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Period: 1940s
Signed Maison Jansen Boiserie, France
Located in Stamford, CT
Signed Maison Jansen boiserie panel with oval medallion decoration.
Category
French Beaux Arts Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Plaster, Wood
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
Pencil Drawing Depicting a Dalmatian Dog, USA, 1940
Located in Milan, IT
A pencil drawing on paper depicting on both sides the Dalmatian dog lying on an armchair. On the one hand, the egoist, on the other, a sardonic gleam in ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Cherry, Paper
Decorative Mid-Century Chinese Fan in Paper Decorated Painted Wooden Structure
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Decorative Mid-century Chinese Fan in paper decorated painted wooden structure and straw.
Decoration on gold leaf, of swans, herons and plants. very stylish.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Straw, Wood, Paper
Mid-Century Modern Art Work by Joseph Roelants
By Jospeh Roelants
Located in Weesp, NL
Mid-Century Modern ceramic tiles Art by Joseph Roelants for Gilliot & Cie, 1948
"The allegorical representation of Architecture and sculptural art blo...
Category
Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Watercolor Depicting a Cat, France 1940
Located in Milan, IT
A watercolor depicting a cat. Solid cherry wood frame, polished and beeswaxed. France circa 1940.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Cherry, Paper
Homage to Belgian Resistance Against Nazis, Remarkable Wall Plate by d'hossche
By Ernest d'Hossche
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Designed and executed by Ernest d'Hossche, one of Belgium's leading Art Deco artisans in the 1930s and 40s, this very rare wall plate features a nude female figure holding an upright...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Decorative Mid-Century Chinese Fan in Paper Decorated Painted Wooden Structure.
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Decorative Mid-century Chinese Fan in Paper Decorated Painted Wooden Structure.
Decoration on gold leaf, plants. very stylish.
Category
Chinese Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
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
Frohse Anatomical Chart by A.J. Nystrom, Plate No. 8: Digestive System, 1947
Located in San Francisco, CA
An impressively sized and meticulously executed American Frohse pulldown anatomical chart depicting the human digestive system, published by A.J. Nyst...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Wiedemann's Fine Beer Trade Sign
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Wiedemann's Fine beer - The Leader Trade sign with three Canada geese on oval walnut plaque.
German immigrant George Wiedemann began brewing at the original Wiedemann brewery in Ne...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
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...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
French 1940s Pastel Drawing of a Woman, Original French Framing
Located in Stamford, CT
French 1940s signed and numbered lithograph of a pastel drawing of a woman Original French framing.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paper
"At the Old Stone Wall" Original Oil by Emmett Watson
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Oil on canvas; 25" x 32." From the archives of the Shaw Barton Calendar Co. used for an early calendar print. Framed. Watson sold most of his freelance pulp covers to the (1893- 1955) Frank A. Munsey Publishing Company for Argosy, Big Chief Western, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Railroad Stories. Emmett...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
Five French Dried, Pressed and Framed Botanical Specimens
Located in New York, NY
A set of dried, pressed and framed botanical specimens, plants and flowers with botanical descriptions Calligraphed in Latin and French. These old pieces are elegantly floated in off...
Category
Belgian Rustic Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Vintage Swedish Framed Embroidery of a Native Woman in a Tropical Environment
Located in Stockholm, SE
Vintage Swedish framed embroidery of a native woman in a tropical environment. A "Bloomsbury" bohemian style embroidery made in the 1940s. A dreamy kind o...
Category
Swedish Bohemian Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Early Carta Blanca Beer Sign. Mexico, 1940’s.
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare Carta Blanca beer porcelain metal sign.
Mexico, ca. 1940’s.
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
French Brown Majolica Oyster Plate, circa 1940
By Luneville
Located in Austin, TX
French brown Majolica oyster plate signed Luneville circa 1940.
Category
French French Provincial Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Large Pressed Botanical Framed Under Glass from Sweden
Located in Austin, TX
A handsome large Swedish decorative pressed botanical, circa 1940, featuring six herbal plants mounted to a matted board, with individual taxonomy cards. In a square wooden frame und...
Category
Swedish Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper, Organic Material
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
Set of Nine Framed American Typography Pages, 1938
Located in Downingtown, PA
Set of nine framed American typography pages.
From new letters and lettering by Paul Carlyle & Guy Oring,
Originally published, 1938
The pages ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Original Charles Kiffer Lithograph of Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful original Mid-Century Modern lithograph was created for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier, circa 1948. It features the actor don...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Framed Set of 5 Pastel Blue and White Medallions in Pate Sur Pate Style
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Depicting mythological figures and Victorian portrait busts set against black velvet matin a giltwood cove moulded hexagonal frame. Medallions are unsigned. Measure: 5" diameter.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass, Wood
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
Pair of Italian Art Deco Brass Plate, 1940s
Located in Meda, MB
Pair of hanging brass plates produced in Italy in the 1940s. The Classic Art Deco subjects are represented and are in their original patina of the time.
Small signs of wear due to age.
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
Lucite Dimensional Racetrack Sculptural Panels Custom Framed Pair of Vintage
Located in North Miami, FL
This pair of absolutely stunning tall dimensional, sculptural and textural 1940s Lucite panels are newly custom framed. The lucite panels look and feel like textural running water. T...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Linen, Lucite, Wood
Running Horses Abstract Impressionist Oil Painting
By Sheila Hendricks
Located in Rochester, NY
"Horses Running", a bold abstract impressionist oil painting with heavy impasto. By Sheila Hedricks. Oil on board. In a period hand...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Paint
Decorative Lacquer Panel Midcentury by P. Paulin theme “Heaven on Earth’’
Located in Miami, FL
French painter and master glassmaker, Beaux Art School in Lyon , born in 1907 . He sudied with G. Decote who used to work with Gustave Moreau. He is inspired by the symbolist movemen...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Lacquer
"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
Vintage Persian Baktiari Oriental Rug, in Small Room size, w/ Medallion
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Baktiari oriental rug, size 8'0" x 5'6", circa 1940. This brilliant handwoven wool carpet features a dynamic diamond-shaped medallion at center, surrounded by a var...
Category
Persian Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Joan Crawford and Ingrid Bergman Vintage Movie Posters, Queen Bee and Intermezzo
By Columbia Pictures
Located in New York, NY
Fabulous pair of vintage movie posters - Joan Crawford in Queen Bee (1955) and Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard in Intermezzo (1939) but released in Belgium in 1946. Both of these ar...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paper
Signed Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting Titled "Sunny Sunday" by Richard Olive
By Richard Clive
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid-century landscape painting by New York artist Richard Clive, entitled "Sunny Sunday". This oil on canvas landscape painting depicts the dappled afternoon light of a forest cleari...
Category
American American Craftsman Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Decorative Panel
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular decorative panel made in glass presenting a lush vegetation and animals.
Signed lower right.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
Framed Scandinavian Traditional Embroidered Blouse
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Visually striking Danish traditional blouse in off-white with blue embroidery reminiscent of a vyshyvanka decorative shirt, but Scandinavian in orig...
Category
Danish Rustic Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Silk, Glass, Wood
Portrait Oil Painting of Veiled and Masked Women by Franz Cižek, Czech, 1946
Located in London, GB
Expressionist mystical portrait of purple veiled and masked women is painted in intense and non-naturalistic colors blue, green and red. She is holding a yellow card in one hand and ...
Category
Czech Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
"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
Important Set of 5 Ceramic Wall Sconces French Ceramic, circa 1940
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Important set of 5 ceramic wall sconces.
Really elegant set with 2 brown ceramic glaze and 3 orange ceramic glaze.
This set comes from an important house in ouest of france.
...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Painting from the 1940s, Red, Blue and Yellow Color, MidCentury Art, New Frame
Located in New York, NY
Decorative painting from the 1940s. Red, blue and yellow. Children playing on a bicycle.
Framed in a beautiful gold frame with a linen liner.
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Acrylic
"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
"Galloping Horse" Art Deco Plaque by Waylande Gregory, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Glazed in brilliant white, deep red, gold and black, this striking round plaque was made by Waylande Gregory, the renowned WPA sculptor and innovative ceramicist. Prodigious and inde...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Original Paul Lauritz High Sierras Nine Lake Basin Early California Oil Painting
By Paul Lauritz
Located in Tustin, CA
"High Sierras, Nine Lake Basin" painting depicts a rugged, snowy mountain scene in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with large rocks and a lake shore with pine trees in the foreground an...
Category
American Other Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Masonite
Depisis Style Midcentury Oil Panting Vase Rose Flowers 1940s Classic Frame
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Depisis style midcentury oil panting vase rose flowers signed T.Rossi 1940s classic frame.
Elegant and refined as a picture of Depisis.
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Jute, Wood, Paint
Vintage Woodblock Etchings by Juan Castells Marti
Located in Pasadena, CA
Vintage woodblock etchings by Juan Castells Marti. Newly framed with linen mats.
Category
Unknown Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paper, Glass
Painting from the 1940s, Mid-Century Art, Golden, Blue, Chocolate & White Colors
Located in New York, NY
Decorative painting from the 1940s. Painting has a beautiful gold frame with a linen liner.
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Acrylic
Engraved Pink Tinted Glass Panel, circa 1940
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Engraved pink tinted glass panel, circa 1940.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
Engraved Pink Tinted Glass Panel, circa 1940
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Engraved pink tinted glass panel, circa 1940.
Little splinter on the bottom (see picture) but not visible when assembled.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
Vintage Persian Shiraz Oriental Rug, in Small Square Size, with Soft Earth Tones
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Shiraz oriental rug, size 5'1 H; x 4'4 W, circa 1940. This lovely small hand-knotted wool carpet features a variety of stylized tribal design elements on the soft b...
Category
Persian Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Porcelain Memorial Plaque
Located in New York, NY
A beautifully framed and rarely seen 1940s Chinese porcelain memorial plaque with striking central image and fine Chinese characters.
P399.
Category
Chinese Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
Machine Age Medical Scull Model, 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Artfully crafted aluminum teaching scull model, Columbia Dentoform, USA.
Signed with stamped marks. Newly professionally polished.
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
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
Angelo Testa Print on Canvas
By Angelo Testa
Located in Pawtucket, RI
Whimsical print on canvas by noted artist and textile designer Angelo Testa. Large print depicting dogs and other biomorphic shaped animals.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Emerson Woelffer Bonze Sculpture, Abstract Face, Signed, Dated, Numbered
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice modern abstract Face, by the well known artist, Emerson Woelffer. Signed, numbered 1/4 and dated 1947.
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Bronze
Gazelle French Shoe Poster Signed ''Robys''
By Robys
Located in Westport, CT
Stamped'' Robys'' Advertising shoe poster with gift box and shoes and Gazelles jumping out of it! Framed in black and silver leaf trim Frame, circa 1940, ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
French Plaster Head
Located in Stamford, CT
Fanciful French plaster head with pocket.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Plaster
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...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Monumental Charger with Roman Scene, Made in Italy
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully painted with a scene from ancient Rome depicting two soldiers near a body of water, this large, impressive charger is marked "Made in Italy."
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Simone Colombier Abstract Gouache, Bordeaux School, France, 1947
By Simone Colombier
Located in La Teste De Buch, FR
Framed abstract gouache on paper by French painter Simone Colombier.
Signed and dated 1947.
Simone Colombier took part of the abstract movement in Bordeaux, France in the mid-1940s...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
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