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Satyr Juggling Tamborine with Feet
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
Noble Falcon
By Tony Angell
Located in Seattle, WA
with J. Marzluff and released in 2005. The book was awarded the First Place (Book Illustration) and
Category
1990s Realist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Stone
Two Satyrs Resting on a Fence, One with Pan Flute
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
Lobster Fisherman
By Ernest Fiene
Located in Boothbay Harbor, ME
also did portraits, etchings, lithographs, murals and book illustrations. Unlike many of his
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
PINO MORNING DREAMS GICLEE ON CANVAS HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED
By Pino Daeni
Located in Boynton Beach, FL
book covers, movie posters and magazine illustrations. From 1960 to 1979, his work garnered several
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas
Untitled. (View from a window)
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
, murals for restaurants, book illustrations and editions of prints for CCA Galleries, Curwen Press and
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Watercolor
The Parlour
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
, murals for restaurants, book illustrations and editions of prints for CCA Galleries, Curwen Press and
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Trobadors, Limited Edition Lithograph Print by Antoni Clave, 1970
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Tbilisi, GE
, London and New York before beginning book illustrations. He continued with this work until the mid-50's
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Gangway Birds
By Jim Dine
Located in Hudson, NY
, photography, book illustration, and printmaking. The artist lives and works in New York and Vermont.
Category
1970s Pop Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
ABCDEF
By Jim Dine
Located in Hudson, NY
, drawing, and mixed media to sculpture, photography, book illustration, and printmaking. The artist lives
Category
1960s Pop Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$2,500
La table aux fruits
By HENRI RAMAEKER
Located in London, GB
delicate watercolours of flowers and the book illustrations which exploit chiaroscuro to dramatic effect
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Oil, Panel
G.T.Shevchenko returning from his Exile
By Ivan Nikolaevich Shulga
Located in Amsterdam, NL
copying book illustrations. The people of Skadovsk noted his talent and organised a benefit concert for
Category
20th Century Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Board
The Eiffel Tower, from Regards sur Paris
By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
. His works also include sets and costumes for the theatre, book illustrations and a number of small
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Large Semi Nude Oil on Canvas in the Style of Alfonse Mucha
By Medynsky
Located in Palm City, FL
, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewelry, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in
Category
1950s American Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas
Original illustration for Fyodor Dostoevsky
s famous short story
White nights
Located in Antwerp, BE
design for the illustration of the book: "Les nuits blanches de Saint-Petersbourg" by F. Dostïevsky
Category
1940s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
Le Mort en Blanc by Norman Rubington
By Norman Rubington 1
Located in Brooklyn, NY
following years, Rubington devoted some time to book illustration and experimental films. Writing under the
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas
French Book La Revolution Francaise a Paris, Published in English Language, 1988
Located in Austin, TX
The French Revolution in Paris is a red leather bound book published in English language by Paris
Category
1980s French Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Leather, Paper
A tiger resting amongst rocks
By Arthur Wardle
Located in London, GB
commercial work – book illustration, postcards and chocolate box lids; whilst his WWI recruitment poster
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Chalk, Paper
The Prints of Frank Stella
Located in Richmond, VA
-white illustrations, the book reproduces every print and variant created by the artist from 1967 to 1982
Category
1980s Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper
El Rapto De Jezabel Por Quirón El Centauro II
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Tbilisi, GE
plate. - Illustration for the book "Gavilla de fábulas sin amor" by Camilo José Cela.
This drypoint is
Category
20th Century Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Drypoint
Enamel After Georges Braque
By Georges Braque
Located in Chicago, IL
reproduction after a lithographic work titled "Weathervane", originally used as a cover illustration for the
Category
1950s French Vintage Book Illustrations
Love Is A Pink Cake
By Andy Warhol
Located in Indianapolis, IN
In 1952, Warhol created his first illustrated books, including the book Love is a Pink Cake
Category
1950s Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Polish Koniec Nocy Movie Poster by Jan Młodożeniec for CWF, 1956
Located in Tarnowskie Gory, Sląskie
in posters, drawing, book and publication design, and illustration.
He studied from 1948 to 1955 at
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper
1 ¢ Life by Walasse Ting, Illustrated by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and More
By Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Walasse Ting 1
Located in New York, NY
, 1964].
The quintessential Pop Art book. With poetry by Walasse Ting and original illustrations by 28
Category
1960s American Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper
Lithograph from Le tir à l
arc (Archery), 1960
By Georges Braque
Located in Oakland Hills, CA
Comprised of a repetition of white flowers, this illustration from the book Le tir à l'arc (Archery
Category
1960s Cubist Vintage Book Illustrations
Black and White Woodcut Composition (Edition 55/100)
By Naghi Naghashian
Located in New York, NY
illustration and book design at the College of Design (HfG) in Offenbach. Prizewinner of the Art Prize of the
Category
1960s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Woodcut
Gold and Brown Composition (Edition 92/100)
By Naghi Naghashian
Located in New York, NY
illustration and book design at the College of Design (HfG) in Offenbach. Prizewinner of the Art Prize of the
Category
1960s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Dubourg Drew from his Basket his Mechanical Syringe
By William Glackens
Located in New York, NY
E. and Hawkes, Elizabeth H. William Glackens: A Catalogue of His Book and Magazine Illustrations
Category
20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Gouache, Paper
Untitled - A sitting pigeon/dove.
By Paul Overhaus
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
woodcut New Year''s greeting (1989) and a small book with five woodcut illustrations (of pigeons
Category
1970s Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Chalk
Picasso, Suite 347, "A Young Man Declares Himself in Front of the Authorities"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Vienna, AT
of several of Picasso's original illustrations for the book 'La Célestine' that form a sub-set of the
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Collection of Modernist Gouaches
Located in Los Angeles, CA
production, or to be used in advertising, or as an illustration in a book or magazine, I cannot say. But
Category
1950s American Vintage Book Illustrations
$5,400 / set
Raoul Millais, Watercolor, Working Dogs
Located in Pewsey, GB
which would later become illustrations in the book ‘Far Away Up the Nile’ (1924). The following year
Category
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paint
Michel Matthonat Untitled Painting
Located in Des Plaines, IL
to its very personal way to burn, perfectly controlled in the illustration of the book.
His first
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Metal
Profil from Lettera amorosa, 1963
By Georges Braque
Located in Oakland Hills, CA
illustration in a book of love letters. Love is that unnamable, unknowable thing that stymied even this great
Category
1960s Cubist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Clark Hulings (American 1922 - 2011); Landscape; watercolor on paper
By Clark Hulings
Located in Los Angeles, CA
specializing in supermarket ads. He gradually moved up to paperback book covers and magazine illustrations, by
Category
Late 20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
What is Man?
By Walter Beach Humphrey
Located in Minneapolis, MN
commissions for text book and magazine illustrations. World Book Encyclopedia, Liberty, Colliers, and the
Category
1950s American Realist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Boyce (American 1938); Breast feeding; pencil on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Pencil
John Boyce (American 1938); Favorite Sister; ink on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
John Boyce (American 1938); Girl; ink on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
John Boyce (American 1938); Girl 2; ink on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
John Boyce (American 1938); After Poussin; watercolor on paper
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
1990s Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
John Boyce (American 1938); Handsome Nude; mixed media
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Mixed Media
John Boyce (American 1938); Portrait 8; oil on canvas; no frame
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Boyce (American 1938); Portrait 6; oil on canvas; no frame
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Boyce (American 1938); Portrait 7; watercolor on paper board
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
John Boyce (American 1938); Portrait 3; watercolor on paper board
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
John Boyce (American 1938); Portrait 4; watercolor on paper board
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
John Boyce (American 1938); Portrait 5; watercolor on paper board
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
John Boyce (American 1938); Portrait 1; watercolor on paper board
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
John Boyce (American 1938); Portrait 2; watercolor on paper
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
John Boyce (American 1938); Original Aphrodisiac; ink on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
John Boyce (American 1938); Erotic drawing 12; ink on paper; double side;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
John Boyce (American 1938); Erotic drawing 11; ink on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink, Cardboard
John Boyce (American 1938); Erotic drawing 9; ink on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
John Boyce (American 1938); Erotic drawing 10; ink on carton paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink, Cardboard
John Boyce (American 1938); Erotic drawing 8; ink on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
John Boyce (American 1938); Erotic drawing 7; ink on paper;
By John Boyce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
met Anais Nin. Seven years later, she suggested a collaboration on a book of illustrations that would
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Ink
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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.
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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.
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- 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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