1940s Art

Artist: Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita Title: 'La Reve' Year: 1947 Medium: lithograph on paper Size: 22" x 29 7/8" (sheet) Edition: E.A, aside of the edition of 50 signed & numbered in ...

Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 -2002) - Les Manifestes du Surrealisme Diptych, Year: 1946, Medium: Two Etchings, titled in the plate, Edition: 58, Image Size: 5.5 x 4 inches, Size:...

John F. Carlson Hyannis Pond, 1940 Signed lower left Oil on board 16 x 20 inches Provenance Vose Galleries Private Collection, New Jersey The native Swede John Fabian Carlson beca...

Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...

This is an Robert W. Wood Original Oil Painting 1941. Measures 34x28. Condition report painting has some damage. Small hole on top, hole that’s been repaired in the center. Minor scr...

Francis Mabel Hollams (British, 1877–1963) Three Portraits of “Scrap,” a Wire-Haired Terrier Oil on wood panel, monogrammed lower left “FMH” Circa 1940–1950 A delightful and charac...

Very finely painted early French impressionist street scene. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed and ready to hang!

Beautiful impressionistic landscape of Shongum Lake, New Jersey countryside in Spring with Stream and blossoms by Rudolph J. Eicher (1884 - 1958), Circa 1940s. Bright springtime fo...

Woodcut print realized by Escher in 1948. Hand signed in pencil and annotated in pencil lower right "eigen druck". Monogrammed and dated in the plate "MCE/X-'48 upper right. One o...

Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century Carlos Lopez (1910-1953) "Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office 19 ½ x 22 ½ inches Oil on B...

Whimsical oil on paper painting of a tabby cat resting on a rug and backed by large abstract cat forms, circa 1940. Signed lower left. Original artwork on paper displayed on a whit...

Pablo PICASSO Carmen, The Sleeping Woman, 1949 Original burin engraving (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On Montval wove paper 33 x 26 cm (12.9 x 10.2 in) REFERENCES : - Catal...

Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...

Paris: A Collection of Three Paintings of Paris Scenes by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) the Eiffel Tower painting is signed front lower right and also inscribed to the back, the Versailles painting...

Transport yourself to the heart of Paris during the enchanting 1940s with this exquisite original painting by the renowned artist Moura Chabor (1905 - 199...

This 18 x 9 x 4 inch carved wood sculpture is unsigned and comes directly from the artist's family. Louis 'Lou' Bunin (28 March 1904 – 17 February 1994) was an American puppeteer, artist, and pioneer of stop-motion animation in the latter half of the twentieth century. While working as a mural artist under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created political puppet shows using marionettes...

Expressive watercolor figurative of fisherman pulling in the nets by Walter P. Taylor (American, 20th Century). Signed "W.P. Taylor U.S.N.R.'45 (for United States Naval Reserve)" low...

Antique impressionist seascape oil painting by Tod (Raphael Leroy) Lindenmuth (1885 - 1976) . Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a...

Got mit uns is an original modern rare book illustrated by Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1947. Original Edition. 715 numbered copies. Published by La Margherita,...

Pablo PICASSO Carmen, The Man in the Square, 1949 Original burin engraving (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On Montval wove paper 33 x 26 cm (12.9 x 10.2 in) REFERENCES : - Cat...

“Boats Resting, Nantucket, 1940” by Emily L. Hoffmeier (American, 1888-1952) A lovely depiction of a serene harbor scene by the important Nantucket painter and founding member of th...

Impressive early French impressionist Paris street scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 24H by 40L.

A long and quiet night in the hotel lobby is depicted by Clyde Singer in this moody and still painting. Entitled Hotel Night Lobby (1947), Singer paints a moment of solitude during ...

Reynaldo Maya Born 1911 Texas / Mexico / Europe Artist Medium: Oil Circa 1940s Image Size: 10 x 8 Frame Size: 18 1/2 x 16 1/2 "Mexican Street Scene" with Church Biography Reynaldo Maya Born 1911 Maya, Reynaldo (1911- Mexican Artist’s Paintings...

Vintage American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 14 by 21 inches overall, and 9 by 16 painting alone.. In excellent original co...

This striking British Post Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted Manchester artist Harry Rutherford. Painted circa 1940, the portrait is of a dark haired young woman in a f...

Original 1942 CASABLANCA vintage movie poster. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. The original production fold marks have been touched up and restored. This is an authentic vintage 1942 issue of Casablanca for sale. "Casablanca" is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in cinema history. It received critical acclaim upon its release and won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Michael Curtiz, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The cast's performances, memorable dialogue, and timeless romance have contributed to the film's enduring popularity. "Casablanca" remains a cultural touchstone and is often referenced in popular media. • Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): The owner of Rick's Café Américain, an establishment known for its lively atmosphere. Rick is initially portrayed as detached and cynical, but his past is revealed as the story progresses. • Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman): A Norwegian woman with a complicated history with Rick. She is caught in a love triangle between Rick and her husband, Victor Laszlo. • Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains): The corrupt and witty French police captain in Casablanca. He adds a layer of humor to the film and undergoes a moral transformation as the story unfolds. Over the years, the Casablanca poster...

East River (Untitled), c. 1940s, oil on canvas signed lower right, 18 x 24 inches Isabella Markell was a painter, etcher, and sculptor, who is best known for her New York City scen...

Original vintage 1949 photograph by DON WHITMAN - Western Photography Guild - of popular celebrity Physique Model ED FURY. This is an early original gelatin silver print from the for...

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Croquis de danseurs (Sketch of Dancers), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and the intimate psychological nuances of the ballet studio. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Croquis de danseurs (Sketch of Dancers), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches (1945) is one of the earliest and most significant American postwar fine art portfolios devoted to Edgar Degas’s intimate works on paper. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, and rendered and printed by Albert Carman at City Island, the album sought to faithfully reproduce a group of Degas’s ballet-related drawings through a combination of lithography and hand-applied pochoir coloring. This hybrid technique allowed the edition to preserve the immediacy, tonal subtlety, and gestural delicacy central to Degas’s draftsmanship. Conceived as a fine art publication rather than a commercial book, the portfolio provided American audiences unprecedented access to Degas’s private, spontaneous studies—images that reveal the artist’s fascination with movement, anatomy, and the psychological atmosphere of the rehearsal studio. The album exemplifies the mid-20th-century revival of pochoir as a means of recreating the texture and coloristic nuance of original works on paper, and it remains an important document of how Degas’s legacy was translated into high-quality printed form for collectors, museums, and connoisseurs. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Degas pochoir, Degas lithograph...

Rolf Stoll (American, 1892-1978) Kae Dorn Cass, 1940 Oil on canvas Signed upper right 32 x 25 inches 38 x 31 inches, framed Exhibited: The 27th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1940 This work won first prize for oil painting- Portrait category Provenance: Collection of Kae Dorn Cass's niece Kae Dorn Cass Rolf Stoll Rolf Stoll, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes and floral still lifes, was an important member of the Cleveland art scene during the second quarter of the century. He was also an influential teacher, as well as one of Ohio’s foremost portrait painters. Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1892. As a boy, he attended a military academy, during which time he developed an interest in art. He received his early formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City. A decade later, after studying at the school of the National Academy of Design and supporting himself by working as a commercial artist, Stoll decided to leave New York. Upon the recommendation of Warren Pryor, one of his teachers, he decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. After arriving in Cleveland, Rolf Stoll continued to work as a commercial artist. However, in 1926, he joined the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught drawing. Two years later Stoll was appointed head of the school’s portrait painting department. A talented portraitist, Stoll’s sitters included industrialists, community leaders and many prominent members of Cleveland and Ohio society, as well as over twenty faculty members from Case Western Reserve University. Stoll also gave portrait classes at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute from 1926 to 1953. In his male portraits especially, he was admired for his ability to convey the dignity of his sitter’s professional position without sacrificing individuality. As noted by one contemporary reviewer, Stoll was a “master of rich color, a searching student of human types, a forceful portrayer of all that the face reveals of the mind and the soul.” In addition to his activity as a portraitist, Rolf Stoll painted figure subjects and floral still lifes. He was also known for his views of the Ohio countryside...

5140 Oversized Antique French oil painting depicting a Frenchman in an interior scene Framed

Demetrios GALANIS Lovers in Bed Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Printed in Haasen workshop in 19...

Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Society Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1940s. Gouache on heavy illustration paper, image measures 17 x 14 inches; 23 x 20 inches in matting. Signed lower left. Very good condition but matting panel should be replaced. Unframed. Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques. He found that talent in Barbara Shermund. For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice. Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence. “Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League. In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.” “While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund. And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral...

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 21 by 25 inches overall, and 16 by 20 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsomel...

Antique American school modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris by Mourlot and published by Pierre à Feu and Maeght Editeur for the Marcel Duchamp / André Breton project Surréalisme en 1947. Issued in...

Louis Conrad Rosenberg, 'Bowling Green, New York', etching, 1940. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with all the fine lines printing c...

Medium: original woodcut. Printed in 1947 in an edition of 950 on Rives wove paper for "Pierre a feu / Les miroirs profonds" and published in Paris by Maeght. Image size: 8 1/4 x 6 1...

Medium: pochoir (after the drawing). A soft and delicate impression, printed in Paris in 1948 and published in an edition of 1200 by Braun et Cie. Size: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (164 x 1...

This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Symphonie chromatique (Chromatic Symphony), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 8, originates from...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock, "Fischerschoner und Segelboote an einem Dock" by Rudolph Guba (German/American, 1884-1950) Impasto work which depicts several sailing ves...

This original vintage painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), titled Quitting Time from his Black and Blue Series (1941), exemplifies the artist’s signature Abstract Structu...

Very well painted 1947 winter landscape by E.G. Seifert. I cannot find any information on this obviously talented artist. It is an oil on board measuring 20 inches wide by 16 high. T...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Jentie Bernard (Jentie Bernard), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from the 1943 edition pub...

Vintage signed large abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.

Paris: Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur, the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) signed lower right watercolour and gouache painting on ar...

Etching, Engraving on vélin du Lana Papiers Spéciaux pure rag paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Du Cubisme, 1947. Published by Compagn...

Self-Portrait, c. 1940, oil and tempera on Masonite, artist’s name inscribed verso, 30 x 25 inches William Ashby McCloy was an American artist, educator, and clinical psychologist. ...

This gorgeous porcelain sculpture from Hutschenreuther porcelain is of two galloping horses, sculpted in exquisite detail and signed by the sculptor, Max Hermann Fritz...

Very finely painted realist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20H by 23L.

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

Lithograph, 1948. Signed by the artist and dated in pencil, lower right. Numbered 4/12 in pencil, lower left.

Original Mosaic on cement panel. Ref.: Domus 1948, p. IX and p. 29. An awesome and beautiful example on Campigli's Art of creating imaginative characters following his creativity,...

Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.

This exquisite halftone print after Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), titled Equivalent, Series 107, originates from the 1947 folio Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio, 1864–1946. Published by ...

This superb British 1940's portrait oil painting is by noted artist Frank Owen Salisbury also known as Frank O'Salisbury. Painted in 1944 it is a three quarter length portrait of a l...

The 1947 travel poster for Stresa, created by artist Theo Taimonti, is a breathtaking example of mid-century tourism advertising. Designed as part of Italy’s post-war tourism revival...

Original FREEDOM OF SPEECH, large size format, 1943 vintage poster. Archival linen backing with the original fold marks restored and ready to frame. This is the most popular and most requested among the Four Freedoms posters...