1930s Paintings

A wonderful antique oil painting by A. McDonald, signed and dated 1931. This is beautifully executed on a stretched canvass, it depicts a scene in a European village of soldiers mar...

Full of color and life, this group of six small vignettes on one sheet depicts pairs and trios of female figures dancing and frolicking in various idyllic landscapes -- rolling hills...

Lazarska Stéfania (1887-1977) – Polish painter from the école de Paris Beautiful portrait representing a smiling woman wearing a hairstyle and hat typical of the 1930s. In its original Montparnasse...

Louis Sue & André Mare (1875-1968) - (1885-1932) Five sketches "Flowers circa 1930" Very rare watercolor on paper. Without frame: H 13" x W 17" With frame: H 18" x W 22" ...

German ink and water colours painted on paper by the artist, Emil Maetzel 1877 - 1955 “Zwei Nackte Knaben”1935. a deft ink painting of two adolescent boys in the shower, one standin...

A classic example of WPA-period mural painting, this study was painted by Ralf Henricksen in the 1930s, probably for the U.S. Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, north of Chicago....

930s Watercolour of Ludlow Castle and Dinham Bridge, Shropshire A fine and atmospheric original watercolour dating to the 1930s, this expertly rendered landscape captures the histori...

Art Deco authentic vintage painting motif huge field flower bunch in a vessel by Emil Fiala 1933, Vienna,. A stunning painting by Emil Fiala created 1933 Vienna with a charming motif...

Italian painting dated 1939. Oil on board painting depicting a woodland landscape in impressionist style of good pictorial quality. Painting adorned with a wooden and plaster frame, ...

This striking oil on canvas portrait, titled “WWI German Field Marshal” by renowned artist Franz Triebsch, dates to 1939. The subject of the painting is depicted in full regalia, wit...

Signed Southwestern painting of the Aragon Region in Spain. Dated 1931. Oil on board, gilt solid wooden antique frame.

Watercolor of Harbor scene probably Gloucester Mass by listed Artist Richard Hayley Lever.

Gouache on paper of an atmospheric wintry forest scene signed Robb Beebe (1891-1966); the serene tonal painting with its limited palette and harmonizing colors depicting an impressio...

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...

Painted by Eduard Buk Ulreich, who contributed a set of murals to Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center in New York, as well as WPA murals across the nation, this beautiful dep...

A beautiful painting of a hay meadow scene by Jean-Baptiste Scoriel. Hay meadow scene, 1930, oil on board, 33 cm x 38 cm, signed and dated (lower right)....

An elegant and sophisticated example of high style Art Deco eglomise painting, this depiction of a stylized Orpheus figure with lyre and cape is painted in rich tones of gold, black ...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas by listed San Diego impressionist artist Fidelia Auten Taylor. Dates from the 1930s and is of Ramona's Marriag...

Beautiful oil painting on masonite board, signed and dated 1938. Signed painting but unidentified artist. A splendid particular still life with flowers within a glass bell. Excellent...

A riot of color and movement, much like the experience of walking around the circus in its heyday in 1930s America, this scene by Iver Rose depicts a barker at his podium, positioned...

Watercolor on paper, signed. Lower left and on reverse. Provenance: Sothebys London 1989 Measures 11.5" x 13.75" painting and 17.5" x 20.25" including the frame. Elisée Maclet...

Nice original watercolor of a footbridge over a pond in Central Park NYC. Skyscrapers of the day in the background. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear, needs a new mat....

Christiansen, Niels Peter (1873-1960) Denmark. View from the Royal Deer Park, Copenhagen. Oil on canvas. Signed in monogram. Measures: (ex. the...

This is a beautiful original work of art depicting Venice, Italy with it's beautiful color and architecture from the early 1900s. There are no repairs on this painting it shows brill...

A wide-open landscape depicting rolling fields of changing colors beneath white cloudy skies. - Oil on Canvas, Signed on lower right with name and artist cipher dated 1931 (or 1933)....

Bouquet of Roses by Hermine David, oil on cardboard linen, signed. Framed. Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in Paris – 1 December 1970 in Bry-sur-Marne) was a French painter and the wife of Jules Pascin, also a painter. She became one of the Ecole de Paris artists...

An especially lovely and fresh take on the Classic Europa and the Bull myth that so intrigued artists in the Art Deco era, this impressionistic study by Ezio Giovannozzi was probably...

Painted in a kaleidoscopic array of brilliant colors -- tangerine, emerald green, scarlet, deep sky blue and black -- this Cubist work depicts a nude female figure and a parrot sitting on a circular perch, surrounded by a crazy quilt of patterns. The artist -- Joseph Popczyk -- was known for his vivid palette and love of Cubism, and in this case the chevrons and wavy patterns of Art Deco can...

Possibly Acrylic or Oil On Canvas. Unsigned. Frame and Painting have Beautiful Petina Consistent with Age. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 12 W ; 3/4 ...

Beautiful and vivid painting, oil paint on panel. The painting shows a picturesque harbor on the French Mediterranean. This work is by the Flemish painter Charles-Louis Bisschops (Liège, April 25, 1894 - Rossignol, 1975). The painting has a somewhat impressionistic touch and a beautiful use of color. The blue color of the water contrasts nicely with the shady buildings. The painting is framed in a classic wooden gilded frame. On the back of the painting is an old label stating that the painting was painted in the French port of Ferrier (near Marseille on the Mediterranean). The painting is clearly signed and dated 1937. Charles Bisschops has his own Wikipedia page, information about this: Charles Bisschops was a Belgian painter, graphic artist and draftsman. He was a student at the Academy of Brussels from 1912 to 1919. The main professors were Jean Delville and Constant Montald.

Theodorus Selhorst (1891-1983) Dutch Artist Painter . Oil painting comes with its original Gold Plaster frame . Dutch workman with pipe . signed T H Selhorst . Good condition .

This very rare and important study for "The Spirit of Oshkosh," a major mural in Wisconsin, was painted by Eugene Savage in 1937. Savage is best know...

This piercing and powerful portrait of a Tunisian man with an open-necked shirt provides a glimpse into the life of artist Porter Woodruff in North Africa. Woodruff was best known for his paintings and illustrations for Vogue magazine -- one of five American fashion illustrators who worked for the magazine -- as well as House & Garden. He was born in Tennessee, but spent much of his creative life in Paris and Tunisia, where he lived with Georges Sébastian, an important Hungarian-born, French orchestra conductor...

English Art Moderne oil painting of Stewart's cup horse race in rosewood frame. Signed lower left: "E. Noble /1938". Painted lower right: "Harmachis (Revans) Winning the Steward's cu...

A brilliant example of Art Deco-era painting which celebrated American manufacturing with stylized images of gears and Industrial architecture, this gouache painting by Paolo Garrett...

Oil on canvas painting depicting a seated nude woman with red hair. Areas of unfinished canvas; signed by Savignol. Please see images for condition details.

[Authentic work] ◆ Tetsuzan Yano ◆ Horai Sekkaku ◆ Landscape ◆ Double box ◆ Ehime Prefecture ◆ Hand-painted ◆ Silk ◆ Hanging scroll ◆ Tetsuzan Yano [Yano Tetsuzan] Art Yearbook app...

Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Erwin Kettemann (1897–1971) was a landscape painter from Munich. He was a representative of late Impressionism as well as the 19th century “Karlsr...

Red chalk drawing of a reclining Female nude Signed and dated by Frank Dobson This drawing, never before on the market, comes from an important European private collection and is beautified by an antique frame in gilded wood, in almost perfect condition. The painting is also protected by glass Dimensions whit frame cm 71 x 58.5 Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts. Frank Owen Dobson (London 1886 – 1963) was a British artist and sculptor. Dobson began as a painter, and his early work was influenced by cubism, vorticism, and futurism. After World War I, however, he turned increasingly toward sculpture in a more or less realist style. Throughout the 1920s and the early 1930s he built a reputation as an outstanding sculptor and was among the first in Britain to prefer direct carving of the material rather than modelling a maquette first. The simplified forms and flowing lines of much of his sculptures, particularly his female nudes, showed the influence of African art. From 1946 to 1953 Dobson was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1953. While Dobson was one of the most esteemed artists of his time, is now seen as one of the most important British sculptors of the 20th century. Dobson grew up in Clerkenwell where attended school in Forest Gate. After eighteen months in Reynolds-Stephen's studio, Dobson moved to Devon and then to Cornwall where he lived, for two years, by selling landscape paintings. In 1906 he obtained a scholarship to study at the art institute in Hospitalfield House in Arbroath and studied there for four years. From 1910 to 1912 Dobson attended the City and Guilds of London Art School in Kennington, after which he returned to Cornwall. In Newlyn, he met Augustus John who used his influence and contacts and in, or around, 1915 Dobson created his first sculpture, a small piece in wood. In 1915, during the First World War, Dobson enlisted in The Artists Rifles and served in France from October 1916. In April 1918 he married Cordelia Clara Tregurtha. Dobson was formally invalided out of the Army in November 1918 and by then had already submitted several drawings to the British War Memorials Committee. Dobson set up a studio in the Tregurtha family home in Newlyn but towards the end of the war he took a studio in Manresa Road in Chelsea and would live there until the start of the Second World War. Throughout the 1920s Dobson focused increasingly on sculpture, exhibited work in several influential exhibitions and played a leading role in a number of artistic groups. He was the only sculptor to take part in the 1920 Group X exhibition. Dobson was a founding member of the London Artists Association and spent three years as President of the London Group between 1923 and 1927. He made bronze portraits of several public figures. At the Group X exhibition he exhibited two sculptures and studies of Ben Nicholson and his bronze head of H. H. Asquith was shown at the Leicester Galleries in late 1921. Other subjects included Osbert Sitwell, Lydia Lopokova and Tallulah Bankhead. Dobson exhibited at the Venice Biennale in both 1924 and in 1926, was featured in the 1925 Tri-National Exhibition which visited London, Paris and New York and was also included in the 1926 European artists exhibition that toured America and Canada. In March 1927 he had his first major one-man exhibition when the Leicester Galleries exhibited twenty-three of his sculptures and several bronzes. In 1930 the Tate purchased a larger-than-life sculpture from Dobson and erected it outside the gallery on Millbank. During the early 1930s Dobson continued to receive portrait commissions, most notably for Sir Edward Marsh and the actress Margaret Rawlings. Dobson worked in other media including textiles and silver, as well. His silver gilt cup, Calix Majestatis, to mark the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth is now in the Royal Collection. During 1933 Dobson fractured his left arm which greatly limited his ability for heavy carving and his last monumental stone carving was to be Pax, which was first shown at the London Group in 1935. At the start of World War Two, Dobson and his second wife [Caroline] Mary Bussell, whom he had married in 1931, moved to Bristol, where a large retrospective of his work was held in March 1940. Dobson lived in the city throughout the Bristol Blitz and like several other artists painted the ruins of churches destroyed in the bombing. Dobson contacted the War Artists' Advisory Committee and offered his services as both a painter and sculptor. WAAC were reluctant to offer sculpture commissions but eventually did offer Dobson a short-term contract for two portrait busts of Naval personal. Later WAAC commissioned some paintings, including one of workers arriving for work at a factory that had been relocated to a tunnel. Dobson was appointed head of sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1946, a post he held until his retirement in 1953. For the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank of the Thames in 1951, Dobson created London Pride. The sculpture was originally exhibited as a plaster cast but was later, after Dobson died, cast as a bronze and placed in front of the Royal National Theatre in 1987. Among his last commissions were a bronze head of Sir Thomas Lipton and the zodiac clock...

Painting, Oil on Panel, "Mediterranean Coastal Town," France, Circa 1930 Depiction of a coastal town in southern France or Algeria, location unknown. In the foreground, a herd of g...

1930s Dutch school of art abstract painting. Signed by artist STM. Newly framed art floating on linen backing. From a large collection of work.

Bold and intense, this portrait -- or perhaps self-portrait -- of a young man with pale skin, dark, flowing hair and a direct stare was painted by T. Cohen in the first decades of th...

The painting "March of soldiers". Origin : Denmark, early XX century Paintor : signed Dimensions: Frame: height 50 cm / width 74 cm image: height 43 cm / width 63 cm

Vintage Swedish painting, 1936. Oil on linen.

Stamped on back: "Aktiebolaget Wil Becker, Stockholm"

Dimension of painting without frame - 23 3/8 w x 17 5/8...

Bouquet of roses by Hermine David, oil on cardboard linen, signed. Framed. Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in Paris – 1 December 1970 in ...

A fabulous example of large, Art Deco decorative painting in 1930s Europe, this oil-on-board work depicts the goddess Diana running with two deer from the woods into a field. The col...

Framed watercolor on paper of a racing yacht under full sail by Sandor Bernathy. The work has been de-acidified and framed with archival mat under UV filtering glass. American, circ...

Circa 1930. We offer this fantastic oil portrait on Large Antique Oval Ceramic Artists' Palette. This piece would make the perfect studio companion and if treated with care will last...

Refined watercolor painting executed by Elie Camoisson in 1931.The author belonging to the Société Lyonnais des Beaux-Arts,demonstrates in this work a truly unique and original style...

Frederick William Becker (1888-1974) American Artist Well represented and listed. Oil on board, signed lower left circa 1930s Measures: 8.5” x 11.5”, overall size is 13” ...

Dimensions: Frame: height 71 cm / width 102 cm Image: height 62 cm / width 94 cm

"Red Pitcher" Depicting a kitchen scene with red pitcher on dresser. - Drawing Watercolor/Mixed Media, signed lower right and dated 1930 - Unframed      

Sydney Harbour poster Sydney Harbour Bridge poster design Attributed to Douglas Annand in our opinion, this was an original drawing for the 1932 poster competition. In 1932, the poster competition committee asked Douglas Annand and Arthur Whitmore to collaborate together to produce the now-famous 19th March 1932 poster. There are clear similarities between ours and the collaborative poster. Our design clearly shows more of an Art Deco and feminine design, as opposed to the more masculine, collaborative Sydney Harbour Bridge poster design. Our drawing is Gouache on paper laid down on the artist's board. The drawing is in the original frame and mount, dated March 1932 and is unsigned. BIOGRAPHY Douglas Shenton Annand (1903-1976), graphic designer and artist, was born on 22 March 1903 at Toowoomba, Queensland, the third child of Frederick William Gadsby Annand, accountant, and his wife Helen Alice, née Robinson, both Queenslanders. Having taken the commercial course at the Central Technical College, Brisbane, in 1920, Douglas j...

Entitled "Truth and the Seven Deadly Sins" and teeming with allegory, this Art Deco study for a major mosaic was painted by Eugene Savage for the new Queens Supreme Courthouse -- a 1930s Works Progress Administration project in Queens, New York. The central figure with a hand mirror may represent Narcissus, who would personify "vanity," one of the sins, and at the bottom of the scene is a winged devil who seems to be opening a door to a fiery world below. To the right is a figure near a chest full of gold and coins, and the entire scene is surmounted by a reclining female nude. Savage is best known for a spectacular set of murals illustrating the history and lore of Hawaii commissioned by Matson Shipping Line for the S.S. Lurline, executed in the 1940s but not installed until the 1950s. The artist also painted other series of murals and paintings, include an enormous mural...

Oil on Canvas of German or Swiss Alps youth circa 1930's. This infectious youth is all smiles and happy to be outside near some mountaintop. Nice clean painting...

Oil on canvas painting by Emil Fiala (1869-1960) with the motif Gladioli in a glass vase. Signed by Emil Fiala Prof. Emil Fiala had many exhibitions and the membership of the Künstle...

Gorgeous in conception and execution, this vivid and beautiful watercolor rendering, original to the 1930s, depicts an airy and open living space in 1930s modern style. The dramatic black stone...

A wonderful example of Art Deco painting by William Hentschel, this piece also reflects the influence of Surrealism in the stylized arch that seems to be made of fabric, and the plat...