"Picking Apples in Arcadia, " Art Deco Painting with Nudes by Harlem Muralist

Painted by Antoinette Schulte, a widely-respected artist in New York, who exhibited and taught widely, this painting depicts male and female nudes sheltered by the boughs of a tree h...

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...

Adam and Eve Oil on canvas signed below left «E.R. Ménard 1923» Labels on the back, including one from the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1925. Titled in a cartou...

Very large oil on canvas depicting Cupid asleep, with probably Psyche looking on. An inscription in the lower right, difficult to read, speaks of Psyche and her two sisters (the two ...