Cardwell Higgins

Playthings of Eternity

1920s

A beautiful original late 1920s/early 1930s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art. The artist created a series of these noir black and white fantasy illustrative art deco...

With great attention to detail and an exquisite sense of realism, this charcoal illustration from artist & illustrator Raphaël Kirchner is an exotic display of Middle Eastern themed eroticism, mystery and intrigue. Kirchner has painstakingly rendered the nude forms of two harem slave girls in captivity shown in a less than glamorous setting, shackled and sitting on the floor to eat. An emotional and alluring presentation. This is the original illustration; it was reproduced in heliogravure as a bookplate for a German translation of the One Thousand and One Nights...

With great attention to detail and an exquisite sense of realism, this charcoal illustration from artist & illustrator Raphaël Kirchner is an exotic display of Middle Eastern themed eroticism, mystery and intrigue. Kirchner has painstakingly rendered the beautiful, curvaceous body of a nude harem slave girl who sits adorning herself with jewels and bangles from an open box in the foreground. An alluring and seductive presentation. This is the original illustration; it was reproduced in heliogravure as a bookplate for a German translation of the One Thousand and One Nights...

With great attention to detail and an exquisite sense of realism, this charcoal and gouache illustration from artist & illustrator Raphaël Kirchner is an exotic display of Middle Eastern themed eroticism, mystery and intrigue. Kirchner has painstakingly rendered the beautiful, curvaceous body of a nude harem slave girl. Her back to the viewer, she holds a curved blade dagger in one hand while peeking through an open slit in the curtains before her. An ominous yet seductive portrait. This is the original illustration; it was reproduced in heliogravure as a bookplate for a German translation of the One Thousand and...

With great attention to detail and an exquisite sense of realism, this charcoal illustration from artist & illustrator Raphaël Kirchner is an exotic display of Middle Eastern themed eroticism, mystery and intrigue. Kirchner has painstakingly rendered the beautiful, curvaceous body of a nude harem slave girl who shies away, hiding her face in the crook of her elbow, as an old man helps to drape her in fabric, readying her for the night ahead. An alluring and seductive presentation. This is the original illustration and it was reproduced in heliogravure as a bookplate for a German translation of the One Thousand and One Nights...

With great attention to detail and an exquisite sense of realism, this charcoal illustration from artist & illustrator Raphaël Kirchner is an exotic display of Middle Eastern themed eroticism, mystery and intrigue. Kirchner has painstakingly rendered the beautiful, nude form of a harem slave girl who has arrived to her destination via transport in a wooden crate. She smiles as she stretches out from the cramped box and the man crouched in the corner looks surprisingly unexcited to be greeted by such a beauty. This is the original illustration; it was reproduced in heliogravure as a bookplate for a German translation of the One Thousand and One Nights...

An exceptionally fine, pen and wash mythological figurative study showing a centaur interrupted in his playing of pan pipes and casting a specu...

John Grabach studied with the renowned anatomist George B. Bridgeman at the Art Students League and that knowledge of the the male anatomy with bulging mu...

actual sheet is 14.60 inches by 10.30 inches Chana Orloff (12 July 1888 – 16 December 1968) was a Russian-French-Israeli Art deco and figurative art sculptor. Hana Orloff was born in Starokonstantinov Russian Empire (now Ukraine). She immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1905 and settled in Jaffa, where she found a job as a cutter and seamstress. Zvi Nishri (Orloff), the pioneer in physical education in Israel, was her brother. She joined Hapoel Hatzair workers movement. After five years in the country, she was offered a teaching position in cutting and dressmaking at Gymnasia Herzliya. She went to Paris to study fashion but chose art instead, enrolling in sculpture classes at the Académie Russe in Montparnasse. In 1916, she married Ary Justman, a Warsaw-born writer and poet. The couple had a son, but Ary died of influenza in the epidemic of 1919. When the Nazis invaded Paris, Orloff fled to Switzerland with her son and the Jewish painter Georges Kars. In February 1945, Kars committed suicide in Geneva, after which Orloff returned to Paris, to find that her house had been ransacked and the sculptures in her studio destroyed. In Paris, Orloff became friendly with other young Jewish artists, among them Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Chaim Soutine, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1913, she exhibited in the Salon d'Automne. After the establishment of the State of Israel, Orloff began spending an increasing amount of time there. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art held an exhibition of 37 of her sculptures in 1949. She remained in Israel for about a year in order to complete a sculpture of David Ben-Gurion, The Hero Monument to the defenders of Ein Gev and The Motherhood Monument in memory of Chana Tuckman who died during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. In addition to monuments, Orloff sculpted portraits of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and future Prime Minister Levi Eshkol; the architects Pierre Chareau, and Auguste Perret; painters Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and Per Krohg; and the poets Hayyim Nahman Bialik, and Pierre Mac Orlan. Orloff died in Israel on December 16, 1968. References Félix Marcilhac, Chana Orloff, Galerie Marcilhac Raful Eitan (1992). A Soldier's Story: The Life and Times of an Israeli War Hero. Hersh Fenster, Undzere Farpainikte Kinstler, Paris, 1951, p. 200 Birnbaum, Paula J. (2015) 'Chana Orloff', in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 1: 23, Routledge Bibliography Birnbaum, Paula J. (forthcoming, 2017) Chana Orloff: A Modern Woman Sculptor of the School of Paris, Brandeis University Press. Birnbaum, Paula J. Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2011. Kikoïne, Yankel, Chana Orloff, Paris, Musée Bourdelle, 1988 Kofler, Hana, Chana Orloff: Line & Substance, 1912-1968. Tefen: the Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park, 1993. Marcilhac, Félix. Chana Orloff, Paris: Editions de l’Amateur, 1991. Musée Rodin, Chana Orloff; sculptures et dessins, Paris, Musée Rodin, 1971, Richard de la Fuente, Véronique, Dada à Barcelone, 1914-1918: Chronique de l'avant-garde artistique parisienne en exil en Catalogne pendant la grande guerre: Francis Picabia, Manolo Hugue, Serge Charchoune, Marie Laurencin, Olga Sacharoff...

An original 1946 drawing painted by Royal Academy artist Christopher Sanders. A fine example of a Modern British nude drawing by an artist who exhibited hundreds of times at The Roya...

Charles Gesmar (French, 1900 - 1928) Portrait of Jane Marnac, 1921 Gouache and ink on paper with some watercolour Signed ‘C. Gesmar. 21’ (upper left) 18 x 18 in. (45.8 x 45.8 cm.) Gesmar had a very short but successful artistic career prior to his tragic death from pneumonia. He designed for Mistinguett, creating costumes as well as many other commissions for the theatres of the day in Paris. He worked with posters and is thought of as a talent equal to Leon Bakst, his graphic designs linking the works of Toulouse Lautrec and Rene Grau...

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A young naked woman standing Pastel on paper Signed lower right and dedicated, "à JM Fournol (?)" 63 x 40 cm In fairly good condition:...