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Period: 1940s
1941 Dumbo (French) Original Vintage Poster
By Walt Disney
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful poster of the classic Disney film Dumbo from the French release of the film. Released in 1941 by Walt Disney Productions & released by RKO Radio Pi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
James NORTHFIELD, Original Oil Painting Circa. 1940
By Boris Bucan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is an original oil painting by James Northfield. This paining has been signed by James Northfield himself, the painting has been done on board. It was most likely a study. The o...
Category
Australian Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
1946 Grenoble - Centenaire de La Salette Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning poster from 1946 creating in celebration of the Centenaire de La Salette or Centennary of Our Lady of La Salette in Grenoble. The Marian apparition was reported by two young...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
1940s Watercolor Painting On Paper Of Asian Woman Wearing Hat - Dorothy Dwin
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1940s Watercolor Painting On Paper Of Asian Woman Wearing Hat
Wearing a Nón Lá (traditional Vietnamese hat)
Signed Dorothy Dwin
Illustration
Category
Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
1943 Loterie Nationale - Original French Vintage Lithographic Poster
Located in Hellerup, DK
Original vintage ''Loterie Nationale" poster from 1943 where profits from the lottery went to charity organisations, and thereby contributed to aid in disaster and war-torn areas.
T...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Lithography by Jean Picart Le Doux on Japanese paper
Located in Paris, FR
Original colored lithograph on japanese paper, countersigned and numbered XXII/XXV by Jean PICART LE DOUX (1902-1982), depicting playful elements, including a five of diamonds and a dice.
He was born in Paris in 1902, and soon abandoned his studies to work as a bookbinder in the publishing industry, before turning to advertising and graphic arts. He published his first works in 1935. He won the Grand Prix for theater posters. He created illustrations for Jean Cocteau, Maurice Ravel...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Fill That Gap WWII Armament Work Training
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster Fill That Gap featuring an image of gentlemen walking alongside a blank silhouette with an illustration of a worker holding a wrench in front of...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
Collection of Vintage Travel Photographs by Fritz Hebberling
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An interesting collection of 16 photos by Fritz Hebberling taken of people on the Holland-America line, circa 1930s-1940s. Vintage gelatin silver prints of various sizes.
Category
Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
American Frohse Anatomical Chart
Located in Otley, GB
A superb vintage American Frohse anatomical chart on canvas. The medical chart is dated 1947 & supplied by Adam Rouilly & Co Ltd London. The an...
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
$1,419 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Vintage General Post Office Advertising Poster Send A Cable Eckersley
Located in London, GB
Original vintage GPO General Post Office advertising poster - Send a cable It's easy - featuring a great design by the notable artist Tom Eckersley (1914-1997) depicting an outline o...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Cable Greetings GPO Anywhere In Commonwealth
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the GPO General Post Office - Cable Greetings Anywhere in the Commonwealth 5'- for Eleven Words (including GLT prefix and the address) from th...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Two Sketches by Olle Bonnier (1925-2016) made ca 1948, Signed O.B.
Located in Stockholm, SE
These sketches by Olle Bonnier are made as preworks for Olle Bonniers sculpture "The whisperer" that was executed in 1948. Chalk crayon on off-white pergament.
Olle Bonnier was born...
Category
Swedish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Nude Portrait of a Young Woman with a Scarf, Maurice Ehlinger, Circa 1940
By Maurice Ambroise Ehlinger
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Nude Portrait of a Young Woman with a Scarf, Maurice Ehlinger, Circa 1940.
We present a rare and refined work by a master portraitist of the 20th century.
Details of the Artwork:
...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Great Britain Will Pursue Japan WWII Plane
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster featuring an illustration of an RAF Royal Air Force plane flying at speed above a Royal Navy warship in camouflage flying a White Ensign flag, t...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
1940 Mont-Dore Auvergne Original Vintage Poster
By Jean Even
Located in Winchester, GB
With stunning artwork from Jean Even, this poster was created in 1940 to advertise the Le Monte-Dore area in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes in central France.
The gorgeous design depicts a ma...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Mirror, Wood
$523 Sale Price
20% Off
1946 Cunard - Queen Elizabeth - Queen Mary Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning poster created in 1946 to promote Cunard and their cruises "Queen Elizabeth" and "Queen Mary" which operated from Cherbourg in France to New York...
Category
Unknown Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage WWII Recruitment Propaganda Poster Idea And An Ideal Air Force
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two military recruitment propaganda poster - Join The Regular Air Force - featuring a great design by the notable artist Tom Eckersley (1914-1997) of a you...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Propaganda Poster Darn Holes At Once WWII Coupon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Darn holes at once Odd wool will do for hidden darns Little holes soon grow into big ones if left undarned a stitch in time saves c...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
C.P. Initials, Portait of African Girl, Charcoal on Paper, Signed Banzyville 1944
Located in Leuven , BE
C.P. Initials,Portait of African Girl,Charcoal on Paper,Signed Banzyville 1944,Framed,Signed and Dated
Category
Congolese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Share Sugar WWII Modernism US Rationing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Propaganda poster Share Sugar - It's war-scarce its war-necessary - Design features a box of sugar on a yellow background with bold black lettering. Is...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Pair of Italian Giltwood Lions
Located in Dallas, TX
Great pair of Italian carved and giltwood Lions. Circa1940. These are sure to make a statement, these are perfect for so many spaces! 30h x 30w
Category
Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
$3,950 / set
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Speed Your Message Imperial Radio Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Art Deco poster advertising British radio telecommunication services - Speed your message via Imperial Eastern Empiradio or Marconi - featuring a stunning geometric ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster British Railways Handle Party Outing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Let British Railways Handle Your Party Outing - featuring a great graphic design of colourful hands holding a cut out paper chain of peop...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
After Thomas Hart Benton "The Farmer
s Son" Signed Original Painting 1944
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in West Hartford, CT
Medium is oil on masonite. Our client purchased over forty years ago in NYC at auction but does not have any paperwork to detail provenance. Painting is signed and dated at lower l...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Masonite
Art deco gold ceramic
By Alfred Auguste Janniot
Located in PAU, FR
Wonderful art deco ceramic wall sculpture.
Gold earthglazed
Attributed to Alfred Auguste Janniot.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
$1,509
Original Vintage Poster GPO 8 Million Telephone Calls Modernism Pat Keely Post
By Pat Keely
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster published by the General Post Office GPO - 8,000,000 telephone calls a day - featuring a great graphic design by the notable British artist Pat Keely (Patrick Cokayne Keely; 1901-1970) depicting the large numbers in deep red across the image with telephone handsets...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Gouache Painting of Young Man
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This evocative gouache portrait by Matthew William Boyhan captures a young man in a moment of deep contemplation. The artist’s use of muted yet warm colors highlights the subject's y...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Alain Le Yaouanc Original Vintage Poster
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Alain Le Yaouanc, (1940) was a painter, sculptor, poet, writer, engraver, and illustrator. His work is often linked to surrealism. This poster is an o...
Category
Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$532 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Build Prosperity Save Now WWII Savings
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - To Build for Prosperity ... Save Now - featuring an old church building in ruins with scaffolding...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Polychrome Screen Print "Zig+Zag" by Josef Zenk
By Joseph Zenk
Located in Montreal, QC
Signed, titled and numbered to lower edge ‘Zig + Zag 7/60 Zenk’. This work is number 7 from the edition of 60. Zenk studied for three years at the National Academy of Design, followe...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Safety Poster Horse Play With Weapons WWII Games
By Abram Games
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two safety poster - Horse play with weapons may end like this... - featuring a dynamic design by the notable British graphic designer Abram Games (Abraham ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Nachte Neben Der Tur Koln Illustrated Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Nachte Neben der Tur neuer Roman in der Kollnischen Illustrierten / Nights by the Door new novel by Justus Franz Wittkop in the Koln illustrated featuring a great graphic design depicting a pair of black shoes outside a row of numbered hotel doors...
Category
German Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster The Clouds Have Eyes War Spy Pilot Camouflage Plane
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - The Clouds Have Eyes - featuring a German Nazi pilot on a reconnaissance spy mission kneeling next to his plane on ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster ABA Swedish Airlines Olle Svensson
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for ABA Swedish Air Lines (1924-1950; now part of the SAS Group / Scandinavian Airlines System). Great design de...
Category
Swedish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Kurt Thorsén, Sweden, Oil on Canvas, Self Portrait of the Artist, Dated 1943
Located in København, Copenhagen
Kurt Thorsén, Sweden. Oil on canvas. Self-portrait of the artist. Dated 1943.
The canvas measures: 93 x 52 cm.
The frame measures: 6 cm.
In excellent condition.
Signed and dated.
Category
Swedish Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
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 Wall Decorations
Irina Shtenberg, Portrait of a Young Woman, Watercolor on Paper, circa 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned.
Attributed to Irina Valeryanovna Shtenberg.
Period frame.
Dimensions (unframed): Height: 13”, width: 11”
Dimensions (framed): Height: 15”, width: 12-7/8”
All the w...
Category
Russian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Chaim Gross, Engraving, Composition Avec Visages, 1942
By Chaim Gross
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Chaim gross, engraving, composition avec visages, 1942
Signed by the artist
Measures: 30 x 22.5 cm.
Category
Central American Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Pär Lindblad, Swedish Artist, Oil on Board, "Modell", Nude Study
Located in København, Copenhagen
Pär Lindblad (b. 1907, d. 1981), Swedish artist. Oil on board. "Modell". Nude study. Dated 1949.
The board measures: 40 x 32 cm.
The frame measures: 5 cm.
Signed and dated.
In ve...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Other
Marc Saint Saëns "The Foolish Virgins" - Aubusson Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
- Marc Saint Saëns - The Foolish Virgins (Les Vierges Folles)
- Signed by the artist
- Aubusson tapestry woven in the Tabard workshop.
- With label
Jean ...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Original Vintage Drink Poster Oloroso No.10 R.F. Osborne Sherry Map Bull Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Oloroso No.10 R.F. Osborne Sherry / Xeres / Jerez Puerto de Santa Maria Espana featuring a great design depicting a bull above a bottle ...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Poster Dartmouth Ski Jumping USA Winter Sports
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport poster for the Dartmouth Winter Week End Ski Jumping 8-10 February 1946. Great design featuring a black and white photo of a ski...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Ski Poster Winter Sports Carinthia Austria Skier Mountain View
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster for Winter Sports in Carinthia Austria featuring artwork by Hubert Lechner (1903-1990) of a smiling skier wearing a hat and holding a ski pole, loo...
Category
Austrian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Save Tractor Fuel Tankers Feed The Tanks WWII Military
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front poster - Save tractor fuel Release the Tankers to feed the Tanks - featuring the bold text above and over an image of a tanker ship and silh...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Road Safety Poster Road Accidents Royal Air Force RAF Military
Located in London, GB
Original vintage road safety poster - Road Accidents in the Royal Air Force average 2 an hour That's two too many! - featuring a great graphic design depicting a clock face on a yellow and blue shaded background with an image of a military truck behind the hands of the clock as an RAF plane...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Hans Ekegardh, Swedish Artist, Oil on Canvas, Seated Nude Model
Located in København, Copenhagen
Hans Ekegardh (b. 1881, d.1962), Swedish artist. Oil on canvas. Seated nude model, landscape in the background. 1940s.
In very good condition.
Signed.
...
Category
Swedish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Other
Artist George Samerjan WPA Style Watercolor "Roller at Van Nuys Blvd" 1941
By George Samerjan
Located in St. Louis, MO
Artist George Samerjan's (1915-2005) WPA style watercolor titled "Roller at Van Nuys" 1941, in its original artist selected and hand painted frame, but re-fra...
Category
American Expressionist Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
"White Heat" Warner Brothers Movie Poster
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
MOVIE POSTER FROM WARNER BROTHER'S, WHITE HEAT, 1949, HALF SHEET PAPER BACKED, BLACK FRAME .
22" x 28" unframed
22" x 28" unframed
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
$2,004 Sale Price
40% Off
Original Vintage Poster IV Mecanografia Typing Championship Hispano Olivetti - H
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the IV National Typing Championship / IV Campeonato Nacional de Mecanografia sponsored by Hispano-Olivetti featuring a great graphic design illustration of a large letter H type...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Anti British State Values Domination Exploitation
Located in London, GB
Original vintage anti-British World War Two propaganda poster issued in Fascist Italy - I principi di vita e di Stato Dell'Inghilterra. Sete di dominio. ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Exhibition Poster Bal Des Arts Douanier Rousseau Naive Artist
By Paul Colin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage art exhibition poster for Bal des Arts Douanier Rousseau Hotel Salomon de Rothschild 11 Rue Berryer on 22 June 1949 featuring an ill...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
1940
s Moroccan Oil Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
1940's Moroccan Oil Painting
Category
Moroccan Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Original Vintage Poster Telegraph Less GPO Post Office WWII Modernist Typography
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster published by the GPO General Post Office as part of a Campaign to encourage the public to telephone and telegraph less often in order to save man power during the war, telegraph less, featuring a great Modernist typographic design by the British artist and illustrator Barnett Freedman...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Manuel Álvarez Bravo The Fences (Las Trancas) Original Photography
By Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Located in Mexico City, MX
A gelatin silver print featuring "Las Trancas" (the Fences) by Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The image is placed on its original passe-partout, which is signed by the ar...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Exposition De Dessin
s D
Etude, 1949
Located in Holmfirth, GB
A vibrant poster for an exhibition of Matisse’s studies for the Dominican Chapel in the medieval town of Vence on the French Riviera.
Artist: Henri ...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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