Early 20th Century Wall Decorations

Antal Berkes (1874-1938) Antal Berkes (1874–1938) was a Hungarian painter, born in Budapest, Hungary. He lived in Paris for some time and produced cityscapes there as well as simi...

Antique Bay of Naples Gouache Seascape with Vesuvius Erupting, 1906, a fine gouache on paper seascape with the panoramic Bay of Naples stretching wide, wit...

A charming early 20th-century oil on canvas by Joseph Delvaille, signed and dated 1905, depicting two dogs in profile – a standing white terrier-type and a seated brown mastiff-type....

Art Deco etching of walking black panther by french artist Paul Jouve signed on the lower left side.

Mask, drawing with pencil and pen by Henry de Waroquier, signed and dated 1914 in the lower right. "Painter, sculptor and engraver, Henry de Waroquier (1881-1970) was born in Paris. He did not take any painting courses but worked and met many artists in Montmartre and then in Montparnasse where he lived from 1898-1919. His great Landscapes of Spain...

In tandem with a growing number of newspapers and periodicals, print advertising proliferated during China’s Republic Era. A bathing beauty is the star attraction of this print ad fr...

An alluring oil on canvas portrait depicting a beautiful young woman decorating her hair with a red lace. Made by Lajos Rezes Molnár (Hungarian 1896...

The famous commercial advertising artist Hu Boxiang created this advertisement calendar poster for the British American Tobacco Company in 1931. Unlike other poster artists, Hu was k...

Wonderful red ochre prints of 18th Century Francesco Bartolozzi engravings after Cipriani and Cosway. Publshed by Otto Limited, London 1907 Text...

An original turn of the century Venetian watercolor painting by Italian artist Andrea Biondetti (b.1851-1946). Titled ‘The Bridge of Sighs’, the painting depicts the famous enclosed ...

Beautiful large flower still life, painting of a colorful bouquet of roses in a blue vase with geometric patterns, painted in a classical style, signed lower left R. Blanlin, first h...

REGINALD HAINES 1872 to 1942 (active 1900-1910's) - Antique military portrait by an important British photographer - HAINES portraits are in...

This framed antique and reverse printed panel was produced in England in the early 20th century by an unknown maker to commemorate the death of Admiral Lord Nelson...

Antique Rare Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth (Kain Nyulam), South Sumatra This fully embellished and intricately embroidered shoulder cloth (kain nyulam) is a rare and unique example of t...

This French early 20th century mounted deer antlers on a wooden shield is a stunning piece of art perfect for a lodge or country house. The large ...

Very pretty watercolor painting representing a bouquet of flowers in a faience vase signed lower right H.Magné. Date of the 1925s. Very well framed and under glass by the J.Pouillé ...

Delight in the beauty of early 20th-century art with this captivating watercolor by Campana, a renowned French Art Deco painter. Created around 1920, this painting beautifully depict...

This commercial advertisement poster from 1930s Shanghai melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. Large companies often presen...

Antique Framed oil painting on board by Dieudonné Jacobs (1887-1967) is a splendid rendition of a stunning vista at dusk during the early fall season in the region around the Ardennes. Here Jacobs has used deft brush strokes to indicate movement from the constant breezes in the area, with a misty haze over the rolling hillside in the background. Survives in its original frame. Dieudonné Jacobs (1887-1967) was a Belgian post-impressionist who specialized in historic painting, portraits, and landscapes. Beginning his career with portraits, he studied under Adrien de Witte, Auguste Donnay and Évariste...

Fencing Caricatures by Mich, Paris 1907 – Expressive Belle Époque Satire Description: This striking triptych of caricature lithographs by the celebrated artist Mich was created in 1...

This is an antique early 20th century oil on canvas painting with a beautiful farmhouse motive and great painting technique. Small hens are picking seeds outside and the horizon is s...

A romantic collection of dried, pressed Botanicals, well preserved with calligraphy and Latin description, describing each piece, place found and date. One may purchase as many as on...

Mid-19th Century Chinese School Seascape Painting, View of Boca Tigris. Oil on Canvas, in Giltwood Frame. Painting depicts a tranquil harbor scene in the style of Chinese Export trad...

A domed, black & white enameled Art Nouveau advertising sign for Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna. Artwork by Moriz Jung from the early 1900s, the production date is around the 1960s. Hi...

Turn of the century/early 20th century hooked rug, mounted for wall hanging on black linen and foam core stretcher. With evergreen ground and white and variegated striped border. Cen...

O/5151 - Old painting with mountain landscape, signed Hugo Pfahlmer, descendant of a noble family of painters. German school. With its original frame: a...

A fabulous vintage Boho Original lithograph. The coveted LuLu Le Petite Ecolier print. A charming young man advertising the iconic biscuit. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Charming oil on canvas in period frame by the Russian-born American artist, Charles Polowetski (1884-1955) depicting a lovely seated female. Stretcher 21.5 by 29.5 inches and the fr...

Small Majolica Strawberries Plate Villeroy & Boch Circa 1900. Diameter / 6.5 inches.

Paul Poiret's career began in the Belle Epoque, when fashion was defined by imprisoning corsets, restrictive tailoring, and ethereal colors. Opening his own fashion house in 1904, he...

George-Henri Tribout French (1884-1962) A Female Nude, 1910 Oil on canvas Signed & Dated 1910 Lower Right 46 by 32 in. W/frame 48 by 34 in. George Henri Tribout was born in ...

A deep porcelain plate with pink roses and a gilded leaf border, Bohemia, circa 1900. A rich Teal blue ground fading towards the center which shows a hand-painted bouquet of pink an...

A collection of 9 vintage movie projection reels or spools. Dating to circa 1920, these traditional English movie reels have an even surface rust finish making for a stylish vintage ...

Antique Oil on Board Portrait Painting “Cardinal Richelieu” by Otto Farsky C1910 (11" x 14" x 2 1/4"). An antique oil on board painting titled 'Cardinal Richelieu' by Otto Farsky...

Japanese hand carved and painted wood mask of Tengu, the legendary Japanese folk religion creature. Traditionally depicted as a human-bird of prey hy...

Antique double sided trade sign for Ingersoll Watches in the shape of a pocket watch. Excellent old sign in original condition. American, late 19th-ear...

Very rare original vintage 1st printing poster by Carl Potsch in 1912. Meister-Gerhard-Gilde Köln. This Jugendstil "Kunstgewerbe Ausstellung" poster is one of Potsch´s most famous c...

Charming Dutch Impressionist oil on canvas painting if cows grazing in a landscape. Image: 12.5 x 8”

This superb and vibrantly coloured Limoges plaque is beautifully enamelled onto a convex surface with a Viking ship at full sail in a choppy sea. This stylish piece of wall art is de...

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...

Flowers including peonies, dahlias, irises, and bellflowers bloom underneath a blossoming cherry tree and provide cover for a pair of quail. The structure of this garden almost resem...

Wonderful set of 6 vintage maps. Random American states including Maine, Utah, New Hampshire, Nevada, Vermont and New Mexico. Monochrome with red color outline. Published by Rand,...

Antique map of California ( Northern part ) Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

A beautiful hand-crafted and hand-painted terra-cotta charger wall plaque, Germany, early 20th century, featuring an exceptional painted scene with woman and bird in courtyard, signe...

This is an original antique oil on canvas still life flower painting estimated to be from the 1920s Denmark It is unsigned and framed in a beautiful gold painted wooden frame. The ...

An antique 20th century plaster sculpture of a Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Constructed from fibrous plaster with a painted finish, this unique sculpture depicts the headless...

French Porcelain Puttis Platter Circa 1900. Diameter / 10.7 inches.

An impressive antique early medieval carved pine panel, originating from England's 19th century north country. Dating to circa 1900, this handsome decorative wall hanging is handcar...

Original vintage travel poster for Santa Fe de Montseny in Spain - Estacion Climatologica de Primer Orden a 1700 metros de altitud y a 70 kilometros de Barcelona / First Class Climat...

Vintage Framed painting depicting a woman fishing again a scenic mountain and forest lake scene. Signed Nell Wigging Cambell 1921 on the back. Vintage Condition with age with cracks,...

C-plate, the alphabet is a beautiful color ceramic plate realized after Erté in 1986, as the back of each plate reports. This plate reproduces the original painting representing t...

One of the most vividly painted and striking portraits of Native Americans ever painted in the 1920s, this oil on canvas depiction of a mother and child -- clearly reflecting centuries of painted Madonnas in Europe -- was made by Jean Hanau...

Lithograph by Henri Rivière Parisian Landscapes - Le Pont des Saints-Pères et Le Louvre This lithograph “Parisian Landscapes - The Pont des Saints-Pères and the Louvre” is signed H...

Japanese two-panel screen: Pink and white magnolias in early bloom, Taisho period (1912-1926) painting of Japanese magnolia tree branches as the flowers...

A beautiful vintage ceramic terracotta glazed wall mask of a male. It’s in the style of South Tyrollean or tuscany folk art. It would make a beautiful decoration on each wall. Made i...

Edgar Fernhout Hand Signed Lithography, The Netherlands, 1947. A beautiful hand signed lithography by renowned Dutch artist Edgar Fernhout - the grandson of Jan Toorop. A work from ...

No. 41 of the collection of plates published by Kleynenberg & Co. Each plate includes a title and number. This plate is titled ‘Riet-Transpo...

Splendid view of Venice signed M.C. and dated 1917. Oil on canvas, first canvas, painting depicting St. Mark's Square with a frontal view of the famous Basilica and the large bell to...

A striking poster by the Dutch artist Ludwig Oswald Wenckebach in 1924, designed for the production of an avant-garde nocturnal play on the of the 70th anniversary lustrum of Leiden ...

Indulge in the quaint charm of this 1910s Belgian kitchen wall shelf, thoughtfully designed for both practicality and aesthetics. The uppermost shelf p...