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This big eye brunette seen standing in front of an urban window is signed by the artist “Roff of Paris” and dates to 1961. It offers a compelling view of a stylish albeit blue lady who towers above the quiet streets of France. This is from the era of the Big Eye girl paintings by […]

Big Eye Girl In Paris

Artist: Roff Of Paris
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Tagged With: 1960s, Big Eye, fine art, Margaret Keane, modernism, modernist, paris
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2019

In this haunting, surreal oil on canvas painting, a train platform rises above assembled automobiles that are parked below a bridge in this transportation minded urban cityscape. At the top, a seemingly living cathedral rises into the night. Captured with oils on canvas in a dark haunting color palette, the dramatic impasto technique is impressive and everything […]

The Night Cathedral

Artist: Alfred Statler
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Tagged With: Alfred Statler, Andy Warhol, modernist, new york city, regionalist, Subway Cars, Urbanism, WPA
Added to Gallery: June 19, 2018

A modernist abstract mixed media painting by Virgil Finlay, who was an important prolific American pulp and science fiction illustrator. Signed and dated 1965 lower right and titled on verso #51. Executed in a colorful and abstract manner with raised translucent areas, oil paint and pen and ink. Smartly framed and ready to hang.

Abstraction #51

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1960s, abstract, american, illustration, modernist, psychedelic, pulp, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2017

Willy Müller-Gera (1887-1981) was a German artist and illustrator whose work is visible in museums across Europe. Müller-Gera is known for his etchings and landscapes of the pastoral German countryside as well as apocalyptic renderings such as this work. Titled Faun this is an unusual finely detailed artwork in a modernist, art deco, avant-garde aesthetic. Nicely framed in a period art deco antique frame and ready to enjoy.

Faun

Artist: Willy Müller-Gera
Price: $1,800.00 $1,260.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, avant-garde, faun, german, modernist, nymph, seduction, victorian, Willy Müller-Gera
Added to Gallery: June 19, 2017

An elegant art deco gouache-on-board created for General Motors who commissioned this work for their Cadillac ad campaign during the late 1920s-early 30s. This remarkable composition features a modernist, jazz age, formally attired woman flanked by majestic wolfhounds. She is shown entering a castle as her Cadillac touring sedan rests among palm trees in the background. Work is unsigned, in the manner of Edouard Benito or George Wolfe Plank.

Elegant Woman & Wolfhounds

Artist: Unknown
Price: $1,850.00  $1,295.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, art deco, Cadillac, General Motors, glamour, high society, jazz age, modernist, original illustration art
Added to Gallery: February 18, 2017

An inventive example of modern abstract art by the prolific pulp artist Virgil Finlay, signed and dated 1966 and titled on verso “Gambling Man”. Notations found on the back of the painting in Virgil Finlay’s handwriting read “The buttons of the jailer,”January 6, 1966, on reading Brian Moore re Caffey.)

Gambling Man

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price: $1,500.00 $1,050.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1960s, abstract, american, illustration, modernist, psychedelic, pulp, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2016

A haunting and menacing editorial political illustration by William Cotton, likely published in a late 1930s edition of Vanity Fair magazine. Pictured are the trio of Axis partners: Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito, with Hitler depicted as the larger and dominant evil force, strong-arming the other two dictators and controlling them as puppets. In […]

The Axis Partners

Artist: William Cotton
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Tagged With: art deco, avant-garde, modernist, New Yorker, political, Vanity Fair, William Cotton, WWII
Added to Gallery: August 20, 2016

A deftly rendered precise original gouache painting from 1937 used for a poster designed for a South Kensington, England Science Museum show. Signed Eileen McKinney on the verso and dated April 3, 1937. The work is entrenched with imagery inspired by the ongoing industrial revolution which was occurring throughout much of the world and captures the public’s fascination with the machine, science and industry as they were to intersect in what has become known as “The Machine Age”. The artist uses elements of Russian Constructivist poster design which emphasizes the particular material properties of an object added with it’s three dimensional spatial presence. This design aesthetic was very tied into Industry and Modernism and became harmonious with the graphics and imagery associated with The Machine Age.

Science Museum – South Kensington

Artist: Eileen McKinney
Price:  SOLD

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Tagged With: 1930s, British, Eileen McKinney, illustration, machine age, modernist, poster design
Added to Gallery: March 30, 2016

The WPA artist and art deco designer Vladimir Yoffe created this smart and modern machine age commercial illustration as advertising for Pan Am World Airways. The imagery shows a dizzying map of the earth highlighted by the routes the early commercial airline offered. Today, the  Russian/American artist is best remembered for his work for the New Deal […]

World Airways

Artist: Vladimir Yoffe
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Tagged With: 1940s, advertising, art deco, aviation, Golden Age, machine age, mid-century modern, modernist, New Deal Federal Arts Project, Pan Am Airlines, poster design, Russian Artist, Vladimir Yoffe, World Airways, WPA
Added to Gallery: March 2, 2016

A dizzying, kinetic, brilliant large-scale fine art oil painting by the American artist and illustrator Theodore Haupt, signed in the lower right corner and dated 1929. This important surviving painting was created in Haupt’s signature modernist style combining elements of Cubism and Surrealism. Lyrical figures of swirling burlesque dancers depicted in lush harmony are juxtaposed with heavy […]

A Modern Burlesque

Artist: Theodore Haupt
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Tagged With: 1920s, abstract, american, art deco, burlesque, erotic, fantasy, fine art, Golden Age, machine age, Minnesota Artist, modernist, new york city, New Yorker, nude, risque, The Golden Gallery, Theodore Haupt
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

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