A collection of sculpture, posters, paintings, ceramics, lighting and collectibles used to decorate Shrewsbury’s famous 1930s Art Deco house sold for more than £15,000 on Wednesday.
Nearly 30 years ago, the duo were up for auction at Sotheby’s with no attribution, listed as “Large Oval Abstract Paintings.” In 2020, they resurfaced at the Showplace auction house under the ...
A collection of sculpture, posters, paintings, ceramics, lighting and collectibles used to decorate Shrewsbury’s famous 1930s ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Almost every established artist makes a kind of wager hinging on style. What they are “betting,” crudely put, is that their particular mode of looking at the world is unusually charged ...
Sarasota Art Museum’s “Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration” marks the movement’s centennial with 100 Deco posters. It’s easy to view these lithographs through nostalgia’s rose-colored glasses.
Jean Dunand was a French Art Deco artist and designer. Considered a master of lacquer, Dunand's practice also involved sculpting, metalwork, and furniture design. Characteristic of the Art Deco ...
Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in cars or in evening dress adorn book covers and break ...
It’s a dramatic way to sell a new Broadway show. The Longacre Theatre is getting a high art overhaul as the home of “Lempicka,” a new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka. The theater will ...
Ron Hill, a fan of New Orleans’ history and architecture, needed just one visit to Lakefront Airport to ignite his enthusiasm about its art deco design. In a Curious Louisiana query, Hill wrote: ...