Ray Quigley

Church Interior

1950s

Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children. He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...

An original gouache and ink painting on paper by Contemporary female artist Anne Muntges. "What I have not drawn, I have never really seen and when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle." (Frederick Franck...

An original gouache and ink painting on paper by Contemporary female artist Anne Muntges. "What I have not drawn, I have never really seen and when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle." (Frederick Franck...

An original gouache and ink painting on paper by Contemporary female artist Anne Muntges. "What I have not drawn, I have never really seen and when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle." (Frederick Franck...

An original gouache and ink painting on paper by Contemporary female artist Anne Muntges. "What I have not drawn, I have never really seen and when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle." (Frederick Franck...

An original gouache and ink painting on paper by Contemporary female artist Anne Muntges. "What I have not drawn, I have never really seen and when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle." (Frederick Franck...

Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 19, 1954

Meryl Streep, John Lithgow and others starred in the Phoenix Theatre Company's Off-Broadway production of "Secret Service." This original 14 x 29 inch drawing by Sam Norkin was publi...

Fortune Magazine cover, Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist. Signed lower left. The drawing measures 13. x 11 inches. Framed by Bark...

French Mid Century work on card by Sylvain Vigny. Depicting an artist (self portrait?) in his studio with his subject and muses, like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Reminiscent of the drawings of Picasso and Matisse who were his contemporaries and neighbours on the Cote D'Azur at this period. The painting is signed and dated bottom left. In period chrome edged frame, currently under glass. If Sylvain Vigny had stayed in Paris in 1934 instead of moving to Nice on the Côte d’Azur, his highly imaginative and original work might be better known. Comparisons with better-known modernist artists including Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Rouault and Raoul Dufy set him in an appropriate and favourable context. A self-taught artist, he grew up in Vienna and emigrated to France in the 1920s, living in Paris from 1929 to 1934. After he had moved to Nice early in 1934, he exhibited in galleries along the Mediterranean coast and in Switzerland, with major exhibitions in New York in 1938 and at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris in 1948. Sylvain Vigny was part of an important artistic community in Nice, which included Jean Moulin who owned the Galerie d’Art Roman, the artist Jean Cassarini, writers Pierre and Jacques Prévert, filmmaker Nikos Papatakis, and jazz musician Django Reinhardt...

Arabian Charger Seller" by Antonio Rivas (Spanish, 1845-1911) stands as an exquisite example of Orientalism, a 19th-century artistic movement that sought to depict the rich and diverse cultures of the East. Rivas, a master of his craft, delves into this genre with a keen eye for detail and a dedication to authenticity that brings the scene to life. In this antique watercolor on paper...

Signed lower right, "Keith Halonen" (American, b. 1946), dated 1969, and titled lower left, "Life Among the Clouds". Richly patterned, ink figurative showing a man lounging on the f...