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Vintage 1930s Art Deco Pin Up Painting This original oil on canvas painting dates to the mid 1930s and features a Hollywood Regency styled image inspired by Ginger Rogers in black satin. The painting is unsigned and appears to be a published pin-up calendar illustration. Our hunch is that the artist is Edward D’Ancona, but […]

Art Deco Blonde in Black Satin

Artist: American Artist
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, blonde, Calendar, fashion, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, jazz age, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2019

As long as there has been sand, secluded coves, calm lakes, vast oceans and hot days, people have taken to the waters for health, exercise, fun, and community. Once just a summer retreat for those who lived close to a shore or the wealthy, mass transportation and motorcars turned a day at the beach into […]

Dreaming of Summer with “Swim Easy” Swimsuits

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, bathing beauty, fashion
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2019

A large fashion original illustration by Charles Gates Sheldon which served as an interior fashion plate for the September 1921 issue of The Woman’s Home Companion. This lovely model is adorned in the latest and stylish current evening wear a gown by Henri Bendel the title is “Very Wearable – Don’t You Think?”. This large pen & ink and wash is executed in a fine en grisaille style for interior black and white print reproduction. A stylish example by this illustrator who of course also worked as a cover artist for Photoplay magazine and the other early Hollywood Silent Movie era titles.

Very Wearable

Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, Charles Sheldon, fashion, Henri Bendel, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Woman's Home Companion
Added to Gallery: January 22, 2018

An original interior art nouveau glamour creation by noted illustrator, Charles Sheldon. This image was commissioned for use as a fashion plate for the prestigious Woman’s Home Companion. Artwork is beautifully framed, shows some minor soiling and has one small area of paper loss on lower left in black charcoal strokes, an easy repair.

Edwardian Fashion Queen

Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, Charles Sheldon, fashion, Woman's Home Companion
Added to Gallery: November 10, 2017

“My art, which is my life, is the only language through which I speak with the world.” -Erté Through his work, Erté has become synonymous with timeless decadence and a bold avant garde modernist aesthetic. His creation embody, and for many people define Art Deco. Today, though, most people are familiar with his work only through photographs, fine […]

Erté’s Long Reach

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: art deco, Erté, fashion, jazz age, roaring 20s
Added to Gallery: April 13, 2015

This is a dazzling, masterful original calendar commissioned pastel by Billy Devorss. The large scale, finely rendered artwork was created for the Louis F Dow company, and the lavishly attired young model is the artists wife Gleena. This keenly detailed art deco portrait expertly demonstrates the attention to culture, haute couture fashion, and style that set Devorss apart from his contemporaries. Pastel is properly lined and matted and comes framed in a lavish gold gilt carved fine museum quality frame.

The Emerald Girl

Artist: Billy DeVorss
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, Billy DeVorss, fashion, glamour, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: April 7, 2013

Paramount pictures glamour photographer Otto Dyar captures pre-code starlet Adrienne Ames at her most glamorous in this large format, art deco gallery portrait. The press snipe on the verso evokes the sophistication with which Ames was identified, and the fashion icon as which she was known. “Brown and tomato red creates the striking color combination of this rough crepe street frock worn by Adrienne Ames in “From Hell to Heaven”, a Paramount pictures.”

Adrienne Ames in From Hell to Heaven

Artist: Otto Dyar
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, Adrienne Ames, american, art deco, fashion, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, Otto Dyar, Paramount Films, portrait, pre-code
Added to Gallery: June 21, 2010

An inventive stylized colorful dated gouache advertising painting by Cardwell Higgins for “Aris Britland Doeskin” gloves. An inventive color palette and attention to fashion style details make this a compelling and inventive example. A tear sheet of the printed work from the artist’s scrapbook is included in the sale.

Aris Britland Doeskins

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, american, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, fashion, opera gloves, pin up
Added to Gallery: May 28, 2010

A fashionable demure art nouveau maiden with a parasol is leered at by an Edwardian gent in a wig with opera glasses in this gouache illustration which dates from 1910 – 1920. The work is unsigned and is mindful in style of the works which appeared in Vogue and Vanity Fair Magazines. This is beautifully framed in a carved wood gesso antique frame.

Admiring a Fashionable Woman

Artist: Unknown
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, art nouveau, belle epoque, Edwardian, fashion, maiden, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2008

 

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