney pictures. Beautiful trace remnants of original ink gives these plates a painterly appeal. Fabulous displayed as a collection or individua...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Steel
Hilly Landscape Nature Painting Italian Oil on Canvas 1930
Located in Albignasego, IT
Hilly landscape
Measures:
50 cm x 45 cm
65 cm x 60 cm framed
19.7 in x 17.7 in
25.6 in x 23.6 in framed
Oil painting on board.
Dense, material painting that gives stru...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Other
Folk Art Glass Shard Cat Picture
Located in Riverdale, NY
Charming Folk Art glass shard cat picture set within a grey washed handmade wood frame. Made with glass shard mosaics by hand depicting in an image of a ca...
Category
North American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
"Aquarius, " Important Art Deco Tile with Nude Male and Limed Oak Frame
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Created by Bonnie MacLeary, a Texas-born sculptor famed for her "Aspiration" and "Ouch" bronzes, two of several created in the 1920s, this classic Art Deco tile dates from the 1940s,...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Oak
Original Fashion Drawing, Pat Kerr, 1946
By Pat Kerr
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful ink and wash by Pat Kerr, 1946. So evocative of the 1940s.
On card. Unsigned.
Presented in an antique water gilded frame
Drawn for A & C Kay, New Bond St. London.
...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Original Artwork for a Detective Newspaper Strip, 1940s
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Amazing artwork for a story by James Hadley Chase. So evocative of this period.
We have found no record of this story, A Medal for Miss Lantis, so presumably it was never publishe...
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English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"Capricorn, " Important Art Deco Tile with Zodiac Theme by MacLeary
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Created by Bonnie MacLeary, a Texas-born sculptor famed for her "Aspiration" and "Ouch" bronzes, two of several created in the 1920s, this classic Art Deco tile...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Very Rare Harry Bertoia Monoprint on Rice Paper
Located in Munich, DE
Purchased at la modern around 20 years ago. It´s the size of the work - not the frame.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"Stomping Grapes, " Art Deco Etched/Enameled Mirrored Panel with Winemaking Scene
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Remarkable in its size, ambition and complexity, this large Art Deco mirrored panel depicts a grape stomping scene at its center, surrounded by a farm scene full of life, executed in...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
1940s Vintage Black and White Porcelain EXIT Sign
Located in Wallkill, NY
Cool 1940s porcelain EXIT sign. Measuring: 18 in long x 5 in.
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Exceptional French Console and Mirror Art Deco
Located in Altwies, LU
Important and exceptional French console Art Deco.
In fer forgé, marble top in brèche violette.
Epoque XXè siècle.
Console: H 163 x L 155 P 43 cm.
Mirror: H 200 x L 150 c...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
French Plaster Head
Located in Stamford, CT
Fanciful French plaster head with pocket.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Plaster
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French French Provincial Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
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Flowers in a Glass Vase, Unsigned. Venice, 1947
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
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French Rustic Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
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