1920s Wall Decorations

One of 52 antique French handmade ceramic tiles. Manufactured by Devres, circa 1920s. Colorful pattern in yellow, red and green. These tiles would be charming displayed on easels, fr...

1920's oil painting on board of landscape. Landscape oil painting on board with a liner and gilt wooden frame.

Striking large plaster 3-D wall sculpture of a neoclassical style head, perhaps of Apollo or other God with handsome chiseled physiognamy.  

French Majolica oyster plate signed Saint Clement, circa 1920.

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

Unique and striking, this wall plate by the famed Lachenal ceramic works in France depicts two nude male figures harvesting lush, broad-leafed plants in the field. The artist was clearly a painter and signed the piece "Cochet," suggesting that the artist may have been Gerard-Paul Cochet, who often painted harvest and rural scenes during his career. The ceramic works were founded by Edmond Lachenal, who was well known for his Art Nouveau ceramics...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Silvered bronze mask of a female, an original piece by Doris Kathleen Flinn. This was most likely of her partner who she often used as a model. It can be hung on the wall, mounted on...

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...

1920s wall poster. Originally a page of of "Rivista illustrata" magazine from Florence Italy.Sold with the beech wood frame shown in the picture. In very good conditions.

1920’s Flower Educational Poster 1920’s Flower Educational Poster. 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart fr...

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

Original antique cruise travel advertising poster for Cunard Line Europe-America featuring a stunning illustration by Odin Rosenvinge (1880-1957) of a f...

Oil Painting on board signed A.Thom 26 frame measurements given.

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

Watercolor on paper by Egbert Cadmus (American, 1868-1939, Connecticut, New Jersey) of South Harpswell Maine boat dock. Signed lower left corner, notes on v...

Fine quality gilt bronze wall mask of a male subject with striking features, by Doris Kathleen Flinn. This piece could be wall hung, hung on a stand o...

Art Deco painting depicting panther in the wild. Unusual dimensional treatment with all the paint. Look closely at the texture of this piece. In an original frame that also has a pai...

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 ...

La´szlo´ Moholy-Nagy photography. Stamp: "Nachlass La´zlo´ Moholy-Nagy (1895 - 1946) (= Estate of La´zlo´ Moholy-Nagy" and "einmalige Auflage fu¨r die Griffelkunst 1994") (= singl...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy photography. Stamp: "Nachlass La´zlo´ Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) (= Estate of La´zlo´ Moholy-Nagy" and "einmalige Auflage fu¨r die Griffelkunst 1994") (= single edition for German art society "Griffelkunst"). Excellent print. On verso monogrammed by the daughter of the photographer (Hatula Moholy-Nagy). La´szlo´ Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895-November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter...

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...

László Moholy-Nagy photography 4/6 from a set of six photographies. Single edition of 'Light-Room Modulations' folder, original title 'Licht-Raum Modulationen.' Published by Editio...

Portrait of Ellen Frank photographed by László Moholy-Nagy, 1929. A posthumous print from the original negative, circa 1973. Stamped by Galerie Khlim. ...

A fantastic wall mounted wooden artwork made by Barend Jordens in the Netherlands around 1920. The square piece has a beautiful drawing carved into t...

Antique Turkoman rug, circa 1920, from Turkmenistan hand knotted wool, could be use as wall hanging, floor rug, or large pillowcase. Pillow case ...

Original vintage poster for the graphic analogy - Der Mensch Als Industriepalast / Man As Industrial Palace - by the German physician, scientist and illustrator Fritz Kahn (1888-1968...

László Moholy-Nagy photography. Stamped by Foto Moholy-Nagy and Galerie Khlim. In original good conditions. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian painter...

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 ...

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

Photography by Agusti Centellas, circa 1920 Gelatin silver print. Stamp in the back. Agustí Centelles Ossó (1909 in Valencia - 1 December 1985 in Barcelona) was a Catalan phot...

Evans, C.S. (editor). Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty. London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann & J.B. Lippincott Co., 1920. F...

Original 1921 U.S. scene card for the film The Sheik directed by George Melford with Rudolph Valentino / Agnes Ayres / Ruth Miller / George Waggner. Very Goo...

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.

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...

French green Majolica deers plate signed Sarreguemines, circa 1920.

Crestmount is the Mediterranean Revival Style mansion built by architect Robert D. Farquhar in 1923 for Antonio Morino "The It Man" and Daisy Can...

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

A handcrafted Italian glazed pottery putto wall bracket from the 1920s in mustard color and intricate details. The putto, a cherubic figure holding a vine ...

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

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

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...

A rediscovered Danish female painter wit this motif from Italy.

Circa 1920's etching on paper of Heidelberg Germany by Luigi Kasimir (1881–1962) Austria. Signed in pencil lower margin. Unframed, age toning, foxing in margins.

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...

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

Terracotta medallion representing three putti in agricultural scenes: turning the land, sowing and harvesting Wall plaque Good condition with good patina due to age. If you want to ...

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

Original vintage travel poster issued by the Spanish national tourist board Patronato Nacional del Turismo PNT for Huelva Cuna de America / Cradle of America. Great design depicting a silhouette of a large tall ship in full sail against the sky with traditional buildings, Mediterranean stone pine trees and a statue in the foreground reflected on the lightly wavy sea, the leaves of a palm tree framing...

Several pcs. exceptional antique wall tiles, Société des Pavillions, Florennes (S.A. des Pavillions). Beautiful quality. The dimensions per tile a...