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Period: 1940s
The Big Shot / Le Caid
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster from the 1942 Film Noir.
These large French posters were designed to be pasted onto billboards throughout France, and...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$13,086
Important 1944 Surrealist Oil on Canvas by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Fresh to the market, this painting was purchased directly from Erle Loran (1905-1999) in his Berkeley Hills home in the mid-1990s. Loran's surrealist work from the mid-1940s is highl...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Belgium baroque painting of vase with flowers signed Jos Pas, 1944
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 1940 / Painting / canvas, wood / Rococo / Baroque
A Belgium oil painting signed Jos Pas, 1944 of a vase with orange flowers, grapes and a painting in the background. The ...
Category
Belgian Baroque Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Original Vintage Poster Pin Up Lady Telephone Mirror George Petty Art Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster featuring an illustration by the notable American pin-up artist George Brown Petty IV (1894-1975) depicting a lady in a transparent dress holding a sketch of ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Impressionism Woodstock NY Artist "Chicken and Eggs" Oil on Canvas
Located in Newfoundland, PA
Stunning 1940s impressionist oil on canvas by Francis Stein. Well done oil. Depicting chickens and eggs. Would fit well in a mid-century environment as well as a Country. Be sure to ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
8 brass door handles 1940s attributed arch. GIO PONTI.
By Gio Ponti
Located in Milano, IT
8 double handles from 1940, cast brass attributed to architect Gió Ponti.
They are in excellent condition with some patina from the era , but could be polished back to new.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
Original Vintage Photograph of an Aviator Pilot. C.1940
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
A wonderful image of an airplane pilot.
Silver gelatin print. On card
Photogapher and sitter both unknown
Unframed
Free shipping.
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Angelo Testa Print on Canvas
By Angelo Testa
Located in Pawtucket, RI
Whimsical print on canvas by noted artist and textile designer Angelo Testa. Large print depicting dogs and other biomorphic shaped animals.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Pair of Vintage French Art Deco Wood Frames
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition
Materials: Wood Frames
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Original Vintage War Poster Italy Breaks Chains That Suffocate Her WWII Soldier
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Italian World War Two poster featuring a dynamic image of a soldier in uniform breaking a chain with the caption in red reading - l'Italia spezza le catene che la so...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Adam and Eve on Island of Peace, " Remarkable WPA-Era Print of Peace Amidst War
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This print depicts a nude Adam and Eve in a small island of peace and plenty, surrounded by the ravages and storms of World War II. The placid scene at the center, full of innocence ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Antique Portrait Painting of Matriarch Reading with Gold Leaf Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition
Materials: Oil On Canvas, Gold Leaf Wood Frame
Style: Realism
Category
American Other Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Wall Decorative plate in Onyx and brass Art deco Style France Circa 1940
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Wall Decorative plate in Onyx and brass. Religious subject, signed Froment.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Onyx, Brass
Marlene Dietrich
Located in London, GB
Original US oversized studio portrait photograph of Marlene Dietrich.
This piece is conservation framed in a Obeche wood frame with card mounts and U...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$619
"The Red Shoes" Photo
Located in London, GB
Original British Studio production photos featuring Moira Shearer in the films famous dance scene. The film directed by the famous duo Michael Powell and...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
"Dancing Angel", Classic 1940s Tempera Painting with Nude Male Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Reminiscent of the work of Jared French in its material (tempera), its color palette and its approach to the male figure, this lovely depiction of two dancing angels, one in the fore...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Decorative Mid-Century Chinese Fan in Paper Decorated Painted Wooden Structure.
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Decorative Mid-century Chinese Fan in Paper Decorated Painted Wooden Structure.
Decoration on gold leaf, plants. very stylish.
Category
Chinese Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
$751 Sale Price
30% Off
Karl Blossfeldt — Framed Photogravure: Natural Grace, 1942
Located in Barcelona, ES
Karl Blossfeldt — Framed Photogravure: Natural Grace, 1942
A striking Karl Blossfeldt photogravure from the 1942 edition of Wunder in der Natur.
Retaining its original condition, i...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$787 Sale Price
40% Off
"The U.S. Marines Want You" Vintage WWII Recruitment Poster, 1940
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster, issued in 1940. The poster depicts a no-nonsense Marine drill instructor, pointing directly at the viewer, in front of a ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Letter / La Lettre
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for William Wyler's 1940 Film Noir starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by Howard E. Koch is based on the 1927 play...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$7,576
"Male Nude and Skyscraper", Rare, Signed Surrealist-Art Deco Print by Avinoff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare and extraordinary, this signed print by Andrey Avinoff is one of a set he created for "The Fall of Atlantis," a monumental and fantastical poem by George Golokhvastoff published...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Postman Always Rings Twice
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 8 (withdrawn) for The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946.
This American film noir is based James M. Cain novel of the same name. The film was directed by ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Emerson Woelffer Bonze Sculpture, Abstract Face, Signed, Dated, Numbered
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice modern abstract Face, by the well known artist, Emerson Woelffer. Signed, numbered 1/4 and dated 1947.
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Mid Century Pink Flamingo Airbrush Prints by Billy SEAY in Frame
By Bill Seay
Located in Van Nuys, CA
A nice set of two airbrush prints of flowers and pink flamingos on a black background by Billy Seay. This a great example of the post-WWII tropical art/decorating boom that took over...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
French Faience Oyster Plate with Bird Moustiers Style Circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
French faience oyster plate with Bird Moustiers style signed Martres Tolosane, circa 1940.
Category
French French Provincial Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience
"A Schooner off of the Coast" by American Artist Gordon Hope Grant
By Gordon Grant
Located in Wiscasset, ME
An oil on canvas by American artist Gordon Hope Grant featuring a schooner off of the coast. This painting is signed and dated i1945 n the lower left and measures 33.5" x 33.5" incl...
Category
American American Classical Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
"Pueblos", Classic WPA-Era Mural Study with Native Americans for Los Angeles, CA
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of WPA-period mural painting, executed by Verona Burkhardt for the Immigration and Naturalization Center in Los Angeles, depicts five Pueblo Indians in the foreground and a magnificent landscape of canyons and Pueblo dwellings in the background. This served as a study for one of five large canvases she delivered to California in 1941 or 1942, but the building was cordoned off due to America's entrance into World War II. Burkhardt (or Burkhard) was the daughter of two important artists and was introduced to painting and crafts at an early age. In her prime, she won seven U.S. Government mural commissions in national competitions for buildings in Wyoming, Montana, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. She settled in Grand Junction...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Van Der Elst, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Joseph Van Der Elst. Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1944. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. An in-depth look into art of the Middle Ages. Contents: 1. The Times and the Men who Made Them: Men of Flanders; The Flemish Parade; The Good Black Earth; The Rise of the Towns; The Medieval Guilds; Of Love, the Dream; The Upward Glance; Pt. 2. The Flemish Masters: Jan van Eyck; Petrus Christus...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
French Faience Oyster Plate Moustiers Style, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
French Faience rustic oyster plate Moustiers style, circa 1940.
Painting of birds and flowers.
Category
French Rustic Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience
Original Vintage War Poster Salute The Soldier WWII National Savings Home Front
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two National Savings home front poster - Keep on Saving Salute the Soldier - featuring an image of soldiers in uniform marching w...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Wall Console with a Marble Top, USA, 1940s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Introducing our exquisite Art Deco Wall Console With a Marble Top, proudly made in the USA during the 1940s. This stunning piece of furniture is sure to elevate your home décor with its vintage charm and timeless elegance.
Crafted from high-quality materials, this wall-mounted shelf features a beautiful gold gilt finish and an intricate carved base that adds a touch of luxury to any room. The marble top adds a touch of sophistication and serves as a perfect spot to display your favorite photos, vases or other decorative items.
This Art Deco Wall Console is not only a beautiful addition to your space, but it is also functional. It provides ample storage space for your everyday items, such as keys...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
Midcentury Stoneware Wall Piece by Michael Schilkin, Arabia, Finland, 1940s
By Arabia
Located in Stockholm, SE
Beautiful stoneware wall piece by Michael Schilkin, depicting two swimming black swans. Reduced to essential forms and lines, it conveys a vibrant image of nature.
Category
Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Stoneware
Original Vintage Travel Poster Swissair Switzerland Flag Swiss Alps Mountain Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Swissair featuring a fantastic illustration of a propeller plane flying high over the Swiss Alps with a red and white cross Swiss flag...
Category
Swiss Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster New Orleans Southern Pacific Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - New Orleans Part of your trip across America on Southern Pacific Railroad - featuring a colourful design depicting a scenic view of the h...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Vintage French Aubusson Tapestry Rug Art Nouveau Bold 9x9 Square 256cm x 285cm
Located in New York, NY
Vintage French Aubusson Tapestry Rug Art Nouveau Bold Square 9x9
8'5" x 9'4"
256cm x 285cm
"A rare, magnificent vintage French Aubusson tapestry with unique Art Nouveau design, i...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
French Faience Oyster Plate Moustiers Style, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
French Faience Oyster Plate Moustiers Style, circa 1940.
Category
French Rustic Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience
House of Fear
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1945 Film Noir Mystery House of Fear.
This film starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
The film was directed by Roy William Neill.
This lobby card is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in an Obeche wood frame with card mounts and UV plexiglass. The Size given is before framing. The piece would be shipped boxed...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$826 Sale Price
20% Off
Folk Art Glass Shard Cat Picture
Located in Riverdale, NY
Charming Folk Art glass shard cat picture set within a grey washed handmade wood frame. Made with glass shard mosaics by hand depicting in an image of a ca...
Category
North American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass
Nora Inu / Stray Dog
Located in London, GB
This is an exceptionally rare very rare original Japanese film poster for Akira Kurosawa's 1949 crime film.
This is not the general release poster but one created for local theatres ...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$6,198
Festival Mondial Du Film Beau-Arts De Belgique
By Felix Labisse
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the Festival Mondial du Film Beau-Arts de Belgique (La Naissance du Cinema Lumiere Melies)
Mondial du Film et Des Beaux-Artsheld in Brussels, Belgiu...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Ben Shahn "Deserted Fairground" Rare 1948 Screenprint
By Ben Shahn
Located in Sharon, CT
Privately printed and distributed by the artist. Signed in the matrix. Unframed.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
French Blue
White Faience Oyster Platter Moustiers Style, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
French blue & white Faience oyster platter Moustiers style, circa 1940.
12 inches diameter.
Category
French French Provincial Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience
Mickey Mouse / Flower Show
Located in London, GB
Original artwork (ink and watercolour) from Mickey Mouse annual, Mickey and Friends 1949. The annual was printed in 1950. It is the final illustrati...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
1940s Abstract French Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Abstract Cubist oil painting on canvas from 1940s France. Moody and dynamic, the image depicts the beginnings of a town. A smoky gray sky gives the scene an industrial feeling, while...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Industrial Landscape Painting, signed Duff, 1942
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Very Nice, Old, Painting of Industrial Landscape Scene
signed Duff, 1942
couple small repairs as seen on canvas back
small "puncture" along the left side of the painting
small "crea...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
1930s Set of Nine Framed American Typography Pages
Located in Downingtown, PA
Set of nine framed American typography pages.
From new letters and lettering by Paul Carlyle & Guy Oring,
Originally published, 1938
The pages ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$1,500 / item
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Nurburgring Grand Prix Silver Arrows Racing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster for the Grosser Preis vom Nurburgring 7 August 1949 3. Meisterschaftslauf fur Sport und Rennwagen / Nurburgring 3rd Grand Prix Championship Race fo...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Vintage "Genetics Fruit Fly Drosophila" Wall Chart Poster, 1941
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage "Genetics Fruit Fly Drosophila" Wall Chart Poster, 1941
By the New York Scientific Supply Company, NY, NY
"this chart will look amazing once properly framed"
image with no ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Hardwood, Paper
WW2 Factory Safety Poster Circa 1940s
Located in Gloucester, GB
WW2 Factory Safety Poster Circa 1940s
- Original litho poster
- Designed by Bruce Angrave
- Framed in a black wooden frame with glass
- English ~ 1940s
- 52cm wide x 78.5cm tall
B...
Category
English Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
French Faience Oyster Plate with Bird Moustiers Style Circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
French faience oyster plate with Bird Moustiers style signed Martres Tolosane, circa 1940.
Category
French French Provincial Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience
The Lawless Frontier
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1934 Western starring John Wayne and directed by Robert N. Bradbury.
This poster was created for the films US re-release 1940s.
This poster is conser...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$1,095
Original Vintage WWII Poster Norway A Fighting Ally Viking Boat War Ships Planes
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster for Norway... - A Fighting Ally! featuring a colourful design depicting a sailor looking out to sea with a traditional Viking boat...
Category
Norwegian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"The Fields, " Magical View of Moroccan Landscape with Male Nude by Jacques Azéma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Suffused with the soft, rich colors that Jacques Azéma was known for, this view of a Moroccan landscape ("Les Champs" in French) includes a seated male y...
Category
Moroccan Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Chinese Lattice Framed Wall Art James Mont Hollywood Regency Era
By James Mont
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a framed art of lattice crown. Hand carved and finished with Gilt. Wood frame in red and gilt color. Stamp from the frame maker on the back. China circa the 1...
Category
Chinese Hollywood Regency Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
"Dance Around Crystal Mountain, " Remarkable Art Deco Painting with Nudes, 1945
By Milton Bond
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perhaps the most remarkable of all the crystal paintings made by Milton Bond in the 1940s, this depiction of beautiful nude figures, male and female, forming a symmetrical circle aro...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Vintage Drink Poster Have A Guinness When You
re Tired Smiling Pint Man
Located in London, GB
Original vintage iconic drink advertising poster for Guinness Irish stout beer - Have a Guinness when you're tired - featuring a classic image of a pint glass...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Vase of Flowers with Fruit Oil Painting, Fitger Hermann
Located in Vo
, Veneto
Fitger Hermann - Vase of Flowers with Fruit
Measures: 32cm x 44cm - frame excluded
50cm x 62cm - with antique fir frame
oil on canvas applied to cardboard - 1946
20th cen...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
"Giant", Original Painting in Cobalt
Red for Crate Label, California, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly executed in tones of cobalt and red to catch the eye, this original painting was made for a proposed crate label advertising Giant lettuce in the 1940s. At a time when C...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Original Vintage Poster for Nantucket The New Haven Railroad Ft. 1772 Courthouse
By Ben Nason
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Nantucket published by The New Haven Railroad featuring a great illustration of the historic Courthou...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
The Lady From Shanghai
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production photo from 1948 film Noir The Lady from Shanghai starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles and directed by Orson Welles. The photo was taken by Robert Cob...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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