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Untitled-052 mixed media on paper by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations. In 1923 Von Wicht
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Large Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Rice Paper Modernist John Von Wicht
Located in Surfside, FL
partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations. In 1923 Von Wicht
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil, Rice Paper
Large Venezuelan Jewish Modernist Lithograph Menorah Judaica
By Marius Sznajderman
Located in Surfside, FL
poet Hugo Brett Figueroa published the book "Scargot" with illustrations by Sznajderman. Sznajderman
Category
20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Large Venezuelan Modernist Lithograph "The Balcony #3" Color Print
By Marius Sznajderman
Located in Surfside, FL
poet Hugo Brett Figueroa published the book "Scargot" with illustrations by Sznajderman. Sznajderman
Category
20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled-005 mixed media on paper by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations. In 1923 Von Wicht
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled-059 mixed media on paper by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations. In 1923 Von Wicht
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Red
s Moving abstract oil painting by John von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations. In 1923 Von Wicht
Category
1960s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterloo Crescent, Dover - 20th Century British chalk drawing by John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
from the RA he taught part-time at art schools in Kent and worked on commissions including book jacket
Category
1970s Realist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Chalk
Conflict, 1941 gouache by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
Wicht was wounded and partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations
Category
1940s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Vienna Austria Jewish Memorial Etching Destroyed Synagogue Folk Art Judaica
By Dora Szampanier
Located in Surfside, FL
twentieth century was a book and press illustration in Yiddish and Hebrew publishing houses (and their
Category
20th Century Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Bucharest Romania Jewish Memorial Etching Destroyed Synagogue Folk Art Judaica
By Dora Szampanier
Located in Surfside, FL
book and press illustration in Yiddish and Hebrew publishing houses (and their translations into German
Category
20th Century Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Regensburg Germany Jewish Memorial Etching Destroyed Synagogue Folk Art Judaica
By Dora Szampanier
Located in Surfside, FL
book and press illustration in Yiddish and Hebrew publishing houses (and their translations into German
Category
20th Century Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Berlin Germany Jewish Memorial Etching Destroyed Synagogue Folk Art Judaica
By Dora Szampanier
Located in Surfside, FL
book and press illustration in Yiddish and Hebrew publishing houses (and their translations into German
Category
20th Century Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Heidelberg Germany Jewish Memorial Etching Destroyed Synagogue Folk Art Judaica
By Dora Szampanier
Located in Surfside, FL
book and press illustration in Yiddish and Hebrew publishing houses (and their translations into German
Category
20th Century Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Tarnopol, Ukraine Jewish Memorial Etching Destroyed Synagogue Folk Art Judaica
By Dora Szampanier
Located in Surfside, FL
expression of Jewish painters and graphic artists in the early twentieth century was a book and press
Category
20th Century Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Budapest Hungary Jewish Memorial Etching Destroyed Synagogue Folk Art Judaica
By Dora Szampanier
Located in Surfside, FL
book and press illustration in Yiddish and Hebrew publishing houses (and their translations into German
Category
20th Century Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Large and Unique Stoneware Rooster by Tyra Lundgren. Sweden, 1955.
By Tyra Lundgren Carolina
Located in Malmö, SE
individual artworks and sketches for patterns and designs. She also produced the illustrations for her book
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Deep as the Night, an oil painting by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
book designs and illustrations. In 1923 Von Wicht immigrated to the United States, leaving a post-war
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled-113 mixed media abstraction on paper by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
Wicht was wounded and partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Morning Reflection
By Hans Amis
Located in Missouri, MO
China. He also was commissioned to do hundreds of book covers and illustrations for publication. An He
Category
1990s Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Untitled-009 Abstraction in Reds mixed media painting by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations. In 1923 Von Wicht
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Stoneware Leaf by Tyra Lundgren. Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, 1930s.
By Tyra Lundgren Carolina, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Malmö, SE
and sketches for patterns and designs. She also produced the illustrations for her book Fagert i Fide
Category
Mid-20th Century French Scandinavian Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Untitled - Drawing by Wifredo Lam - Ink and Pencil - 1941
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
, and it is interesting to underline these sketches are very similar to the illustrations of Breton’s
Category
1940s Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Jean Émile Laboureur - Under the Cross - Original Etching
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
end of World War I, Laboureur had gained a new audience with his success in book design and
Category
1940s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Untitled - Drawing by Wifredo Lam - 1941
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
, and it is interesting to underline these sketches are very similar to the illustrations of Breton’s
Category
1940s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Price Upon Request
"Low Tide at Noon, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, " Ernest Fiene, WPA, Boat on Beach
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Avedon/Baldwin: Nothing Personal (Signed by Richard Avedon)
By James Baldwin, Richard Avedon
Located in New York, NY
boards, 84 unnumbered pages, over 60 b/w gravure illustrations. Book design by Marvin Israel. In its
Category
1960s American Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper
Alexander Calder - Original Lithograph - from "Derrière le miroir"
By Alexander Calder
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
jewelry, stage designs and book illustrations.
Alexander Calder dies in New York in 1976. His grave is in
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Nature
Animals Posing in Still Life Art, European
Italian Coffee Table Book
Located in New York, NY
Della Natura Morta Europea.
This large (grand) and beautiful book has art illustrations of over 500
Category
1970s Italian Rustic Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper
Creole Dancer
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
known as “livre d’artiste” (artist’s book), a specific type of illustrated book that became common in
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
"Cyclisme sur Piste" Illustration by Milivoj Uzelac
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
illustration. The 20th Century artists Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro made prints using this technique for book
Category
20th Century French Vintage Book Illustrations
Tauromachia IV
By Peter Klúcik
Located in Van Nuys, CA
book illustrations. Image/plate size: 9-9/16 x 12-3/4". Titeled, edition number 26/99, signed & dated
Category
1990s Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Ked príroda… or Ved prírodní (Natural Science) – Tongue twisted
By Peter Klúcik
Located in Van Nuys, CA
children’s book illustrations. Image/plate size: 7 x 5-3/4” (181 x 147 mm), sheet 13-5/8 x 10-7/8". The
Category
1990s Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Forest Awakening
By Peter Klúcik
Located in Van Nuys, CA
the Czechoslovak award for the most beautiful book for his children’s book illustrations. He appears
Category
1990s Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations
Joined
By (after) Marie Laurencin
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
, lithographs, and book illustrations - is best known for its depictions of graceful, dreamy young women
Category
Mid-20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Erotic French Etching
By Almery Lobel-Riche
Located in Toronto, ON
DURING THE BELLE EPOQUE AS WELL AS HIS NUMEROUS BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS.
Category
1940s French Vintage Book Illustrations
Erotic Etching of Dance
By Almery Lobel-Riche
Located in Toronto, ON
DURING THE BELLE EPOQUE AS WELL AS HIS NUMEROUS BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS.
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Book Illustrations
Erotic Etching of Dance
By Almery Lobel-Riche
Located in Toronto, ON
DURING THE BELLE EPOQUE AS WELL AS HIS NUMEROUS BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS.
Category
1940s French Vintage Book Illustrations
Erotic Etching Of Dance
By Almery Lobel-Riche
Located in Toronto, ON
DURING THE BELLE EPOQUE AS WELL AS HIA NUMEROUS BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS.
Category
1940s French Vintage Book Illustrations
EROTIC ETCHING OF DANCE
By Almery Lobel-Riche
Located in Toronto, ON
SOCIETY DURING THE 'BELLE EPOQUE' AS WELL AS HIS NUMEROUS BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS.
Category
1940s French Vintage Book Illustrations
EROTIC ETCHING OF DANCE
By Almery Lobel-Riche
Located in Toronto, ON
DURING THE 'BELLE EPOQUE'AS WELL AS HIS NUMEROUS BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS.
Category
1940s French Vintage Book Illustrations
EROTIC ETCHING OF DANCE
By Almery Lobel-Riche
Located in Toronto, ON
SOCIETY DURING THE 'BELLE EPOQUE' AS WELL AS HIS NUMEROUS BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS.
Category
1940s French Vintage Book Illustrations
"Circue" Swiss Circus Clown Original Hand-Signed Print
By Herbert Leupin
Located in Boston, MA
themes and book illustration. An incredibly versatile artist.
Hand signed by the artist and in excellent
Category
1990s Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Le Jiu Jitsu by Milivoj Uzelac
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
illustration. The 20th Century artists Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro made prints using this technique for book
Category
20th Century French Vintage Book Illustrations
La Bicyclette by Milivoj Uzelac
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
illustration. The 20th Century artists Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro made prints using this technique for book
Category
20th Century French Vintage Book Illustrations
L
automobile by Milivoj Uzelac
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
illustration. The 20th Century artists Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro made prints using this technique for book
Category
20th Century French Vintage Book Illustrations
Le Canoe by Milivoj Uzelac
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Le Canoe illustration in striking black frame.
Illustration by Milivoj Uzelac, a Croatian Artist
Category
20th Century French Vintage Book Illustrations
Le Tourisme en Balloon spherique by Milivoj Uzelac
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
technique for book illustrations.
Category
20th Century French Vintage Book Illustrations
1970s Antoon Mortier Clown Illustrations Book
By Antoon Mortier
Located in London, GB
A beautiful book from the 1970s by Belgian illustrator Antoon Mortier.
Clowns, each one
Category
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Henri Desgrange Portrait by Milivoj Uzelac
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
technique for book illustrations.
Category
20th Century French Vintage Book Illustrations
Book Cover Illustration of Cowboy in Antique Adirondack Frame
Located in New York City, NY
Cowboy book cover illustration in antique wood frame.
Category
20th Century American Vintage Book Illustrations
Snowy owl - Ulco Glimmerveen - biological illustrator - Oil paint - Dutch
By Ulco Glimmerveen
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
now comprises numerous book illustrations, three published children’s books (A Tale of Antarctica
Category
1990s Realist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus by Frans Laurentius - Linocut - 20th Century
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
court artist at the English court. He made many portraits, but also designed jewelry and book
Category
1990s Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Linocut
Lurking Falcon - Ulco Glimmerveen - biological illustrator - Oil paint - Dutch
By Ulco Glimmerveen
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
now comprises numerous book illustrations, three published children’s books (A Tale of Antarctica
Category
1990s Realist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Oil, Board
Rene Portocarrero, Cathedral, Oil on Canvas
By René Portocarrero
Located in Miami, FL
works in different mediums, including sculpture, book illustration, and ceramics. His work garnered him
Category
1960s Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Fauns with Bear
By Louis Moe
Located in New York, NY
known for his many book illustrations, illustrated classical works, fairytales, children's books and
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Mezzotint
Three Fauns with Bear
By Louis Moe
Located in New York, NY
, illustrator and writer who settled in Denmark. He is known for his many book illustrations, illustrated
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Mezzotint
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There is a broad range of vintage book illustrations for sale on 1stDibs. There are many Art Deco, Modern and Contemporary versions of these works for sale. These items have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Vintage book illustrations available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes brown, beige, gray, black and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Paul Wonner, "Gaspano ""Gus"" Ricca", Albert Al Hirschfeld, Calvin Anderson and Antoni Clavé are often thought to be among the most beautiful. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in paint, board and watercolor — can elevate any room of your home.
How Much are Vintage Book Illustrations?
Vintage book illustrations can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,273, while the lowest priced sells for $24 and the highest can go for as much as $79,000.
Questions About Vintage Book Illustrations
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025The illustrator for the Madeline books was Ludwig Bemelmans. He also authored the series. The first book was published in 1939, and five more followed. Find a range of Ludwig Bemelmans art on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 10, 2025The most famous book that Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated is arguably Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. However, the American artist also produced illustrations for numerous other books. Among them were A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, The Seven Ages of Childhood by Carolyn Wells, The Rhymes of Real Children by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and An Old-Fashioned Girl, also by Louisa May Alcott. Explore a range of Jessie Willcox Smith art on 1stDibs.
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