3 Siamese Cats, Oil on Panel by Jacques Nam, France, Art Deco, 1930's

Superb Art Deco desk/secretaire by Primavera. It is made of a beech wood structure, all faces entirely covered with leather (parchment). All angles are reinforced with chromed metal....

Modernist lamp in chrome metal, the articulated head on the shaft is ending with a frosted glass cylinder. Bakelite switch on the wooden base. By Jean Boris Lacroix. European standa...

The artist behind this striking and original Art Deco portrait -- Agnes Tait -- is clearly emphasizing the parallels between a female figure and her Siamese cat, both shown with heavily-shadowed blue eyes and short, dark hair, the feline crouching familiarly on the shoulder of her companion. Because Tait painted a series of portraits for Florenz Ziegfeld of the young women who performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1932, it's possible that the figure here was one of her subjects. The woman is wearing an elegant black gown that bares her upper chest, and the background is a lovely shade of reddish purple. Tait was a native New Yorker, studying in her youth at the National Academy of Design under Leon Kroll and others, before becoming a WPA painter in the 1930s. She painted a series of tropical scenes for the United Fruit Company...

Nicole Devraigne - French - Signed oil on wood panel - The Cat on the Window Ledge. Size: 46 x 55 unframed A bold and vibrant abstract painting of a cat sitting on a window ledge. ...