"Theatrical Scene, " Art Deco Painting with Tragedy, Comedy in Celestial Setting

One of a series of Art Deco paintings made by Eugene Savage in the 1930s to visualize and dramatize great works of Classical music, this painting celebrates "Afternoon of a Faun" by Claude Debussy, which later inspired the great ballet by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes. Savage, who became celebrated for his ambitious allegorical murals across America, packs the panting with a vividly-hued landscape populated by a series of mythological figures, including a drunken faun...

This fantastic view of a great battle waged by a phalanx of nude male soldiers -- probably a scene from Sweden or France -- was painted by Nils Wedel, an important Swedish painter st...

Painted on silk velvet fabric in the late 1920s by Rudolf Gowenius, a Swedish painter who settled in Paris, this remarkable scene shows a circus or carnival acrobat at the center, hi...

A color-rich reimagining of the mythological tale of Ceres, the Goddess of fertility and agriculture, this marvelous Art Deco painting shows a modern Ceres holding a pineapple in one...

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...

Large oil on canvas, "theater decor" Around 1930 The canvas separates from the frame, some cuts, provide for restoration.

This extraordinary oil on canvas painting by American artist William Freed (1902–1984) captures the dynamic energy and stylized elegance of the Art Deco era. Painted circa 1937, the ...

Painting - decoration - allegorical scene The condition of the canvas (varnish and holes) is visible in our photos. Measures : 80x113 With frame : 96,5x7,5cm H:129cm