Please be aware that almost all of these "vintage" pictures are modern fakes. Forget the aged frames, the old-looking (often partly-torn) labels on the back of such pictures - they're also fake. Another clue...
A Short Guide to Buying and Selling Antique Frames Antique, old, and vintage picture frames have become collectable and valuable pieces of art in there own right.Examples of 19th Century composition...
Demetre Chiparus is perhaps the most famous exponent of the art deco figurine in bronze. Chiparus (1886-1947) was Romanian-born but worked in Paris sculpting theatrical subjects as well as dancers from the...
Fayral and Guerbe were 2 pseudonyms used by the famous Pierre Le Faguays. Fayral and Guerbe were both the family names for his mother and wife. Pierre Le Faguays was born in Nantes, France and became famous...
Joe Descomps (1869 - 1950) was a French sculptur working out of Paris in the 1920s and specialised in small scale figures in Ivory and Bronze. Although a number of his chyrselephantine figures are eclectic or...
Chryselephantine is the process where an amalgam of bronze and ivory is carved and gilded into a sculpture. This technique was popular with many Art Deco sculptors working out of Paris and Berlin in the 1920s...