1940s Art

Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903 from the collection of the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946. Rendered by Albert Carman (1899-1949); published the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston and The Studio Publications, Inc., New York and London; printed by Holme Press Inc., New York, in an edition of MMMD. Excerpted from the folio, Paul Gauguin and Emil Bernard at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1888, each made a bas-relief, wooden panel to decorate a piece of furniture for a friend. In order to keep a record of their designs, a few inked impressions were made on paper. The illustration at left is a reproduction of a print which is possibly one of the above mentioned. It is further possible that this experiment later gave Gauguin the idea of making woodcuts. Just as his work in painting expressed a revolt against the overemphasis on factual representation of the nineteenth century in favor of decorative pattern and color, so also his woodcuts leaned strongly to the same side of the balance. Ten of the cuts reproduced (all excepting Soyez Amoureuses and Changement de Residence), which constitute the whole of his best known series, were made at Pont-Aven beginning in the fall of 1894, after Gauguin's return from his first trip to Tahiti and after he broke his ankle. They were at first roughly cut with a common carpenter's gouge, and the flat surfaces sandpapered and engraved with a sharp in-strument, perhaps an engraver's burin. A few trial proofs were printed in black ink only. Then the hollows were deepened with a woodcutter's gouge and highlights were added. An edition of thirty to fifty impressions of each subject, with the addition of color blocks (one, two or three), was made by Louis Roy...

Lithograph on English cartridge paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published by School Prints Ltd., London; Printe...

This exquisite etching by Jacques Villon (1875–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Alternance (Alternation), originates from the 1946 edition published by Le Gerbier,...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie N Gc’S, var. 1 (Series N Gc’S, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Draw...

Original American Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie „Pinocchio“, USA 1940. Pinocchio gets his first coat of paint from his father and maker. Keywords: Anim...

Charles CAMOIN Mediterranean Landscape, 1946 Original lithograph Signed in pencil bottom right Numbered / XX On Lana vellum 26 x 36 cm (c. 10...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie N, var. 3 (Series N, Variation 3), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

From our collection of original designs. To see more, scroll down to 'More from this seller'. George Horace Davis (1888-1963) Design for publication in The Illustrated London News...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie A, var. 3 (Series A, Variation 3), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie K, var. 5 (Series K, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie J, var. 2 (Series J, Variation 2), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie H, var. 10 (Series H, Variation 10), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Th...

Mosaic on cement panel. Exhibitions: - "Massimo Campigli - Mediterraneità e Modernità", Darmstadt 2003, ed. Mazzotta, Klaus Wolbert, n. 218, p. 333 (full page).   - "Il Tempo dell...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie H, var. 11 (Series H, Variation 11), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Th...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie H, var. 3 (Series H, Variation 3), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie H, var. 4 (Series H, Variation 4), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie H, var. 2 (Series H, Variation 2), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie F, var. 8 (Series F, Variation 8), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie D, var. 9 (Series D, Variation 9), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie C, var. 2 (Series C, Variation 2), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie B, var. 7 (Series B, Variation 7), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie B, var. 4 (Series B, Variation 4), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie A, var. 1 (Series A, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

"Moghanzi du Sultan" translated to "The Sultan's Moghazni" is plate number 4 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of the people of Mo...

Childhood Memory is an original Modern artwork realized by Luigi Spacal (Trieste, 1907 - Trieste, 2000) in the half of the 20th Century. Original B/W woodcut on cardboard. Excellent conditions. Lojze Spacal...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Élégie d'Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes, Planche IV Lithograph from 1949. A copy from a limited edition of 16/64 (photocopy of the colophon is included). On...

Henri Matisse (After), French (1869-1954) Le Lagon (Lagoon) Portfolio: Jazz Year: Of Original: 1947 Year Printed: 1983 Medium: Lithograph Size: 15.25 x 23.5 in. (38.74 x 59.69 cm) F...

This original vintage painting by American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell presents a captivating example of his surrealist vision during the mid-20th century. Painted in 1940, the co...

Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 20H x 30L. Signed.

Etching, aquatint and drypoint. Not Signed and not Numbered as issued. Edition of 226 pieces. Belongs to the Suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon" (plate p. 86). Printed by Lacourièr...

George Platt Lynes Photograph #12 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949. George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver portrait photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition. This photograph is #12 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection. George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian. Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...

In an article published in Le Figaro (Paris, March 19, 1964), Raymond Cogniat comments on Czóbel’s unique artistic style. He writes: “...Czóbel, who arrived Paris in the first years...

Lotte Jacobi Chaim Weizmann Photograph Year: 1948 Size: 11.5x9.5in Annotated by hand on verso in pencil Ref.: 924802-1354 Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century. Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way: "I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best." Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost...

This 1949 original poster titled Congo Belge, created by French illustrator Laboulais, offers a striking example of mid-20th-century colonial-era educational and promotional art. Pub...

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 80 x 91.5 x 6 cm

Original mid-century illustration for the children's book "Good Work" by John G. McCullough, Young Scott Books, N.Y. It depicts a busy harbor filled with commercial and leisure traffic. Notice all the charming little people, busy at work - dotting the docks and boats. Ipcar masterfully designed the work so that your eye effortlessly travels from more prominent foreground elements to more minor elements in the distance. But her color scheme limited only to two colors sets "Harbor Scene" apart from the humdrum and elevates it to a sophisticated children's book illustration. The suspension bridge in the back of the composition is modeled after the Golden Gate. The illustration bears the hallmarks of modernism with its flat shapes and quick painterly style. "Harbor Scene" represents the artist's early style. By the '60s and '70s, her work began to take on a new direction with intricate patterns and depicting animals. Signed lower right with the artist's label on verso. Dahlov Ipcar...

Ferenc Berko Nude in Tub, ca. 1940-1949 Gelatin silver print, 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. Signed in pencil and misc. notations in black ink on print verso by Ferenc Berko

Work on canvas Gray wooden frame 56 x 48 x 5.5 cm

Irène Lagut (1893-1994) Water horses, 1940s Oil on canvas Artwork: 13 x 18 1/8 in. l 33 x 46 cm Framed: 15 1/3 x 20 1/2 in. l 39 x 52 cm Signed lower right Irène Lagut (1893–1994) w...

Original American Lobby Card of the Movie „TARZAN AND THE MERMAIDS“ USA/MEXICO 1948 Director: Robert Florey, Actors/Stars: Johnny Weissmuller (Tarza...

Dennis Ainsley: 1880-1952. He was born in Illinois but spent a lot of time painting in France. This fabulous oil on canvas measures 36 inches wide by 24 inches high.. The beautiful f...

Original American Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie „Pinocchio“, USA 1940. Pinocchio with his father and maker on a raft on the wild sea. Keywords: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantas...

Windmill. Middle of 1940s, oil on cardboard, 54x65 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applied arts (1942 – 43), in s...

E Davis Graphis International Poster, December 1947 Gouache 30 x 23 cm Signed to reverse Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell Graphis is a renowned international journal of vi...

Very impressive early American modernist flower still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 12H by 16L. Exceptional...

WILLIAM YATES-WILSON (fl. 1940-1960) His First Long Trousers Signed l.r.: YATES/WILSON Oil on canvas 61 by 51 cm., 24 by 20 in. (frame size 81 by 71.5 cm., 32 by 28 in.) William ...

Oil on cardstock painting of oil tankers docked in port along with people dockside on a bright clear day by the Long Island American artist, Whitney Myron H...

Ex Libris. Dr. Giorgio Balbi is an artwork realized by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1944. Etching on paper. Hand-signed on the lower right margin. Limited edition...

Original American Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie „Pinocchio“, USA 1940. Pinocchio gets applause on stage. Keywords: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Cartoon, living Puppet...

Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing. Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...

Norma Jeane Mortenson or better known as Marilyn Monroe – iconic, beautiful and maybe the most known Hollywood Stars of the 20th century. Born and raised in Los Angeles, USA, she spent most of her childhood in foster homes and orphanage. She got married with only 16 years old and while working for a factory during WW II, she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and started a succesful modeling career. The rest of her life is history: In the 50s she was one of the most marketable actresses, had held leading roles in various movies and was known for her immense sex appeal. As a highly intelligent woman, she knew how to build a career, while, in her private life she struggled with addiction and mood disorder. At the age of 36 she died from an overdose of barbiturates at her Los Angeles home. With her breathy voice and hourglass figure, she is until today one of Hollywood's most famous actresses. Description: Marilyn's Wedding/The bridal Couple, June 19...

This compelling original French political poster from 1947 features a striking portrait of General Charles de Gaulle, urging citizens to vote for the newly founded Rassemblement du P...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 90 prints. In excellent condition. A wonderful print describes a hanged man which was created in 1946 and published in 1977 by “Vertice Editoria ...

Beautiful poster of Emil Bon for the Algerian railroads, towards the Sahara passing by the famous canyon of El Kantara. El Kantara is a town and commune in the province of Biskra, Al...

Woman with Floral Cloth Background (Portrait of Grace), 1944 Crayon and pencil on paper, 28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm) Framed dimensions: 32 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches Signed and dated at...

Atul Bose - Fakir-1 & 3 Pencil on Paper 6 x 6 inches & 6.6 x 6 inches (Set of 2 Works) (Unframed & Delivered) In this evocative sketch, Atul captures the weathered face and humble p...

Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

While father is away fighting in battle, mother and daughter do their share in the war effort by purchasing U.S. War Stamp Bonds in this 1942 poster entitled, Even A Little Can Help ...

The 1945 poster by Raoul Dufy for the "Le Havre Grand Gala Cinématographique," held at the Palais de Chaillot, stands as a poignant and artistic reminder of post-war solidarity and c...

In the County Jail, Greene County, GA by Jack Delano is a black and white gelatin silver print of men playing music and dancing inside of a jail. Gelatin Silver Print Image size: 9 ...