1938 Francois Kollar Photograph of the Desk of Countess Jean de Polignac

This photograph by George Platt Lynes is unusual for having three exposures of the Russian princess Natalie Paley, the celebrated beauty, and the wife...

Remie Lohse was born in Puerto Rico, studied painting in Denmark, and settled in New York in 1928, where he became a professional photographer. In the 1930s he was a freelancer who specialized in advertising and magazine features, and shot covers for Vogue. If he often focused on the high life, seen in this couple stepping out on the town, he also shot humble subjects. He was more interested in his art than a particular milieu, and many of his photographs are little masterpieces. His contemporary Gilbert Seldes, the noted Vanity Fair media critic and “public intellectual” (not to mention father of actress Marian Seldes), featured Lohse in his 1934 book 'This is New York, The First Modern Photographic Book of New York.' In 1939 Lohse came out with his own book titled 'The Miniature Camera in Professional Hands.' Our photograph was one of three shot by Lohse for a 1934 Vogue article titled “High Spots and Low Music." If the photograph (image size 4 1/4" x 6") show a couple making the nocturnal rounds of Manhattan restaurants, bars, and jazz clubs, the story itself also covers the daytime meeting places of the ladies who lunch. The twist is that Lohse’s model was the author herself, Elena Mumm Thornton, and her husband James Worth...

Designed around 1930, each monumental standing lamp of brass and acid-etched glass is marked Perzel on the base by the switch. A chrome version was published in the French design ma...

This painted-and-gilded fire screen in the Louis XVI style was made by Francois Linke (1855 - 1946), the greatest maker of furniture in Belle Epoque Paris...

An Edwardian-style deckchair for a yacht in mahogany and brass with buttoned upholstery. The chair was one of several made in France for the Paris decorator, furniture designer, and ...

Great grandson of the famous writer Victor Hugo, the painter Jean Hugo (1894-1984) was in the thick of the Paris art scene between the wars. A member of the avant garde, he was a friend of Picasso, Cocteau and Colette and was associated with the Neo Romantics. His small gouaches on paper were avidly collected by Dr. Albert Barnes, and can be seen today in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. Hugo's most desirable work -- landscapes, interior scenes, set designs -- date from the mid 1920s to the late 1930s. This whimsical painting, signed and dated 1927, is set in a curtained, classical interior furnished with Victorian lighting fixtures...

Part of the Reflections collection released by Spanish photographer Cuco de Frutos in 2019. Once the tallest building in the world, the Eiffel Tower is the iconic symbol of Paris, Th...

Part of the reflections collection released by Spanish photographer Cuco de Frutos in 2019. This original photograph captures a rare moment of stillness...

Photograph executed and printed 1971, 1/1. This photograph is framed. Sir Roy Colin Strong is an English art historian and former director of the National Portrait Gallery and the V...

Original photograph taken by Jeannette Montgomery Barron of Jean-Michel Basquiat in NYC in 1984. Vintage gelatin silver print. Framed. Edition 15/25. Image: 13 x 13 inches, Paper...

Part of The Shape of Water collection released by Spanish photographer Cuco de Frutos. Mother nature speaks to us and takes care of us in a way that mak...

Original vintage photograph taken by Jeannette Montgomery Barron of Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol in NYC in 1985. Gelatin silver print. Framed. Edition number 13/25, but only on...