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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1880s
"August Evening, " Masterful Landscape with Figure by MacGilvary, 1930s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of dramatic, shifting light and deep, atmospheric colors, this landscape painting by Norwood MacGilvary depicts rolling farmland and a winding road, with a dramatic mountainside...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Art Deco Painting Autumn Leaves Bouquet by Emil Fiala, Vienna, 1930s
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Deco Oil on carton painting by Emil Fiala (1869-1960) with the motif Autumn Leaves Bouquet signed, 1930. Emil Fiala provided an excellent understanding of transmitting the mood of the autumn time. He had many exhibitions and the membership of the Künstlerbund (formerly the Hagenbund). This painting is set in a golden authentic Biedermeier...
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1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Wood

Winold Reiss Collage Longchamps Tabletop German/American Modernism
Located in Sharon, CT
Unique collage in gold/silver foil on Formica base, framed to be hung on a wall. Formerly Alan Moss Ltd. Collection. Please refer: "American Art Deco" Alasta...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Formica

Oil on Board, a Finely Rendered Continental Art Deco Painting of a Seated Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
A well-thought out composition as the table plain draws the viewer into the room of a seated woman with distant gaze dressed in a blue jacket, the table set with a bowl of fruit, a g...
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1930s Unknown Vintage Paintings

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"Orpheus Over the Globe, " Important Mural Study for 1939-1940 NY World's Fair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Dunbar Beck, one of America's finest muralists in the 1930s and 1940s, this classic example of Art Deco stylized allegorical painting served as a study for a series of mur...
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1930s American Vintage Paintings

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Paper

Georges-Marie-Julien Girardo (French 1856-1914) Oil on Canvas "A Wedding Party"
By Georges-Marie-Julien Girardot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georges-Marie-Julien Girardot (French, b. Besançon 1856 - d. Paris, 1914) "Avant le mariage" (Before the Wedding) A Palatial and Impressive French 19th Century Oil on Canvas depictin...
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1880s French Antique Paintings

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Giltwood, Canvas

James Shaw Crompton "Want a Bit?" watercolor, signed J S Crompton and dated 1889
By James Shaw Compton
Located in Montreal, QC
This charming Orientalist watercolor has everything : A secluded courtyard, a pretty girl , two pigeons and a monkey. This is a well-painted scene by a talented watercolorist at the ...
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1880s British Late Victorian Antique Paintings

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"Picking Apples in Arcadia, " Art Deco Painting with Nudes by Harlem Muralist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This gorgeous, idyllic depiction of nude figures enjoying the beauty and abundance of Arcadia, some picking apples and others making love, was painted by David Karfunkle in the 1930s...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Red, Cream, Black, Blue Abstract Painting, Italy, 1930s
Located in New York, NY
1930's Italian abstract painting. Tempura painting in a slightly weathered black vintage frame. Dominant color is red with cream, black and blue. M...
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1930s Italian Vintage Paintings

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Other

"Carnival in Manchester, " Atmospheric, WPA-Era Painting with Carousel by Gernand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A celebration of 1930s America, full of atmosphere and color, this painting by John Gernand depicts a carnival in Manchester, New Hampshire, including a carousel, Ferris wheel, tents...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"Black Figure in Yellow Room, " 1930s Portrait by Student of Thomas Hart Benton
By Trew Hocker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly conceived and executed by Trew Hocker, an important muralist who was strongly influenced by Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, this portrait of a young African American m...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"The Return of Timothy Pickering, " WPA Mural Study Painting, 1939
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of atmosphere, rich color and drama, this mural study by Dunbar Beck was executed in preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts. Until it...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled 'Woman with Dress' Signed Hugo Scheiber
Located in New York, NY
Guache painting signed Hugo Scheiber: Budapest 1873-1950. Hugo Scheiber was born in Budapest in 1873. At the age of eight, he moved with his family from Budapest to Vienna. There,...
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1930s Hungarian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings

"Jesse Crawford at the Paramount Theater Organ, " Illustration Painting by Boyd
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This extraordinary painting brings together two remarkable talents -- John Rutherford Boyd, the superb painter and illustrator, who captures this scene -- and Jesse Crawford, one of ...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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French Japonisme Hand-Painted Oil-on-canvas of a Geisha with a Fan
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful 19th century French japonisme oil-on-canvas painting of a Geisha holding a fan. This beautiful Geisha is modeled after the Japonisme movement brought up by French artists integrating Japanese artistic styles into their art work. During the mid-1870s, the demand for Japanese decorative arts...
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1880s French Japonisme Antique Paintings

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Canvas

"Come Muse Migrate, " Art Deco Study for White House Piano, with Whitman Poem
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Gorgeously conceived and vividly hued, this study for the lid of the famous grand piano given by the Steinway Company to the White House in 1938, during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, was painted by Dunbar Beck, inspired by a famous poem by Walt Whitman. The painting quotes two lines from Whitman's "Song of the Exposition," later included in "Leaves of Grass": Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia, For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits, demands you. Beck is best known for his WPA work...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"Quarry Men, " Striking Art Deco-WPA Depiction of 1930s Laborers, Rockport
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The painter Iver Rose is best known for his work which brought attention to the plight of workers in Depression Era America. This painting of quarry workers in Rockport, Massachusett...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Pair of Restauration style reverse glass paintings, late 19th century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of French Restauration style rectangular reverse glass paintings representing baskets of flowers on a white background, one of peonies one of roses. The whole ensemble has a fir...
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1880s French Restauration Antique Paintings

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Glass

1930s Nude Oil Painting Signed Maubri
Located in Cathedral City, CA
French nude painting (oil on canvas) with original frame signed Maubri.
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Wood, Canvas

Pretty Portrait of Young Woman, Old Pastel on Cardboard
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Cute Portrait of a young woman with chignon, pastel on cardboard. Why not create a gallery of smiling female portraits ? An Italian client of mine...
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1880s French Early Victorian Antique Paintings

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Paper

"Nudes with Arched Bridge, " WPA Period Painting by Rodda, 1930s
By Larry Rodda
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Suffused with the rich, subdued colors of the WPA period, this painting by Maryland artist Larry Rodda depicts a male and female nude couple sitting on a grassy spot overlooking an a...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

"Federal Building, Century of Progress Exposition, " Brilliant Art Deco Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most vivid and compelling accounts of the famed Century of Progress Exposition, which opened in Chicago in 1933, this view of the iconic Federal Building was painted in the second year of the fair by a Pennsylvania artist. The brilliantly-lit Art Deco...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"Dance by the Sea, " Stunning, Sun-Drenched French Art Deco Painting
By Louis Rigal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of joy and sunlight, this depiction of a nude male and female couple dancing on the edge of the sea with a ruined Greek temple below them, was painted by Louis Rigal, one of Ame...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

Landscape with Willow Tree by Frances Roberts Nugent, circa 1930
Located in Stockton, NJ
Landscape with willow tree by Frances Roberts Nugent, circa 1930. Oil on canvas of a summer California bungalow set beside a pond and flanked by a mature willow tree. Signed lower le...
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1930s American Vintage Paintings

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Wood

E. C. Ulnitz, Pink and Purple Stocks, Well Listed Danish Artist, Oil on Canvas
Located in Copenhagen, DK
E. C. Ulnitz: Pink and purple stocks. Well listed Danish artist. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated E. C. Ulnitz, 1930. Measures: 27.5 x 21.5 cm. In perfect condition.
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1930s Danish Vintage Paintings

S. C. Bjulf 'Fishermen's Wives, ' Well Listed Danish Artist, Oil on Canvas
Located in Copenhagen, DK
S. C. Bjulf: Fishermen's wives, The old dock, Copenhagen. Well listed Danish artist. Signed Bjulf, 1930s. Oil on canvas. Measures: 40 cm. x 46 cm.
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1930s Danish Vintage Paintings

Pair of Large English Porcelain Circular Plaques, Derby Crown, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
Each charger depicting a not-unwilling maiden being carried off by centaurs. Signed in Greek and Cyrillic by artist G. Landgraf. As stated in the Royal ...
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1880s English Antique Paintings

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Porcelain

Pair of Massive Framed Italian Majolica Chargers, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
Finely painted in an Italian palette with mythological and Roman battle scenes, each border rim painted with yellow enamel. With a large carved ebony...
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1880s Italian Antique Paintings

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Majolica

Portrait of a Man, Oil on Canvas, Signed by the Author, circa 1937
Located in Opole, PL
An oil painting on canvas with the half-length portrayal of a man. The painting is signed by the pre-war painter of Lviv, Adam Krotochwila. This fine piece of art is in very good...
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1930s Polish Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

"Farmer with Scythe, " Depiction of American Worker by U.S. Capitol Muralist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Drenched with sun and full of optimism, this depiction of a shirtless farm worker, with scythe in hand, is a high-spirited paean to the American laborer, at a time when the Works Progress Administration and other institutions were commissioning murals that celebrated industry, agriculture and commerce. Here, the worker is lean and strong, and his face shows signs of sunburn from his hours in the open. The painter was Allyn Cox, son of the famous muralist Kenyon Cox...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"Pioneers and Indians in Battle, " Large, Extraordinary Art Deco Mural
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold, high-energy and striking, this Art Deco mural depicts a battle in 19th century America, with an Indian chief on horseback in full battl...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"Male Youth at Sunset, " Vivid Art Deco Painting by Dunbar Beck, WPA Muralist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stunningly executed in deep tones of cobalt blue, burnt sienna, oxblood and jet black, this depiction of a partially nude male youth standing at an open window at sunset was painted ...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

Art Deco French Oil Painting
By L. Gache
Located in Los Angeles, CA
painting sign L.Gache
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Wood

French Oil on Canvas, Reclining Nude, Second Quarter of the 20th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
The oil painting depicting a nude female in a state of relaxation, her hair styled in the fashion of the Art Deco period, in period molded and ebonized frame with gilt rabbet.
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

Pair of Tiger and Lion Art Deco Framed Paintings
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of tiger and lion Art Deco framed paintings. Oil on panel. Beautiful carved wood frames.
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Hardwood, Paint

Marguerite Clawson Burgess, 'Times Square, New York', C. 1930
By Marguerite Clawson Burgess
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Marguerite Clawson Burgess, American Modernist Painter Marguerite Clawson Burgess, 'Times Square, New York', C. 1930 Titled verso "New York, New York" Oil on canvas, signed lower left Rare 1930s NYC...
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1930s American Modern Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

"Sailors and Mermaids, " Stunning, Unique Screen, France
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This stunning assemblage of 12 Art Deco paintings, depicting mythological and 1930s contemporary themes, all in oil on canvas, have been set into a walnut folding screen...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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German Porcelain Portrait Plaque, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
Marked on the verso. Size of plaque 12 X 15.
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1880s German Antique Paintings

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Porcelain

"Mermaids in the Depth of the Sea, " Art Deco Painting with Brilliant Color, 1931
By Elaine Lincoln
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most brilliantly painted, high style Art Deco paintings we have ever offered, this vivid depiction of three nude mermaids, amidst a tangle of seaweed, rising bubbles and f...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Fantastic Painting, Oil on Canvas by Viktor Maria Cortezo, Dated 1934
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Oil on canvas by Viktor Maria Cortezo (1908-1978), signed lower right and dated 1934, in excellent condition.  
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1930s Spanish Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Antique Pair Oil Paintings Grand Canal Venice Alfred Pollentine, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a lovely pair of oil on canvas paintings of the view of the Grand Canal in Venice by the renowned British artist Alfred Pollentine (1836-1890) and each is signed lower right ...
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1880s British Antique Paintings

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Canvas

Young Women in Bathing Oil on Canvas 1930 Signed Thioll
Located in Marseille, FR
Oil painting on canvas 1930 signed Thioll of two young naked women frolicking at the water's edge and the third was wearing a jersey.
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

Green, Navy and Blue Abstract Painting, Italy, 1930s
Located in New York, NY
1930's Italian abstract tempura painting. Multiple colors include green, navy, medium blue, red and cream. Part of a collection of tempura paintings,...
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1930s Italian Vintage Paintings

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Other

Roberto Gigli, "View of the Hercules Victor Temple at the Forum Boarium"
By Roberto Gigli
Located in Belmont, MA
Roberto Gigli (Italian, 1846-1922), “View of the Hercules Victor Temple at the Forum Boarium”, watercolor, signed lower right. The Forum Boarium was th...
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1880s Romantic Antique Paintings

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Paper

French Delahaye Automobile Huge Original Oil Painting, c1930's Over 6' x 7'
Located in Chicago, IL
Huge French Oil on Canvas, circa late 1930s of a Delahaye Automobile. We cannot decide if this was painted in a large-scale, only to be reduced for an ...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

"Seated Black Man, " Rare and Fine WPA-Style Painting attributed to Walker Evans
By Walker Evans
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although Walker Evans is world-renowned for his Depression-era photographs of ordinary men and women across America, many of them taken while serving as “information specialist” in t...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Witold Gordon Gouache, Jesus Saves, Vanity Fair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This gouache, by Witold Gordon, is one of a series commissioned by Conde Nast which were published in Vanity Fair magazine in July 1934 under the banner “New York Shops You Never See...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Gouache

Pair of Fascinating Framed Hand-Painted Collection of Circus Animals
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A pair of framed small paintings cleverly mounted as collections of four between two pieces of transparent glass. This enables the wall, whether painted or wall papered, to show thro...
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1930s American Vintage Paintings

"Bucolic Lakeside with Swans, " Metropolitan Opera Backdrop Design, 1930
By George Stimmel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Lovely and bucolic, this view of an idyllic lakeside landscape, complete with classical sculpture, a pair of swans, and brilliantly-colored flowering trees, was painted by George Stimmel for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, either as a set piece or to suggest the backdrop for an opera production in 1930. Stimmel's work was exhibited at the Knoedler Gallery in New York, but his opera paintings...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Board

Fantastic Painting, Oil on Canvas by Viktor Maria Cortezo Dated, 1934
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Oil on canvas by Viktor Maria Cortezo (1908-1978), signed lower right and dated 1934, in excellent condition. This painting can form a pair with the second one posted.
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1930s Spanish Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

"Haywagon, " Charming Art Deco-WPA Era Painting with Folk Art Influence
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This remarkable oil painting, clearly influenced by American Folk Art, Art Deco stylization and the idealization of rural workers promoted by the WPA, depicts a farm family and a han...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"Nude with Basket, " Striking Art Deco Gouache Painting by Hentschel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by William Hentschel, one of Rookwood Pottery's most celebrated artisans in the Art Deco era, this very rare gouache depicts a half-nude female figure carrying a basket fille...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Gouache

Madonna Art Deco Oil Painting on Cardboard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Madonna oil painting on cardboard . Wonderful patina.
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1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

"Tiger Lilies, " Brilliant Still Life in Oranges and Blues by Wachtel
By Simon Wachtel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliantly-hued and vivid painting of tiger lilies from the 1930s, this impressionist painting was executed by Simon Maurice Wachtel, a Pennsylvania painter whose works are rare. ...
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1930s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings

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"Nude with Bowl of Fruit, " Art Deco Painting in Shades of Purple and Orange
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Absolutely lovely, almost translucent in its use of color -- as if painted on glass or silk -- this very rare gouache painting was created by William Hentschel, one of the master art...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Gouache

"Nude Bather, Dominican Republic, " 1930s Tropical Scene Watercolor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Wilmot Heitland, one of America's great watercolorists in the 1930s, this sun-drenched depiction of a native Dominican, nude and stepping toward a pool of water, captures ...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Watercolor

Antique Gouache of Nelsons Tomb
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Nelson's tomb in St. Pauls Cathedral by Amy Sawers (Exh. 1887-1909) Painted in gouache by this well listed artist who exhibited at many different venues including 16 at The Royal Ac...
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1880s English Antique Paintings

Still Life Oil Painting by Arthur Chaplin
By Arthur Chaplin
Located in Marseille, FR
Still Life of Arthur Chaplin French painter born in Jouy-en-Josas in 1869, died in 1935, son of the painter Charles Chaplin. Abandoning the vaporous undressed often represented by his father, Arthur Chaplin draws inspiration beauties, most chaste, botany. Pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Bernier, his interest in the Dutch still life is confirmed on a trip to the Netherlands. He is a very talented imitator of Nature Dutch-mortistes 17th century as Rachel Ruysch...
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1930s French Vintage Paintings

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The earliest paintings were created on the walls of caves, proving even our ancient ancestors knew that striking artwork is meant to be on display. Cave paintings on an Indonesian island are reportedly older than the earliest cave art in Spain and France, and the figurative paintings back then were produced with inorganic pigments like iron oxide.

Later, the people of Ancient Greece — who learned about art from the Egyptians before them — conceived panel paintings of wax and tempera that were collected and publicly displayed. In the centuries that followed, artists would be commissioned to create large-scale wall murals and frescoed ceilings in sprawling European palaces and in the homes of the aristocracy.

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