1950s Decorative Art

Original riveted sheet iron shoemakers shop sign. Unique find, France, circa 1800-1850. Traces of red paint visible. Weathered.

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...

Ava de Lagercrantz, (1862-1938) Classic Swedish artist who was a royal painter who worked in New York and Paris. She painted reigning monarchs. In 1909 she painted King Gustav wh...

A rarely seen Hoffman beverages porcelain and metal sign from the 1950s. Great color and graphics.  

Oil on canvas painting depicting a four mast sailing clipper; signed lower right: R DAVIES. Marked on reverse: Copy Right Reserved # 01211 RONALD DAVIES ...

Beautiful oil on canvas of reclining blonde nude on a white bed sheet. Framed. Signed (see attached photo). 20th century. Painting dimensions: H. 20...

Probably a variation of ‘Spring’ After Boucher’s Four Seasons. Highly decorative. Typical rococo frivolity and color palette. Garlands and festoons of flowers with intertwined ribbon...

Original turns of the 20th-century gold-tone artwork "THE FOUR SEASONS" "Spring" silhouette glass print in original gold-tone frame by the artist Fidus. Each piece of art features a scene of young nudists in different seasons, spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Spring features a group dancing in a circle much like Europeans dance around maypole in spring. Framed 3.5" x 7" Hugo Höppener dropped out of art school in 1887 to join the vegetarian and nudist commune of Bavarian painter-philosopher, Karl Diefenbach. Withina few weeks, police raided the place. Charged with nude sunbathing...

Gaston Sebire French, 1920-2002 Landscape with figures Oil on canvas 31 by 41 ½ in. With frame 38 by 48 ½ in. Signed lower right Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris. The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.” The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris. Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage.  As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and Frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.” Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...

Manner Of Luigi Maria Galea (1847-1917) circa 1900 The Grand Harbour, Valetta, early morning; and The Grand Harbour, Valetta, at dusk signed illeg...

Probably circa 1910, decorative painting with craquelure throughout. Old dark varnish. The sky near frame edge has thicker paint suggesting some later in painting. Stretcher marks sh...

Circa 1880s by Alfred De Breanski Sr., (1852 - 1928), England. This lovely oil on canvas, using the impedimenti technique of layering and glazing...