Drawings

Large-scale vintage mixed media artwork on paper depicting an abstracted, kneeling human form rendered in expressive graphite and colored pastel lines. The figure features dynamic co...

Tom Nussbaum (American, b. 1953), "95 Birds", graphite drawing on Bristol plate, pencil signed and dated verso of sheet, initialed, titled and dated vers...

"Girl at the balustrade" by Marga Groove-Marcovic. (1920-2002) Germany. Original watercolor painting with white opaque paint. Framed with Passepartout behind glass. Marga Groove-Marcovic was a very versatile artist. The illustrated german exhibition catalog contains information about her artistic career and education. She was a student of Zoltan Székessy, a german-hungarian sculptor at the "Düsseldorf Academy of Art". Groove-Marcovic created sculptures, paintings, drawings, watercolors and collages. Children were a favorite motif for her. Although this painting is not dated, it could be conditionally considered to the fifties / sixties, since according to the catalog, the artist mainly created watercolors during this period. The friendly, strong and bright colors stand in stark contrast to the dark and empty eyes of the girl. Perhaps due to the children´s traumatic war experiences ? The dimensions given refer to the picture with frame...

Bearded Man Framed, Collectors Wall Art Black Chalk On Paper Signed J. Parry CA . English 18th / 19th Century J. Parry, Head and Shoulders Of A Bearded Man. Signed on Verso. (parry w...

Fabulous small Impressionist painting attributed to French painter, Louis George Eleonor Roy (1862-1907) either gouache or water color on ...

A handsome pair of framed sea charts of the coasts of Great Britain by Captain Greenvile Collins; with later mattes and ebonized wooden frames.

This captivating artwork by Rita Aldrovandi, displayed here in elegant minimalist style, is a profound testament to the artist’s visionary approach to line drawings. Aldrovandi, cele...

Louis-Anne Title ; "Do you still have illusions", 1975 In dorso, Artist label and dated This work consists of two parts, with the measurements 75 cm x 90 cm each part Signed lower right Color pencil drawing Framed behind glass Louis Looijschelder (1945): Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Rotterdam (1964-1968) 1968-1970: Assistant Woody van Amen...

Abstract, geometric graphic in blue, red and black ink on paper by Arthur Luiz Piza. His style combines drawing and graphic techniques. Handcrafted wooden frame black patinated with ...

An arresting assemblage of nude figures, executed in white chalk on a dramatic black background, this drawing shows the artist's mastery of the human figure in various poses supine, ...

Venetian Capriccio, after Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793) Unsigned, with a label from Wandenberg Freres (Paris) affixed to the back of the mat.

Charles Ellis (1922-2004) original Churchill downs illustration circa 1950s Charles Ellis was known for his illustrations for the Saturday Evening P...

A fascinating and richly detailed antique map of Cumberland County in northwest England, drawn and published by the celebrated English cartographer John Spe...

Gouache on paper depicting two still lives, signed Lelong.

Suite of 3 watercolours, coaster, framed, circa 1990. Suite of 3 watercolours, coaster, nicely framed, 1990, Dominican Republic. h: 26.5cm, w: 23.5cm, d: 1.5cm

Pen and ink drawing on paper depicting Middle Eastern musicians and horse in a dream like sequence, signed. Distressed wood frame measurements 31.25" H x 13" W x 1" D

A modern figurative drawing with graphite and charcoal on paper by Detroit artist Betty Woodward-Bosley. Created circa 1960s at the College of Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit. Sign...

A richly-hued abstract work on paper by the artist M.P. Landis. The artist's abstract paintings and works on paper are the type that take form through the artist's layering of materi...

This mural preparatory drawing by Fely-Mouttet, best known for his abstract paintings from the 1940s and 1950s, is a fine example of Art Deco figural design. Stylized and abstracted,...

Drawing on paper Signed and dated in the lower right corner Dimensions: 60 x 51 cm and 43 x 34 cm Rogelio Puente Díaz de la Rocha was born in Havana into a wealthy Spanish family ...

Pair of Persian original figural landscape pencil drawings surmounted on paper. Presented in faux paint decorated frames, French matted with gold embellishments, glazed. Dimensions:...

Dated mid-20th century industrial hand drawing, highly collectible Italian modern Product Design for a lacquer red desk light project, realized without a ruler in pastels and gouache...

Artist: Ethan Murrow, (American, 1975-) Title: Reversing Extinction IV Medium: Graphite on paper Date: 2005 Size: 40" x 40" Frame: 48" x 48" black sh...

Artist: Ethan Murrow, (American, 1975-) Title: Reversing Extinction III Medium: Graphite on paper Date: 2005 Size: 40" x 40" Frame: 48" x 48" black s...

Josep Pla-Narbona, INCOMUNICACIÓN Y LIBIDO, 1971 Graphics Work signed by the artist (pencil) Sheet dimensions 40/29 Unframed work Josep Pla-Narbona was born...

2.nd Half of the 18th cenutury, hand-colored The pictures are showing dance scenes based on Etrukian vase painting.

A modern watercolor painting on paper by Cranbrook artist Glen Michaels. Circa 2000s. Reminiscent of the Bricktown People Mover Station in Detroit. Glen was commissioned to create an...

A modern figurative drawing with graphite and charcoal on paper by Detroit artist Betty Woodward-Bosley. Created circa 1960s at the College of Creative ...

1880s Paul Albert Besnard pencil drawing of a reclining woman. In a gold gilt frame. From a celebrities Southampton, NY oceanfront estate.

Graphite on paper: two artist studies of hands and extended foot; each ell-rendered artist's study depicting grasping hands and a foreshortened foot; very nicely detailed; unsigned; ...

A painting containing an ancient anatomical drawing of an hand, made in pencil and sanguine. The contemporary frame, Empire style, made of wood, ven...

Edi Dubien (b. 1963, Issy-les-Moulineaux) is a French self-taught artist renowned for his evocative works that explore themes of identity, childhood, and the relationship between hum...

Bright, vivid and quite fabulous abstract by Polish American artist Josef Presser (1909-1967), circa 1950s. Known for his figural work this is a beautifully executed portrait of two ...

Vigilance Prestige Limited Edition, October 1993, eagle bust signed limited edition original lithograph, hand signed and numbered by Robert Bateman. pa...

A surrealist drawing with color pencil and graphite on paper by Detroit artist Betty Woodward-Bosley. Created circa 1980s. Signed on verso as well as bo...

An original Maison Jansen pencil drawing depicting an architectural detail "Petit Panneau Empire" page 72 Stamped: Jansen, 9 Rue Royale Paris 8e

A modern red & gray ink watercolor painting on paper by Cranbrook artist Glen Michaels. Signed bottom right. Circa 2000s. Reminiscent of the Bricktown People Mover Station in Detroit...

Hans Sørensen (1906-1982), Danish artist. Modernist portrait of a seated woman with a cat. Oil crayon on paper. Signed and dated 1973. In perfect condition. Image dimensions: W 53.0 ...

River Scene, "Les Bords du Cher à Poitiers"
Signed bottom right and situated bottom left.
Edouard Henri Theophile Pingret (Saint Quentin 178...

American pastel of young lady grasping dove in the original oval floral gilt frame presented under glass, Mid 19th Century. Original paper label on back. Ursuline Convent, Valle Cru...

An original Maison Jansen pencil drawing depicting an architectural detail "Rosace de Plafond Louis XIV" page 136 Stamped: Jansen, 9 Rue Royale Paris 8e.

Framed & Matted Pen & Ink Drawing, attributed to “Allaert Van Everdinger” (Dutch 1621-1675)

Oil Pastel Soldier Art on Paper by Edith Isaac-Rose

An energetic abstract work on paper by the artist M.P. Landis. The artist's abstract paintings and works on paper are the type that take form through the artist's layering of materia...

Unknown artist, pencil and watercolor on cardboard. Portrait of a young woman with a pencil. Signed Lam, Paris 1951. In excellent condition. Measures : 27.5 cm. x 35.5 cm. Total...

Elevate any space with this unique hand-drawn work of art. Done with pencil on paper- this is an anatomically correct excerpt from a student's figure study sketchbook from the early ...

Elevate any space with this unique hand-drawn work of art. Done with pencil on paper- this is an anatomically correct excerpt from a student's figure study sketchbook from the early ...

A modernist watercolor on paper titled "Cordoba Spain" by Michigan artist Sophie Fordon. Signed, titled, and dated 1971 in pencil on the bottom right. A ...

"Evastelle" by Christian Ludwig Attersee, dated 2000 Christian Ludwig Attersees works are defined by a figural-symbolic style, bright colours and a dynamic brush technique. Attersee...

White Bunny Drawing by Oleg Cassini for Playboy October 1979, Signed. Illustration of a woman wearing a white body suit, choker, and hat. Signed by Oleg Cassini. Notice the body suit is in the shape of the head of a bunny with clever use of the 'whiskers'. Approximate Measurements: Length: 11" Width: 14" Property from the Collection of Steven Rosengard, Chicago, Illinois This original drawing was commissioned by Playboy and included in the October 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine (pages 225-227) in a feature that included works from designers such as Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, Edith Head, Fernando Sanchez, and Monika Tilley, among others, who create their versions of the Playboy bunny costume. Candace Collins can be seen modeling some of the designs in the feature. Oleg Cassini is an icon of twentieth-century fashion. Though born to Russian aristocracy and raised in Italy, he built a fashion empire that was unmistakably American. Cassini is perhaps best known for the hundreds of designs he created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (see images 4-8), but his achievements as a collector, connoisseur, and quintessential twentieth-century man go far beyond Camelot. In 1913, Oleg Cassini was born in Paris to the Russian diplomat Count Alexander Loiewski and Countess Marguerite Cassini, a Russian aristocrat of Italian ancestry who also had an interesting link to America. The daughter of Count Arthur Cassini, Russian Ambassador to the United States during the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, Marguerite dazzled turn-of-the-century Washington as her father’s official hostess and left her mark on the capital city. Stationed in Denmark when the Russian Revolution toppled the czar, Ambassador Cassini and family were exiled to Switzerland before settling in Florence, Italy, where young Oleg was raised. A true Renaissance man, he spoke Russian, French, and Danish before adding Italian and English; he studied medieval and modern European military history and costume and learned to draw; he learned horseback riding, fencing, and the art of chivalry; and, most importantly, he came to understand the struggles of the Russian titled class and other European aristocrats in the wake of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Countess Cassini started a successful fashion business in Florence, and soon the talented young Oleg was sent to Paris to sketch the latest collections for recreation in Italy. In Rome in his early 20s, Cassini created fashions for high society women and designed for a few films, which planted the seed for his move to Hollywood. The drive to reinvent himself brought Cassini to America in the 1930s; in his autobiography he describes arriving nearly penniless in mid-Depression New York City where his title as an exiled Russian Count meant even less than in war-devastated Europe. Down and out, Cassini struggled for employment, having sketching skills but no knowledge of the wholesale trade required for survival in Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue fashion district. However, he excelled at making connections, and Cassini slowly entered New York society. He was soon joined by younger brother Igor (who had studied in America and travelled with the young Emilio Pucci) and his parents, the once-dazzling Countess and his father, the displaced diplomat still loyal to Russia. The family settled in Washington, D.C., and Igor worked his way up the Hearst newspaper chain to become the famous society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker. In New York, Oleg Cassini married the troubled socialite Merry Fahrney (who would go on to marry eight times), but the marriage ended in scandal for Oleg, and he decided to follow his original intention and head for Hollywood. Despite initial difficulties, Cassini gained access to Hollywood’s elite (partially through his skills on the tennis court), and was soon hired as a designer at Paramount Pictures alongside the redoubtable Edith Head. In her 1941 film debut I Wanted Wings, Veronica Lake wore a memorable Cassini design. That same year, Cassini met and married the newest young Hollywood star on the scene, the beautiful 20th Century Fox–talent Gene Tierney. With the outbreak of World War II, Cassini enlisted in the Coast Guard but was transferred to the U.S. Army Cavalry which allowed officers of foreign birth. He attended basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the horsemanship he learned as a boy served him greatly. He attended Officer Candidate School and reached the rank of First Lieutenant (he also became an American citizen at this time, losing his title of Count). Cassini spent several years posted at Fort Riley, where Tierney joined him before he landed a convenient military post in Hollywood. As Tierney’s career thrived (she played the title role in Otto Preminger’s Laura in 1944), she was able to assert her influence over 20th Century Fox’s head Daryl Zanuck, who hired Cassini as designer for Tierney on her 1946 film The Razor’s Edge, which proved to be a brilliant showcase for his talents. The pair separated the same year and, again seeking reinvention, Cassini re-established himself in New York City as a fashion designer. By 1950, the Oleg Cassini label was born. Combining his knowledge of Old World and modern Europe, Hollywood, the tennis courts of Palm Beach and Newport, and of course, New York City, Oleg Cassini invented a new brand of fashion that was distinctly American and of its moment. For his first collection, Cassini took to the stage, narrating the looks and imbuing the scene with his personality, unusual in an industry where the designers typically remained backstage and the models were called by number over a PA. The first collection was a smash — the president of Lord & Taylor devoted all of their storefront windows to his designs — and by 1955 sales had reached $5,000,000. Oleg Cassini’s career had turned a very positive corner. Cassini spent the early 1950s traversing the country, personally selling his collections to department stores in the interior, something his predecessors had never done, and moving between the Hollywood and New York scenes. Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the Riviera. In 1954, Cassini set out to woo Grace Kelly and sent her roses every day. The two were briefly engaged before her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. In December 1960, Cassini’s career-defining opportunity came when he was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her fashions for the White House. Cassini had long known Joe Kennedy and his war-hero son John, and had first met Jacqueline Bouvier before her marriage in the early 1950s. Invited by President-Elect Kennedy to meet Jacqueline at Georgetown Hospital (she had just given birth to son John Jr.) to present to her drawings of potential dresses and First Lady looks, Cassini worked furiously to prepare a new line for the First Lady. Mrs. Kennedy had always had her clothes made by the top French couturiers of the day, but for the White House she wanted an American designer. Cassini wrote in his autobiography that he told the First Lady: “‘You have an opportunity here,’ I said, ‘for an American Versailles.’ She understood completely what I was trying to communicate; she began to talk excitedly about the need to create an entirely new atmosphere at the White House. She wanted it to become the social and intellectual capital of the nation” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 327). Mrs. Kennedy loved Cassini’s design for a gown to wear to the Inaugural Gala (she had already ordered a dress from Bergdorf’s for the Inaugural Ball), and Cassini was selected as the First Lady’s designer and was soon dubbed the “Secretary of Style.” From 1960 to 1963, Oleg Cassini would design over 300 items for Mrs. Kennedy, creating the “Jackie Look” that contributed not only to a fashion revolution but also the dawn of a new age. Cassini wrote that “Jackie played a very active role in the selection of her clothes. She loved brilliant colors — pistachio, hot pink, yellow, and white among others. Her sense of style was very precise; she would make editorial comments on the sketches I sent her. She always knew exactly what she wanted; her taste was excellent” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 334). After the Camelot years, Cassini’s business flourished and grew into a major industry; his name appeared on everything from couture to tennis-, sport-, and swimwear, car interiors, housewares, and perfume. He collected beautiful and rare artwork, arms and armor, and antique furniture, and lived the lifestyle projected by his image. From this period onward, Cassini also came to live in important homes. Of his Gothic Gramercy Park townhouse on Manhattan’s 19th Street he would write imaginatively, “I walked into the foyer and immediately fell in love. It was a place unlike any other in New York, a sixteenth-century Dutch house transported brick by brick from Europe by the Wells Fargo family in the early twentieth century. There was a vaulted, twenty-foot ceiling in the living room, leaded windows, elegantly carved wood paneling...

Original watercolor opera costume design by Charles Betout, the principal costume designer for the Comédie-Française in Paris from 1919 til his death in 1939. Betout was renowned for...

Beautiful large charcoal drawing of a counselor or lawyer, original artwork by Herwig Driesschaert (1938-2010), signed and dated 1974, Belgium, lower right. The very beautiful work w...

A set of 3 modern ink drawing on paper by Cranbrook artist Glen Michaels. Signed. Circa 2000s. Reminiscent of the Bricktown People Mover Station in Detroit. Glen was commissioned to ...

Pastel on paper dating from the 1930s representing the portrait of a woman. Poetic and aesthetic, this painting does not lack beauty and delicacy. It will be perfect in a vintage ...

Lithograph by Jean Cocteau, Nouvelle de l'étranger, artist proof, 1960-70. Lithograph by Jean Cocteau,1960-70, 1/10, nouvelle de l'étranger, artist proof, unframed. h: 50cm, w: 65cm...

Canvas art created by conceptual art artist under the pseudonym BomberBax from 2020. The artist always elaborates in his paintings the strong concept of the artistic evolution of Cry...

Montague Dawson: pencil sketch on paper signature, This fine pencil drawing is a preliminary study by the renowned marine artist Montague Dawson showing a fishing trawler at sea, the...

A modern graphite drawing on paper by Cranbrook artist Glen Michaels. Signed in pencil bottom right. Circa 2000s. A simple composition featuring an orchid in bloom. Glen’s sculptural...

Original 1955 "Private Lodge & Lounge" hand drawn Architectural artwork Rendering prepared by Rucker Fuller by artist Tom Greene for Mrs. Green Bach in Atherton, California. The room...

Sir Jacob Epstein figurative pencil drawing circa early 1930s, with provenance available. There is a drawing on the front and back of the same piece of paper and thus the buyer is ge...