1920s Wall Decorations

Original antique alcohol drink advertising poster for Cognac Montangon featuring a smiling man looking at the viewer and holding up a glass and a bottle of cognac with wooden cognac ...

This extraordinary and rare mezzotint by Robert Charles Peter, a British artist, depicts a nude male figure, beaten and worn, being comforted and helped by the proverbial Good Samari...

This rare, perhaps unique, woodblock print by Charles Kassler positively radiates Art Deco energy -- both from the sun at the upper left corner, and from the pair of black horses, wh...

A unique oil painting of 1st violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as the famous very popular Boston Pops, Mr. Einer Hansen. Mr. Hansen was born In Denmark in 1890 and...

Collection of Leather Bound Art Deco Photo Albums of European Travel, the actual albums are probably French, circa 1920's. They document fabulous trips throughout Europe in the 1920'...

This fantastic 1920s Academic Study Drawing of a Male Nude Model by Luigi Lobito was done in Italy 1927. It is framed. A unique piece which is a great eye-catcher for your antique, ...

Boldly painted in a palette of spring green, jet black and mango, this very strong Art Deco maquette for a book cover was painted in the late 1920s by a promising artist -- Helene Ha...

Yacht blueprint of a 53 foot power cruiser from John G Alden naval architects, 148 State St., Boston Mass. Dated January 14, 1929. The scale is three e...

A pair of Flemish style, 17th century oil on board still life paintings. In faux tortoiseshell rippled frames. 20th Century.

Coat rack mirror by Paul Kiss A silvered wrought iron hand chased and hammered with intricate and fine detail, having four hooks for coats and central mirror with shelf for hats or ...

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...

This superbly painted view of the mountains framing a river valley in northern New Mexico is attributed to Frank Guy Applegate, who lived and worked in the state during the 1920s, and is known for his watercolors -- such as this -- that present strong, abstracted views of the local landscapes, all in vivid colors and bold strokes of paint. Applegate was considered one of the New Mexico Modernists, and was accompanied on some of his painting forays by B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Andrew Dasburg and Josef Bakos. Applegate also had enormous respect for the culture and artistry of the native people, and encouraged a revival of the Pueblo style...

Antique Chinese Art deco rug, Room size, circa 1920 A one-of-a-kind antique Chinese Art deco oriental carpet, hand-knotted with medium thi...

A rare woodcut by Bauhaus professor Walter Dexel. Very nice woodcut by Walter Dexel from 1924, very typical Bauhaus shapes, made by the Edition Panderma in Basel. Image dimensions 1...

Richard Geiger Large Oil on Canvas Master Painting Scene of the Commedia dell’arte. The Commedia dell’arte is an early form of theater in Italy. Various performers in the troupe w...

Edward Sheriff Pictorialist style Blue-toned gelatin silver print artwork photo titled Aphrodite (Siren of the Sea) named after the ancient Greek ...

Large and extremely rare, this substantial Art Deco bowl depicts the young Hercules performing one of his twelve labors: capturing the Hind of Ceryneia and bringing it alive to Eurys...

Adrianus Marie van der Plas was borne in 1899 in Rotterdam and died in 1974 in Kerkrade. He was a painter, a sculptor and a graphic artist. “Het Rotterdams Nieuwsblad” wrote in 1969?...

Wonderful deco style original watercolor by listed Swiss artist Theobald Modespacher (1897-1955). The Circus theme painting measures 6"H x 8"W. The frame is 9 3/8"H x 11 3/4"W. Th...

La Tapisserie Gothique, par Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, by E. Planès, Directeur de la Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins. Published by Albert Morancé...

Bold and atmospheric, this ink drawing depicts a kneeling nude male figure, his bow arched and his arrow ready to spring forward, surrounded by a flower-bedecked landscape that clearly draws its inspiration from Gustav Klimt's work. To the left, silhouetted against the dark background, a pair of stylized geese -- evidently his target -- are shown flying upward. The sun which dapples the figure of the archer highlights his lithe musculature, and the artist -- Erwin Stolz -- gives the same close attention to the landscape behind. Stolz was well connected to the artistic elite of Vienna, and was friends with Alexander Rothaug...

Art Deco interior wall decoration in navy blue, aubergine, and metallic silver by Alphons Peerboom. Published in Germany by Christian Stoll, most li...

Art Deco oil painting, Vienna, around 1920s. Polished brass parts.

Circa 1920. We offer this beautiful antique cashier bank teller or post office cage window. Made in solid brass with fantastic patina. Great vintage condit...

Original vintage German motivational workplace poster issued by the Parker-Holladay company in Berlin featuring an illustration of a worker reading the sports pages of a newspaper in...

Large and beautiful cubist oil painting by Danish female artist Ebba Carstensen. Figure composition, c. 1915–25. Indistinctly signed. Oil on canv...

Enamel advertising sign of the Watch brand Cyma. Made and dated in 1926. In a great condition and colors seen the age.

Large Impressionist oil painting on canvas Signed R. Blum. Beautifully executed antique impressionist oil painting on canvas signed R. Blum. This lovely large oil painting possibly d...

Museum Quality West African Indigo Textile. From Dahomey (Benin), Circa 1925. The same piece is in the permanent collection of Musée de l'Homme in Paris. There has been a lot ...

A rare and special iron wall sculpture with equestrian motif having red painted jockey hat, criss crossed rider's crops and a perfectly situated gilded crescent shaped horn adorning ...

Original vintage workplace motivational poster - British! And proud of it Make every job a standard for others to follow! Bill Jones - featuring a colourful...

Early 20th Century Silk Chinese Embroidery ( 3'9'' x 5'2'' - 115 x 157 )

From a photography collection are two items included in this listing, for the collector of photographic memorabelia. In it's original tapered brown leather carry case is a miniature ...

Early 20th C American hand hooked folky Rooster Rug. This rug is from a private folk art collection. The rug has not been offered for sale in over 50 years...

Original antique advertising poster for the Buffet De La Gare Geneve / Station Buffet Geneva featuring a stunning Art Deco image of a lady looking to the viewer, holding a glass to d...

Original vintage advertising poster for Pressa The World Press Exhibition on the Rhine May-October Koln 1928 featuring a stunning design depicting queues of people going to the exhib...

A fine quality large oil on canvas painting artwork by Pierre Peltier 1927, a vintage antique cityscape. The painting depicts a tugboat in trouble on the Seine at Pont Neuf. Titled 'La Seine au...

Original antique advertising poster for the French automobile manufacturer Renault featuring a great design showing different car models produced at their Billancourt (Seine) factory...

An original early 20th century enamelled sign advertising Cadbury's Chocolate Made At Bournville. Circa 1920's. In distressed condition but a good size and rare colour.

Original 1922 Swedish film poster for Lobby the Silent film Sherlock Holmes film starring John Barrymore and Roland Young. The film was directed by A...

Set of three original vintage travel advertising posters published by the PLM Paris Lyon Mediterranee railway company and the TMB Mont Blanc Tramway for Mont Blanc (the highest mountain in Europe), via St Gervais...

Original vintage travel poster for Polska / Poland Divine Service at Lowicz featuring a stunning design by the Polish born artist Juliusz Stefan Norblin de la Gourdaine (1892-1952) d...

Old Italian advertising for cigar brand "Prior" sign in tinplate. Made by S.A.G. De-Andries Sampierdarena. Dated 1924.

'Spanische Köpfe' book by José Ortiz Echagüe, 1929. Published by Ernst Wasmuth in Berlin (Germany). In good original condition, with consistent ...

Original antique cruise travel poster for the Orient Line to Australia featuring stunning artwork by the British painter Elijah Albert Cox (1876-1955) d...

(1926 - 2000) oil on board; 14" x 22". A western and wildlife artist and illustrator, Tom Beecham has created work for major publishing companies including Reader's Digest, Bantam Books, National Geographic, Outdoor Life, Field and Stream...

721 - 20th century French textile.

Original vintage advertising poster for Brooke Bond - Plucking the tender young leaf buds for Edglets Tea - featuring a great image of a tea picker wearing a colourful dress with a B...

This painting is an original, oil painting. Gemaine Dawis was a student of Jean-Jacques Henner, and the realisations she is known for, are like this one , the Henner subjects, with redhead women...

German Black Forest style barometer with fine hand-carved oak branches, leaves, and acorns. Dimensions: height 30 cm / 11.81 in; width 24 cm / 9.44 in; depth 5 cm / 1.96 in. In good ...

Original vintage advertising poster for Demon The Modern Petroleum Cooking Apparatus Cooks quickly, cleanly and economically / Demon Der Moderne Petroleum Kochapparat Kochtschnell, Reinlich und Wirtschaftlich featuring a stunning Art Deco style design depicting two devil demons reaching up on a swirling flame blue shaded curve holding up a Demon logo and cooking stove...

This is an vintage photograph of a 1928 basketball team. The team's basketball is marked "W.H.S. 1928" in paint, indicating, presumably, the initials of the team and the year they pl...

Original antique train travel poster issued by NER North Eastern Railway - Northumberland for the Holidays Coast Dale & Borderland Ancient Castles & The Roman Wall - featuring a pictorial map illustration by the English artist Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965) depicting an aerial view over North East England with buildings, roads, rivers and hills and various places of interest including The Cheviots (the Cheviot Hills range of uplands on the Anglo-Scottish border...

(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...

This rare, velvety mezzotint entitled "Allegory of Life" by Robert Charles Peter, a British artist, depicts three nude figures -- two male figures to the left, clasping hands, and fe...

Beautiful artisan Suzani textile made of hand embroidery silk, of floral and vine motifs with circle of life ring. This Suzani is very special bec...

Vladimir Lebedev (1891 - 1967) Russian Avant-Garde mixed media work on paper (ink, gouache, pencil) depicting a working girl having a drink. The piece includes visible elements of Bolshevik propaganda and was created by Lebedev during the early 1920's in Russia. Acquired from the artist by another Russian artist. Newly framed and matted, with museum glass. Sight: 10 in. H x 14 in. W. With frame 27 in. H x 23.5 in. W Vladimir Lebedev was a Soviet painter...

Vladimir Lebedev (1891 - 1967) Russian Avant-Garde mixed media work on paper (ink, gouache, pencil) depicting a semi-nude working girl parading in front of a group of marching sailors. The piece includes visible elements of Bolshevik propaganda and was created by Lebedev during the early 1920's in Russia. Acquired from the artist by another Russian artist. Newly framed and matted, with museum glass. Measures: Sight: 10 in. H x 14 in. W. With frame 27 in. H x 23.5 in. W Vladimir Lebedev was a Soviet painter...