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Period: 1940s
"Angele Lamotte" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph. Printed in 1945 on Marais paper and published in Paris by Teriade for his art revue Verve (Volume IV, Number 13). Size: 13 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (348 x 258 mm). The...
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Lithograph

Orangerie Des Tuileries (after) Pierre Bonnard, 1947
Located in New York, NY
This original lithographic poster was designed after Pierre Bonnard, for the Orangerie Des Tuileries in 1947. This work encompasses still life as this table set takes center stage. Bonnard was a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Still Life with Eleven Objetcs in a Sphere - Etching by Giorgio Morandi - 1942
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with eleven objetcs in a sphere (Original Italian title: Natura morta in un tondo) is an etching realized by Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) in 1942. Hand numbered Edition 5...
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"Angele Lamotte" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph. Printed in 1945 on Marais paper and published in Paris by Teriade for his art revue Verve (Volume IV, Number 13). Size: 13 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (348 x 258 mm). The...
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Original Vintage Travel Poster Holland River Canal Dutch Houses Netherlands Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Holland featuring a bright and colourful illustration depicting boats on a tree lined canal in front of traditional Dutch houses...
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"Portrait de jeune femme" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed in 1946 by Mourlot Freres for the rare "Sainte Catherine 1946" catalogue, issued by the Palais de Chaillot in a limited edition of 115...
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Landscape - Etching by Paulette Humbert - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The Forest is an etching print on paper realized in the 1940s by Paulette Humbert. Hand-signed on the lower. Numbered on the lower left, a rare edition of 7/11 prints. Very Good c...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Original "Maurice Chevalier, Alhambra Theatre" vintage poster medium size
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier vintage lithographic poster. Artist: Charles Kiffer (1902 - 1992). Size: 19.25" x 27.25". Archival linen-backed antique vintage poster; ready to frame. An original lithograph was done for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier. Over the years; Kiffer designed 13 for Chavalier from 1927 - 1963. (Kiffer also designed for Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, and many other performers.) Today this version with the text of the Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier is a rare poster. Mid-century-modern. The Alhambra was a music hall located at 50, rue de Malte in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It opened on August 11, 1866. This image with the familiar tilted hat is a recognized image associated with several different poster designs created for the actor Maurice Chevalier. In addition to the images created for the French cabaret; a similar image is also associated with the liquor poster...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

WWII Original poster for European Prosperity - European Recovery Program
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster created by Wladimir Flem. Wladimir Flem was born in 1910 and was primarily inspired creatively by the 1930s. The period of the 1930s was characterized by the conflict between many political ideologies, including Marxist socialism, capitalist democracy and the totalitarianism of communism and fascism. Surrealism continued to dominate in Europe and had an international influence. Artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera...
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Original "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" vintage 1949 movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Rare Authentic original "Take me out to the ball game' vintage movie poster. NSS: 49/119. Linen backed. Frank Sinatra, Ester Williams, Gene Kelly. M.G.M's Gay Technicolor Musical! TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME Cast overview, first billed only: Frank Sinatra .... Dennis Ryan Esther Williams .... K.C. Higgins Gene Kelly .... Eddie O'Brien Betty Garrett .... Shirley Delwyn Edward Arnold .... Joe Lorgan Jules Munshin .... Nat Goldberg Richard Lane...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Beautiful Czech ski poster by Ladislav Horak for Velke Karlovice, Raj Lyzaru. Ve
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful Czech ski poster by Ladislav Horak for Velke Karlovice, Raj Lyzaru. Velké Karlovice is a municipality and village in the Vsetín district of the Zlín region in the Czech Rep...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

'European Landscape' —Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition. Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe. Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston. In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press: “The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.” The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Combattants Indochine French Corps Indochina
Located in London, GB
Original vintage propaganda poster for the Association des Anciens du CEFEO et des F.F. d'Indochine (Corps Expeditionnaire Francais en Extreme-Orient CEFEO Forces Francaises FF) Combattants D'Indochine / French Far East Expeditionary Corps and French Forces alumni of Indochina Fighters featuring an image of three men - an air force pilot with an army soldier and a navy sailor...
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Original Vintage Poster Austrian Alpine Club Osterreichischer Alpenverein Skiing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for the Austrian Alpine Club / Osterreichischer Alpenverein featuring a skier carrying skis over his shoulder with snowy mountain peaks behind him, the stylis...
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Traits, Tete de femme - lithograph poster and collage
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph, collage and stencil poster. This work consists of a lithograph mounted onto brown wove paper, with a collage of hand-cut newsprint letters and stenciled text in r...
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Lithograph

'Cheerleader' — Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Cheerleader', wood engraving, 1945, edition 15. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '104' (the artist's inventory number) and '8/15' in pencil. A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/2 inches), on heavy, cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Pablo Picasso 'Quatre profils enlacés' A. R. 87 Variant
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Quatre profils enlacés (A. R. 87 V) Terre de faïence plate, 1949, unglazed and painted, with the Edition Picasso and...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic, Earthenware

original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1946 at the atelier Quesneville on BFK Rives paper and published in a limited edition of 300 for the "Alternance"...
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Etching

WWII Original poster by André Golven for the ERP : European Recovery Program
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful poster by André Golven for the ERP: New Sap, Better Life The European Recovery Program (ERP), later known as the Marshall Plan, was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to re...
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Original Paco Reyes Presenta Su Ballet Teatro con y Gloria Libran vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Musical Dance Flamenco Spanish Caseres & Arseni Theatrical/Musical Theatrical 1940s. Ballet Teatro. 1941. Artists: AMADEU ASENSI AND RAFAEL CASERES The ...
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Art Deco 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Siamese Cats by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED Siamese Cats by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Etching 10 x 7.5 cm (4 x 3 inches) Artist biography Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, wa...
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original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in Paris by Lacourière and published by Pierre à Feu and Maeght Editeur for the Marcel Duchamp / André Breton projec...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Soviet poster from 1947, which depicts the greatness of the Soviet Navy fleet
Located in PARIS, FR
Soviet poster from 1947, which depicts the greatness of the Soviet Navy fleet. The Soviet Navy (Russian: Военно-морской флот СССР, Voyenno-morskoy flot SSSR, literally "Naval Military Forces of the USSR") represents the war navy...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

World War 2 coal saving poster ‘Save Fuel in the Living Room' by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Victory Farm Volunteer US Crop Corps WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front propaganda poster - Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps See Your Principal - featuring a photomontage design of people working on a field with horse drawn machinery and loading food into wooden barrels, an image of a young lady and man...
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original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1946 at the atelier Quesneville on BFK Rives paper and published in a limited edition of 300 for the "Alternance"...
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Original Vintage WWII Poster War Savings Are Warships Norman Wilkinson Navy Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front poster issued to encourage people to buy war savings bonds and help win the war. Dramatic artwork by the notable British artist and illustra...
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original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1946 at the atelier Lacouriere on BFK Rives paper and published in a limited edition of 300 for the "Alternance" portfolio (a collective art and ...
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original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1946 at the atelier Quesneville on BFK Rives paper and published in a limited edition of 300 for the "Alternance" portfolio (a collective art and...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

FHK Henrion 1940s Where Coal Comes From original poster for the Ministry of Fuel
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage public information posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the poster you want. We have a whole series referring to environmental issues on the theme of "Waste not want not" and caring for the environment and recycling. FHK Henrion (1914 - 1990) Where Coal Comes From (circa 1945) Original vintage poster 51 x 76 cm Signed in plate. Issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power; printed for HM Stationery Office by Field Sons & Co Ltd, Bradford. We have been unable to identify any other copy of this poster by this renowned designer in any public collection - it is possibly the only remaining copy. A Ministry of Fuel poster...
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

World War 2 coal saving poster ‘Save Fuel at the Sink' by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

World War 2 coal saving poster ‘Save Fuel at Breakfast Time' by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Temple Church and Library after Bombardment lithograph by Walter Spradbery
Located in London, GB
To see our other World War Two art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Walter Ernest Spradbery (1889 - 1969) Temple Church and Library after Bombardment (1944) Lithograph 66 x 57 cm Walter Spradbery's poster for the London Underground depicting a bombed Temple Church; a rainbow strikes hopefully out of the church's remains, and the sun shines on the golden stone of the building. The full poster bears the legend 'The Proud City...
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"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner Horseman and Cattle
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner and Cattle Facsimile in oil or silk screen Oil print by Gilbert Ross Tonge (American, 1883 - 1970...
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American Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Oil, Illustration Board, Screen

Original Vintage Soviet WWII Propaganda Poster Gossip Provocateurs USSR Red Hand
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet World War Two period propaganda poster - We will expose and destroy the provocateurs and spreaders of panicking rumours / Разоблачим и уничтожим провокаторов ...
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Original "You Help Build The B-29 (bomber)" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. You Help Build the B-29 vintage poster. Linen-backed World War II poster. Restored original fold marks. This original vintage US Army Offi...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Original Vintage Travel Poster Air France World Map Postal Network Reseau Aerian
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Air France map poster - Air France Reseau Aerian Postal / Air France Postal Network - featuring a colourful planisphere design showing t...
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Original Vintage World War Two Poster Passive Defence WWII Shelter Bombs France
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Abri Defense Passive Explosifs / Explosives Passive Defence Shelter - featuring a dynamic design ...
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"Nature morte au verre" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drypoint on three zinc plates). Printed in 1945 on heavy wove paper by Lithographie Parisienne for Cahiers d'Art. Size: 12 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches (320 x 243...
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Lithograph

FHK Henrion 1940s What Comes from Coal original poster for HMSO Ministry of Fuel
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original 1941 "World Premier" US 1-sheet vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "World Premiere." Vintage movie poster. Linen-backed and in good condition for a poster created during World War 2. NSS: 41/347. Certificate of Authenticity. This is an original, theater-used US 1-sheet to the comedy starring John Barrymore...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

World War 2 coal saving poster 'Save Fuel when Cooking' by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1946 at the atelier Quesneville on BFK Rives paper and published in a limited edition of 300 for the "Alternance" portfolio (a collective art and...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

World War 2 coal saving poster ‘Save Fuel at Tea Time' by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Vintage WWII Poster Guide The Fighter Planes Army Air Force Recruitment
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two recruitment poster - Guide the fighter planes Join the Army Air Forces Ground Observer Corps Volunteer at your local Civilian D...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Original Vintage Travel Poster Fukuura Beach Japan Scenic Coast View Island Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Fukuura Beach in Japan featuring great scenic artwork depicting people enjoying sunbathing on a large sandy beach and swimming in the bay wit...
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original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris by Mourlot and published by Pierre à Feu and Maeght Editeur for the Marcel Duchamp / André Breton project Surréalisme en 1947. Issued in...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris by Mourlot and published by Pierre à Feu and Maeght Editeur for the Marcel Duchamp / André Breton project Surréalisme en 1947. Issued in...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

World War 2 coal saving poster 'What Mrs Housewife Can Learn' by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

World War 2 coal saving poster 'Save Fuel on Bath Night' by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Arising
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arising Mezzotint, 1942 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Publisher : Issued by the Miniature Print Collectors Society. Edition: 200 Condition: Mint Archival framing with Museum Glass Image/Plate size: 2 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches Sheet size: 3 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches Archival Framed: 17 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches Mastro-Valerio was educated at the Salvador Rosa Institute in Naples, Italy (1906-1912), and came to the U.S. in 1913. He settled in Chicago, and after a brief period as a commerical artist, established a portrait studio near the Loop. Among his patrons were the industrialists Harvey S...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint

World War 2 coal saving poster 'Save Fuel when Ironing' by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

World War 2 ‘Mild Weather is Your Chance to Save Fuel' poster by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1947 Original poster made by Paul Colin for the show of Katherine Dunham
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster made by Paul Colin 🇫🇷 (1892-1985), considered one of the greatest French poster artists, to promote the show of Katherine Dunham. V...
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Art Deco 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Linen, Paper

'Threshing' — 1940s American Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Threshing', lithograph, 1941, edition 250, Fath 48. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove paper, with full margins (1 3/8 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Published by Associated American Artists. Image size 9 5/16 x 13 13/16 inches (237 x 351 mm); sheet size 12 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (318 x 422 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, High Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST “Benton’s idiom was essentially political and rhetorical, the painterly equivalent of the country stump speeches that were a Benton family tradition. The artist vividly recalled accompanying his father, Maecenas E. Benton — a four-term U.S. congressman, on campaigns through rural Missouri. Young Tom Benton grew up with an instinct for constituencies that led him to assess art on the basis of its audience appeal. His own art, after the experiments with abstraction, was high-spirited entertainment designed to catch and hold an audience with a political message neatly bracketed between humor and local color.” —Elizabeth Broun “Thomas Hart Benton: A Politician in Art,” Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Spring 1987, p. 61 Born in 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, Benton spent much of his childhood and adolescence in Washington, D.C., where his lawyer father, Maecenas Eason Benton, served as a Democratic member of Congress from 1897 to 1905. Hoping to groom him for a political career, Benton’s father sent him to Western Military Academy. After nearly two years at the academy, Benton convinced his mother to support him through two years at the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by two more years at the Academie Julian in Paris. Benton returned to America in 1912 and moved to New York to pursue his artistic career. One of his first jobs was painting sets for silent movies, which were being produced in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Benton credits this experience with giving him the skills he needed to make his large-scale murals. When World War I broke out, Benton joined the Navy. Stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he was assigned to create drawings of the camouflaged ships arriving at Norfolk Naval Station. The renderings were used to identify vessels should they be lost in battle. Benton credited being a ‘camofleur’ as having a profound impact on his career. “When I came out of the Navy after the First World War,” he said, “I made up my mind that I wasn’t going to be just a studio painter, a pattern maker in the fashion then dominating the art world–as it still does. I began to think of returning to the painting of subjects, subjects with meanings, which people, in general, might be interested in.” While developing his ‘regionalist’ vision, Benton also taught art, first at a city-supported school and then at The Art Students League (1926–1935). One of his students was a young Jackson Pollock, who looked upon Benton as a mentor and a father figure. In 1930, Benton was commissioned to paint a mural for the New School for Social Research. The ‘America Today’ mural, now on permanent exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was followed by many more commissions as Benton’s work gained acclaim. The Regionalist Movement gained popularity during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Painters, including Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry, rejected modernist European influences preferring to depict realistic images of small-town and rural life—reassuring images of the American heartland during a period of upheaval. Time Magazine called Benton 'the most virile of U.S. painters of the U.S. Scene,' featuring his self-portrait on the cover of a 1934 issue that included a story about 'The Birth of Regionalism.' In 1935, Benton left New York and moved back to Missouri, where he taught at the Kansas City Art Institute. Benton’s outspoken criticism of modern art, art critics, and political views alienated him from many influencers in political and art scenes. While remaining true to his beliefs, Benton continued to create murals, paintings, and prints of some of the most enduring images of American life. The dramatic and engaging qualities of Benton’s paintings and murals attracted the attention of Hollywood producers. He was hired to create illustrations and posters for films, including his famous lithographs for the film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’ produced by Twentieth Century Fox. Benton’s work can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Library of Congress, McNay Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Truman Library and many other museums and galleries across the US. He was elected to the National Academy of Design, has illustrated many books, authored his autobiography, and is the subject of ‘Thomas Hart Benton,’ a documentary by Ken Burns.
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

World War 2 D-Day 'They Need All the Fuel You Can Save' poster by Beverley Pick
Located in London, GB
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Original Vintage Advertising Poster Japan Trade Expo Yokohama Tokyo Bay Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Japan Trade Expo / 日本貿易博覽會 on 15 March 1949 at Nogeyama Park Yokohama City featuring a view over the city with a train running along a rai...
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Original Vintage Advertising Poster Artifacts Exhibition Otsu Shiga Japan Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster advertising the Eighth Local Artefacts Exhibition in Otsu City (Shiga Prefecture Japan) featuring a leafy green tree in front of a traditional old style Japan...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

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