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An art deco brooch designed by Raymond C. Yard. Fantastic circular brooch, created in America during the art deco period by the master jewelry designer Raymond C. Yard, back in the ...

A desk lighter clock designed by Polaire Paris. A beautiful desk lighter-clock, created in Paris France by the Alphonse Brun company know as Polaire Paris, back in the 1938. This pi...

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: LEs Chantes de Maldoror Memory of Music MEDIUM: Etching Arches paper SIGNED: Not signed PUBLISHER: Albert Skira, Paris MEASUREMENTS: 10" x13" YEAR...

Heart shaped lighter designed by Ronson. This an extremely rare heart shaped pocket petrol lighter, created in New Jersey United States by The Ro...

A Gilbert Rohde Dressing Table Manufactured by Herman Miller 1937 Can be used as a Vanity or a desk Beautiful Grain pattern to Maccasar Ebony Original surface to Nickel Plated Metal...

Stunning Rare Set of 3 Matched French Art Deco Frosted Art Glass Tulip Form Wall Sconces. Maker - Ezan France. New electric and wall mounted. South of France Estate acquisition.

Collectable Antique Emerald Cocktail Ring! Centered with a Colombian genuine Emerald, with a Traditional Octagonal cut & bezel Set, weighing approximately 1.30 carats, it is the per...

A chevalier geometric ring from the retro-machine age period. Great chevalier ring, created during the late art-deco and the retro periods, back in the 1935. This geometric ring has...

Thick Belgian black marble tops over macassar pedestal body, these pedestals are beautiful examples of Art Deco elegance and grandeur. TWO available - priced and sold individually.

An Italian art deco ring. Beautiful colorful ring, created in Milano Italy during the art deco period, back in the 1935. This ring has been cra...

Eternity ring band with natural Gemstones. A beautiful and colorful half eternity band ring created during the American art deco period, back in 1930. This elegant ring has been cra...

Decorative desk box designed by Park Sherman. Very decorative desk box, created during the art deco period in America by the Park Sherman Company, back in the 1930. This roller-lid ...

An eternity ring band with diamonds. Gorgeous calibrated eternity band ring, created in America during the Art Deco period, back in the 1935. It was crafted in solid .900/.999 plati...

An antique telephone pendant-charm. Beautiful and very well detailed pendant-charm made in the shape of an early telephone. The charm was created duri...

On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning, living room suite you could hope to find. Outstanding design is exhibited throughout. The beautiful set is statement piece whic...

An art deco Riviera diamonds bracelet. Beautiful Riviera diamonds bracelet, created during the art deco period, back in the 1935. This bracel...

Art deco magic penguin mechanical dispenser box designed by Ronson. A beautiful, exceedingly rare and very decorative mechanical dispenser desk box, created in the city of Newark, New Jersey in the United States by The Ronson Art Metal Works Co. during the art deco period, back in the 1930. This is the iconic mechanical Pik-a-Cig Penguin Lighter...

An art deco graduated Riviera bracelet. Beautiful Riviera diamonds bracelet, created during the art deco period, back in the 1935. This brace...

On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning and rare rattan rocking chairs set you could hope to find. Outstanding design is exhibited throughout. The beautiful set is stat...

Plump or fleshy and voluptuous nude... you can describe it as you see it. Signed, titled and dated lower left: John Steuart Curry / 1934 "Hilda Nellis", John Steuart Curry is best ...

An antique racing car pendant-charm. Beautiful and very well detailed pendant-charm made in the shape of a antique waterhole. The charm was created dur...

Art-Deco diamonds stations chained necklace sautoir. A classic station long chain created in America during the art-deco period, back in the 1930. It was designed as a sautoir chain...

Beautiful vibrant original oil painting on canvas by the Swiss artist, Hans Walter Scheller. Signed lower right and dated 1937. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in i...

An art deco chain designed by Marchisio Napoleone. A beautiful art deco chain, created in Torino Italy at the jewelry atelier of Marchisio Napoleone, back in the 1935. This long cha...

An antique typewriting machine pendant-charm. Beautiful and very well detailed pendant-charm made in the shape of an early typewriting machine. The charm was created during the art ...

This ring showcases a captivating interplay of color and light. A mesmerizing oval sapphire, boasting 0.48 carats, shimmers with a blue hue. Its brilliance is complemented by a fiery...

This gorgeous 14kt. Yellow Gold Synthetic Ruby Estate Compact from the 1930's will add timeless splendor to any collection. Its luminous rubies will captivate and add regal sophistic...

A bi-motor plane pendant charm. Beautiful and very well detailed pendant-charm made in the shape of a bi-motor plane. The charm was created during the art deco period back in the 19...

Barman mechanical cigarette dispenser box. An exceptional and very beautiful desk piece, created in Germany during the art deco period, back i...

A set of three brass and glass coat hangers designed and produced by an Italian designer, Italy, 1930s.

Beautiful WPA era ca. 1930s portrait of a ballet dancer signed F. Miller. Oil on canvas measuring 18 x 24 inches; 24 x 30 inches in contemporary frame. Signed on back.

Stunning 1930's French Art Deco Floral Art Glass Leaf Wall Sconce. Dore metal frame.

An art deco Toi Et Moi ring designed by Raymond C. Yard. An exceptional toi et moi ring, created in America during the art deco period by the...

Elegant birch gueridon by Nordiska Kompaniet. Elegant tripod base, pie edge top in birch.

Beautiful dark patina and signs of age and use for these beautiful and uniquely adorned bronze candleholders with rock crystal embellishments to the bases. Great craftsmanship and h...

An art deco platinum dangle earrings Magnificent antique dangle drop earrings, created in America during the art deco period, back in the 1930. This beautiful pair was carefully cra...

As they take center stage, four acrobats are depicted, forming an architectural structure composed of contorted human bodies. The small gallery of onlookers displays a variety of ex...

Rare Art Deco glass centerpiece bowl or large catchall tray by Daum. Made in Nancy, France, circa 1924-1939. The low profile decorative dish features th...

An Italian art deco geometric bracelet. Fabulous large bracelet, created in Italy during the art deco period, back in the 1930's. This bracelet has been crafted at the goldsmith ate...

A French Art Deco peach colored wall mirror with clear circular center. Each piece of glass is bevelled around the edges and held in place with dec...

This is a very fine art deco style cigar box out of Rosewood and trimmed in stainless steel. art deco. The interior is trimmed in plastic of the era in cream. Circa 1930s, French. No...

Bangle bracelet designed by Rene Sitoleux. Stunning hinged bangle bracelet, created in Paris France during the late art deco period by the artist silversmith Rene Sitoleux. It was c...

Art deco magic monkey mechanical dispenser box designed by Ronson. An extremely rare and very decorative mechanical desk box, created in the city of Newark, New Jersey United States by The Ronson Metal Works Co. during the art deco period, back in the 1936. This is the mechanical Pik-a-Cig Monkey box...

A rare and unusual Carl Sorensen collection of desk accessories-stamps, blotters, letter openers, ink blotters. Beautiful bronze patina and verdigris finish.

Bronze Jewish Rabbi. Original Patina. Art-deco wood carved base. It is signed with initials P.K. and marked "Calif Art Bronze Fdry LA" (California Art Bronze Foundry Los Angeles). it is not dated. PETER KRASNOW (1886-1979), Russian-Ukrainian, American artist painter and sculptor, born Feivish Reisberg, was a California modernist and colorist artist known for his abstract wood sculptures and architectonic hard-edge paintings and drawings which were often based on Hebrew calligraphy and other subjects related to his Jewish heritage...

This is a unique set of 2 Neoclassical Cherub or Putto Cast Stone Garden Statues.

This is a 100% Original finish Beautiful Antique Chinoiseri American Made.

Joan Miro (Spain, 1893-1983) 'Aidez L'Espagne (Aid to Spain)', 1937 Pochoir (color templates) on Paper (Cahiers d'Art magazine Nº4-5) 12.5 x 9.7 in. (31.5 x 24.5 cm.) Stain, unframed...

This rare chrome plated Deco era cigar ashtray has a revolving top feature and its ALL original.

Designed by René-André Coulon, and entitled "Radiaver" this revolutionary design for a space heater which also has built in illumination boldly suggests t...

1930's Art Deco Frederic Carders Steuben Art Glass Swirl Pattern Vase. Amber color. On the underside of the vase there is scratching, not noticeable when the vase is upright.

1930's American Art Deco Period Blue Art Glass Vase. Swirl pattern.

An art deco engagement ring with diamonds. Beautiful engagement ring created during the art deco period, back in the 1930. This ring has been crafted with classical patterns in soli...

This fabulous vintage French art deco set of 13 lucky bakelite napkin rings are scottie dogs on wheels. They are black with red eyes. Sold a s se...

Framed print of May 15, 1934, "Vogue" magazine cover by Alix Zeilinger for the Summer Travel issue depicting a woman in a yellow hat and black and yellow stripes looking at a butterf...

Sunday Morning. Title: Sunday Morning Artist: Dox Thrash (American, Griffin, Georgia 1893–1965 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Printer: Sam J. Brown (1901-1994). Date: ca. 1939. Medium: Drypoint Dimensions: sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 27 cm) plate: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (22.5 x 20 cm) This is the most heavily inked, atmospheric example known to exist. Unique, unsigned example from the collection of artist Samuel J. Brown. Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was an African-American artist who was famed as a skilled draftsman, master printmaker, and painter and as the co-inventor of the Carborundum printmaking process.[1] The subject of his artwork was African American life. He served as a printmaker with the W.P.A. at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia. The artist spent much of his career living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Early life Dox Thrash was born on March 22, 1893, in Griffin, Georgia.[2] He was the second of four children in his family. Thrash left home at the age of fifteen in search of work up north. He was part of the Great Migration (African American) looking for industrial work in the North. The first job that Thrash got was working with a circus and a Vaudeville act. In 1911, at the age of 18, he moved to Chicago, Illinois.[3] He got a job as an elevator operator during the day, and used this source of income to attend school.[3] In 1914 he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] In 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. In September 1917, at the age of twenty-four, Thrash enlisted in the army.[3] He was placed in the 365th Infantry Regiment, 183rd Brigade, 92nd Division, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers.[1] During combat, Thrash suffered shell shock and a gas attack, but was not permanently injured. Career as an artist Front cover of Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, by John Ittmann. After having served in the war, Thrash qualified as a war veteran and enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago with the support of federal funding.[3] After finishing his education, he traveled intermittently from Georgia to Chicago, Boston, New York, and finally Philadelphia, working odd jobs - experiences that provided him with subject matter to later paint. Settling in Philadelphia by 1925, he took a job working as a janitor. In his free time, he continued his art career and used his talent to create emblems, such as the one for the North Philadelphia Businessmen's Association, and posters in exhibitions and festivals, including the 2nd Annual National Negro Music Festival and the Tra Club of Philadelphia.[1] This gained him local recognition and opened doors for new artistic endeavors. By 1929, Thrash was attending nightly classes within these clubs, namely with Earl Horter of the Graphic Sketch Club, now known as the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.[3] In 1937 Thrash joined the government-sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA)'s Federal Art Project.[4] Through the WPA, Thrash began working at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia.[5] At the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia, Thrash, along with Michael J. Gallagher and Hugh Mesibov, began experimenting and co-inventing the process of carborundum mezzotint, a printmaking technique.[1] Carborundum printmaking uses a carbon-based abrasive to burnish copper plates creating an image that can produce a print in tones ranging from pale gray to deep black. The method is similar to the more difficult and complicated mezzotint process developed in the 17th century. He used this as his primary medium for much of his career and created his greatest works with it. One of his first pieces employing this nascent technique was his anonymous self-portrait entitled Mr. X. With this new technique, the three gained increasing recognition as they published more and more graphics within newspapers and featured more and more pieces within exhibitions. Their works often featured subtle commentaries about social and economic exploitation regarding the contemporary politics of the Great Depression and the Second World War. By 1940, Thrash, Gallagher, and Mesibov all began to gain attention in local circles for their carborundum prints, although the role that each artist played in the development of the process was left unclear.[6] In 1960, Thrash participated in a show at the Pyramid Club, a social organization of Black professional men that held an annual art exhibit starting in 1941. Others on hand were Howard N. Watson, Benjamin Britt, Robert Jefferson and Samuel J. Brown Jr. Thrash spent the later years of his life mentoring young African American artists. He died on April 19, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He was posthumously honored almost 40 years later in 2001 with a major retrospective, titled Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[7] Thrash's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.[8] Relation to Alain Locke and the New Negro Movement This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was an intellectual, professor and author who espoused that African Americans, specifically artists, to capture the personality, lives, and essence of their people in The New Negro. He explained “The Negro physiognomy must be freshly and objectively conceived on its own patterns if it is ever to be seriously and importantly interpreted. Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”[9] What Locke is expressing here is not only the call for black artists to overcome racial prejudices via positive artistic representations of blacks, but that the actual African American individual like Thrash portrayed the lives of fellow blacks, and had the power to propagate this idea of the New Negro, as Locke explains, “There is the possibility that the sensitive artistic mind of the American Negro, stimulated by a cultural pride and interest, will receive…a profound and galvanizing influence.”[10] In his shadowy carborundum mezzotint Cabin Days, Thrash depicts a southern black family on the porch of their shack-like home in a rural landscape. The man, woman, and child, clutched tenderly to the female figure's breast, create an intimate scene highlighted by the bright cleanliness of the laundry hanging behind them. Placed in front of the drying laundry, they are framed by one aspect of the hard work accomplished during the day. Close to one another, staring collectively outward at the Southern landscape, they, and their laudable priorities of cleanliness and family, are made the bright focal point in the poor, unstable atmosphere. Such inner warmth is seemingly incompatible with the family's crooked and disheveled surroundings, and their fuzzy appearance with a lack of facial detail makes the scene into a general archetype for rural southern blacks living conditions and qualities. Thrash was referencing an experience common to thousands of black families in rural occupations at the turn of the 20th century, often forced into slavery-like tenant farming as their only means of livelihood in the racist South. The “uneven clapboards, leaning porch, broken shutter, and uprooted fence” are rife with instability, much like the post-slavery economic and social systems of the South, making it clear that for African Americans, “the house is not the home; rather, the figures on the porch represent family unity and continuity”.[10] In this way, Thrash is able to not only champion the positive qualities of blacks in the family setting but underscore this with a symbolic look at their disadvantaged situation, making it all the more impressive that they persevere. Thrash symbolically depicted harsh realities for the African American at this transitional point in history while conferring a sensitive rendering of their humanity, akin to any other race, despite its utter denial by American society. Through softer tempera washes like A New Day, he literally and figuratively paints a picture of a black family transitioning from the South to the North during the Great Migration, making a hopeful, daring leap to attempt to be equal members of the society that has historically oppressed them. On the left side of the canvas lie muddled farm houses and plow handles, embodiments of their rural life of tedious hard labor behind them, fading to gray. Their hopeful gazes “…convey the optimism of the scores of African Americans who left the countryside to pursue better job opportunities, health care, and education in urban centers”.[6] The stance of the figures, with their chins raised in a dignified gesture towards cityscape ahead suggest a confidence and ambitiousness in their collective futures in this new northern industrial terrain. Even the child, clutched securely in the arm of the mother figure against her breast is not only serenely grinning, but calm enough to appear to gently doze, confident in that the journey ahead will result positively, poses no threat. The exposed arm of the woman is notable as well, being unusually thick and muscular, along with the general proportions of the kneeling father, who position on the ground appears not pleading but rather in a slightly exhausted, but upright gratefulness for the promise ahead. Thrash makes it clear that this family has traveled a long way, but is not depleted; rather they are strong and preparing for further hard work and hopeful success ahead. They are the quintessence of the New Negro, in that they are not only journeying forward to seize previously unobtainable opportunities that will enhance their lives, but the manner with which they hold themselves provokes a certain level of warranted respect for their humanity, from the viewer. In fact it was the strength of his fellow African Americans that Thrash often emphasized, amongst other positive characteristics in the face of adversity in personal portraits. Through his carborundum print Life, he depicts a neatly dressed black girl reading...

Framed print of November 10, 1930, "Vogue" magazine cover by Carl Oscar August Erickson depicting a woman resting her chin in her black-gloved hand.

Framed print of May 1, 1937, "Vogue" magazine cover by Carl Oscar August Erickson of a woman in a salmon-colored suit playing with a dog.

A cast bronze vase produced by GAB, Sweden, c. 1930s.

French Art Deco zebrawood table with walnut burl trim, lower cabinet door, upper drawer, and marble top.