Watercolour on paper, indistinctly signed, titled and dated (lower right), 39cm x 55cm, (53cm x 65cm framed), £1,950

It is such a shame that it is not possible to discern the artist from their signature, in this wonderfully rendered scene on the quayside in the port of St Jean de Luz on the French Atlantic coast.

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Deutsche Werkbund-Ausstellung, Kunst in Handwerk, Industrie und Handel Architektur (German Workers Union Exhibition Art in Handcrafts, Industry, Trade and Architecture), 1914 (printed), lithograph, initialled in the plate (middle left), 90cm x 63cm, (95cm x 65cm framed), £5,500

This poster advertises an exhibition held by the Deutsche Werkbund in Cologne in Germany in 1914. The artist Peter Behrens (1868-1940) was a pioneer of Modern design and was known for his work for AEG, the German electrical company. He was an admired designer at the time. He was asked to create this poster for the Deutsche Werkbund. The organisation was founded by artists, manufacturers and designers who were committed to improving the standard of German product design. A copy of this lithograph is in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection.

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Charcoal, sanguine and white chalk on paper, initialled ‘F.B.’ (lower right), 48cm x 38cm (69cm x 57cm framed), £1,250

Brangwyn was an artistic jack-of-all-trades. As well as paintings and drawings, he produced designs for stained glass, furniture, ceramics, table glassware, buildings and interiors, was a lithographer and woodcutter and was a book illustrator. His work is held in many public galleries.

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Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 19cm x 15cm, (32cm x 27cm framed), £3,750

First exhibiting at the RA in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of young men – thought to be friends, models and lovers – portrays his gradual acceptance and expression of his own homosexuality. Some of these later works were considered controversial because of their homosexual imagery. He was the subject of major exhibition at the Pallant House Gallery in 2022.

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Painted engraved wood, 20.5cm x 13.5cm, (41cm x 34cm framed), £4,250 (Provenance: Félix Marcilhac, a French art historian who collected Art Deco objects; Sotheby’s, Paris, 11 March 2014)

A painter, wood engraver, printer, editor, illustrator, and bookbinder of Swiss origin, Schmied established himself in France, where he was later naturalized. He is considered a major artist in the Art Deco style, particularly in the area of publishing. His books were very expensive to produce and were always printed in a very limited edition, usually numbering no more than 100-200 copies. This original printing woodblock, was used in Schmied’s Homer's Odyssey, 1930, Vol 4. (La Compagnie des Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France)

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Painted engraved wood, 20cm x 13cm, (42cm x 35cm framed), £3,500 (Provenance: Félix Marcilhac, a French art historian who collected Art Deco objects; Sotheby’s, Paris, 11 March 2014)

A painter, wood engraver, printer, editor, illustrator, and bookbinder of Swiss origin, Schmied established himself in France, where he was later naturalized. He is considered a major artist in the Art Deco style, particularly in the area of publishing. His books were very expensive to produce and were always printed in a very limited edition, usually numbering no more than 100-200 copies. This original printing woodblock, was used in Schmied’s Homer's Odyssey, 1930, Vol 3. (La Compagnie des Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France).

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Oil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 58cm x 41cm, (66cm x 49cm framed), £2,950

A Czech painter known for vibrant landscapes, intense portraits and interior scenes, this work evokes early 20th century Romanticism, placing a nude young man into a wonderful natural scene.

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Pastel on paper, signed (lower left), 63cm x 49cm (framed 75cm x 60cm). £6,500

Bouchéne was a Russian artist and costume and set designer for theatre, opera and ballet. Primarily working in Paris, his notable clients included Serge Diaghilev and Anna Pavlova.

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Charcoal on paper, studio stamp (lower left), 99cm x 65cm, (106cm x 73cm framed), £1,250

A highly successful artist in his lifetime, Bascoules exhibited extensively in France and Algeria. These works are purported to be studies for a mural in Marseille.

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Oil on board, signed (lower right), 44cm x 24cm, (48cm x 27cm framed), £2,500

Kluska was a German painter and illustrator born in Berlin. He studied from 1920 at the Berlin Academy under the artist of Max Koch. In 1929, Kluska, a Protestant by birth, converted to Catholicism; which might explain his later fascination for Dante. He mainly painted nudes, male and female, but was heavily inspired by Christian motives; and from 1935, especially by Dante’s Devine Comedy. He produced numerous large format depictions of sceneries of the Devine Comedy, in particular from the parts ‘Inferno’ and ‘Purgatorium’.

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Oil on board, signed (lower right), 31cm x 40cm, (34cm x 42cm framed), £2,000

Kluska was a German painter and illustrator born in Berlin. He studied from 1920 at the Berlin Academy under the artist of Max Koch. In 1929, Kluska, a Protestant by birth, converted to Catholicism; which might explain his later fascination for Dante. He mainly painted nudes, male and female, but was heavily inspired by Christian motives; and from 1935, especially by Dante’s Devine Comedy. He produced numerous large format depictions of sceneries of the Devine Comedy, in particular from the parts ‘Inferno’ and ‘Purgatorium’.

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Charcoal on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 33cm x 24cm, (66cm x 56cm framed), £4,750

Bortnyik was a painter and graphic designer, whose work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism. In 1922 he moved to Weimar, Germany and became connected to the Bauhaus. When he moved back to Hungary he founded an art school in Budapest, where he followed Bauhaus principles. He was also the director of Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1949–1956).

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Watercolour, pencil and gouache on paper, signed (lower right), 33cm x 33cm, (55cm x 54cm framed), £9,500

Aged only 15, Canedo was sent by his parents to study at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, subsequently continuing his studies in Rome in the 1920s. Successful throughout his life, after his first solo show in Rome in 1928, he returned to the US, for shows in New York in the 30s and 40s. After relocating to California in the 1950s, Cañedo also produced many overtly homoerotic artworks for private collectors which were too suggestive to be exhibited in galleries. His work is held in the collection of the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York.

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Oil on board, signed and dated (middle left), 30cm x 30cm, (36cm x 36cm framed), £1,500

Lefèbre initially studied at the Fine Arts Academies in Dusseldorf and Munich before enrolling in the Academie Julian in Paris, in 1898, under the tutelage of Ferrier, Jean-Paul Laurens and Bouguereau. He was master of landscapes and genre scenes.

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Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed), £3,250

This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the more surprising as very little is known about the career and life of the artist. Showing such technical skill and creative ability at such an early age, does not appear to have translated into success in later life.

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Pen and ink on paper, 27cm x 20cm, (54cm x 48cm framed), £2,000. Provenance: Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.

Bérard, an artist, fashion illustrator and designer. Bérard and his lover Boris Kochno, who directed the Ballets Russes, were one of the most prominent openly gay couples in French theater during the 1930s and '40s. By the end of the 1920's, he was an influence on and an inspiration to several fashion designers, notably Christian Dior and Elsa Schiaparelli. His work also appeared in Harpers Bazaar. In 1935 he appeared in Vogue. He was one of the great Bohemian characters of Paris.

Alongside his artistic career, he played an important role in the development of theatrical design in the 1930s and 1940s. He also worked as a fashion illustrator for Coco Chanel, amonst others. Bérard also designed for Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bête (1946). After his sudden death in 1949, Cocteau dedicated his film Orphée (1950) to him.

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Charcoal on paper, 56cm x 38cm, (79cm x 60cm framed), Provenance: The Artist’s sister, £3,500

From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s Colquhoun was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. Along with that of MacBryde, another artist and Colquhoun’s partner, his work was regularly shown at the Lefevre Gallery in London. Known as the ‘Two Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde met at the Glasgow School of Art in 1932 and lived together until Colquhoun’s death in 1962. An exhibition of their work and life together was held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2015.

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Etching, signed in pencil (lower right), 51cm x 64.5cm (plate size) (81cm x 94cm framed), £1,500

Brangwyn was an artistic jack-of-all-trades. As well as paintings and drawings, he produced designs for stained glass, furniture, ceramics, table glassware, buildings and interiors, was a lithographer and woodcutter and was a book illustrator. His work is held in many public galleries.

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Black and red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 31cm x 27cm (50cm x 45cm framed), £1,750

Delmotte was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and Belgian sculptor. A realist painter at first, he was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century. An impressive list of gallery exhibitions of his work during his lifetime, either independently or as part of a group, indicate that he was a known and successful figure in art worlds of Belgium and Europe.

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Black and red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 28cm x 20cm (47cm x 39cm framed), £1,750

Delmotte was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and Belgian sculptor. A realist painter at first, he was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century. An impressive list of gallery exhibitions of his work during his lifetime, either independently or as part of a group, indicate that he was a known and successful figure in art worlds of Belgium and Europe.

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Charcoal on paper, signed and dated (lower left), 68cm x 48cm (86cm x 64cm framed). £1,350

Pierre-Paul Montagnac was equally talented as a fine artist and a decorative artist. He was educated in both disciplines, studying with Eugene Carriére, the French Symbolist artist, as well as at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére, both in Paris.

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Watercolour and Chinese ink on paper, signed and dated (upper right), 10cm x 17cm (30cm x 38cm framed). £3,500

Barbier was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Aged only 29, he mounted his first exhibition in Paris in 1911. He was subsequently commissioned to design theatre and ballet costumes, illustrate books, and produce haute couture fashion illustrations. In the mid-1920s he worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Folies Bergère.

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Charcoal, red and white chalk on cardboard, 72cm x 47cm (92cm x 69cm framed). £2,000

Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academic art training in Europe from the 16th century onwards.

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Pencil on paper, 24cm x 18cm (47cm x 40cm framed). £1,950

The intensity of this portrait, suggest that it is a self-portrait of an unattributed artist.

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Pencil on paper, 14cm x 12cm (framed 39cm x 34cm), £4,750

Provenance: Gabrielle Cross, the artist’s niece and The Fine Art Society (Cat. 63a), 1997. A successful portraitist in his lifetime, posthumously his work is more recognised for coded references to his sexuality, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.

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Mixed media (ink, watercolour & gouache) on paper, signed (middle right), 26cm x 42cm, (42cm x 63cm framed). £1,500

Calbet was a gifted artist and illustrator, working in Paris. This illustration is a wonderful depiction of Paris life before the war. For further information about Calbet click HERE

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Ink and charcoal on paper, signed (lower right), 48cm x 28cm, (59cm x 42cm in mount), unframed. £1,250

Georges Artemoff, painter and sculptor of Russian origin, is intimately linked to the artistic innovations of the first half of the twentieth century in France. In his early years in Paris, he mixed with figures such as Juan Gris, Modigliani, Jules Pascin and Picasso.

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Etching, 19.7cm x 13.2cm (plate size), (framed 37cm x 29cm), £2,250

Contained within the Sickert Print Catalogue Raisonné (Ruth Bromberg 167 iii/iii), this image is possibly of a female impersonator, from the pre-WW1 Cabaret in Dieppe.

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Oil on board, signed (lower right), 46cm x 75cm, (54cm x 82cm framed), SOLD

Kluska was a German painter and illustrator born in Berlin. He studied from 1920 at the Berlin Academy under the artist Max Koch. In 1929, Kluska, a Protestant by birth, converted to Catholicism; which might explain his later fascination for Dante. He mainly painted nudes, male and female, but was heavily inspired by Christian motives; and from 1935, especially by Dante’s Divine Comedy. He produced numerous large format depictions of scenes of the Divine Comedy, in particular from the parts ‘Inferno’ and ‘Purgatorium’.

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