Art Deco

Laura M. GREENWOOD (1897-1951). Portrait of Woman in Winter Coat Oil on canvas, 18 x 24.5 inches. Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Would beneifit from a cleaning. Origina...

Original vintage Spanish travel poster - Gran Canaria a continent in miniature - featuring a scenic view of ocean liners and other sailing boats an...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for the World Fair event held in New York at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park from 30 April 1939 to 31 October 1940. Great Art Deco design by J...

Original vintage travel poster - Germany Berlin - by the German artist Wilhelm 'Willy' Dzubas (b. 1887) for the country's capital city featuring a stunning Art Deco painting depictin...

This pencil drawing by Tamara de Lempicka is signed in pencil by the artist “Lempicka” in the lower right image. It was realised in the 1920's. Provenance: Arlette Boucard (1915...

Original vintage drink advertising poster for the wine based aperitif Bonal Gentian Quina Des Montagnes De La Grande Chartreus / From the Mountains of the Grande Chartreuse featuring a fun Art Deco design by the notable poster artist A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Mouron Cassandre; 1901-1968) depicting a white figure leaning...

Original vintage travel poster for Egypt / Misr Egyptian Airlines featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the first international Turkish graphic artist Ihap Hulusi Gorey (1898-1986)...

Original vintage advertising poster for the Brussels World Fair / Universal Exposition - Bruxelles Exposition Universelle 1935 - held in Heysel near Brussels from 27 April to 6 Novem...

Sac Ginkgo Ed. 250 pcs circa 1989 Patinated gilt bronze and leather 28 x 22 cm Stamped and numbered: C.Lalanne, 25 Edition Artcurial

Original vintage Art Deco cruise travel poster advertising Orient Line Tours and Round Voyage Tickets - It's Summer In Australia - featuring a great design by Frederick Halford Coven...

Original vintage advertising poster for Duco a quick dry enamel lacquer Already Dry! / Duco Laque-Email A Sechage Rapide Deja Sec! Great design featuring a smiling painter sitting ba...

Original vintage alcohol drink advertising poster for the fortified wine based aperitif Dubonnet (since 1846) featuring an iconic illustration by the notable poster artist d'apres A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Mouron Cassandre; 1901-1968) depicting a stylised design as three images of a man wearing a bowler hat and suit sitting at a small table and pouring himself a drink from a Dubonnet bottle into a full glass of wine with his other arm over the back of the chair, the text below the images running diagonally as the colour forms over the man in white and black against a pink, blue and yellow shaded background - Dubo Dubon Dubonnet vin tonique au quinquina - the text repeated in black and white on the sides and rest of the text divided by the logo below - Grande Chartreuse liqueur...

Original vintage train travel poster advertising Sunny Rhyl For Golden Sands & Sunshine Served by the LMS Main Line / London Midland and Scottish Railway. Great Art Deco illustration...

CLAUDE LALANNE (1925-2019) Pomme Bouche circa 1975 Ed. 250 pcs Bronze with a golden patina 13.5 x 12 x 11.5 cm Monogrammed, signed and numbered underside : CL, Lalanne, 177/250 Certi...

Ed. 172/200 pcs, Glazed ceramic 24 x 23 x 20 cm Numbered underside: Edition Picasso, Madoura, Edition Picasso, Madoura, 172/200 Picasso : Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre céramique de...

Original vintage PLM travel poster for Thonon Les Bains ses eaux, le lac, la montagne / its waters, the lake, the mountain featuring a stunning art deco design by the notable French ...

Original vintage German Railways travel poster featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the German artist Wilhelm 'Willy' Dzubas (b. 1887) depicting a steam train running along a high...

Original vintage Paris Lyon Mediterranee PLM railway poster for Mont Revard a 1550m par Aix-le-Bains Savoie Sport Confort Repos / Sport Comfort Rest - featuring artwork by Paul Ordne...

Original vintage travel poster - Paris London Golden Ray Air Union - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Edmond Maurus (1903-1977) depicting a Liore et Olivier LeO 21 biplane pla...

Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990) Title: Latin Quarter Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph on premium paper Size: 27.75 x 22.75 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed by...

Darnley Fine Art offers The Judgement of Paris tells of an episode in Greek mythology that had fatal repercussions. Paris, a prince of Troy, had been abandoned as a baby after his father, King Priam, learned of a prophecy that he would cause the downfall of Troy. Raised as a shepherd, Paris’s innate nobility surfaced in an unusual sense of fairness. This reputation came to the gods’ attention when his prize bull was beaten in a contest by the disguised form of Ares, the god of war. Rather than contesting the result, Paris chose to graciously accept defeat. Zeus, the chief Olympian god, asked Paris to settle a long-running dispute. Years earlier, he had held a banquet to mark the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis. In order not to spoil the occasion, Zeus forbid the goddess of discord, Eris, from attending. Determined to disrupt the event, Eris threw a golden apple into the banqueting hall. The apple was marked ‘for the fairest one’ and immediately caused a squabble. Three goddesses fought over the apple for many years: Hera, the wife of Zeus; Athena, the goddess of wisdom; and Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Tired of the dispute, Zeus asked the fair-minded Paris to judge. All three goddesses tried to gain his favour with promises. Hera offered him vast kingdoms; Athena proffered wisdom and skill in war; Aphrodite promised him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris chose Aphrodite. Although he chose the least martial option, Paris’s decision had devastating consequences. Once restored as a prince of Troy, Paris was granted the love of Helen, the wife of the Spartan king, Menelaus. Enraged, the Greeks raised an enormous army to take Helen back. For ten long years war waged between Europe and Asia. Eventually, Paris was killed and Troy was utterly destroyed. Kathleen Muriel Scale Scale was born in Jersey in 1913 to a father in the Secret Intelligence Service, who was in Russia and Romania during the First World War, and an Irish mother whose family hailed from Fermoy, Co. Cork. She and her younger sister and elder brother stayed there with their Irish Grandmother while their parents were in Russia, her father having been posted there as British Military Attache, where later he joined the Staff of the Tsar. Following this her Father was posted to Stockholm as head of Military Intelligence and they spent a happy childhood there and later in Finland. The family returned to England in 1922 for two years before going abroad again, this time to the Lushai Hills in Assam, where the children enjoyed blissful freedom, riding ponies into the jungle accompanied by their governess, followed by their large pack of motley dogs. They also had a tame black bear, a gib-bon, a Toucan, 7 bulbuls, a blue jay, and a Myrna bird. Mu, as she was called by the family, her full name being Kathleen Muriel Scale, did not believe she was taught anything, in the strict educational sense, by their governess, so it was a shock on the family's return to England when she had to attend school for the first time. Scale showed artistic flair in her first childhood paintings and this was later recognised by her parents who moved nearer to Farnham, Surrey, so that she could attend Farnham School of Art. Here she was taught by Otway McCannell, FRSA RBA, later going on to Goldsmiths College where she was under the guidance of James Bateman RA - specialising in composition and painting techniques. She studied the early Renaissance, and was particularly influenced by the work and palettes of Michelangelo, Botticelli and Piero della Francesca, as well as El Greco. Rowand Hilder OBE taught Scale line drawing and wanted her to concentrate exclusively on her drawing - which she resisted. The large mythological and biblically based subjects provided Scale with much scope for adventure and fantasy. Compositions were worked out in her head and then transferred to a sketch book and once satisfied she would produce a working watercolour or drawing which she then squared up ready to meticulously place the work on to the gesso prepared board. In 1933, at the age of 19, she had her first painting exhibited at the Royal Academy - the exhibition opening on her 20th birthday. Between 1933-1938 Scale had seven paintings accepted and hung - some on the line. Over these years her work was picked out by Punch magazine in three cartoons and by the Illustrated London News, revealing the exceptional originality of her work to a contemporary audience. In 1936 she was invited by the National Gallery of Canada to exhibit at an Exhibition of Contemporary British Art together with artists such as George Spencer Watson...

Marcello Dudovich (Trieste 1878 - 1962), Terrier Tempera painting on paper 45 x 32 cm signed at center.

Marcello Dudovich (Trieste 1878 - 1962), French Bulldog Tempera painting on paper 45 x 33 cm signed lower center.

Original vintage Soviet travel poster for the Georgian Military Highway issued by the state tourism agency Intourist featuring great Art Deco artwork...

Original vintage travel poster for Australia The World's Loveliest Harbour Sydney featuring a stunning painting by Albert Collins (1883-1951) depicting an aerial view over the docks,...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for the World's Fair in Paris May-November 1937 enchanting art and light - Paris 1937 Exposition Internationale Feerie d'art et de lumiere ...

Rare original vintage USSR travel poster in Swedish - Visit the Soviet Union / Besok Sovjet-Unionen - featuring a great Art Deco design depicting classic cars and buses driving throu...

Original vintage advertising poster for the Open Air Plays in Szeged Hungary from 28 July to 15 August 1939 including Aida The Tragedy of Man Hungarian Passion Play Byzantium Turando...

Original vintage skiing and winter sport train travel poster - Ski in Canada Canadian National Railways Powder snow Rolling hills Fast trails - featuring a colourful Art Deco design ...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Winter in Majorca Spain - featuring an Art Deco illustration of a lady in a red swimsuit sunbathing with a thermometer showing a warm tem...

Original vintage travel poster for Bulgaria featuring a scenic view of a steam train travelling through a tunnel on a rocky cliff above a river with a bridge linking a riverside town to the railway and trees and mountains in the distance. Artwork by the award winning Bulgarian watercolour...

Original vintage advertising poster for the Exposicion Internacional Barcelona International Exposition held from 20 May 1929 to 15 January 1930 featuring an Art Deco illustration of...

Original antique advertising poster for a French brand of bicycles - Cycles Dilecta - featuring a colourful dynamic Art Deco design depicting a stylised figure of a cyclist leaning f...

Original vintage London Transport poster promoting travel by Green Line Coach featuring stunning artwork by the notable French Art Deco designer Jean Dupas (1882-1964) depicting men ...

Original vintage winter sport travel poster for Austria featuring a dynamic Art Deco design by the notable Austria artist and poster designer Paul Kirnig (1891-1959) depicting a skie...

Original vintage cruise travel poster advertising Plymouth New York issued by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique French Line CGT. Elegant Art Deco design featuring an ocean liner shi...

This unique piece is a cyanotype on marble by artist Alexandre Onimus. Inspired by antic aesthetic the artist transform photographs of his own into unique sculpture. The artist: Al...

"Cinderella" framed antique 1927 etching of Cinderella and her dog by artist Louis Icart. Signed Louis Icart on lower right. Inscribed "Edité par les Artistes Modernes, 5 rue Scribe ...

Original vintage advertising poster for Fabrique Nationale Motorcycles featuring an Art Deco design by the Italian artist Marcello Nizzoli (1887-1969) depicting a motorbike rider as ...

Whether in the draping of a silk gown worn by an opera diva, or in the sparkle of an intricately beaded headdress worn by a woman of society, Erté had an exceptionally acute visual memory of every detail of his early design creations. It was no wonder then that his fashion designs were so adeptly applied to the sculpture format. In Mermaid, we have a fine example of how Erté carried the technical possibilities of the sculpture medium to a new level. This attention to detail added to his legend as one of the Twentieth Century’s foremost artist-designers, with work represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Paris Opera House, the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Through Mermaid, Erté takes us beyond the female form by choosing the intriguing legendary sea creature whose upper body is that of a woman, and whose lower body is that of an aquatic creature. In quintessential Erté style...

Original vintage travel poster for Mar Del Plata El Gran Balneario / The Great Spa featuring a dynamic Art Deco design by the Argentine painter Ernesto Scotti (1901-1957) depicting t...

Original vintage travel poster for Pologne Poland Polen Visitez Visit Besuchet Poznan et ses Environs and Environs und Umgebung featuring a couple in traditional clothing holding flo...

Original vintage train travel poster for Tandil F.C.S. Las Sierras Distraccion y Salud / The Mountains Relaxation and Health featuring a scenic Art Deco view of the edge of a buildin...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Germany published by the German State Railway RDV Reichsbahnzentrale fur den Deutschen Reiseverkehr featuring a stunning Art Deco desig...

Original vintage travel poster - Dans Tous Les Ciels Air France / In All Skies - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Roger de Valerio (1886-1951) depicting a propeller plane flyi...

Original vintage travel poster for Comersee Italien / Lake Como Italy featuring a stunning Art Deco scene of people in fashionable summer clothing and elegant swimming costumes in th...

Original vintage travel poster for the Oberitalienische Seen / Northern Italian Lakes featuring a stunning Art Deco view past a tall tree and village on the coastline towards hills a...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Around the World Eastward or Westward with NYK Line - featuring a stunning streamlined Art Deco design by the Swedish artist Gosta Georgi...

Original vintage travel poster - Orient Line to Australia - featuring a great design by one of the most renowned poster artists of the 20th century Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954...

Original vintage ski travel poster - Alsace and Lorraine Railways Winter Sports in the Vosges The Munster Walley and The Hohneck - featuring...

Original vintage travel poster for the Cote d'Azur ete Bandol hiver Le pays du soleil et des fleurs / French Riviera summer winter The land of sun and fl...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for the Sudbahnhotel in Semmering featuring a great Art Deco style image of people skiing down the slopes in front of the imposing grand hotel with snowy mountains on the horizon and snow-topped trees on the sides with a group of skiers relaxing in the foreground, one man smoking a pipe and the others holding their wooden skis and poles. Artwork by the Austrian artist Hermann Kosel (1896-1983). The Sudbahnhotel / South Railway...

Original vintage travel poster for Villard de Lans Children's Paradise / Le Paradis Des Enfants featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the notable French artist Roger Broders (1883-...

This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Music (attributed), brass and wire construction, c. 1936, 28 x 14 x 5 inches; perhaps exhibited at Hollywood Riviera Gallery, 1936 (third prize); provenance includes Estate of Jon Spencer Helfen (Los Angeles, CA About the Sculpture In 1935, Philip Paval bought a box of metal in a “blind auction.” Paval, a painter, sculptor, and jeweler, had hoped the box contained silver. To his dismay, it was brass. Seeing an opportunity, Paval started to make sculptures from the brass sheets. His subjects included Cinema, Hollywood, Radio, Dance, Aviation and Music. The works were well-received with the Hollywood crowd and critically acclaimed. Actor and comedian, Ben Bard, purchased four of them for his theater, and novelist and screenwriter, Vicki Baum ordered four more for her drawing room. Movie director King Vidor also purchased them. Los Angeles Times art critic, Arthur Millier, described Paval’s “contraptions” as “ingenious, decorative, different.” Paval exhibited these works for several years in the late 1930s, including at the American Artists’ Congress Gallery in Los Angeles in an exhibition called Formalism and Abstraction in 1938 and at a solo show at Stendahl Galleries in 1939. The appeal of these works must have been irresistible, as a 1936 Los Angeles Times article noted, “Two feet of brass art has been stolen from the Hollywood Riviera Galleries. The work is an abstraction. It portrays the spirit of music and rested on the grand piano in the main hall. The work of Philip Paval, it won third prize in the current gallery exhibition at the gallery.” One can only wonder whether this is the “contraption” which was pilfered from the gallery nearly one hundred years ago. Given the description of the work, its subject matter and size, it seems likely. About the Artist Philip Paval was a sculptor, painter, and jeweler. Born in Denmark, Paval was apprenticed to a silversmith and studied art in Denmark. He immigrated to the US in 1919 and first worked as a merchant seaman in New York. The following year, Paval settled in Los Angeles where he later opened his own jewelry shop featuring works he designed and produced. Paval became a favorite in the entertainment world, making a good living selling silver...

This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Winged Male Figure - Apollo, c. 1930s, polychrome bas-relief of cast aggregate, 12 x 26 inches; the mold from which this cast was taken by the artist is illustrated in St. Gaudens, Maurine, Emerging from the Shadows: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960, Schiffer Publishing, Inc. (2015), p. 487; provenance includes Estate of Spencer Jon Helfen; presented in a newer wood frame About the Bas-Reilef Winged Male Figure is an extraordinarily rare bas-relief created around the time Jason Herron served as the Federal Art Project (FAP) sculpture supervisor for Los Angeles. Although Herron produced other bas-reliefs, such as Woman with Red Ball (Collection of Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., courtesy of the Wolfsonian - Florida International University), there are no other known examples of this work. In her encyclopedic Emerging from the Shadows: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960, Maurine St. Gaudens describes the mold for this work, "Winged Male Figure - Apollo was originally executed as a mold from which a bas-relief would have been cast. This is the negative master form with the rebar supports evident verso. It is unknown whether a completed bas-relief was ever cast from the mold, but at some point, the artist treated the mold as an independent work adding polychrome to the surface." Like the original mold described by St. Gaudens, Herron painted the bas-relief to create a beautiful surface effect with subtle shadows and shimmering highlights. The underlying form is a sleek and stylized art deco image that fits elegantly with the prevailing 1930s Machine Age aesthetics of the type which adorned buildings across the country. About the Artist Jason Herron was one of the most prominent female sculptors living and working in California during the first half of the 20th century. Born in Denver, Colorado, her given name was Jessie Emerson Herron, but she assumed the name “Jason” early in her professional career. As an infant, Herron moved with her family to Los Angeles. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and studied art at L’Academie Colarrossi in Paris, the Los Angeles Art Institute, the Otis Art Institute, and the University of Southern California. Herron was active in the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program which provided work to artists across the country. Herron served as Supervisor and Assistant Supervisor of Sculpture for the Federal Art Project in Los Angeles. Together with Henry Lion and Sherry Peticolas, Herron sculpted a work entitled The Power of Water in Lafayette Park in Los Angeles. She also sculpted two large works, Erda and Modern Youth, both of which were placed in Los Angeles Country Schools by the Project. Herron was well respected not only as an artist, but also as a savvy arts administrator. In 1941, she served as the Southern California Chairperson for National Art Week, an ambitious program with the dual purposes of promoting the sale of paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints for the benefit of artists who were still struggling under the weight of the Great Depression and providing the opportunity for average Americans to purchase artwork at a fraction of the customary prices by avoiding the traditional gallery system. Herron served on the board of governors of the Los Angeles County Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. She was a member of the Los Angeles Art Association, California Art Club, Western Women Art...

Original vintage travel advertising poster by the notable poster artist A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Mouron Cassandre; 1901-1968) published for the Venezia Graphic Design Conference in 19...

Original vintage Spanish clothing advertising poster - Industrias de Peleteria Tapbioles y Pirretas Fur Industry Barcelona - featuring an elegant Art Deco design by the Czech artist ...

Original antique train travel advertising poster - Great Western Railway Plymouth The centre of 100 tours in sunny South Devon - featuring a colourful Art Deco style illustration of ...