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Period: 1930s
Listed San Diego Artist Bess Gilbert Impressionist Plein Air Oil Painting, 1930s
By Maurice Braun 1
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful plein air painting by listed San Diego impressionist artist Bess Gilbert. Dates from the 1930s and is of a mountain range in the back County of ...
Category
Vintage 1930s Paintings
"Lifeguard and Bather, " Stylized Art Deco Beach Scene by MacGurrin, 1938
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Reminiscent of the work of Gerald Murphy in its use of strong colors and flat, highly-stylized forms, this depiction of a lifeguard in profile, a female ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Man in Black and White, " Remarkable Portrait of Young Man by Cohen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Toltec, " Important Sketch for Art Deco Painting with Male and Female Nudes
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This stylized and richly-colored, almost cinematic, depiction of a nude Toltec male youth by John Garth shows the figure holding a knife and chalice, hinting at human sacrifice, stan...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pierre Bordeaux, Paris View of the Seine, 1934
Located in New York, NY
Pierre Bordeaux, Paris View of the Seine, 1934. Vintage April in Paris ambience to this hand-painted watercolour rendered in soft blue, grey, celadon a...
Category
French Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Bricklayer at Rest, " Monumental WPA Period Painting of Worker with Landscape
By Paul Ulen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the finest depictions of an American worker from the 1930s that we have seen, this monumental painting of a shirtless bricklayer, resting against a curved brick niche, with a ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Fruits of Land and Sea, " Pair of Art Deco Mural Studies with Mermaids by Briggs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Classic and beautiful examples of Art Deco allegorical painting, this pair of mural studies depicts nude mermaid figures, each holding symbols of the fruits of land and sea. One is holding ears of corn and other produce from the earth, while the other is holding a strand of pearls and a cornucopia with coral and other living things from the ocean. Both figures are surrounded by the undulating waves of the ocean in a lovely blue. The paintings are by Adelaide Briggs...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Western Ceres, " Art Deco Painting with Goddess of Fertility and Agriculture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A color-rich reimagining of the mythological tale of Ceres, the Goddess of fertility and agriculture, this marvelous Art Deco painting shows a modern Ceres holding a pineapple in one...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Siamese Twins, " Fabulous Art Deco Portrait with Siamese Cat and Female Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The artist behind this striking and original Art Deco portrait -- Agnes Tait -- is clearly emphasizing the parallels between a female figure and her Siamese cat, both shown with heavily-shadowed blue eyes and short, dark hair, the feline crouching familiarly on the shoulder of her companion. Because Tait painted a series of portraits for Florenz Ziegfeld of the young women who performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1932, it's possible that the figure here was one of her subjects. The woman is wearing an elegant black gown that bares her upper chest, and the background is a lovely shade of reddish purple. Tait was a native New Yorker, studying in her youth at the National Academy of Design under Leon Kroll and others, before becoming a WPA painter in the 1930s. She painted a series of tropical scenes for the United Fruit Company...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting Watercolor Fruits in a Bowl by Emil Fiala, Austria, 1930s
By Emil Fiala
Located in Vienna, AT
A painting with the motif fruits in a bowl painted, which was painted with watercolors by Emil Fiala.
Emil Fiala (1869-1960) was a member of the Austrian Künstlerbund formerly Hagen...
Category
Austrian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paper
"The Gate" Oil on Board Painting by Donald Frederick Witherstine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
"The Gate" oil on board painting by Donald Frederick Witherstine from a Palm Beach estate. This gate is probably in Morocco where in the 1930s Witherstine did a series of block print...
Category
American Romantic Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Wood
Painting "Snow-Covered Road", Scandinavia, Early 20th Century
Located in Chorzów, PL
The painting "Snow-covered road", Scandinavia, early 20th century.
Dimensions with frame: 49 x 35 cm
Dimensions without frame: 41 x 28 cm.
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Seated Black Male Nude, " Art Deco Watercolor by Brown County Painter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This painting of a Black male nude, executed in rich, brilliant shades of burnt sienna, reddish brown, blue and green, was painted by a Brown County, I...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Through the Archway, " Atmospheric Watercolor Scene in Gray and Red by Storck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Atmospheric and full of depth, this view of an old European archway, with high-chimneyed houses beyond and crowds of people below, was painted in the 1930s by J. Alvin Storck, a Chic...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Montmarte, Paris" by Elisée Maclet
Located in Wiscasset, ME
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...
Category
French Art Nouveau Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Surrealist Portrait of Androgynous Figure by William Hugh Ferguson, 1935
Located in Lambertville, NJ
An exceptional museum quality portrait of incredibly unusual subject matter. The unidentified androgynous figure with a full length facial scar rest...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
Canvas "Ships in port".
Located in Chorzów, PL
Dimensions:
Frame: height 28.5 cm / width 34.5 cm / depth 2 cm
Painting: height 22.5 cm / width 28 cm.
Category
Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
E. C. Ulnitz Pink Roses, Signed and Dated E. C. Ulnitz 1930, Oil on Canvas
Located in Virum, DK
E. C. Ulnitz: pink roses. Signed and dated E. C. Ulnitz 1930. Oil on canvas. Measures: 27 × 21 cm. Europe, Denmark.
Category
Danish Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Love in the Woods, " Rare View of Bucolic, Gay Outing with Male Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of atmosphere and fresh color, this watercolor painting depicts a group of eight nude male figures in a wooded setting, holding hands, talking, admiring the view, and stealing o...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Alfons Verheyen, "la mort du poète", circa 1930
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Alfons Verheyen, (1903-1990) "la mort du poète", circa 1930.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Budapest along the Danube, " Vivid 1930s Cubist Painting in Blues and Purple
By Aurel Richter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perhaps the finest work of Aurel Richter's (1870-1957) career, this vividly-painted, Art Deco - Cubist view of central Budapest in the 1930s depicts the pinnacled Liberty Bridge, the sparkling blue...
Category
Hungarian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
'The Animal Kingdom, ' Art Deco Mural Study with Male Nudes by John Garth
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
To our knowledge, this study is the only known image of this mural, created by John Garth to show an idealized Man at work and at play, all nude or semi-nude, and accompanied by anim...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Svend Engelund, Denmark. Oil on Canvas, Landscape from Vendsyssel
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Svend Engelund (1908-2007), Denmark. Oil on canvas. Early work. Landscape from Vendsyssel, 1930s-1940s.
The canvas measures: 86 x 67 cm.
The frame mea...
Category
Danish Modern Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Bouquet of Roses by Hermine David, Oil on Cardboard Linen, Signed
By Hermine David, Jules Pascin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
Category
European Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
"Dividing His Cloak , " Monumental Art Deco Ptg with Nudes, St. Martin of Tours
By Ernst Georg Martin Hildebrand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dramatically illustrating the legend that says that St. Martin of Tours used his sword to divide his cloak and share it with a naked beggar, this large and striking Art Deco painting depicts St. Martin riding a pale gray horse, with the beggar standing beside him, in the midst of a dark forest with starlit sky overhead. The two figures are accompanied by a running hound, and overhead a pair of geese...
Category
Swedish Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
1930s Futurist Watercolor of a Motorbike Race by Italian Artist Aris Bacci
Located in London, GB
A 1930s futurist watercolor painting of a motorbike race by Italian futurist artist Aris Bacci. Mounted in original geometric cream mottled frame, with stun...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
"Processional, " Jewel-Toned Mural Study w/ Prayer Under Starlit Sky by Hoeckner
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although Carl Hoeckner is best known for his sombre prints and paintings protesting the brutality of war, he is also known for a series of murals in public spaces across Chicago and the Midwest, so this brilliantly-hued painting may have served as a mural study. Here the artist depicts a long procession of figures in jewel-toned garments, their faces careworn and bent in prayer, facing toward a priest surrounded by a group of choir boys...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"The Busy Village" by Elisee Maclet
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas signed lower left.
Elisee Maclet (1881-1962) Very well listed French artist. Studied in Paris, was influence by many famous French artists...
Category
French Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Japanese Two-Panel Screen Spring Flowers
Located in Hudson, NY
A vibrant celebration of spring using a colorful ensemble of coxcomb, irises, lilies, hybiscus, and a blossoming cherry tree. Great examples of "tarashikomi" or "painting-in", a Rim...
Category
Japanese Showa Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Silk, Paper
Signed Oil Painting from Spanish Artist Louis Vidal Molne, circa 1930s
By Louis Vidal
Located in London, GB
Louis Vidal Molne, a Spanish artist from the Catalan region of Spain who lived and worked in the South of France but mainly Monaco were he became naturalized.
Signature featured at ...
Category
French Other Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Oil Painting by Frederick W. Becker
Located in Houston, TX
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” ...
Category
North American Other Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Plywood
"Lion and Gazelle, " Fabulous Art Deco Mural Study in Black and Rust
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of color and movement, this detailed study for a room dominated by a monumental Art Deco mural was painted by a French artist, perhaps for an interior design firm in Bordeaux. T...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Painting by Francois Gall
Located in Houston, TX
Francois Gall 1912-1987 French artist.
Benezit Listed. Gall Was The Recipient Of The Medaille D'ore At the Paris Salon of 1947.
Measures: 10 ½ x 18...
Category
Hungarian Other Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Rower, " Large and Rare Art Deco Painting of Oarsman for Mosaic Urn in Bordeaux
By René Buthaud
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An iconic and splendid example of high style Art Deco painting by René Buthaud, one of the French masters, this stylized depiction of a rower were made in preparation for the creation of four, 12-foot high monumental mosaic...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
1939 Watercolor by FR Walker in the Manner of Winslow Homer
By Winslow Homer
Located in Pasadena, TX
"'On the Lake" watercolor in the manner of Winslow Homer
3 gentlemen canoeing on the lake. Signed FR Walker. Framed, 1939
Measures: 30" W x 25" H x 2" D.
Category
American Classical Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Painting "Manor house"
Located in Chorzów, PL
Painting "Manor house"
Dimensions:
Frame: Height 74 cm / width 63.5 cm / depth 6 cm
Image: Height 56 cm / width 44 cm.
Category
Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"The Return of Thomas Pickering, " Important WPA-Period Oil Painting by Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of atmosphere, rich color and drama, this fully realized oil on canvas study by Dunbar Beck was executed in preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Maria Szantho "Woman with Tambourine", 1930s
Located in Bridgewater, CT
Maria Szantho (Hungarian, 1898-1984). "Woman with tambourine," oil on canvas, circa 1935, signed lower right. Measures: H 24” (61 cm.), W 20" (51 cm).
Category
Hungarian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting by Elisee Maclet
Located in Houston, TX
Elisee Maclet ( 1881-1962)
Very well listed French artist. Studied in Paris, was influence by many famous French artists of the beginning of the 20th...
Category
French Other Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Anderson Craig American Gothic Portrait Oil Painting of a Man with Red Hair
Located in New York, NY
American Gothic style oil on canvas portrait painting of a young man with red hair. The piece was created by Anderson Craig (American born 1904) in the 1930s and is signed by the art...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil on Board Halloween feature "Midnight in the Church Cemetery"
Located in Ferndale, MI
Midnight in the Church Cemetery, Illegible Signature dated 1938.
Oil on board in original stepped Art Deco frame.
Category
American Gothic Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Painting "Trees by the Road", Northern Europe, Early 20th Century
Located in Chorzów, PL
Painting "Trees by the road", Northern Europe, early 20th century.
Dimensions with frame: 40 x 32 cm
Dimensions without frame: 28 x 20 cm.
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Monument Valley Oil on Canvas, circa 1930
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monument valley oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed J. J. Moreno.
Category
American Rustic Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Aquarel by Stanisław Dziemański
Located in Vienna, AT
Stanislaw Dziemanski (1897-1962)
Tatra mountain landscape, painted in the early 1930s
watercolor/paper, measures: 69 x 48 cm
signed lower right: 'ST. DZIEMANSKI
Good original con...
Category
Polish Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Exotic Bird Frieze, Art Deco Decorative Painting by Dunbar Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In a superb example of Art Deco decorative painting influenced by Medieval motifs, this frieze painting by famous muralist Dunbar Beck is saturated wit...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Seated Black Male Figure, " Art Deco Watercolor Painting, Brown County, Indiana
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Strikingly executed in rich tones of brown and charcoal contrasting with brighter colors, this watercolor depiction of a seated African American man, with one arm raised to his neck, is beautiful and evocative. The figure's skin tones are captured in a rich array of tans, ruddy browns and gold, and the air around him seems to vibrate in tones of blue, yellow and green. Although not signed, this piece was executed by an artist associated with the famed Brown County Art...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Black Male Nude Painting by Rowena Meeks Abdy
By Rowena Meeks Abdy
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in an era when African or African American figures were increasingly featured in painting and sculpture, both in America and Europe, this sensuous depiction of a black male figure by Rowena Meeks Abdy...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Madonna Art Deco Oil Painting on Cardboard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Madonna oil painting on cardboard . Wonderful patina.
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Late 1930s Parisian Signed Cubist Self-Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
Describing how the artist sees themselves with each line, shape and bush stroke of this cubist oil painting, this piece is a reflection of the creator. Signed J.G.
Category
French Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Signed Alice LeFevre Oil on Board of Pastoral New England
By Lefevre
Located in Redding, CT
Signed Alice LeFevre oil on board of pastoral New England. Nice impasto pastoral piece of cornfields, a barn and farmland. Blue mountains in the background and blue skies above. Sign...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
Oil on Canvas Painting of a Gypsy Family
Located in Brecht, BE
This is a wonderful small painting by Belgian artist Emile Gastemans, 1883-1956, of a gypsy family in Toledo, Spain,
still in its original frame.
Category
Belgian Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Immanuel Ibsen, Still Life Painting
By Immanuel Ibsen
Located in Kastrup, DK
Immanuel Ibsen (1887-1944), Danish painter.
Still life with pitcher, jar and fruits.
Oil on plywood. Signed: Ib.30. (1930).
Category
Danish Modern Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Paint
Hunters and Mouflons Near a Waterfall
By Gaston Suisse
Located in Paris, FR
Pencil, charcoal and oil pastel on a gold leaf background
Signed lower right.
Category
European Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Flower Still Life with Dahlias, Oil on Canvas, Gaston Geleyn, Dated 1934
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Flower still life with dahlias, in beautiful, vibrant colors. Oil on canvas. The round format is very unusual. Frame and canvas are an original whole. The painting is signed in the paint on the lower right and dated, 1934. The painting is framed behind anti-reflective glass, which means that the colors are beautifully preserved. The frame is subtly carved in Art Deco style. A similar painting by the same painter is depicted in an old exhibition book by this painter. See picture. His work work has also been purchased by various museums.
The book about Gaston Geleyn is beautifully illustrated, 170 pages and it is about the life and work of the artist. The book was published in 1933. Book is supplied with the painting.
More information about the Gaston Geleyn follows below. Source: Paul Piron 'Art in Belgium'.
GELEYN, Gaston (Brussels, 1892 - Grimbergen 1949).
Painter. Stayed with a great uncle in Paris until he was 16 years old. After a short stay in Brussels, he returned to Paris and attended classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts led by Roll and Flaming. After the First World War he traveled the world and stayed in America, India and North Africa, among other places. He was under contract from 1919 to 1929 by a Dutch art dealer. His first exhibition was at the 'Giroux' Gallery in Brussels in 1933. Geleyn painted landscapes, marines, figure still lifes and flowers. He also painted the portrait of King Albert I. He had studios in Grimbergen and in Ostend. In Ostend, he painted the sea in all its forms, from the sleeping silver-gray sea...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Art Deco Painting of Spanish Dancer by Yves Diey
By Yves Diey
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Art Deco painting of Spanish dancer by Yves Diey.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting by Elisee Maclet '1881-1962'
Located in Houston, TX
Elisee Maclet (1881-1962)
Very well listed French artist. Studied in Paris, was influence by many famous French artists of the beginning of the 20th ce...
Category
French Other Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Signed painting on Board of the Aragon Region in Spain , 1931
Located in Redding, CT
Signed Southwestern painting of the Aragon Region in Spain.
Dated 1931. Oil on board, gilt solid wooden antique frame.
Category
American American Classical Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
California Landscape Impressionist Painting by Esther Smee
By Esther Smee
Located in San Francisco, CA
California landscape painting in original period carved and gilded wood frame. Signed, Esther Smee ( b.1917 )
Esther B. Smee was born in Pennsylvania in 1917....
Category
American Vintage 1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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