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The Virgin and the Unicorn
By John Buckland-Wright
Located in New York, NY
catalogue for the show Master of the Burin, the Book Illustrations of John Buckland Wright, 2006]
Category
1940s Pre-Raphaelite Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Wood Panel, Woodcut
Sans titre (Cramer 61; Mourlot 434), Le plafond de l
Opéra
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
-1968. André Sauret, Éditeur, 1969, illustration 434. Cramer, Patrick, and Meret Meyer. Marc Chagall
Category
1960s Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract mixed media lithograph and relief by Spanish artist, Picasso friend S/N
By Antoni Clavé
Located in New York, NY
, Munich, London and New York and in the 1950s, he turned to book illustration. He was nominated for two
Category
1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Jean Emile Laboureur, Untitled, from Alternation, 1946 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
between abstraction and figuration. His etchings, engravings, and book illustrations depicting Parisian
Category
1940s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
The Temple, Large Nude Woman with Rainbow Ralph Steadman
By Ralph Steadman
Located in Surfside, FL
caricatures, cartoons and picture books. Awards that he has won for his work include the Francis Williams Book
Category
20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
“Bourg-la-Reine, France”
Located in Southampton, NY
through his numerous book illustrations and published lithographs. His watercolors show very fine
Category
1960s Post-Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
"Nuit d
été (Summer
s Night)" Lithograph, Colors, Linear Figures on Black Ground
By Marc Chagall
Located in Detroit, MI
and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Rag Paper, Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Pregnant - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Untitled - Original Handsigned Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Purple Surrealist Cat - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Red Cats - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Cat - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Magical Cat - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Cats Trio - Original Hand-Signed Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Surrealist Portraits - Handsigned Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
André Planson - French Province - Handsigned Original Lithograph
By Andre Planson
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
"Juges" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal""
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
adeptly worked in the various printmaking techniques of woodcuts, lithographs and etchings, often for book
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Aquatint
"Femme Fiere" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal""
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
woodcuts, lithographs and etchings, often for book illustrations commissioned by Vollard.
From the 1930s
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Aquatint
Rare 18 Karat Gold Leaf Embossed Etching After Georges Braque L
Oiseau d
Or
By Georges Braque
Located in Surfside, FL
Mourlot, and most of the lithographs and book illustrations he himself created during the 1940s and '50s
Category
20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Surrealist Symbolist Painting, Peeking Child, Moorish Architectural Arches
By Baruch Elron
Located in Surfside, FL
and in advertising.
In 1960, he received the Prize for Book Illustration at the Dresden Book Fair in
Category
20th Century Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eduardo Arroyo, Toute la ville en parle
By Eduardo Arroyo
Located in Madrid, ES
Luis Gómez, the sets for the latter's version of Calderón's play Life is a Dream.
Book illustration
Category
1980s Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman Embroidering (Nini) by Lucien Pissarro - Woodcut
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
1890 allowed him greater freedom to pursue his interest in book illustration and printing. There Lucien
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Woodcut
"Courtisane aux Yeux Baisses" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal""
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
techniques of woodcuts, lithographs and etchings, often for book illustrations commissioned by Vollard
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Aquatint
"Orientalist Interior" Watercolor by Philippe Jullian Ex- D.D. Ryan Estate
By Philippe Jullian
Located in Bristol, CT
1945, celebrating the World War II victory over Germany.
Jullian's book illustrations are witty
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th Century French Fauvist drawing by Andre Derain of a Saint
By André Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
La Boutique Fantasque. During his career he also produced numerous book illustrations, often in
Category
20th Century Fauvist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Crayon
"Master Arthur" from the suite "Cirque de l
Etoile Filante" Original aquatint.
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
in the various printmaking techniques of woodcuts, lithographs and etchings, often for book
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Aquatint
Cheltenham (Fantasia/Panorama), Pen and Ink Painting by John Piper, 1939 circa
By John Piper
Located in Kingsclere, GB
illustrate his article "Book Illustration Can Colour a Whole Town or City" in 'Signature' in 1940. The
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Ink
Rare 18 Karat Gold Leaf Embossed Etching After Georges Braque L
Oiseau d
Or
By Georges Braque
Located in Surfside, FL
to Fernand Mourlot, and most of the lithographs and book illustrations he himself created during the
Category
20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Tenterden by Lucien Pissarro - Watercolour
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
1890 allowed him greater freedom to pursue his interest in book illustration and printing. There Lucien
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Crayon, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Rare 18 Karat Gold Enamel Georges Braque Sculpture Brooch
By Georges Braque
Located in Surfside, FL
Mourlot, and most of the lithographs and book illustrations he himself created during the 1940s and '50s
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child) From the suite Cirque (Circus)
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
in the various printmaking techniques of woodcuts, lithographs and etchings, often for book
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Aquatint
Jules Perahim Surrealism Oil Painting on Paper Romanian French Surrealist Figure
Located in Surfside, FL
. From the 1950s onward, he concentrated on book illustrations and set designs for the theatre, two art
Category
1960s Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Oil
Fernand Leger Colorful Modernist Drawing Limited Edition Serigraph Lithograph
By (after) Fernand Léger
Located in Surfside, FL
", influenced by Le Corbusier's theories.
His varied projects included book illustrations, murals, stained-glass
Category
1950s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Orlando Pelayo, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
Located in Southampton, NY
, printed on Japon Nacre, a series of illustrations and an additional original lithography numbered and
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Orlando Pelayo, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
Located in Southampton, NY
, printed on Japon Nacre, a series of illustrations and an additional original lithography numbered and
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Orlando Pelayo, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
Located in Southampton, NY
, printed on Japon Nacre, a series of illustrations and an additional original lithography numbered and
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Orlando Pelayo, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
Located in Southampton, NY
, printed on Japon Nacre, a series of illustrations and an additional original lithography numbered and
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Orlando Pelayo, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
Located in Southampton, NY
, printed on Japon Nacre, a series of illustrations and an additional original lithography numbered and
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Orlando Pelayo, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
Located in Southampton, NY
, printed on Japon Nacre, a series of illustrations and an additional original lithography numbered and
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Orlando Pelayo, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
Located in Southampton, NY
, printed on Japon Nacre, a series of illustrations and an additional original lithography numbered and
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
UNTITLED FIGURES (LINES AND SHAPES AGAINST TEXTURAL BACKGROUND)
By Shoshana Heimann
Located in Surfside, FL
decades in sculpture, painting, drawing, book illustration and prose/poetry writings.
Escaping the
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
Sketch of the Flatiron Building
Located in London, GB
costumes and stages for Diaghilev ballets, stained glass windows for a church in Slough, book illustrations
Category
20th Century Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fernand Leger School Prints Colorful Modernist King of Hearts Drawing Lithograph
By (after) Fernand Léger
Located in Surfside, FL
projects included book illustrations, murals, stained-glass windows, mosaics, polychrome ceramic sculptures
Category
1940s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
French Modernist Mourlot Lithograph Vintage Air France Poster Roger Bezombes
By Roger Bezombes
Located in Surfside, FL
, travel posters, tapestry cartons, book illustrations, monumental ceramic decorations, ballet and theater
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
French Modernist Mourlot Lithograph Vintage Air France Poster Roger Bezombes
By Roger Bezombes
Located in Surfside, FL
, travel posters, tapestry cartons, book illustrations, monumental ceramic decorations, ballet and theater
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
French Modernist Mourlot Lithograph Vintage Air France Poster Roger Bezombes
By Roger Bezombes
Located in Surfside, FL
, travel posters, tapestry cartons, book illustrations, monumental ceramic decorations, ballet and theater
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 468), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Seated Female Nude (Devora)
By Julio de Diego
Located in Fairlawn, OH
for ballets. His talents continued to expand as he moved into book illustration, and his work in
Category
1970s American Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Lady in Gold Dress - British 1940
s female portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
ceremonial events, stained glass and book illustration. In his heyday he made a fortune on both sides of the
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Oil
Lords of the Sky oil painting by Julio De Diego
By Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
talents continued to expand as he moved into book illustration, and his work in jewelry making was
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950
s Modernist Watercolor Painting Israeli Bezalel School Bauhaus Style
Located in Surfside, FL
but also created collages, book illustrations, and applied art. Among her outstanding works are murals
Category
1950s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Watercolor
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
: The Folk Art of Malcah Zeldis. Zeldis later worked in children's book illustration in collaboration
Category
1980s Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
: The Folk Art of Malcah Zeldis. Zeldis later worked in children's book illustration in collaboration
Category
1980s Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Mod Bull Jewish Woman Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Art and Moments in Jewish Life: The Folk Art of Malcah Zeldis. Zeldis later worked in children's book
Category
1980s Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Wine
Cigarettes Woman Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Malcah Zeldis. Zeldis later worked in children's book illustration in collaboration with her daughter
Category
1980s Folk Art Vintage Book Illustrations
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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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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