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Early 1940s Fashion Study for Elizabeth Arden's Nail Polish at Marshall Field

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman seated with hat and gloves. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a hat advertisement for Chicago's most notable department store, Marshall Field & Company. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in a hat and coat from Marshall & Co. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art In...

A 1933 watercolor of a reclining woman in a red dress, by Malvin Marr Albright (Zsissily), the identical twin of artist Ivan Albright and son of artist Adam Le Lorraine Albright. Im...

The paper in some of these photos looks overly textured due to the sharpness of the high-res digital camera. In person, with the human eye, the paper looks reasonably smooth with out blemishes. For this fashion illustration, Georges Lepape paints a stunning abstract pattern for the subject dress that is repeated in her hair. The work represents an early use of metallic paint, with silver metallic in the dress and bronze metallic in the blouse. Lepape's highly detailed drawing becomes more evident the closer you look. It's quite amazing how deftly he rendered facial feature on such a small scale. "Eva" 1918 Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper Signed and dated, lower right: '1918' Inscribed, verso: "Costume for L'enfantement du mort, (miracle en pourpre, et or.). Devised by Marcel L'Herbier and performed at the Théatre Edouard VII and the Comédie des Champs-Elysées, 1919" Provenance: Ex-collection Lucien...

Circle of Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (Russian / French 1892 – 1990) A dress design for Estelle Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper Inscribed ‘Estelle’ (upper left) with other notations...

Walpole Champneys (British, 1879 – 1961) A musical idyll; and The masked ball (a pair) The former signed and dated ‘W.CHAMPNEYS /.28.’ Pencil and watercolour and gouache on paper The...

Vladimir Pavlovich Nechoumoff (Russian, c. 1900 – 1977) Turkish bath scene in Istanbul Watercolour/ gouache and pencil on paper 5.1/2 x 8.1/2 in. (14 x 21.4...