1920s Wall Decorations

Etching on paper of young woman in traditional dress by Olof Abrahamsen Willums (1886-1967) Norway. Signed, numbered 2/36 and dated 1927 in pencil along lower margin. Unframed, edge ...

Baines Football Trade Card, Newcastle. Well Centred. A rare circular football trade card in the shape of a leather football ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Baines went on to produce not only football cards...

Antique Persian Heriz Karaja Oriental rug, size 4'4" x 3'6". An antique Persian Heriz Karaja oriental rug, size 4'4" x 3'6", circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug fea...

Discover our extraordinary 1950s organic modern sculpture, meticulously crafted from wood and in good condition, ready to enhance your space for years to come. This eye-catching piec...

Original antique tire advertising poster for La Souple Corde Goodrich Le Maitre de la Route/The Master of the Roads featuring a great illustration depict...

Original vintage travel poster for the historical South Coast towns of Hastings & St Leonards in Sussex featuring stunning artwork by the British painter Elijah Albert Cox (1876-1955) depicting arrows shooting at an English soldier in full armour drawing a sword and holding a shield with a red lion on it, a blooming flower tree in the foreground and flag behind him with a view of the city by the sea and castle on top of the hill in the background, all set against a bright background with the title text on the black border below. Part of the 11th century Norman Conquest of England, the Battle of Hastings in October 1066 between the Norman French army led by William the...

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

Great map of The South Eastern States Original color. Good condition Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

Watercolor on paper by Egbert Cadmus (American, 1868-1939) of New England landscape with old dead tree. An accomplished watercolorist, best known as the father of artist Paul Cadmus....

Beautiful painting, a flower still life with vibrant colors by the Belgian painter Pol C. Parmentier. Oil on canvas, the painting is framed in a wooden gilt frame, original from the ...

Montague Dawson: Racing Six-Metre yachts, goache on paper showing a yacht number 6/18, running before the wind with ‘goosewinged’ sails as she leads three other six-meter yachts. Sig...

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 ...

Great map of British Columbia Unframed Original color By John Bartholomew and Co. Edinburgh Geographical Institute Published, circa 1920 ...

Great map of The United Kingdom Unframed Original color By John Bartholomew and Co. Edinburgh Geographical Institute Published, circa 1920 Free shipping.    

Great map of Texas and adjacent States Original color. Good condition Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

Great map of Spain Original color. Good condition Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

Great map of India Original color. Good condition / repair to some minor damage just above Sri Lanka. Shown in the last image. Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

1 of the 40 amazing set handmade tiles in rich brown green and bright blue colors. Each tile is divided into four faces. Manufactured around 1920 by Gilliot Frères, Hemiksem, Belgium...

Original US film poster for the 1926 silent action adventure film The Midnight Limited, starring Gaston Glass and Wanda Hawley. This film was directed by Oscar Apfel. This beautiful ...

Antique hand-painted and handcrafted Moroccan ceramic bowl or wall art decorative plate, Large Moroccan ceramic bowl handcrafted in Fez by artisans. Hand painted Moorish ceramic pla...

Original etching by well-known Charleston, SC artist Elizabeth O’Neill Verner. Title: “In the Shadow of St. Michael’s - Charleston” Measures: 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 image size. 17 7/8 x 13...

Antique Japanese epic novel book Edo period, circa 1827 Woodblack print book Book dimensions: 225 mm x 157 mm There are damages because it is antique item as we show on the ph...

Portrait of French fashion designer Jacques Doucet photographed by Man Ray, circa 1926. A posthumous print from the original negative in 1977 by Pier...

Boats in Portofino. The artist's signature is not legible but the painting shows an Impressionist influence in the luminous vibration of the water.  

A rediscovered Danish female painter wit this motif from Italy.

Decorative old painting, oil on canvas, of a flower still life with lilacs. The purple and pink colors of the flowers reflect nicely with the gold colored vase...

H Heyligers (Dutch, 1877-1967) Impressionist Scene Women In The Street Elegant impresionist scene by the duch painter H Heyligers.With original frame in good condition.Size:97x81 cm...

A large Ikat Textile from the Toraja tribes of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Toraja tribes people are an ethnic and cultural group of people who occupy the mountainous highlands of South ...

This vintage poster comes from European Advertising throughout the years of 1920. 1930, and 1940. Pictured above is a woman surrounded by a bunch of furry friends.

Currently on loan to The David Roche Foundation for their exhibition "Josiah Wedgwood - Master Potter to the Universe". Daisy Makeig Jones’ description relates this to Völuspá, a poem from the Poetic Edda, which is a collection of Old Norse poems. In Völuspá, it is said that the dwarves were created by the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda, and that they were condemned to live underground. The Light Elves are also mentioned in the poem as being allowed to live in the realm of Alfheim, which is a place of beauty and light. In Norse mythology...

Antique Seascape with a Five Masted Bark, by Julius Gregersen (German: 1860 - 1953), circa 1921 - 1928, an oil on canvas seascape with view of the five masted bark KOBENHAVN sailing ...

An impressive set of corboda leather wall panels by Dutch Artist Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, made around 1920. The collection holds a total of 17 artworks...

Wonderful painting in oil on canvas by Danish painter Ernst Hansen (1892-1968), 'bird/trees in the wind' composition, framed, signed and dated 1924.

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of antique circa 1920’s Chinese Export hand painted on silk paintings depicting a Geisha girl and a floral scene with butterfly. A very good looking and beautifully painted pair, they were made for the export market during the British colonialism...

Original antique advertising poster for Mercerisin cleaning soap featuring a lady holding a packet of Mercerisin with her laundry in a washing bowl, the bold text in red and black re...

Original antique railway travel poster - Visitad Gante Y Las Artisticas Ciudades De Flandes Oriental / Visit Ghent And The Artistic Cities Of East Flanders - featuring scenic artwork...

Original vintage advertising poster - Alcohol COGNAC Albert ROBIN Leonetto Cappiello Year : 1920 Method of the print : Lithograph Signed in the pl...

Louis Icart (1888-1950). Young woman picking grapes. Number 232. Ca 1920. Etching on paper in a beautiful hand-carved Art Nouveau frame. Signed with pencil. In very good conditio...

A pair of striking black forest Terracotta handmade Pheasant Birds mounted on a solid oak plaque with brass flowers and brass details. These Animal Sculpt...

Original fashion illustration from the 1920s in a set of three. Coloured pencil drawings on paper. Ready to hang, framed with a passepartout in an ash wood picture frame behind anti-...

1930s colored drawing inscribed on the back "Promenade" This important drawing we can very likely attribute to the Italian master Carlo Carrà. The beauti...

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...

Great map of British Island Possessions Original color. Good condition Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

French Majolica starfish oyster plate signed Digoin Sarreguemines, Circa 1920.

Original R1920's U.S. scene card for the film Sunnyside directed by Charles Chaplin with Charles Chaplin / Edna Purviance. Very Good-Fine condition. Please ...

French Majolica Starfish Oyster Plate signed Digoin Sarreguemines Circa 1920.

Original vintage poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board (EMB 1926-1933) as part of a campaign to promote trade within the British Empire featuring a colourful illustration by th...

This vintage sign for collectors is truly special. Made of wood with relief decorations and hand painted. The sign was dedicated to the historic Gleneagles golf...

Original antique men's fashion advertising poster for Marke PKZ Burger Kehl & Co features a great design by Stephan Krotowski (1881-1948) depicting a well dressed man wearing a long ...

Antique Persian Kerman oriental carpet, size 5'0" H x 3'0" W, circa 1920. This vintage hand-knotted Persian rug features a striking ivory central field, with a central medallion ...

Offered for sale is this fabulous Louis Icart (1888-1950) Etching of two women overlooking Paris. It has been signed. In very good condition. It has been re-framed. A larger than no...

Great map of Switzerland Original color. Good condition Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.  

Eugene Atget (French, 1857-1927) Verrieres, vieux logis, 1922. Albumen silver print. printing out paper print from glass negative. verso right side sta...

Louis Icart (1888-1950). Etching on paper. "Départ". Approx. 1920. Visible dimensions: 42 x 30 cm. Total dimensions: 52 x 40 cm. Signed in pencil. In excellent condition.

Original vintage travel poster for Spain The comfort of Europe the luxury of Africa await you in Spain / Espagne Le confort de l'Europe la luxuriance ...

Woodblock print on paper of Le Pont d'Avignon, France by Philip G. Needell (1886-1974) England. Titled, numbered 20/60 lower margin, dated 1925. The Pont d'Avignon, was a medieval br...

Italian snowy landscape painting - Lonny von Plänckner (1863-1925) Measures: 50 x 65 cm - without frame 68 x 79 cm - with frame early 190...

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