Early 20th Century Paintings

Lovely oil on canvas by the French artist, Louis-Auguste-Paul Magne de la Croix (1875-1942) depicting a parade of thoroughbred horses before a race, led by their jockeys with lovely ...

Japanese two panel screen: Moon rising through bamboo on silver leaf, Meiji period painting (1868 - 1912) of the moon rising on the horizon with a garden stone in the foreground. Lic...

DIMENSIONS: Height: 16.25 inches Width: 13.5 inches Depth: 2.25 inches Frame width: 2.5 inches ABOUT MODEL Encarnación López Júlvez, known as La Argentinita (Buenos Aires, March 3, 1898 – New York, September 24, 1945) was a Spanish-Argentine flamenco dancer (bailaora), choreographer and singer. La Argentinita was considered the highest expression of this art form during that time. López Júlvez was the daughter of Spanish immigrants in Argentina, where her father had a fabric business. While living there, two of her siblings died in a scarlet fever epidemic. Consequently, she was brought to the north coast of Spain in 1901, where she began to learn Spanish regional dances. When she was only four years old, she started learning flamenco from Julia Castelao. Her first public performance was at the age of eight at the Teatro-Circo de San Sebastián, in the Basque Country. She chose the name "La Argentinita" in deference to the famous flamenco dancer Antonia Mercé (La Argentina). After travelling throughout Spain as a child prodigy, she settled in Madrid to perform at Teatro La Latina, Teatro de la Comedia, Teatro de La Princesa, Teatro Apolo and Teatro Príncipe Alfonso. Her success led her to tour in Barcelona, Portugal and Paris, and then Latin America. In the early 1920s, she returned to Spain, where she worked in Madrid. Among her early performances was the 1920 premiere of Federico García Lorca's musical play El maleficio de la mariposa as "the Butterfly". She announced her retirement in 1926, but would quickly return to the show business as part of the artistic renewal that led her to the Generation of ‘27, in which she combined flamenco, tango, bulerías and boleros. She danced to the compositions of Manuel de Falla, Joaquín Turina, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Maurice Ravel. She helped in the development of Ballet Español. Adapting pieces to popular tradition, she toured Europe, triumphing in Paris and Berlin and participating in the artistic movements of that time along with Spanish poets such as Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Edgar Neville and Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Sánchez Mejías, an intellectual and bullfighter, was a married man and her lover. La Argentinita retired a second time to maintain her clandestine relationship with him. However, she would return to the stage with the aid of Sánchez Mejías, who participated in the search and employment of interpreters for her subsequent performances. In 1931, López Júlvez and García Lorca recorded five gramophone slate records, which were accompanied by García Lorca's piano. The selection of songs was prepared, adapted and titled Colección de Canciones Populares Españolas by García Lorca. Among the ten songs were "Los cuatro muleros", "Zorongo gitano", "Anda Jaleo" and "En el Café de Chinitas". With the beginning of the Second Spanish Republic, López Júlvez formed her own ballet company called Bailes Españoles de la Argentinita together with her sister, Pilar López Júlvez, and García Lorca. López Júlvez staged several flamenco theatrical shows, including an adaption of Falla's El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) in 1933, and Las Calles de Cádiz (The Streets of Cadiz) in 1933 and 1940.[7] She travelled through Spain and Paris, where she was recognized as one of the most important flamenco artists of her time. Her company included the flamenco figures Juana la Macarrona, La Malena, Fernanda Antúnez, Rafael Ortega and Antonio de Triana, who was her first dancing partner until the 1940s. At the end of her tour around Spain, her lover Sánchez Mejías was gored to death in 1934 in the Manzanares bullring. She sought refuge in her work and moved to Buenos Aires to dance at the Teatro Colón; from there she embarked on a long American tour. In 1936 she achieved success in New York. Afterwards, she returned to Spain but was forced to flee the country shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. She travelled through Morocco, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA, where she remained in exile in New York. From then until her death in 1945, she developed her career and became one of the biggest stars of international dance, and even participated in movies. In 1943, she presented the flamenco troupe El Café de Chinitas at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, with her own choreography, texts by García Lorca, scenery by Salvador Dalí and the orchestra directed by José Iturbi. In addition, she performed at the Washington DC Watergate complex with her sister. On May 28, 1945, she gave her last performance at the Metropolitan of the orchestral work El Capricho Español, composed in 1887 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and based on Spanish melodies. At the end of the event, she had to be admitted to a hospital, where she died on September 24 from a tumor in her abdomen. She did not want to have it operated on because she did not wish to abandon dancing. Her body was repatriated to Spain in December and buried in the Spanish capital. That same year, the company of Bailes Españoles de la Argentinita was dissolved. Among the honors she received after her death was a plaque consecrated at the Metropolitan Opera House, positioned among the medals of Alfonso X El Sabio and La Orden de Isabel la Católica to honor her merits in the field of culture. ABOUT ARTIST Emmanuel Fougerat (French, 1869 – 1958) was a renowned French painter, museum curator and art historian. A former student of the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rennes, Fougerat studied in the studio of Albert Maignan and that of Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. He was appointed director of the Nantes School of Fine Arts and was also the founder and curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in the same city. Emmanuel Fougerat was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1912. In 1923, he was placed on temporary leave from the French State in order to carry out a mandate as director of fine arts education in the Province of Quebec, Canada; where he served as an art teacher and director of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1923 to 1925. Emmanuel Fougerat’s paintings are in the following public collections: • Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, France. • Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France. • Rennes Town Hall: permanent decorations. • Museum of Fine Arts of Saint-Nazaire (destroyed in 1944), France • National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Canada. Emmanuel Fougerat is also the author of works on several French painters, including Albert Besnard, Paul Baudry...

Amazing and Charming Painting of a Jack Russell Puppy Terrier, Denmark, Signed AJ Nielsen 1911. This charming and cute oil painting is framed in a later vintage 1950's frame. The rea...

Enrico Ortalani (1883-1972) was an Italian painter who trained at The Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Many of his paintings were of the Umbrian and Roman countryside. This painting por...

“Fra Kastrup” Signed Th. Philipsen Oil on canvas 44 × 60 cm (17.3 × 23.6 in) Provenance: Art dealer Axel Duckert (inventory no. 3369) A charming and atmospheric work by Danish arti...

Still life Oil on canvas Hawthorns, blossoms and flowers Gold frame By Vincent Clare Signed bottom right Early 20th Century

A dynamic expressionist work by Hans Kessler, a student of Kandinsky at the Bauhaus. Signed H.Kessler, 1925 at bottom. Gouache comes with Photocopy of ...

Oil on canvas with golden Baroque frame of wood and stucco. (S-138).   

Watercolors from around 1900 representing a French frigate and an English frigate.The two watercolors are signed: M.Alexander fecit. Dimensions: 79x64 cm with frame and 57x44 cm with...

Danish original antique oil on canvas painting with gorgeous landscape motive of forest in the autumn. The painting is signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner and f...

Artist: Ivan Grigorewitch Olinsky (Russian-American, 1878 1962) Subject: Still life w/ Chinese porcelain figurine & fruits Period: 1920’s...

Beautiful oil on canvas painting of two horses in a field in front of a water basin. Signed W. Barr possibly is William Barr (1867-1933, Scotland). ...

Orientalist style works became very popular in the 19th Century, and the tradition continued into the early 20th Century, when this fine porcelain plaque was produced. Manufactured by famed German firm KPM, the plaque was retailed in New York by Gilman Collamore & Co., who imported high-end works of porcelain and glass. The plaque still bears the retailer's label to the reverse reading 'Gilman Collamore & Co, Union Sq. NY'. The plaque is rectangular in shape, and portrays a young girl, swathed in rich, red draped clothing, reaching upward to give food to a white dove perched on a wire. The girl, her hair bound up in the Orientalist fashion, wears an armband as well as hoop earrings. The interior in which the scene is set is hung with luxurious textiles and decorated with gilt detailing. The plaque is housed in a giltwood frame and is marked to the reverse with the sceptre mark of KPM porcelain, together with the retailer's label. The reverse also bears a written inscription reading 'Orientalisches Mädchen / L. Sturm', the title translating to 'Oriental girl...

In Japan, it is a Shinto belief that the deer is a treasured and sacred animal. This admirable scene captures this gentle creature in its natural habitat with beautiful detail in bot...

"A Fashionable Beach" an oil on canvas by German painter Carl Albrecht. (1862-1826). Signed.

Antique Framed oil painting on board by Dieudonné Jacobs (1887-1967) is a splendid rendition of a stunning vista at dusk during the early fall season in the region around the Ardennes. Here Jacobs has used deft brush strokes to indicate movement from the constant breezes in the area, with a misty haze over the rolling hillside in the background. Survives in its original frame. Dieudonné Jacobs (1887-1967) was a Belgian post-impressionist who specialized in historic painting, portraits, and landscapes. Beginning his career with portraits, he studied under Adrien de Witte, Auguste Donnay and Évariste...

Painting oil on canvas by the artist William Langley Title “View of Menton Cap Martin” It depicts a beautiful view of the French Riviera, in particular Cap Martin-Menton Original gr...

Very charming set of 2 oil paintings, as found in Paris. This pair features a bouquet of soft colors of gray, greens, blues, red and pinks. Both art pieces feature paint that has bee...

This is a tall antique scroll painting. A Japanese, silk cotton rolling wall panel, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1920. Delightful, Japanese wall hanging...

This is an original Danish oil on plate still life flower painting from 1937 by P. Jørgensen. It is signed and dated by the artist in the bottom right corner and is framed in a beau...

This is a stunning, signed and emblazoned with a brass plaque on the frame by Heinz Pinggera who did sumptuous and realistic paintings of nobility, and this one is title " Shakespear...

Beautifully painted in the deco manner of Tamara De Lempicka. Kirsta, a Russian artist escaped to Western Europe during the revolution, pursued a career as a painter and theatrical s...

This introspective Early 20th Century French Painting captures a moment of quiet solitude. The subject, a lone figure seated and absorbed in thought, is rendered in earthy tones that...

Although western painting was initially embraced during Japan’s Meiji period (1868-1912), artists brought on a revival of traditional painting styles as they sought to create a modern Japanese style with roots in the past. This exquisite hanging scroll demonstrates the preference for soft layering of gray tones with judicious use of color. The landscape is rendered in soft ink washes that subtly distinguish between water, mountain, and sky. The scroll painting...

Oil painting on canvas depicting a natural autumn landscape, created by Henry Markò in the early 20th century. Ø cm 49 h cm 105 Henry Markò, descendant of the Austrian painting dyn...

Japanese two-panel screen: Pink and white magnolias in early bloom, Taisho period (1912-1926) painting of Japanese magnolia tree branches as the flowers...

Large painting oil on canvas signed by Aquila representing the wild face of the sea. Extremely dynamic sensation and on the other hand one my see few small boats in a distance away ...

A Chinese late Qing Dynasty period framed painting from the early 20th century of a royalty related couple with dragon motifs painted on a linen canvas. Created in China during the late Qing Dynasty in the early years of the 20th century, this custom framed painting depicts a couple wearing either a red (a symbol of luck in China) or green robe. The depiction of dragons relates them to the Imperial family, but having four claws and not five as codified, the couple is likely part of the royal family, not the Imperial couple themselves. Accented with typical motifs such as bats, flaming pearls and rain-filled clouds, the robes are filled with symbols. Wearing ornate headdresses, the couple is sitting on elegant chairs. Set inside custom made frames, the paintings show great signs of age. While the entire piece measures 40.5"W x 1"D x 53"H, the painting itself is 36.5"W x 49". With its vivid colors and interesting subject, this Chinese Qing Dynasty painting...

Bernhard Pankok (1872 Münster - 1943 Baierbrunn) “Man in front of a mirror” Colored pencil on paper, created around 1900 signed by hand, framed Format: 26 x 29 cm Frame size On May ...

Still life painting of pomegranates, signed by R. Lasserre. Oil on board.

Beautiful oil on canvas by Marius Hubert-Robert entitled "In the sun the small farmhouse" representing a Provencal landscape with two characters on a path at the foot of a farmhouse (typical house of Provence), Marius Hubert-Robert (Paris 1885 - Nice 1966) is an orientalist painter and illustrator. He exhibited notably at the Salon des indépendants in 1929, at the Artistes Français, at the Société Nouvelle des Beaux Arts, at the Salon d'Hiver. Painter in the 10th Army during the 1914-18 war, Marius Hubert Robert gave 2 of his wartime works to the Musée du Luxembourg. Among his other major exhibitions, we can cite: Paris, Galerie Charpentier "From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego"(1926); "Under the Sign of the Sun, North Africa" (1928); "The Mediterranean Basin" (1931); Galerie Petit, Hôtel de la Duchesse de Rohan, Galerie Mona Lisa in Paris; LONDON: The Mansion House, Alpin Club; USA: New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Cleveland, Buffalo; CANADA: Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria; BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro...

In a 1929 article of a french newspaper "L'Homme libre," Serge Chekhonin is described as having a prestige comparable to that of Bakst or Benois. He is praised for his talent as a decorator, his refinement of colors, his technical mastery, and his deeply Russian...

Porcelain plaque painted with Mary Magdalene by K.P.M. German, circa 1900 Measures: Frame: Height 32.5cm, width 26.5cm, depth 3cm Plaque: Height 25.5cm, width 19cm, depth 0.5cm ...

An original impressionist landscape oil on canvas by listed Austrian artist Josef Krotter (b. 1894), signed lower right. Depicts a bucolic landscape with a central curving body of wa...

Friedlander painting. A lovely and decorative painting made by an Israeli artist. Signed lower right in Hebrew letters. Translated the name of the artist is Friedlander. A fauviste w...

Vintage Hudson Valley New York Oil Painting in Newcomb Macklin Frame Romantic and moody autumn landscape painting, oil on canvas signed by Tru...

Montague Dawson: A Moonlight Scrap. This dramatic watercolour on paper shows a WWI R-class destroyer escorting a battleship through a night-time encounter in choppy seas. The moon ha...

A circa 1920's Swiss painted panel with brass repoussé frame. Measurements: Length: 44.75" Height: 25"

Oil on panel portrait of young girl 1930 France Painting representing a young girl in blue knitwear and square-cut hair. The straight gaze denote...

the lushly painted still life depicting a woven basket full of finely painted bearded irises, parrot tulips, hydrangeas and peonies with discreetly painted bees and a snail; all rest...

A beautiful antique hand-painted silver-gilt wood framed oil on canvas landscape painting USA, Early 20th Century Measures: 32.5"W x 2.25"D x 27.5"H. Very good original vintage co...

A fine and large pair of late 19th century to early 20th century oil on canvas paintings . Framed with a custom frame. The paintings have scenes of Chinoiserie children at play. Well...

George Luks (1867-1933) Backyard in Greenwich Village Oil on canvas Dimensions Sight: Width 11 1/2” Height 9 3/4” Signed lower left Excellent Condition

The warrior women of the Scythians (behind the Greek ) mith of the Amazons ---------------- Very rare and amazing Deco painting, signed Yves, certainly 1923-1924: this painting makes...

Japanese six-panel screen: Buck and doe at dawn. Showa period (1926-1989) painting of a rising sun seen through a woodland scene with a pair of deer. In Japan, deer are thought to be...

George-Henri Tribout French, Cubist 1884-1962 “Female Nude” Large Oil on canvas Signed & Dated 1911 Lower Left 51 ¾ by 38 ½ in. W/frame 55 ¾ by 42 ½ in. George Henri Tribout w...

Pigment on silk. Various walkways interconnecting the temple complex with one lone figure of a woman. Back paper is hand-stamped with mica paint. Signature and seal read: Gekkan

An original oil on canvas painting depicting various species of monkeys by Danish artist / architect Carl Gustav Herslev (born in Copenhagen in 1901 and died in 1960). Carl Gustav He...

"Fiesta andaluza", oil on tablex, Jean-Louis Paguenaud (1876-1952). Signed and dedicated ("cantatrice Dupré") in the lower right corner. Jean-Louis Paguenaud is the pseudonym of Jean...

Pair of very decorative Italian paintings, probably an old theatre set, from the 90s. Structure in old solid wood and linen canvas representing a vanity. S...

This early 20th-century Belgian painting captures the elegance and grace of a woman dressed in the fashion of the era. The artist skillfully renders her flowing gown and poised demea...

Dutch Landscape Oil on Canvas 1940s. Beautiful and well painted landscape - most probably Dutch. Very tactile and refined impressionist painting. Thick brush strokes and rich colors...

(1869-1927). Oil on canvas; 19" x 29". Used as a calendar print in the 1920’s. Robert was a Philadelphia artist who produced more than 1000 works of art. From 1900 until his death, m...

Danish original vintage oil on canvas painting from 1937 by artist Lars Knudsen Buus (1874-1947). Lars Buus was a renowned painter residing in the Middelfart area of Funen, mostly k...

This evocative French Cubist oil painting from the early 20th century beautifully captures the quiet drama of an afternoon still-life scene. Rendered in a moody palette of muted gray...

Early 20th century oil on canvas painting after Frans Hals' work known as "The Gypsy Girl." Depicts a young peasant woman with brown hair and low fron...

Nude bathers, fine early 20th century impressionist painting by David Humphrey (American 1872-1950.) Pastel on paper. Humphrey was born in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1872. He studied at t...