Raeburn Van Buren

Main Street, 1923

1923

Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper Signature: Signed Upper Right This illustration is on 15.00" x 10.00" sheet, with the drawing itself measuring to 8.75" x 6.75." Caricature by George Wa...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock Signature: Signed Lower Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of the supporting players in 1947 Broadway production of Terence Rattigan`s `The Winslow Boy` at the Empire Theatre. The engaging drama, based on a true incident in Edwardian-era England, was directed by Glen Byam Shaw, starred Frank Allenby & Madge Compton (not shown) and ran 10/29/47 - 05/01/48, for 214 performances. The four depicted are Michael Kingsley, George Benson...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration is on 15.00" x 22.00" cardstock with a 12.75" x 14.25" image. Minor edge soiling. The Illustration was commissioned for the New York Herald Tribune, includes clipping. Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1959 Broadway production of `The Moonbird`, starring Wally Cox, Phyllis Newman & Michael Hordern. An English adaptation of Marcel Ayme`s popular 1955 French stage comedy, the show was a notorious flop, produced by Harry Belafonte...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), of Broadway Actor, Director & Producer Ezra Stone, more famous to audiences a...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock Signature: Signed Lower Center Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of great actor Humphrey Bogart, for the N...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock Signature: Signed Upper Left Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1946 Broadway revival of James M. Barrie`s `What Every Woman Knows`, starring Richard Waring & June Duprez. To the left of the leads stand Philip Bournef, Arthur Keegan & Ernest Truex. Produced by American Repertory Theatre, directed by Margaret Webster, designed by Paul Morrison, the show ran from 11/8/46 - 2/15/47, for 21 performances at the International Theatre. It was in rep with `King Henry VIII`, `John Gabriel Borkman` & `A Pound on Demand`/`Androcles and the Lion...

Provenance: Private Collection, UK After initial training under Justus Suttermans and Vincenzo Dandini, in 1673 Anton Domenico Gabbiani embar...

Provenance: Unidentified collector’s mark “D.G.R,” lower right (Lugt 757b) Wilhelm Suida (1877–1959), New York; by descent to: Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996 Private Collection, USA This impressive drawing of the Assumption of the Virgin is the work of the Genoese artist Giovanni Battista Paggi. The son of a nobleman, Paggi received a humanist education and was a self-taught artist. According to Paggi’s first biographer, Raffaele Soprani, it was only after encountering Luca...

Provenance: Elsie de Woolfe, Lady Mendl, Paris; by whom given in 1950 to: Arlene Dahl, New York (until 2021) Inventive, whimsical, and fantastic; delightful, imaginative, and maca...

Inscribed: 3. una Madonna che va in Egitto, verso, and Madonna che va in Egitto, recto Provenance: Private Collection, UK, since 1999 This expressive and boldly executed drawing is the work of Luca...

Inscribed “55” and “218” in the lower right Watermark: Heawood 1351 Laid down on historic Cassiano Del Pozzo mount (Mount Type A, 531 x 402 mm) Provenance: Commissioned by Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1637) for his Museo Cartaceo (Paper Museum) and kept in the library of his palazzo, via dei Chiavari, Rome Transferred with the entire dal Pozzo collection by fidecommesso to his younger brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606–1689); by descent to his second son: Gabriele dal Pozzo (d. 1695); by descent to his wife: Anna Teresa Benzoni and after her remarriage in 1697, the Marchesa Lancellotti de’ Ginnetti (d. 1736); by descent to their son: Cosimo Antonio dal Pozzo (d. 1740); by whom sold with the Dal Pozzo library in 1703 to: Pope Clement XI for the Vatican Library; by whom transferred as part of the Museo Cartaceo in January 1714 to his nephew: Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692–1779), Palazzo ‘alle Quattro Fontane’ in Rome; by whom sold in 1762 to: James Adam, agent for the British Royal Librarian Richard Dalton (1715–1791) King George III of England, Buckingham House Among the sheets of the ‘Museo Cartaceo’ appropriated by Richard Dalton during a reorganization of the drawings, circa 1786-1788; his estate sale, Greenwood’s, London, 11-19 May 1791; where acquired by: John MacGowan...

Provenance: Wilhelm Suida; thence by descent to: Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996 Private Collection, USA. Moritz von Schwind had a long and varied career. He first trained at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Vienna in the early 1820s, and by the 1840s held positions as professor of painting at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main and later at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Schwind was the painter and illustrator par excellence of medieval German...