20th Century Wall Decorations

A very collectible vintage London transport Double-decker Bus, circa 1970s 100% Irish Linen, great condition never used, can be framed or hang on the wall.

Handcrafted and very stylish pair of midcentury made alabaster wall lights. If you are looking for a great shape and practical size pair of sconces to grace your living space then...

Provocative and unapologetic, this watercolor depiction of a fully nude sailor sprawled across his bed, his uniform and cap neatly laid on a chair to one s...

An ornithological lithographic print of the Scissor-Tailed Hummingbird from John Gould 's “A Monogram of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds,” published in five volumes from 1...

Art Deco wardrobe, around 1920s Polished brass and stove enameled.

Original vintage Batman poster for The Caped Crusader featuring a colourful illustration of the comic book superhero wearing his grey and blue costume, mask and cape with the bat logo on a yellow background on his chest. Artwork by the notable American comics artist Carmine Michael...

Italian modern white lacquered wood and chromed metal shelf by D.I.D., 1980s Rectangular shelf, the structure is in white lacquered wood with a glossy finish. On both sides there is ...

1960s wall hanging tapestry in the style of Joan Miro. Excellent condition.

Set of 3 original antique prints of golf scenes originating from 'Mr. Punch’s Golf Stories'. Mr. Punch's Golf Stories includes an array of delightful short stories and poems on the r...

After Pablo Picasso ''Femme avec le chapeau'' Screenprint 24 x 35cm Sheet. Done after a painting executed in 1970s. Framed 41x52cm.

Two male nude studies by Tony Sisti. Sisti was a master draftsman. With just a few lines he captures the moment. Sisti was a professional boxer and an accomplished artist. A long-...

Etching and aquatint on paper, nicely matted and framed. Edition 28 of 90, signed and dated in pencil lower right. Cubist work featuring a girl and her guitar. Ossip Zadkine 1888...

A fabulous vintage Boho medallion. A chic profile of a Russian man. Possibly Czar Nicholas? A beautiful plaster relief with a gilt frame. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Bernard Villemot was a French graphic artist known primarily for his iconic advertising images for Orangina, Bally Shoe, Perrier, and Air, France. Poster in Excellent condition. This poster is advertising French radio station...

Picasso ( 1881-1973 ) Original Edition Madoura round plate "Visage aux yeux ronds" : Stamped : "Madoura plein feu " + "Empreinte originale Picasso" + written 70/100 on the back. Conc...

This rare and striking woodcut print by Robert Pajer-Gartegen, an Austrian artist, depicts a nude male figure in a slender wood boat, using a long pole to mo...

6x wall hooks vienna around 1960s Original condition

Mr Chad WW2 National Savings Poster Circa 1940s - Original WW2 national savings poster - Features one of the first illustrations of Mr Chad - Framed in a Black wooden frame with gla...

ALEXANDER CALDER - FLECHES (GALERIE MAEGHT), 1970 - LITHOGRAPHIC POSTER Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Fleches (Galerie Maeght, 1970) Printed for Alexander Calder Exhibition, Titled "F...

One of the greatest and most influential films of all time, Lawrence of Arabia was originally released in 1962. Based on the life of T.E. Lawrence, the film was directed by David Lean...

A signed and inscribed lithograph on paper by American feminist writer, theorist, artist and academic, Kate Millett (1934 - 2017). This work uses a minimal style to depict an abstrac...

A pair of exquisite gouache / watercolour studies of exotic flowers and butterflies; European in the Cantonese style, circa 1900. Why we like them Exquisitely hand-painted with ...

A fantastic vintage Framed photograph. A chic fashion photo in black and white. Newly framed in a chic and simple black frame and white mat. A...

A fantastic vintage framed black and white photo. A chic 70s fashion shot of a girl with her chimney broom. Nothing says fashion like a good chimney broom....

A fantastic vintage 1970s black and white photograph. A chic fashion shot with a tropical look. Newly framed with a clean and simple black frame. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Lithograph 'Anette' made by Alberto Giacometti. Especially created by the artist in 1964 for Made for the book titled "Prints from the Mourlot Press" published in Paris, 1964 The b...

Art Treasures of the Louvre by René Huyghe. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1960. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Translated and adapted from the French, by Rene Huyghe who was a curat...

Small oil painting, the city on it. Signed Ray Bai 1995. Hand painted in Denmark. In the set of white wood frame. Very nice small decoration for ...

A stunning vintage boho original pencil sketch of man. An amazing 1935 rendering with incredible attention to detail. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Paul Wightman Williams, American (20th century). Gouache, ink, and pastel or charcoal on paper. Signed "WW" and dated "44". Unframed. This diminutive figural painting features an i...

White Bunny Drawing by Oleg Cassini for Playboy October 1979, Signed. Illustration of a woman wearing a white body suit, choker, and hat. Signed by Oleg Cassini. Notice the body suit is in the shape of the head of a bunny with clever use of the 'whiskers'. Approximate Measurements: Length: 11" Width: 14" Property from the Collection of Steven Rosengard, Chicago, Illinois This original drawing was commissioned by Playboy and included in the October 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine (pages 225-227) in a feature that included works from designers such as Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, Edith Head, Fernando Sanchez, and Monika Tilley, among others, who create their versions of the Playboy bunny costume. Candace Collins can be seen modeling some of the designs in the feature. Oleg Cassini is an icon of twentieth-century fashion. Though born to Russian aristocracy and raised in Italy, he built a fashion empire that was unmistakably American. Cassini is perhaps best known for the hundreds of designs he created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (see images 4-8), but his achievements as a collector, connoisseur, and quintessential twentieth-century man go far beyond Camelot. In 1913, Oleg Cassini was born in Paris to the Russian diplomat Count Alexander Loiewski and Countess Marguerite Cassini, a Russian aristocrat of Italian ancestry who also had an interesting link to America. The daughter of Count Arthur Cassini, Russian Ambassador to the United States during the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, Marguerite dazzled turn-of-the-century Washington as her father’s official hostess and left her mark on the capital city. Stationed in Denmark when the Russian Revolution toppled the czar, Ambassador Cassini and family were exiled to Switzerland before settling in Florence, Italy, where young Oleg was raised. A true Renaissance man, he spoke Russian, French, and Danish before adding Italian and English; he studied medieval and modern European military history and costume and learned to draw; he learned horseback riding, fencing, and the art of chivalry; and, most importantly, he came to understand the struggles of the Russian titled class and other European aristocrats in the wake of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Countess Cassini started a successful fashion business in Florence, and soon the talented young Oleg was sent to Paris to sketch the latest collections for recreation in Italy. In Rome in his early 20s, Cassini created fashions for high society women and designed for a few films, which planted the seed for his move to Hollywood. The drive to reinvent himself brought Cassini to America in the 1930s; in his autobiography he describes arriving nearly penniless in mid-Depression New York City where his title as an exiled Russian Count meant even less than in war-devastated Europe. Down and out, Cassini struggled for employment, having sketching skills but no knowledge of the wholesale trade required for survival in Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue fashion district. However, he excelled at making connections, and Cassini slowly entered New York society. He was soon joined by younger brother Igor (who had studied in America and travelled with the young Emilio Pucci) and his parents, the once-dazzling Countess and his father, the displaced diplomat still loyal to Russia. The family settled in Washington, D.C., and Igor worked his way up the Hearst newspaper chain to become the famous society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker. In New York, Oleg Cassini married the troubled socialite Merry Fahrney (who would go on to marry eight times), but the marriage ended in scandal for Oleg, and he decided to follow his original intention and head for Hollywood. Despite initial difficulties, Cassini gained access to Hollywood’s elite (partially through his skills on the tennis court), and was soon hired as a designer at Paramount Pictures alongside the redoubtable Edith Head. In her 1941 film debut I Wanted Wings, Veronica Lake wore a memorable Cassini design. That same year, Cassini met and married the newest young Hollywood star on the scene, the beautiful 20th Century Fox–talent Gene Tierney. With the outbreak of World War II, Cassini enlisted in the Coast Guard but was transferred to the U.S. Army Cavalry which allowed officers of foreign birth. He attended basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the horsemanship he learned as a boy served him greatly. He attended Officer Candidate School and reached the rank of First Lieutenant (he also became an American citizen at this time, losing his title of Count). Cassini spent several years posted at Fort Riley, where Tierney joined him before he landed a convenient military post in Hollywood. As Tierney’s career thrived (she played the title role in Otto Preminger’s Laura in 1944), she was able to assert her influence over 20th Century Fox’s head Daryl Zanuck, who hired Cassini as designer for Tierney on her 1946 film The Razor’s Edge, which proved to be a brilliant showcase for his talents. The pair separated the same year and, again seeking reinvention, Cassini re-established himself in New York City as a fashion designer. By 1950, the Oleg Cassini label was born. Combining his knowledge of Old World and modern Europe, Hollywood, the tennis courts of Palm Beach and Newport, and of course, New York City, Oleg Cassini invented a new brand of fashion that was distinctly American and of its moment. For his first collection, Cassini took to the stage, narrating the looks and imbuing the scene with his personality, unusual in an industry where the designers typically remained backstage and the models were called by number over a PA. The first collection was a smash — the president of Lord & Taylor devoted all of their storefront windows to his designs — and by 1955 sales had reached $5,000,000. Oleg Cassini’s career had turned a very positive corner. Cassini spent the early 1950s traversing the country, personally selling his collections to department stores in the interior, something his predecessors had never done, and moving between the Hollywood and New York scenes. Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the Riviera. In 1954, Cassini set out to woo Grace Kelly and sent her roses every day. The two were briefly engaged before her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. In December 1960, Cassini’s career-defining opportunity came when he was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her fashions for the White House. Cassini had long known Joe Kennedy and his war-hero son John, and had first met Jacqueline Bouvier before her marriage in the early 1950s. Invited by President-Elect Kennedy to meet Jacqueline at Georgetown Hospital (she had just given birth to son John Jr.) to present to her drawings of potential dresses and First Lady looks, Cassini worked furiously to prepare a new line for the First Lady. Mrs. Kennedy had always had her clothes made by the top French couturiers of the day, but for the White House she wanted an American designer. Cassini wrote in his autobiography that he told the First Lady: “‘You have an opportunity here,’ I said, ‘for an American Versailles.’ She understood completely what I was trying to communicate; she began to talk excitedly about the need to create an entirely new atmosphere at the White House. She wanted it to become the social and intellectual capital of the nation” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 327). Mrs. Kennedy loved Cassini’s design for a gown to wear to the Inaugural Gala (she had already ordered a dress from Bergdorf’s for the Inaugural Ball), and Cassini was selected as the First Lady’s designer and was soon dubbed the “Secretary of Style.” From 1960 to 1963, Oleg Cassini would design over 300 items for Mrs. Kennedy, creating the “Jackie Look” that contributed not only to a fashion revolution but also the dawn of a new age. Cassini wrote that “Jackie played a very active role in the selection of her clothes. She loved brilliant colors — pistachio, hot pink, yellow, and white among others. Her sense of style was very precise; she would make editorial comments on the sketches I sent her. She always knew exactly what she wanted; her taste was excellent” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 334). After the Camelot years, Cassini’s business flourished and grew into a major industry; his name appeared on everything from couture to tennis-, sport-, and swimwear, car interiors, housewares, and perfume. He collected beautiful and rare artwork, arms and armor, and antique furniture, and lived the lifestyle projected by his image. From this period onward, Cassini also came to live in important homes. Of his Gothic Gramercy Park townhouse on Manhattan’s 19th Street he would write imaginatively, “I walked into the foyer and immediately fell in love. It was a place unlike any other in New York, a sixteenth-century Dutch house transported brick by brick from Europe by the Wells Fargo family in the early twentieth century. There was a vaulted, twenty-foot ceiling in the living room, leaded windows, elegantly carved wood paneling...

Original 1971 U.S. poster by Peter Max for Health Is Beautiful (1971). Very Good-Fine condition, rolled. Please note: the size is stated in inches and the actual size can vary by an ...

Original 1960s Greek A3 poster for the first Greek theatrical release of the 1950 film Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa with Toshiro Mifune / Machiko...

Original vintage Soviet Cold War propaganda poster - We shall live in peace! - featuring traditional style artwork depicting a samovar with a flora...

Antique dog print of the dandie dinmont terrier. This print originates from 'Les Chiens. Le Gibier et ses Ennemis' by P. Mahler. Saint-Étienne, Mimar...

Original 'Port de Collioure' color lithograph by Georges Braque Lithograph printed from an original painting made by the author in France, circa 1906. Published by Fernand Mour...

2nd quarter 20th century Indian kantha wrapping cloth This kantha cloth presents an ordered yet whimsical arrangement of rosettes on a quilted white c...

Picasso by Gertrude Stein. B.T. Batsford, LTD, London, 1948. 3rd Ed hardcover no dust jacket. With 64 illustrations in color and B&W. The famous writer ...

Stunning silk screen print from the limited 1990 run authorized by Lichtenstein’s estate after his iconic painting Kiss V (1964). Very good vintage condition. M...

Original vintage movie poster issued in advance of the release in America of the classic spy film James Bond 007 A View to Kill - Has James Bond finally met his match? Find out this summer - directed by John Glen and starring Roger Moore (in his last film as James Bond), Christopher Walken, Grace Jones as May Day and Tanya Roberts with music composed by John Barry and the title song performed by Duran Duran. Classic design by Dan Goozee...

A fantastic vintage Contemporary mixed media original oil on canvas. A beautiful composition in brilliant shades of blue and white. Unsigned. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Original vintage military recruitment poster featuring an illustration of a tank with the text on three banner flags above reading - A man'...

Original vintage cruise travel poster - Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth Fastest Ocean Service in the World Cunard White Star - featuring a colourful image...

Original 'Hyde Park' color lithograph by André Derain. Lithograph printed from an original painting made by the author in France in 1906. Published by Fernand Mourlot in Les Fauves. Paris, circa 1972. Framed and signed in the stone. Frame will be slightly different from the one on the photos, each piece will be framed once it sells, this is an exhibition frame. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. About the Artist: André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. Derain and Matisse worked together through the summer of 1905 in the Mediterranean village of Collioure and later that year displayed their highly innovative paintings at the Salon d'Automne. The vivid, unnatural colors led the critic Louis Vauxcelles to derisively dub their works as les Fauves, or "the wild beasts", marking the start of the Fauvist movement. In March 1906, the noted art dealer Ambroise Vollard sent Derain to London to produce a series of paintings with the city as subject. In 30 paintings (29 of which are still extant), Derain presented a portrait of London that was radically different from anything done by previous painters of the city such as Whistler or Monet. With bold colors and compositions, Derain painted multiple pictures of the Thames and Tower Bridge. These London paintings remain among his most popular work. Art critic T. G Rosenthal: "Not since Monet has anyone made London seem so fresh and yet remain quintessentially English. Some of his views of the Thames use the Pointillist technique of multiple dots, although by this time, because the dots have become much larger, it is rather more simply the separation of colours called Divisionism and it is peculiarly effective in conveying the fragmentation of colour in moving water in sunlight." He experimented with stone sculpture and moved to Montmartre to be near his friend Pablo Picasso and other noted artists. Fernande Olivier...

Joan Miro Mid Century Art Print This print measures: 14 wide x .25 deep x 18 inches high This print is in Excellent Vintage Condition with ...

Painted by Paul Colin, one of the artists who helped define the elegance of 1920s Paris, and in particular the rising prominence of jazz clubs which featured Josephine Baker and other Black performers, this piece features a couple dancing to a modern tune with high energy, their arms and legs at acute angles which echoed the geometries of high style Art Deco form. The Black male figure is the height of fashion in his tuxedo, and the female figure is wearing a thin, diaphanous, pale green dress...

French picture is ivory of a beautiful girl in a white hat. It is signed bun can not make it out. Bronze jewelry frame with a beautiful little bow on the top. Circa 1910s.

Romain de Tirtoff (Erte, Russian/French, 1892-1990), "Cleopatre" Seriograph on Wove paper, numbered lower left 146/300 and signed lower right in pencil, depicting Queen Cleopatra wit...

Original vintage movie poster for the Franco-Spanish animated adventure film Tintin And The Blue Oranges / Tintin et les Oranges Bleues based on The Adventures of Tintin comic...

Original vintage advertising poster for the opera Orfeo written in 1607 by the notable Italian composer and priest Claudio Monteverdi (Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi; baptised 1...

Original vintage Soviet sport poster for the 22nd Summer Olympic Games (Games of the XXII Olympiad) in 1980 held in Moscow Russia featuring a fun and colourful illustration depicting...

Lithograph / plate from the book Dessins: Themes et Variations. Edited by Martin Fabiani (Paris) in 1943. In good original condition. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a French ar...

James Coignard. Caroborund etching (without title), signed numbered 14/60. Measures: 55 x 44 cm James Coignard, painter, ceramist, sculptor and etcher, w...

Original vintage movie poster for the French release of the James Bond 007 film Octopussy - Le Meilleur de Bond! / The Best of Bond! - directed by John Glen and starring Roger Moore in the lead role with Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn and Kabir Bedi. Fantastic artwork by Dan Goozee (b 1943) featuring James Bond in his trademark black tie / tuxedo suit and holding a gun with Octopussy in an elegant dress and eight arms behind him attaching a silencer to his gun and straightening his tie, holding a Faberge egg, martini cocktail glass and dagger knife...

A set of four very decorative large prints of architectural orders, 20th century, after Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) from his Treatise on Civil Architecture published in 1759. I...

Original vintage Guinness advertising poster - My Goodness My Guinness - featuring an iconic design by the notable artist John Gilroy (John Tho...

Original English 1960's bus panel poster promoting coach tours around Britain. This rare poster would have been displayed in a travel bureau or on a bus or coach serving routes aroun...

11 Kornilov Bros Imperial Russian porcelain dinner plates red & green, c. 1910 11 Kornilov Bros Imperial Russian porcelain dinner plates in pattern N8, circa 1910. A white ground ...