"Nude in Tropical Garden, " Brilliantly-Hued Art Deco Painting by Cenci, 1949

Exhibited at the Thirteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1933, this large WPA-influenced painting by Arthur D. Brooks depicts a nude female torso in a classical setting, complete with columned temple front, scroll and Greek urn. The artist includes a cluster of column elements to one side, including an Ionic column capita and a fluted column shaft, as well as an arched Roman facade, and a Greek pedimented...

One of the most sensual and brilliant Art Deco paintings in the French manner that we have ever offered, this idyllic scene of Satyr and Nymph, lounging under a fruited tree with lush fields in the distance, was painted by Gheorghe Labin in 1932. Labin was one of Romania's avant-garde artists in the 1920s and 1930s, and clearly he trained in Paris, because the lush scene, brilliant palette, and confident brush strokes indicate an intimate familiarity with the leading painters associated with what we now call Art Deco. This painting was entered into the Salon Bucarest in 1932, in a period when Labin exhibited with Mattis Teutsch, the de facto leader of Romania's modern painters, together with Corneliu Baba...

Art Deco pastel painting nudes in a landscape by Georges Lavergne. Signed and dated 1936. Ink, crayon and pastel on paper. France. Contemporary frame. Size: H. 68 cm. x L. 89.5 c...

Watercolor and ink depicting a blonde female nude with soulful and downcast dark eyes partially obscured by colorful flowers. The viewer is given a glimpse of the blue waters and stu...