Yves Saint Laurent

Erotic " Nude Autoportrait " Marrakech 70's

1970

Yves Saint Laurent ( 1936-2008 ) " Débardeur bleu " circa 1973 . from le Prince de Babylone color pencil , Felt-Tip pen , colored pencil and graphite on paper . 27 X 21 cm . NUDE & UNIQUE .. Marrakech . private collection FRANCE . " Yves Saint Laurent led a revolution in women's fashion in the 60's " born in Oran , Algeria , in 1936 , Saint Laurent was a keenly intelligent child , he fell in love with fashion at an early age ... By his late teens , Saint Laurent was in Paris and a rising star of couture. after the sudden death of hid mentor Christian Dior in 1957, he became the head the illustrious fashion housesat the age of just 21 . It was, after all , the golden era of YéYé Pop , his clothes became the uniform joyful bohemian dissent . "Yves Saint Laurent and Andy Warhol " In 1970 Andy Warhol came to Paris to film" L'amour " his transgressive travel movie featuring , somewhat surprisingly Karl Lagerfeld as a German aristocrat . Warhol spend much of hid time with Yves ... In 1961 , Saint Laurent founded his own label , bringing an insouciant elegance to his clean , minimal designs .the designs were playful and witty and Saint Laurent paid hommage to his artistic heroes Piet Mondrian and Tom Wesselman ... " Saint Laurent and Marrakech " In 1966 the designer travelled to Morocco with his lover and business partner Pierre Bergé .it was the beginning of fascination with the city of Marrakech that lasted for the rest of Saint Laurent's life . At the center of Marrakech scene was the American oil heir John Paul...

KARL LAGERFELD ( 1933 -2019 ) Visionnaire# 23 The Emperor's new Clothes ( 1997 ) . numbered of 5000 editions . Magazine / Art portfolio / 1st edition . 36 x 29 cm . Fashion designe...

Watercolour, felt tip pen, and pencil on paper, titled (lower left), 48cm x 37cm, (70cm x 58cm framed). It is in its original frame, although the glass and mount have been replaced. Patrick Procktor was part of an influential group of British artists in the 1960s. His early paintings were dynamic, abstract depictions of the male nude, before he established himself as one of the leading watercolourists of his generation from the 1970s His work is held in many major public collections. This work is after the soviet painting...

Original oil pastel and gouache figure painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant sketch of nude woman with fetish accessories in wa...