Art Deco Paintings
ART DECO STYLE
Art Deco furniture is characterized by its celebration of modern life. More than its emphasis on natural wood grains and focus on traditional craftsmanship, vintage Art Deco dining chairs, tables, desks, cabinets and other furniture — which typically refers to pieces produced during the 1920s and 1930s — is an ode to the glamour of the “Roaring Twenties.”
ORIGINS OF ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged in the 1920s
- Flourished while the popularity of Art Nouveau declined
- Term derives from 1925’s Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) in Paris, France
- Informed by Ancient Egypt, Cubism, Futurism, Louis XVI, De Stijl, modernism and the Vienna Secession; influenced Streamline Moderne and mid-century modernism
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGN
- Bold geometric lines and forms, floral motifs
- Use of expensive materials such as shagreen or marble as well as exotic woods such as mahogany, ebony and zebra wood
- Metal accents, shimmering mirrored finishes
- Embellishments made from exotic animal hides, inlays of mother-of-pearl or ivory
ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE ART DECO FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Few design styles are as universally recognized and appreciated as Art Deco. The term alone conjures visions of the Roaring Twenties, Machine Age metropolises, vast ocean liners, sleek typography and Prohibition-era hedonism. The iconic movement made an indelible mark on all fields of design throughout the 1920s and ’30s, celebrating society’s growing industrialization with refined elegance and stunning craftsmanship.
Widely known designers associated with the Art Deco style include Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Eileen Gray, Maurice Dufrêne, Paul Follot and Jules Leleu.
The term Art Deco derives from the name of a large decorative arts exhibition held in Paris in 1925. “Art Deco design” is often used broadly, to describe the work of creators in associated or ancillary styles. This is particularly true of American Art Deco, which is also called Streamline Moderne or Machine Age design. (Streamline Moderne, sometimes known as Art Moderne, was a phenomenon largely of the 1930s, post–Art Nouveau.)
Art Deco textile designers employed dazzling floral motifs and vivid colors, and while Art Deco furniture makers respected the dark woods and modern metals with which they worked, they frequently incorporated decorative embellishments such as exotic animal hides as well as veneers in their seating, case pieces, living room sets and bedroom furniture.
From mother-of-pearl inlaid vitrines to chrome aviator chairs, bold and inventive works in the Art Deco style include chaise longues (also known as chaise lounges) and curved armchairs. Today, the style is still favored by interior designers looking to infuse a home with an air of luxury and sophistication.
The vintage Art Deco furniture for sale on 1stDibs includes dressers, coffee tables, decorative objects and more.
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Style: Art Deco
"Three Doves, " Art Deco Painting with Surrealistic Edge by Hentschel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"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...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Nude with Parrot, " Brilliant Cubist-Art Deco Painting by Popczyk, Red and Blue
By Jozef Popczyk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Stylized Art Deco Gouache of a Woman, France, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
France, 1920s
Art Deco Gouache on paper
Stylized portrait of a woman in profile on geometric background in grey, black and cream tones.
20 x 16 framed.
Category
1920s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Gladiolas, " Brilliant Watercolor by Hari Kidd, Important Texas Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Peripatetic and brilliant, Hari Kidd, the painter who created this brilliant still life was associated with Philadelphia, Detroit, Key West and Tucson, but h...
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1920s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Copy of a Portrait "The Cigarette"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a portrait painting titled,"The Cigarette" showing a woman on a bentwood chaise
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Late 20th Century American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Bentwood
Landscape "Watermill at Perigny"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of an impressionist landscape painting titled "Watermill at Perigny"
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Late 20th Century American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Art Deco Ink Amusement Park Drawing
Located in Queens, NY
American Art Deco pen and ink drawing of urban amusement park scene with a black matting and gilt square frame (L. Chupin)(Companion pieces: BRA012A, BRA012C, BRA012D, BRA012E, BRA01...
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20th Century American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Wood
Art Deco Ink Amusement Park Drawing
Located in Queens, NY
American Art Deco pen and ink drawing of urban amusement park scene with a black matting and gilt square frame (L. Chupin)(Companion pieces: BRA012B, BRA012C, BRA012D, BRA012E, BRA01...
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20th Century American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Wood
Art Deco Ink Amusement Park Drawing
Located in Queens, NY
American Art Deco pen and ink drawing of urban amusement park scene with a black matting and gilt square frame (L. Chupin)(Companion pieces: BRA012A, BRA012B, BRA012C, BRA012D, BRA01...
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20th Century American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Wood
"Design for Art Deco Rug", Geometric Painting in Deep Pink, Blue and Gray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Highly stylized and rich with geometric forms -- including concentric circles, stacks of triangles and a lightning bolt motif -- this original painting was clearly made for an Art De...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
"Heading Home", Important WPA Social Realist Painting by Sternberg, 1944
By Charlotte Joan Sternberg
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A cross between Grant Wood and Paul Cadmus, this remarkable American regional scene painting depicts a young man in a white t-shirt walking a group of cows down a country lane with p...
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1940s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
"Naval Recruit, " Classic WPA Mural Study by Henricksen for Naval Station, 1936
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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....
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Art Deco Oil on Canvas by Pierre Mitiffiot De Bélair
By Pierre Mitiffiot De Bélair
Located in Bridgewater, CT
Pierre Mitiffiot De Bélair (1892-1956).
"Woman with Parrot" oil on canvas, circa 1930.
Signed lower right, 21 ¾ x 18.
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"The Fields, " Magical View of Moroccan Landscape with Male Nude by Jacques Azéma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Suffused with the soft, rich colors that Jacques Azéma was known for, this view of a Moroccan landscape ("Les Champs" in French) includes a seated male y...
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1940s Moroccan Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Charles Joseph Watelet
By Charles Joseph Watelet
Located in Belmont, MA
Charles Joseph Watelet (Belgian painter 1867-1954),
Portrait of a young woman called Daisy, oil on canvas. Framed in a beautiful hand carved giltwood frame.
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$3,200
"Above the Beach, " Art Deco Painting of Bather and Rower, Emerald & Cobalt Hues
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in rich jewel tones -- emerald, sapphire and canary -- this high style Art Deco-cum-Fauvist painting depicts a female bather, swathed in a large towel, in conversation with a muscled male rower, high above the beach below. Sunbathers under their umbrellas can be seen in the distance, and above the couple is a vivid sky with bolts of blue and coral above hills of green, yellow and pink. The artist, Marius Woulfart...
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1920s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Surrealist Lithograph "The Sharks" by Alain Mirgalet, France, circa 1990
By Alain Mirgalet
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Superb framed lithograph representing a swimming pool surrounded by colonnades with a couple of dolphins leaping out of the water in the background. We find in the foreground 2 sharks revolving around an old car (a Bugatti Type 57...
Category
1990s French Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
$566 Sale Price
20% Off
"Youth with Pipes and Valves, " Sensitive Portrait of Young Man, Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully and sensitively painted, this WPA-period portrait of a young man in an unusual setting -- perhaps a boiler room or plumbing closet -- was executed by Dorothy Van Loan...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Afternoon of a Faun", Bold Art Deco Painting Inspired by Debussy, Ballet Russes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of a series of Art Deco paintings made by Eugene Savage in the 1930s to visualize and dramatize great works of Classical music, this painting celebrates "Afternoon of a Faun" by Claude Debussy, which later inspired the great ballet by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes. Savage, who became celebrated for his ambitious allegorical murals across America, packs the panting with a vividly-hued landscape populated by a series of mythological figures, including a drunken faun...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Art Deco oil painting "Portrait of man with raincoat" signed, France 1934
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Refined oil painting "Portrait of a man with raincoat "executed in France in 1934,the author manages to fully capture the sensual gaze of the protagonist who seems to be watching us ...
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
$2,740 Sale Price
33% Off
Signed L.R Laffitte Watercolor of Scarlet-flowered Banana Tree on Silk
Located in Kingston, NY
L.R Laffitte Watercolor on silk mounted on laid paper depicting Pancratium declinatum, signed in pencil at the bottom. Contemporary French artist L.R Laffitte, born in 1943, speciali...
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19th Century French Antique Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Silk
French Delahaye Automobile Huge Original Oil Painting, c1930's Over 6' x 7'
Located in Chicago, IL
Huge French Oil on Canvas, circa late 1930s of a Delahaye Automobile. We cannot decide if this was painted in a large-scale, only to be reduced for an ...
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Mercury in Golden Glow", Important Art Deco Painting w/ Male Nude by Schmied
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This unusual presentation of Mercury, the Greek god of speed and communications, was painted by François-Louis Schmied, one of France's two leading artists specializing in high-end b...
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1920s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"NIKE at Waldemarsudde, " Depiction of Stockholm Landmark, Art Deco Masterpiece
By Georg Pauli
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Arguably the greatest work of Georg Pauli, one of Sweden's leading Modernist painters in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, this Art Deco-Cubist work depicts the great Nike sculpture on the grounds of the home of Prince Eugens on Cape Waldemar in central Stockholm (known in Swedish as Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde). The Prince was a great collector of modern art in the early 20th century, and today his home is a museum and much-beloved landmark in Stockholm. This painting shows the sculpture in the foreground, and in the background is a jumble of houses, factory chimneys and institutional buildings, the Swedish flag...
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1930s Swedish Vintage Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Painting by Richard Ranft, Young Woman and Pierrots Costumes
Located in Antwerp, BE
Jeune Femme et Costumes des Pierrots, Junge Frau mit Harlekin und pierrot, circa 1900.
Richard Ranft.
Painter of landscapes, engraver, illustrator and poster artist. (Swiss 1862–19...
Category
Early 1900s Swiss Antique Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
"Federal Building, Century of Progress", 1933 Art Deco Painting, Red & Black
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most vivid and compelling accounts of the famed Century of Progress Exposition, which opened in Chicago in 1933, this view of the iconic Federal Building was painted in the second year of the fair by a Pennsylvania artist. The brilliantly-lit Art Deco...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Post Cubism Work by Etiennette Johan from the Fifties
Located in bari, IT
Opere di Johan sono presenti nelle maggiori collezioni francesi e americane e sono state presentate alla mostra di antiquariato di Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze 2005.
Of Spanish origin, born in Valencia in the early 1900s, she specialized in sculpture and animal painting. She worked mainly in Lyon, her painting influenced by post-Cubist geometry remains realist in style; straight lines dialogue with curves and plays of angles give rhythm to the composition, her taste for color harmoniously mixes light and dark tones.
His works represent the broad creative scope referable to the “Animaliér” artists.
Johan’s works can be found in major French and American collections and were presented at the Palazzo Strozzi antiques exhibition...
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1950s Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait Painting, Woman With White Dress, Spanish, Oil Painting, 20th Century
Located in Breganze, VI
This is a woman portrait painting of a lady dressed in white.
This oil painting has an original frame realised in the 1900s. Art Déco.
Although the signature of the canvas portr...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Art Deco Era Painting Flowers Gladioli by Emil Fiala Vienna, 1930s
By Emil Fiala
Located in Vienna, AT
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...
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1930s Austrian Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Male Youth at Sunset, " Vivid Art Deco Painting by Dunbar Beck, WPA Muralist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stunningly executed in deep tones of cobalt blue, burnt sienna, oxblood and jet black, this depiction of a partially nude male youth standing at an open window at sunset was painted ...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
"Guinea Baboon, " Masterpiece of Art Deco Painting in Lacquer by Margat, 1938
By André Margat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A year after André Margat received a gold medal for his lacquerwork at the Exposition Universelle of 1937, the artist painted this beautiful and expressiv...
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Lacquer
"In the Park, " Fine Watercolor by Woodstock artist, circa 1930s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly stylized, reminiscent of the work of George Bellows and other masters of the 1920s and 1930s, this watercolor presents a placid view of a riverside park...
Category
1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Fantastic Painting, Oil on Canvas by Viktor Maria Cortezo, Dated 1934
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Oil on canvas by Viktor Maria Cortezo (1908-1978), signed lower right and dated 1934, in excellent condition.
Category
1930s Spanish Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Shepherd with Staff", High Style Art Deco Painting by Schmied, Book Illustrator
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This elegant and lovely depiction of a shepherd with his staff, clearly influenced by classic Greek painting and pottery, was made by François-Louis Schmied, one of France's two lead...
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1920s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Bedouin, " Striking Art Deco Painting by Stahlhut, NY World's Fair Poster Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking and handsome, this depiction of a Bedouin in his traditional robe has the color and intensity one would associate with the fierce sun and heat of North Africa. The painting ...
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1940s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Contemporary Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This piece of art showcases large and small thrown paint abstracts: buildings, street signs, lamp posts, etc. Acrylic paint on canvas.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$1,200
"Exotic Procession with Elephant, " Fabulous Art Deco Painting by Bentivoglio
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant and arresting example of high-style Art Deco painting from the late 1920s, this exotic scene of a female figure -- no doubt a royal or divine personage -- riding an elephant, accompanied by a procession of retainers and servants, was painted by Cesare Bentivoglio...
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1920s Italian Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Provincetown Dock Scene, " WPA-Era Painting w/ Fishermen by Sterne in Red & Blue
By Maurice Sterne
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb example of WPA-era painting that celebrates the American worker, this dockside scene in Provincetown, Massachusetts by Maurice Sterne depicts ...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Boats on a Port, Oil on Wood Panel, Signed and Framed, Norway, early 1900s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
A melancholy painting of boats on a port. Oil on wood panel, signed and framed. Norway c. early 1900s.
Category
1910s Norwegian Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Waiting for the Barge, " Fabulous & Vivid Art Deco Painting of Bejewelled Figure
By H. J. "Dooley" Dionysius 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vividly painted in tones of carmen, ivory and sapphire, and depicting a turbaned woman with fashionably short hair and bedecked with strands of diamonds, sapphires and rubies, this p...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Applause for the Acrobat, " Extraordinary Art Deco Painting on Silk, Paris
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted on silk velvet fabric in the late 1920s by Rudolf Gowenius, a Swedish painter who settled in Paris, this remarkable scene shows a circus or carnival acrobat at the center, hi...
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1920s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Silk
$15,600 Sale Price
20% Off
"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...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Father and Son, " Glowing Depiction of Sleeping Figures, 1930s, Czech Republic
By Svatopluk Machal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Glowing with tenderness, love and warmth, this depiction of a sleeping father, his arm protectively embracing his baby son, was painted by Svatopluk Machal, a Czech painter, in the 1...
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1930s Czech Vintage Art Deco Paintings
"Gathering Storm, Dominican Republic, " Large, Color-Saturated Painting, 1930s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of color and drama and boldly demonstrating his mastery of watercolor this painting by Wilmot Heitland of a shirtless Dominican on the beach next to a wood hut is the finest we ...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Whiskey Sours, " Cubist-Art Deco Painting with Bottle and Jigger
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Taking its cues from the broken planes and tilted objects of Cubist masters such as Braque and Gris, as well as the polished art of the Art Deco movement, this brilliant painting sho...
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1940s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Bacchante, " Bold, Richly-Hued Art Deco Painting in Purples and Blues
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
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1920s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper
"Lying on the Sand, " WPA-Era Atmospheric Beach Scene with Male & Female Bathers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In an era when Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus and many other painters loved to capture the joy and energy of crowded beach scenes in America, John Winters created this lovely genre scene of a male bather in his one-piece swim suit reposing on the sand (probably the Lincoln Park beach in Chicago...
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1940s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Fantastic Painting, Oil on Canvas by Viktor Maria Cortezo Dated, 1934
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Oil on canvas by Viktor Maria Cortezo (1908-1978), signed lower right and dated 1934, in excellent condition.
This painting can form a pair with the second one posted.
Category
1930s Spanish Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Haywagon, " Charming Art Deco-WPA Era Painting with Folk Art Influence
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This remarkable oil painting, clearly influenced by American Folk Art, Art Deco stylization and the idealization of rural workers promoted by the WPA, depicts a farm family and a han...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Painted Canvas, Birds and Foliage, Contemporary Work
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Painted canvas figuring birds in the middle of large foliage and flowery gilt scrolls. Brown background.
Linen raw canvas hand painted with natural pigments and background silvere...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas
"Europa Spirited off to Crete, " Important Art Deco Mural Study by Giovannozzi
By Ezio Giovannozzi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
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1930s Italian Vintage Art Deco Paintings
"Classical Nude with Flowers and Temple, " Important WPA Period Painting
By Arthur D. Brooks
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exhibited at the Thirteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1933, this large WPA-influenced painting by Arthur D. Brooks depicts a nude female torso in a classical setting, complete with columned temple front, scroll and Greek urn. The artist includes a cluster of column elements to one side, including an Ionic column capita and a fluted column shaft, as well as an arched Roman facade, and a Greek pedimented...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Edouard Chimot Art Deco Watercolor Yellow, Orange, Gray Custom Framed French
By Eduard Chimot
Located in North Miami, FL
This stunning and erotic one of a kind signed watercolor by Edouard Chimot was painted in the 1920's. He worked a lot in erotica. Chimot reached his peak of his career in the 1920's ...
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1920s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Post cubism work by Etiennette Johan 50's
Located in bari, IT
Of Spanish origin, born in Valencia in the early 1900s, she specialized in sculpture and animal painting. She worked mainly in Lyon, her painting influenced by post-Cubist geometry remains realist in style; straight lines dialogue with curves and plays of angles give rhythm to the composition, her taste for color harmoniously mixes light and dark tones.
His works represent the broad creative scope referable to the “Animaliér” artists.
Johan’s works can be found in major French and American collections and were presented at the Palazzo Strozzi antiques exhibition...
Category
1950s Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Watercolour View of Ludlow castle and Dinham bridge
Located in Seaford, GB
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...
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1930s British Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Pan Playing His Pipes, " Charming Mural Sketch for Liberty Music Shop, NYC
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of verdant greens and suffused with a lovely quiet spirit, this depiction of Pan resting against a tree and playing his pipes was a perfect image for the famous Liberty Music Shop in New York. This sketch for a mural at the Shop was painted by Donald Forbes, who worked for the Federal Art Project in the 1930s where he would have learned from the work of other muralists supported by federal programs. Liberty Music Shop was famous for its collection of sophisticated jazz recordings from around the world; in the 1930s it created its own label, producing a series of records for Lee Wiley, Beatrice Lillie, Mabel Mercer, Ethel Merman...
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1940s American Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
"Carrying Water, " Striking Scene of Women in Italian Hill Town by Wachtmeister
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking and atmospheric depiction of women fetching water in jugs and urns, descending into a lovely, picturesque hill town in Italy, this painting was made in 1942 by Sophie-Loui...
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1940s Swedish Vintage Art Deco 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
1930s French Vintage Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Art Deco Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Art Deco paintings might not have been as abundant as other decorative art forms when the movement first materialized in the early 1900s, as there wasn’t a painting-specific component of the 1925 Parisian exhibition that gave way to the term Art Deco. But many artists — such as those working as magazine illustrators, glass artists or sculptors — embraced the characteristics of the fashionable style even if painting wasn't their primary medium.
While sculpture and painting were initially secondary Art Deco media, Art Deco paintings were still lively and rich. As part of a reaction against the organic forms and floral motifs that underpinned Art Nouveau, Art Deco painters introduced geometric abstraction and distortion in their work. Painters working in the Art Deco style were inspired by Cubist forms and the bright colors of Fauvism, and an offshoot of Art Deco painting emerged in the 1930s as murals, a way to decorate buildings in the United States after the Great Depression.
Dunbar D. Beck, Witold Gordon, René Buthaud, Erté and Emil Fiala are some of the painters associated with Art Deco that you can find on 1stDibs.
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