1930s Christopher Henry Herbert Catlin Pastel

A fine pastel on paper of a female nude reclining with a book on a Victorian sofa by Albert Handell (1937-). Signed and dated in red lower right, Handell, 71. A very cozy theme with a raking artist's angled perspective. The work on paper has not been viewed out of the frame. Good overall condition with no visible rips, tears or foxing. The framing treatment consists of a simple dark wood molding, fillet with the work on paper under glass. The approximate overall dimensions with the frame are 33.75" wide x 1.5" deep x 25.75" high. The approximate sight dimensions are 27.5" wide x 19.75 high. AskArt bio: Coming to Santa Fe from Brooklyn in 1985, he was taken with the light and the colors of the Southwest landscape. He loves to paint sky, adobe structures, and trees. He also travels throughout the country giving workshops. His heritage is Russian Jewish and Polish. In 1916, his father emigrated from the Ukraine to New York where he met his Polish wife. Trained in New York City and Paris, Albert attended the Art Students League for three and a half years, and his most influential teacher was Frank Mason. He discovered his great love was painting outdoors, especially old woods and streams in the Catskill Mountains. A 1980 trip to Santa Fe was life-changing, and he moved there in the mid-80s, trading the subject matter of dark woods for brilliant colored landscape. In style, he followed in the footsteps of artists he most admired--Edouard Vuillard and Joaquin Sorolla. His studio is a renovated two-car garage...

Signed Geraldine Valentini and dated 1979. Pen and ink Post-Modern drawing on paper. Modernist rendition of two sprawling limb trees. Labor intensive and intricately hand drawn work ...

A wonderful little surrealistic abstraction pen and ink drawing signed and dated, A.E. Smith, 3.7.1940. Inscribed on the reverse., Pen + Ink, Artist from Jhonston (sic), RI. Ink on p...

Peter or Petru Vintila's (1922-2002) Surrealist Homage to M.C. Escher entitled "What A Wonderful World". The medium is pen and ink on paper. At first glimpse I thought it was graphit...

"Sketch by Lady Shalimar (Shalamar)" aka Frances Montague (1905?-1996) of Mitzi and Mitzer. Circa 1988. A wonderful graphic rendered in great detail in glitter, ballpoint pen and ink...

Ethel Magafan (1916-1993) pen and ink sketch drawing entitled "Evening Mood". Signed lower right. Circa 1950. This piece comes from the Estate of Anton Otto Fischer after Magafan moved to Woodstock, NY where his home and studio were. Good overall condition. Wear consistent with age and not being framed. There is obvious darkening of the paper surface due to the piece originally having an old matte surrounding the sight opening. No visible rips, tears or restorations. Soft corners and edges. Approximately 8" wide x 6" high. Bio: After World War II, many people in the US were on the move, and on the advice of older artist friends in Los Angeles, Arnold Blanche...

Pastel portrait on paper of woman in Georgian era pale pink dress and bonnet with yellow ribbons. Unsigned, circa 1930's. Unframed, displayed mounted o...

Niobe Greek mythology theme signed, 1938 framed (1 chip off on frame finish).

This portrait of a handsome young man with cleft chin, wavy hair and a steady gaze was drawn by Porter Woodruff in pastel and sanguine on pale yellow paper in the 1930s. The artist is best known for his paintings and illustrations for Vogue magazine -- one of five American fashion illustrators who worked for the magazine -- as well as House & Garden. Woodruff was born in Tennessee, but spent much of his creative life in Paris and Tunisia, where he lived with Georges Sébastian, an important Hungarian-born, French orchestra...

Selection of 1930's Academic Study Drawings of Male Nudes, hand drawn by Carl De Zeeuw, American, circa 1930's. The price noted below is for EACH dra...

Selection of 1930's Academic Study Drawings of Male Nudes, hand drawn by Carl De Zeeuw, American, circa 1930's. The price noted below is for EACH dra...

Selection of 1930's Academic Study Drawings of Male Nudes, hand drawn by Carl De Zeeuw, American, circa 1930's. The price noted below is for EACH dra...