1920s Paintings

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, ...

American Art Deco (1928) vertical painted velvet wall hanging of Persian lady with 2 urns (attributed to GRANT SIMON).

Painted by the renowned muralist, Barry Faulkner, in 1929 for the ceiling of the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall in Hartford, Connecticut, this remarkable Art Deco study depicts Canes Venatici, or the Herdsman holding two hounds, Asterion and Chara, by the leash as they chase Ursa Major around the Pole. The overall theme of the ceiling mural is "Drama" and it is reputed to be the largest and most ambitious in America, featuring the allegorical figure of Drama surrounded by the constellations and the Zodiac, as well as modern symbols of America including Al Jolson...

Gennaro Villani (1885-1948) Amalfi Coast, oil on canvas in painted and gilt frame, signed lower left. Italy, circa 1920. Dimensions: 27" W x 23" H x 1.25" D; sight 24.5" W x 21" H.

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...

One of the most exotic and gorgeously colored Art Deco paintings we have ever seen, this scene of an elaborately robed Chinese couple, clearly of royal blood, conversing by a pool su...

Brilliantly painted in striking shades of tomato red, green-blue and chalky white, this painting was made by Béla Kádár, increasingly appreciated and collected today as Hungary's ...

Walter Illner (Leipzig, 1854-1959 Düsseldorf), Still-life with flowers, oil on canvas. (Size with frame: 102 x 98 cm). Signed upper right. The painting w...

German school, 20th century, oil on canvas, signed, inscribed and dated "Hans Muenchen 19." Size without frame: 27 x 24 inches. Wood frame included.

Graphically striking and boldly painted in a rich palette of purples, blues and oranges, this high style Art Deco painting by M. H. Forster depicts a female figure with curling tendr...

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...

Beautiful oil painting on board titled, "Nanny with two young children" in original high quality giltwood frame. Signed lower corner and dated 1920. Carl Mayr-Graz (1850-1929), was a genre painter. He studied with Johann Nepomuk Passini in Graz, then in Nuremberg from Kreling and Carl Raupp. From 1870-78 he was a student of Wilhelm von Diez in Munich, and was a close friend of Wilhelm Leibl.

Artwork 1927 Frame 25 tall x 21.75 x 2.5 d Art 14.75 w x17.75 Oil on canvas, L'Opera by John Retting. Newer frame with brass tag. Canvas has an ochre color backside. Signed in l...

Dramatic and lovely watercolor happy depiction of a period 1920s lady at an open window looking out at the follage and potted plants. Realized by William Bradford Green...

Hand-painted charts in French. Used to teach about parasites and diseases in a Belgian school house. Original wooden dowels and canvas. Beautiful colors and fonts. Price is for the s...

Painted by one of America's great masters of portraiture, this depiction of a male youth is brimming with warmth and life. The boy pictured here, with his ...