1930s Prints and Multiples

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...

Ex-Libris - Luigi Servolini is an Artwork realized in 1930 by the Italian Artist Luigi Servolini (Livorno, 10 marzo 1906 – Livorno, 21 settembre 1981) Woodcut colored print on ivory...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Paul Klee (after) The Yellow Donkey (Der Gelbe Esel) Year: 1939 Lithograph Size: 14.125x19.6 on 20.6x26 inches Esther Gentle, Reproduction, 1952 Edition: 300 Inscribed in pencil stam...

The 1935 original advertising poster for Dunlop introduces "The Sports Tire," a revolutionary innovation crafted to elevate driving performance and excitement. Produced by J. Herbert...

The Lovers in the countryside is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Sho...

Original 1934 “Lyon — A Internacia Foiro” original vintage poster, linen-backed and ready to frame. Striking original 1934 Art Deco-era poster for the Lyon International Fair, title...

Plate 5. "Terrasse propriete a Cannes" from "Décoration moderne dans l'intérieur" bu Henry Delacroix. Paris, ca. 1930. Pochoir with hand-coloring. Mild yellowing at edges.

Oedicneme Criard - Eurasian Stone Curlew French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustration...

Heron Bihoreau - Black Crowned Night Heron French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrati...

Foulque - Common Coot French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of il...

Mouflon French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of...

Becassine - Snipe French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illust...

Rale des Genets - Corn Crake French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. ...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Aaron and the Candle (Menorah), (Aaron et le chandelier), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 1...

It's clear to me that that baby carriage is so beautifully drawn that it could be re-constructed from here if necessary. Without really knowing anything about Lucile Haynes I'm sure...

Lalibela is an original etching on paper realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1939. Hand-signed in pencil. Image Dimensions: 31 x 49.5 cm. Num...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195mm by 265mm (sheet)

David Feintstein is a master draughtsman working in the genre of everyday life in New York City. His style is highly original, especially in this work. Here he's used Visitors' Day (...

Medium: original lithograph poster. This striking art deco piece was published in Paris in 1933 by Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (290 x 210). Signed in the ...

Original Fortune Magazine 1938 vintage cover. Archival linen backed in very fine condition; ready to frame. Artist: Miguel Covarrubias (1904 – 1957) This is an Original Letter Press...

The poster by Charles Yray, bearing the compelling message "Jeunes Gens qui Hésitez sur le Choix d'une Situation, Allez aux Colonies" (Young people who hesitate about choosing a care...

The circa 1930 original poster by Kenneth D. Shoesmith for Penang, British Malaya is a stunning example of early 20th-century travel advertising, promoting Penang as an exotic and al...

In these beady-eyed playboys, Durieux pokes some fun at the pride and pretensions of the Great Gatsby class. Here are two Americans pretending to be macho on a Mexican beach. Caroline Durieux (American, 1896 – 1989) Printmaker, painter, satirist, innovator, social activist, Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920). Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum of Art encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, she learned lithography from Emilio Amero...

Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...

Tete (From Poesie) Henri Matisse French (1869–1954) Date: 1932 Etching Edition of 145 Image Size: 10 x 7.5 inches Frame Size: 16 x 13.75 inches Printer: Roger Lacourière, Paris Pub...

Edgar DEGAS (after) Whorehouse Scene : Blond Hair Girl Original etching and aquatint On Rives vellum 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch) In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (the great art...

The Barker Etching, 1931 Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition) Numbered in pencil lower left Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etc...

Mily POSSOZ (1888-1967) A Sunny Day In the Garden , 1930 Original etching Handsigned in pencil by the artist Numbered / 60 copies Blind stamp of the editor Marcel Guiot (Paris) On v...

The Motivational Speech For Soldiers is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier( 1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1...

'Macreuse Noire - Macreuse a Lunettes' (Common Scoter and Surf Scoter) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From ...

Study for Self-portrait is an original lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1930s. Good conditions. No signature. Raoul Dufy (3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvist pai...

Charles Turzak, 'The Workers (No. 1)', woodcut, edition c. 50, c. 1935. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove...

Charles Turzak, 'The Workers (No. 2)', woodcut, edition 50, c. 1935. Signed and numbered 2/50 in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margin...

'Sarcelle D'Hiver' (Eurasian Teal) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of ...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...

Original vintage naval military recruitment poster Engagez-vous dans la Marine / Join the Navy featuring dynamic artwork of a warship at sea with the num...

'Sarcelle D'Ete' (Garganey) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. ...

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun fronti...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

'Oie Cendree - Oie des Moissons' (Greylag Goose) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of ill...

'Canard Morillon' (Tufted Duck) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of bir...

'Bernache Cravant' (Brent Goose) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of bi...

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan Chicago : Animated Avenue, c. 1931 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On vellum 38 x 50 cm (c. 15 x 20 in) Very good condition, light defects a...

(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...

The circa 1930 original poster by Jacques Majorelle, titled “Marrakech”, is a stunning representation of both the artist’s fascination with Morocco and his remarkable ability to blend vibrant color palettes with the rich, exotic imagery of North Africa. Majorelle, a French painter who settled in Morocco in 1917, is most renowned for his depictions of the country’s landscapes, people, and culture. This poster reflects his passion for Marrakech, the city where he lived and built his famous garden, the Jardin Majorelle, which would later become a world-renowned landmark. Majorelle's poster highlights the intersection of colonial-era exoticism and modernist artistic sensibilities. In this piece, he portrays an African woman sitting amidst lush tropical vegetation, emphasizing her cultural adornments and the natural surroundings. The use of bold colors and strong contrasts, especially with the deep greens and earthy browns of the foliage, are a hallmark of Majorelle’s style, which often borrowed from the Orientalist tradition but infused it with a modernist’s sense of abstraction and emotional intensity. The woman’s posture is relaxed yet commanding, as she seems deeply connected to the land and nature around her. Her intricate jewelry and adornments reflect the artist’s attention to the details of indigenous culture, which Majorelle deeply admired. His works are often celebrated for their respectful and evocative portrayals of local life, avoiding some of the more stereotypical and reductive images often seen in European depictions of North Africa during the colonial period. Majorelle’s connection to Marrakech and Morocco is well-documented. His time in the country deeply influenced his artistic direction, and he became one of the most important European artists to depict the Maghreb. His posters, paintings, and designs not only served to advertise Morocco as a destination during the colonial period but also immortalized the country's allure and its vibrant cultural heritage. Majorelle was known not only for his posters and paintings but also for his deep love for the culture of Morocco, which is evident in this work. His appreciation for the landscape and the people of Marrakech comes through clearly in this depiction, offering viewers a window into the artist’s own experience of the country. Today, Majorelle’s work is widely recognized as a vital contribution to the history of French art and the cultural history of Morocco. His posters, like “Marrakech”, serve as both artworks and historical documents, offering insight into how Morocco was viewed and represented in European art during the early 20th century. Furthermore, they continue to inspire admiration for their beauty, technical skill, and emotional depth. In summary, Jacques Majorelle’s “Marrakech” poster...

BERNARD (JOSEPH) STEFFEN (1907 – 1980) PULLING CORN (FODDER HOPPER) c. 1935-45 Color serigraph signed with a full signature below the image at the lower right sheet edge . Unknown e...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Ex Libris - Gianni Mantero -Ex Musicis is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed on the lower margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Cze...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Original 1931 collotype created from Gustav Kilmt’s Portrait of Charlotte Pulitzer, oil on canvas, 1915. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Vienna, in an edition of 500. In 1931, Max Eisler published the most notable posthumous collection of Gustav Klimt works to date. Using a complex gravure process, Klimt’s original...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Peseur d'âmes, précédé d'un frontispice et suivi de hui...

Original "Fete des Fleurs" vintage Swiss poster. Archivally linen backed and ready to frame. Printer: "Sonor', Geneva, Switzerland The Fest...

Henri Matisse, French (1869 - 1954) - Stephane Mallarme II. Medium: Etching on Arches, Size: 13 x 9.75 in. (33.02 x 24.77 cm), Printer: Roger Lacouriere, Paris, Publisher: Albert Ski...