"Lunchroom Conversations, " Glimpse of 1920s Black Social Life in Philadelphia

One of the most intriguing and mysterious WPA-era prints we have ever offered, this rare, possibly unique work depicts a group of two women and two men in intense conversation at a crude wood table, in a simple room with cracks in the plaster that show the wood lath underneath. The four almost seem like a group on the lam in a film noir from the period, desperately running from a crime of some kind. Two of the four face downward, deeply focused on the subject at hand, and another is lost in thought, a pipe in his mouth. The fourth is most mysterious of all, facing away from the viewer. but clearly animated and in conversation. The artist was Alice Harold Murphy...

One of Germany's great inter-war expressionists, strongly influenced by Cubism, Josef Eberz painted a number of brilliantly hued, high energy paintings as well as a series of prints ...

This sophisticated view of a 1920s cocktail party -- probably taking place on the upper levels of an Art Deco tower in New York or Chicago -- was painted by Robert Patterson, one of ...

This large and important drawing was made by Eduardo Benito, the pioneering artist who helped to establish the impossibly sophisticated images of modern...

Vladimir Pavlovich Nechoumoff (Russian, c. 1900 – 1977) Café society in Istanbul pencil on paper 8 x 8 in. (20.3 x 20.3 cm.) Executed in 1921 Figurative painter, illustrator Vladimi...

Intimate Talk is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In good condition,...

Gouache on paper. Signed . Around 1920. Dimensions  H : 49 cm L : 65 cm/H : 19.3 in W : 25.6 in (unframed) H : 67 cm L : 87 cm/H: 26.38 in W: 34.25 in (with frame)

The Cafeteria is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions with small foxing at the top left. Paul Baudier...