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Period: 1940s
Signed Maison Jansen Boiserie, France
Located in Stamford, CT
Signed Maison Jansen boiserie panel with oval medallion decoration.
Category
French Beaux Arts Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Painting from the 1940s, Mid-Century Art, Blue, Chocolate
White Colors, Golden
Located in New York, NY
Decorative painting from the 1940s. Painting has a beautiful gold frame with a linen liner.
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Acrylic
$1,950 Sale Price
33% Off
Restored Vintage 1949 Rattan Framed Crane Barkcloth Fabric Sample by Spectrum
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This framed crane barkcloth fabric sample, produced by the Spectrum company around 1949, served as a showcase of mid-century design aesthetics. Displayed in rattan showrooms across t...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"Night at the Follies" 1947 Original Linen Backed Theatrical Poster Evelyn West
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
"Night at the Follies" 1947 an original vintage linen backed one-sheet theatrical film movie poster. Size is 30 X 44 with the linen added.
A Night at the Follies, the 1947 W. Merle Connell burlesque documentary ("Daring!"; "Gorgeous Girls Great comedians Glamorous dancers"; "You've heard about it! You've read about it! Now see Big Time Burlesque Just as presented at the world famous follies theatre in Los Angeles"; "Something new in entertainment!"; "Evelyn West...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli
Daliya
Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Parrot Porcelain , 1945
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Material: porcelain
Porzellanfabrik Karl Ens was established in 1899 but it wasn't first porcelain business of the Ens family. Karl Ens (senior) founded in 1860 the Triebner, Ens & ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
$3,200
Vintage Swedish Framed Embroidery of a Native Woman in a Tropical Environment
Located in Stockholm, SE
Vintage Swedish framed embroidery of a native woman in a tropical environment. A "Bloomsbury" bohemian style embroidery made in the 1940s. A dreamy kind o...
Category
Swedish Bohemian Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
African Pair Basrelief Wall Wood Sculptures
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Vintage handcarved wood wall sculptures- pair of African basteliefs.
Category
Unknown American Craftsman Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
$487 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Vintage Letter O in Solid Brass, Sweden ca 1940
s
Located in Örebro, SE
Vintage letter O in solid brass, covered with old paint (red & gold), Sweden ca 1940's.
Wear and patina consistent with age and use. Paint loss as see...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
Early Important Harry Bertoia Monotype
Located in Chicago, IL
Early Important Harry Bertoia Monotype, One of his first works on paper, Monoprint on Rice Raper
Signed to verso ‘HB’. Inscribed to lower right ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Petite French Faience Quimper Dish Circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
Petite French Faience Quimper Dish Circa 1950.
Diamond shape.
Category
French Rustic Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Black Forest Vintage Roe Deer Trophy on Carved Plaque 1940s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Black Forest Vintage Roe Deer Trophy on Carved Plaque 1940s
An antique roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) trophy on a wooden carved plaque. The plaque is decorated with carved oak leave...
Category
German Black Forest Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Antler, Wood
Monumental Charger/Low Bowl with Roman Scene, Made in Italy, Blue and Deep Red
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully painted with a scene from ancient Rome depicting two soldiers near a body of water, this large, impressive charger is marked "Made in Italy." The glazes are rich and lov...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
$1,540 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Postcard Signed by Raul Anguiano, 1949
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Antique Postcard signed by Raul Anguiano. 1949.
José Raúl Anguiano Valadez (February 26, 1915 – January 13, 2006) was a notable Mexican painter of the 20th century, part of the “second generation” of Mexican muralists which continued the tradition of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros but experimented with it as well. Anguiano was born during the height of the Mexican Revolution...
Category
Mexican Other Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Oil On Canvas Circular Art Deco Paintings Of The Smoky Mountains
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Rare circular Art Deco scenes of the Smoky Mountains with date and details rendered behind the paintings. Beautifully hand painted in vivid hues and original circular gilt frames. Em...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
$640 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Mid-Century Woodwork of Horseracing by K. Zentner, Czechoslovakia, 1944
Located in Praha, CZ
- Mid-Century woodwork of horce racing, 1944
- made of wood,
- shows signs of wear and age,
- in good original condition.
Category
Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
"Stomping Grapes, " Art Deco Etched/Enameled Mirrored Panel with Winemaking Scene
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Remarkable in its size, ambition and complexity, this large Art Deco mirrored panel depicts a grape stomping scene at its center, surrounded by a farm scene full of life, executed in...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
$18,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Postcard Signed by Raul Anguiano. 1948
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Antique Postcard Signed by Raul Anguiano. 1948. Dedicated to Arturo Arnaiz y Freg.
José Raúl Anguiano Valadez (February 26, 1915 – January 13, 2006) was a notable Mexican painter of the 20th century, part of the “second generation” of Mexican muralists which continued the tradition of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros but experimented with it as well. Anguiano was born during the height of the Mexican Revolution...
Category
Mexican Other Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli
Oded
Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Very Rare Harry Bertoia Monoprint on Rice Paper
Located in Munich, DE
Purchased at la modern around 20 years ago. It´s the size of the work - not the frame.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"At the Old Stone Wall" Original Oil by Emmett Watson
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Oil on canvas; 25" x 32." From the archives of the Shaw Barton Calendar Co. used for an early calendar print. Framed. Watson sold most of his freelance pulp covers to the (1893- 1955) Frank A. Munsey Publishing Company for Argosy, Big Chief Western, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Railroad Stories. Emmett...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
"Aquarius, " Important Art Deco Tile with Nude Male and Limed Oak Frame
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Created by Bonnie MacLeary, a Texas-born sculptor famed for her "Aspiration" and "Ouch" bronzes, two of several created in the 1920s, this classic Art Deco tile dates from the 1940s,...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Oak
Pinball Playing Cards Backglass Framed as Found Art
Located in New York, NY
Original early backglass for a vintage pinball machine. These were the art pieces found in the back of the pinball ball machines that would l...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass, Wood
Framed Scandinavian Traditional Embroidered Blouse
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Visually striking Danish traditional blouse in off-white with blue embroidery reminiscent of a vyshyvanka decorative shirt, but Scandinavian in orig...
Category
Danish Rustic Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Silk, Glass, Wood
1940
s Large Hand Made Decorative Wall Panels - Pair
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1940's Large Hand Made Decorative Wall Panels - Pair. Sourced from a factory boardroom in Latvia, the panels were used as decoration in the factory boardroom. The factory produced el...
Category
Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Aluminum
Framed Ww ii Nautical Signal Flag
Yellow
Blue
Located in North Miami, FL
This flag represents the sign for "BOOT SIGNAL - STEER TOWARDS" - according to the international flags and pennants chart. The flag is a vivid yellow and blue. Hardware is galvanized steel. This is a large ship standard sized flag. THIS ITEM IS LOCATED AND WILL SHIP FROM OUR MIAMI, FLORIDA SHOWROOM.
Professionally framed in natural maple low profile shadow box and sewn on to the matting, this vintage German-made nautical Signal flag from WW II era, was never used and acquired as a group. The purpose of International Signal Code Flags...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Wood
1940s Vintage Black and White Porcelain EXIT Sign
Located in Newfoundland, PA
Cool 1940s porcelain EXIT sign. Measuring: 18 in long x 5 in.
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Letter S in Solid Brass, Sweden ca 1940
s
Located in Örebro, SE
Vintage letter S in solid brass, covered with old paint (red & gold), Sweden ca 1940's.
Wear and patina consistent with age and use. Paint loss as see...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
19th Century Portrait of a Woman Painted in Oil on Canvas with Frame
Located in Marbella, ES
19th Century portrait of a woman painted in oil on canvas with the frame dated in 1940
Measurements with frame: 69 x 69 x 3 cm.
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Italian mid century rectangular mirror with lines drawing, Gio Ponti style, 1940
By Gio Ponti
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern rectangular mirror with lines drawn on the glass, in the style of Gio Ponti, 1940s.
Rectangular mirror, with Pontian lines drawing on the glass. White desi...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Mirror, Wood
$521 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli
Bar-Kokhba
Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is written in bolt blue letters over a white background, alluding to the colors of the national flag of the newly established state. The sign names the street 'Bar Kokhba' in Israel in both Hebrew and English letters. (In transliteration), as well as in Arabic.
Simon ben...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Wiedemann
s Fine Beer Trade Sign
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Wiedemann's Fine beer - The Leader Trade sign with three Canada geese on oval walnut plaque.
German immigrant George Wiedemann began brewing at the original Wiedemann brewery in Ne...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Gazelle French Shoe Poster Signed
Robys
By Robys
Located in Westport, CT
Stamped'' Robys'' Advertising shoe poster with gift box and shoes and Gazelles jumping out of it! Framed in black and silver leaf trim Frame, circa 1940, ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Homage to Belgian Resistance Against Nazis, Remarkable Wall Plate by d
hossche
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Designed and executed by Ernest d'Hossche, one of Belgium's leading Art Deco artisans in the 1930s and 40s, this very rare wall plate features a nude female figure holding an upright...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli
Yitshak Katzenelson
Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli
S
madar
Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli
Sinai
Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Engraved Pink Tinted Glass Panel, circa 1940
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Engraved pink tinted glass panel, circa 1940.
Little splinter on the bottom (see picture) but not visible when assembled.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
French Plaster Head
Located in Stamford, CT
Fanciful French plaster head with pocket.
Category
French Medieval Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Plaster
$1,500
Monique CRAS (1910-2007), "Mouflon Hunter - Hoggar", 1942
By Monique Cras
Located in Paris, FR
Monique Amélie Cras, born in Brest in 1910 and died in Paris in 2007, was a French painter and poster artist. The daughter of composer Jean Cras, she studied under Jean-Paul Laurens ...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli
El
azar
Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The sign is ...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century Enamel and Iron Israeli
Yoav
Street Name Sign
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century handmade Israeli street name sign. Made of enamel and iron, this street sign was created shortly after the establishment of the state o...
Category
Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel, Iron
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