Sergey Chekhonin

Sergey CHEKHONIN (1878 – 1936), theater poster project

1930

Paul Jouve was a French illustrator and sculptor, passionate about animals from a young age, which he discovered at the Natural History Museum and in Parisian zoos. He is the most fa...

Monique Amélie Cras, born in Brest in 1910 and died in Paris in 2007, was a French painter and poster artist. The daughter of composer Jean Cras, she studied under Jean-Paul Laurens ...

Léa Lafugie is a painter who has travelled extensively throughout Asia. She is renowned for her portraits. She studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at the Ecole de...

- Gouache on paper. - Signed at bottom left. - Around 1920. Dimensions  H : 49 cm L : 65 cm/H : 19.3 in W : 25.6 in (unframed) H : 67 cm L : 87 cm/H: 26.38 in W: 34.25 in (with frame)

A 1950s bright, geometric textile design (In red, white & blue) by stage and costume designer Andre Delfau. Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delf...

A colorful 1950s textile design (Black, yellow, blue, pink, red tones) by noted set and costume designer Andre Delfau. Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, set and costume designer who worked world-wide from the 1930s to the 1980s. Delfau was a life long artist and painted independently of his noted design career. His artwork is recognized for it’s vibrant color and form, and a particularly keen use of line. He was highly influenced by the French Modern trends of Cubism and Surrealism, and his artwork is often infused with a dramatic sense of architecture and perspective. Delfau created fashion designs for such major Paris couture houses as Balmain, Jean Patou and Balenciaga. He completed noteworthy set designs and costumes for numerous international operatic and ballet productions, including those at the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain, the Paris Opera, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Ruth Page International Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. Most notably, Delfau designed the elaborate stage sets and costumes for the 1986 PBS television production of the Viennese operetta, "Die Fledermaus...

A captivating 1950s textile design in black and brown ochre tones with wedge star pattern by noted set and costume designer Andre Delfau. Born in Par...

A colorful textile design in orange, blue, red and yellow tones depicting an abstract polychrome Wedge Star pattern by set and costume designer Andre ...