French Paintings

Tavik Frantisek Simon (1877-1942). Scene from the Seine, Paris. Colored etching. Dimensions: 38 x 32 cm. (60 x 54) cm.

Wallpaper design. Watercolor painting on paper representing a Chinese landscape, France, Art Deco, 1920s. Dim: 49.5 x 49.5cm excl frame. Another wallpaper design is available with a matching pattern and representing Chinese masks...

Painted with a brilliant palette and very fine detail, this depiction of a tropical fish swimming above a strand of seaweed and a giant clam, surrounded by a cloud of bubbles, is a c...

Boris Solotareff (Russian, 1889-1966) was a Russian painter, who was active in Switzerland and France; but spent the majority of his career in New York City, where he became a natura...

Great grandson of the famous writer Victor Hugo, the painter Jean Hugo (1894-1984) was in the thick of the Paris art scene between the wars. A member of the avant garde, he was a friend of Picasso, Cocteau and Colette and was associated with the Neo Romantics. His small gouaches on paper were avidly collected by Dr. Albert Barnes, and can be seen today in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. Hugo's most desirable work -- landscapes, interior scenes, set designs -- date from the mid 1920s to the late 1930s. This whimsical painting, signed and dated 1927, is set in a curtained, classical interior furnished with Victorian lighting fixtures...

Wallpaper design. Watercolor painting on paper representing Chinese masks, France, Art Deco, 1920s. Dimensions: 49.5 x 49.5cm excl frame. Another wallpape...

Signed en verso B. Solotareff, Lautenberg. Original period frame, made personally by the artist. Dimensions (without frame): Height 16” Width 12 ½”. Dimensions (with frame...

Signed original gouache painting by Romain de Tirtoff, aka Erté. This very rare original features a woman wearing fishnet stockings and a pearl-and-lace top with black gloves and a ...

An important self portrait of the artist Pierre Deval, (1897-1993) as a young romantic landowner in the 1920s posing in riding attire at his newly purchased 17th century bastide (or ...

Original oil painting signed Helene Girod de L'Ain, titled "Enfants devant la Mer" and dated 1926. This beautiful painting will enhance any bedroom wall, ...

This lovely sensual rare French Art Deco engraving from the coveted portfolio Chansons de Bilitis in the 1920s France is by the famed artist; George Barbier. It is exquisitely executed with an Egyptian Revival feel with Art Deco influences of wonderful colors and sensual subject matter. It has been recently custom museum quality reframed with a gold leaf frame with red clay under rub and silk mat. There is a gold thin inner liner frame inside of the silk mat to enhance the custom framing to a higher level. The colored part of the engraving size is 6.5" W x 7" H. There is a tan silk mat that is 3" all around with a 4" Bottom size. This Art Deco work of art is a true beauty. This is from the late 1920s. There were only 133 copies produced making this portfolio a very special and sought after achievement of pure art deco illustration...

This superb and Classic example of Art Deco painting -- with a nude male and female couple attended by two deer at the edge of the sea -- was painted by George Lepape, an important i...

Portrait of Lady Astor by François Martin-Kavel (French 1861-1931). Oil on canvas, Signed Martin Kavel lower left, inscribed "B. Sirven Toulouse" and "Lady ...