Witold Gordon Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Witold Gordon Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 08, 2024
GORDON, WITOLD: "III Olympic Winter Games - Lake placid, USA 1932".
Est: CHF3,000 - CHF4,500
GORDON, WITOLD (Warschau 1885 - 1968 New York) : "III Olympic Winter Games - Lake placid, USA 1932"; Farblithografie; 102x63,5 cm (BG), ungerahmt; im Stein sig. u.l., bez. "Cook & Son"
Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG
May. 03, 2024
GORDON, WITOLD: "III Olympic Winter Games - Lake placid, USA 1932".
Est: CHF3,000 - CHF5,000
GORDON, WITOLD (Warschau 1885 - 1968 New York) : "III Olympic Winter Games - Lake placid, USA 1932"; Farblithografie; 102x63,5 cm (BG), ungerahmt; im Stein sig. u.l., bez. "Cook & Son"
Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG
Aug. 03, 2023
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968). OKLAHOMA! 1943. 84¼x41 inches, 214x104 cm. Artcraft Litho & Ptg. Co., New York.
Est: $800 - $1,200
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) OKLAHOMA! 1943. 84 1/4x41 inches, 214x104 cm. Artcraft Litho & Ptg. Co., New York. Condition B+: minor losses and restored loss at top edge; creases, abrasions and minor losses along vertical and horizontal folds. Three-sheets. While the poster is unsigned, the original souvenir book from the musical bears the artist's signature; the image was used for performances as late as 1950, for productions in London.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 09, 2022
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) Abstract portrait of Donald Deskey and family.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) Abstract portrait of Donald Deskey and family. Gouache on board, circa 1930s. 381x610 mm; 15x24 inches, sight. Signed "Witold Gordon" in pencil, lower right image. Framed to 23x32 inches, with inscription shown through window on verso. A lovely abstract portrait in blues, greens, and neutrals, painted for the artist's good friend and colleague, designer Donald Deskey. The verso is Inscribed and Signed by Deskey's son, Michael upon gifting it to the present owners: "This, in my family from the 1930's, shows my father, an avid fisherman, my mother, a pianist, and we two boys, Michael & Stephen, on a seesaw. Michael Deskey, 18 Nov 2006." Witold Gordon was a Polish-born American Art Deco painter best known for his murals in Radio City Music Hall completed in 1932. He painted a 6,000 square foot mural for the 1939 New York World's Fair and a series of New Yorker covers depicting the city in its recent past. He also designed the poster for the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1943). Prominent American designer, Donald Deskey, coordinated the painting of murals at Radio City Music Hall and commissioned Gordon, among the period's foremost avant-garde artists, along with Stuart Davis and William Zorach, to create two of them. A long friendship between their families ensued.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 09, 2022
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) Presenting the stallion to Sindbad.
Est: $800 - $1,200
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) Presenting the stallion to Sindbad. Illustration from an un unpublished edition of Sindbad the Sailor. Gouache on board, 1932. 300x223 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/4 inches, image. Signed "Witold Gordon" in lower right image. Matted and framed to 19 1/4x16 1/4 inches. In 1932, Gordon created an exceptional set of illustrations for a planned book of The Travels of Sinbad. However, on the heels of the Great Depression, the book was never published and the illustrations stayed together in his private archive until his death. Witold Gordon was a Polish-born American Art Deco painter best known for his murals in Radio City Music Hall completed in 1932. He painted a 6,000 square foot mural for the 1939 New York World's Fair and a series of New Yorker covers depicting the city in its recent past. He also designed the poster for the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1943).
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 09, 2022
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) "Amoré."
Est: $800 - $1,200
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) "Amoré." Illustration from an un unpublished edition of Sindbad the Sailor. Gouache on board, 1932. 300x223 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/4 inches, image. Signed "Witold Gordon" in lower right image. Matted and framed to 19 1/4x16 1/4 inches. In 1932, Gordon created an exceptional set of illustrations for a planned book of The Travels of Sinbad. However, on the heels of the Great Depression, the book was never published and the illustrations stayed together in his private archive until his death. Witold Gordon was a Polish-born American Art Deco painter best known for his murals in Radio City Music Hall completed in 1932. He painted a 6,000 square foot mural for the 1939 New York World's Fair and a series of New Yorker covers depicting the city in its recent past. He also designed the poster for the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1943).
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 29, 2020
(4pc) WITOLD GORDON (New York/Poland, 1898-1968)
Est: $900 - $1,300
New York store front facades mixed media on paper overall: 14-1/8 x 11 in. (largest matte) including four matted mixed media artworks of various New York store front facades, each wrapped in plastic and numbered; displaying an Italian restaurant and delicatessen (22), a masks and wigs shop (25), Steve's fish market (50), and Lion Brew (52, with label on verso "For 'Vanity Fair'")
Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC
Mar. 29, 2020
WITOLD GORDON (American, 1898-1968)
Est: $400 - $600
still life of fruit oil on board h. 14 w. 18 in. table top still-life of fruit, including a melon, squash, apple, and lime sold without frame
Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC
Aug. 07, 2019
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968). POLES! UNDER THE POLISH FLAG ON TO THE FIGHT / "FOR OUR LIBERTY AND YOURS!" Circa 1916. 38x22 inches, 96x57
Est: $700 - $1,000
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) POLES! UNDER THE POLISH FLAG ON TO THE FIGHT / "FOR OUR LIBERTY AND YOURS!" Circa 1916. 38x22 1/2 inches, 96 1/2x57 1/4 cm. Condition B: replaced losses, repaired tears and restoration in margins, some into text; repaired pin holes in corners.
Swann Auction Galleries
Aug. 02, 2017
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968). POLES! UNDER THE POLISH FLAG ON TO THE FIGHT / "FOR OUR LIBERTY AND YOURS!" Circa 1916. 38x22 inches, 96x56
Est: $500 - $750
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) POLES! UNDER THE POLISH FLAG ON TO THE FIGHT / "FOR OUR LIBERTY AND YOURS!" Circa 1916. 38x22 inches, 96 1/2x56 cm. Condition A-: minor tears and creases at edges; unobtrusive pin holes in top corners. Printed on thin paper.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 16, 2017
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968). III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES / LAKE PLACID. 1932. 40x25 inches, 101x63 cm.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES / LAKE PLACID. 1932. 40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Condition A: repaired tears at edges. "Until 1932, each Olympiad had taken place in Europe. Now for the first time, the venue for both winter and summer Games was to be America. The third Olympic Winter Games, in 1932, were held in Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, a town with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants . . . Unfortunately the Games were held in the midst of a worldwide depression and many countries were unable to send well-prepared and equipped teams" (Olympics p. 41). Olympics pl. 25, Art of Skiing p. 123, Sports d''Hiver p. 76, Crouse p. 118.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 05, 2016
Witold Gordon (Polish/American, 1885-1968), "Scottish Piper with Woman and Angel," original gouache
Est: $200 - $400
Witold Gordon (Polish/American, 1885-1968), "Scottish Piper with a Castle at right and Resting Figures," original gouache on paper, signed with initials at lower left, measures 13x13 inches to the matt edge, overall 22.25x22.25 inches framed. Possibly a design for Scottish themed playing cards. CONDITION: Good, with some pencil marks and paint smudges present. Gordon studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and worked as a muralist and illustrator before and after World War II. He did covers for Conde Nast publications such as The New Yorker and Fortune magazines.
Huntington Museum of Art
Nov. 05, 2016
Witold Gordon (Polish/American, 1885-1968), "Scottish Piper with Woman and Angel," original gouache
Est: $200 - $400
Witold Gordon (Polish/American, 1885-1968), "Scottish Piper with Woman and Angel," original gouache on paper, signed with initials at lower right, measures 13x13 inches to the matt edge, overall 22.25x22.25 inches framed. Possibly a design for Scottish themed playing cards. CONDITION: Good, with some pencil marks and paint smudges present. Gordon studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and worked as a muralist and illustrator before and after World War II. He did covers for Conde Nast publications such as The New Yorker and Fortune magazines.
Huntington Museum of Art
Jul. 17, 2016
Witold Gordon (Polish/New York, 1885-1968)
Est: $300 - $500
Witold Gordon (Polish/New York, 1885-1968), "Ace Bar", gouache on board, signed lower right, 14 1/2 in. x 11 1/2 in., framed Note: During the summers of 1939 and 1949, famed artist, muralist and illustrator Witold Gordon traveled throughout the South creating a series of gouaches of homes and businesses. Thirty-five of these gouaches were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in Feb. 1941 in the exhibition American Scene.
Neal Auction Company
Dec. 12, 2015
Vintage WWI US & Polish Propaganda Poster
Est: $400 - $600
Vintage WWI US & Polish Propaganda Poster, c.1918. Portrait of a Polish soldier holding a Polish, American & British flag. Reads in English and Polish: Poles! Under the Polish flag, on to the fight - "For our liberty and yours!" Enlist to-day. Original by Witold Gordon. Linen backed, in nice condition. 38 in. high x 21.75 in. wide.
Fontaine's Auction Gallery
Nov. 21, 2015
Witold Gordon (Polish/New York, 1885-1968)
Est: $500 - $800
Witold Gordon (Polish/New York, 1885-1968), "Ace Bar", gouache on board, signed lower right, 14 1/2 in. x 11 1/2 in., framed Note: During the summers of 1939 and 1949, famed artist, muralist and illustrator Witold Gordon traveled throughout the South creating a series of gouaches of homes and businesses. Thirty-five of these gouaches were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in Feb. 1941 in the exhibition American Scene.
Neal Auction Company
Dec. 06, 2014
Witold Gordon (American, 1898-1968) Painting, Shell, Signed "WITOLD/GORDON' l.l., inscribed "To be added to your/collection of shells
Est: $300 - $500
Witold Gordon (American, 1898-1968) Painting Shell Signed "WITOLD/GORDON' l.l., inscribed "To be added to your/collection of shells in/ Wampcott [sic]/ Witold Gordon" on the reverse. Oil on Masonite, 7 x 5 1/8 in., framed. Condition: Very minor paint losses, fine craquelure, surface grime.
Skinner
Feb. 25, 2014
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968). III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES / LAKE PLACID. 1932. 40x25 inches, 101x63 cm.
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES / LAKE PLACID. 1932. 40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Condition B+: tears at edges, some affecting image; creases and abrasions in margins and image; tape on verso. Paper. "Until 1932, each Olympiad had taken place in Europe. Now for the first time, the venue for both winter and summer Games was to be America. The third Olympic Winter Games, in 1932, were held in Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, a town with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants . . . Unfortunately the Games were held in the midst of a worldwide depression and many countries were unable to send well-prepared and equipped teams" (Olympics p. 41). Olympics pl. 25, Art of Skiing p. 123.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 24, 2013
WITOLD GORDON. Mural Design.
Est: $600 - $900
WITOLD GORDON. Mural Design. Mixed media on paper laid-down on illustration board. Image 215x635 mm; 8 1/2x25 inches. Signed lower left. Nd.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 23, 2013
Witold Gordon (1855-1968)
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
Witold Gordon (1855-1968) III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, LAKE PLACID 1932 lithograph in colours, 1932, condition B+; backed on linen 40½ x 25in. (102 x 63cm.)
Christie's
Apr. 18, 2012
Witold Gordon (1855-1968)
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
Witold Gordon (1855-1968) III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, LAKE PLACID, USA 1932 lithograph in colours, 1930, condition B+; not backed 40 x 25in. (102 x 64cm.)
Christie's
Jun. 16, 2010
AN AMERICAN MODERNE THREE-PANEL SCREEN
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
AN AMERICAN MODERNE THREE-PANEL SCREEN reverse-painted glass and painted wood 63 3/8 x 17 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (161 x 44.8 x 3.2 cm) ca. 1930-1935 the design attributed to Paul Frankl the decoration attributed to Witold Gordon
Sotheby's
May. 30, 2009
WITOLD GORDON ( ? - 1968)
Est: $900 - $1,200
WITOLD GORDON ( ? - 1968) Gouache on glass. "Butterflies". Unsigned and undated. 18" x 18" in a gilt frame. Provenance: From a Fine Sutton Place South Estate.
Braswell Galleries
Feb. 05, 2009
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968). LAKE PLACID / III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. 1932. 40x25 inches, 101x63 cm.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
WITOLD GORDON (1885-1968) LAKE PLACID / III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. 1932. 40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Condition B+: foxing and creases in margins and image. Paper. "Until 1932, each Olympiad had taken place in Europe. Now for the first time, the venue for both winter and summer Games was to be America. The third Olympic Winter Games, in 1932, were held in Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, a town with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants . . . Unfortunately the Games were held in the midst of a worldwide depression and many countries were unable to send well-prepared and equipped teams" (Olympics p. 41). Olympics pl. 25, Art of Skiing p. 123.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 20, 2008
Witold Gordon American, 20th Century Saw Filling and Country Store Facade: Two
Est: $500 - $700
Witold Gordon American, 20th Century Saw Filling and Country Store Facade: Two Each signed Witold Gordon Gouache on paper Each 15 x 17 inches
Doyle New York
Jun. 18, 2008
Witold Gordon American, 20th Century Saw Filling and Country Store Facade: Two
Est: $800 - $1,200
Witold Gordon American, 20th Century Saw Filling and Country Store Facade: Two Each signed Witold Gordon Gouache on paper Each 15 x 17 inches
Doyle New York
Jun. 18, 2008
Witold Gordon American, 20th Century Church Studies: Two
Est: $600 - $900
Witold Gordon American, 20th Century Church Studies: Two Each signed Witold Gordon (lr) and one inscribed Church Sag Harbor on the mat Gouache on paper Each 20 x 16 inches
Doyle New York
Jan. 31, 2008
POSTER: WITOLD GORDON. LAKE PLACID OLYMPICS.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
WITOLD GORDON. LAKE PLACID OLYMPICS. 1932. 40 x 25 inches. Condition B+: expert overpainting and restoration in corners; overpainting in image. Art of Skiing p. 123.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 25, 2007
Witold Gordon
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
music stand USA, 1928
Wright
Feb. 02, 2007
WITOLD GORDON, (AMERICAN D. 1968), SURREAL STILL LIFE
Est: $300 - $500
WITOLD GORDON (american d. 1968) SURREAL STILL LIFE Signed. Oil on board. 12 x 10 in.
Freeman's
May. 21, 2005
Witold Gordon 1880s-1968 Magazine cover: New York City storefront, vendors specializing in gowns. New Yorker April 27, 1946; gouache, 13 5 x 10.25in, signed ll
Est: $3,000 - $4,500
Witold Gordon 1880s-1968 Magazine cover: New York City storefront, vendors specializing in gowns. New Yorker April 27, 1946; gouache, 13 5 x 10.25in, signed ll
Illustration House