Performance Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Ballerinas Dancing Mid 20th Century Classical Dancers Carlo of Hollywood (20th Century) Ballerinas Watercolor on heavy paper, c. 1950s Sight: 21 x 27 ...

Elizabeth Taylor Costume Design "Elephant Walk" 1954 Hollywood Film Large Oscars Edith Head (1897-1981) Elizabeth Taylor in "Elephant Walk" Sight: 24 x 18 inches Watercolor and penc...

"King and I" Oscar Costume Design Film Musical "Small House of Uncle Tom" Ballet Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "The King and I" costume design for the 1956 Film Sight: 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches Gouache, watercolor, pen and ink on paper, Signed and inscribed: "Singers Ballet" lower right Framed: 19 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches This is one of two costume design drawings...

"Girl Who Came to Supper" Costume Design 1963 Broadway Musical Tony Nomination Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "Girl Who Came to Supper" 16 x 13 inches Gouache, watercolor, pen and ink o...

"Judy Garland" Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) Judy Garland 20 x 15 inches (sight) Etching 26 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches Framed...

Original Judy Garland Get Happy Drawing. Legendary Star. Caricature. Not a Litho. Al Hirshfeld (1903-2003) Judy "All Star Variety" Garland at the Palace Ink on board, 1955 Sight: 16...

Barbra Streisand "Funny Girl" Film Costume Design Academy Award Oscars Icon Red Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "Funny Girl" Red Costume Design, 1968 Film Sight: 14 x 9 inches Gouache, wa...

Mary Martin in "Jennie" 2 Costume Design Drawings for 1963 Broadway Musical Flop Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) Mary Martin in "Jennie" Two drawings...

Costume Design for the Ballets de Roland Petit by Iconic French Fashion Designer YVES SAINT-LAURENT (French, 1936-2008) Costume design Project Pour TURANGALILA Sight: 18 1/2 x 24 1...

Barbra Streisand "Funny Girl" Film Leopard Costume Design Academy Award Oscars Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) Funny Girl Costume Design, 1968 Film Sight: 14 x 9 inches Gouache, watercolo...

"West Side Story" Natalie Wood Film Costume Design Academy Award Oscars Iconic Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "West Side Story" 1961 Film Sight: 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches Gouache, watercolo...

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Original Broadway Set Design Mid 20th Century American Jo Mielziner (1901 – 1976) "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Set Design 7 ½ x 11 ½ ...

"At Home Abroad" 1935 Broadway Play NY Times Published Illustration 20th Century Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) At Home Abroad 9 1/2 x 17 inches (sight) Ink on board Signed upper right...

Patti LuPone "Master Class" Original Drawing NYT Published Broadway Tony Award Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Patti LuPone in "Master Class" Sight: 19 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches Board: 27 x 21 ...

Barbra Streisand "Funny Girl" Film Costume Design Academy Award Oscars Orange Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "Funny Girl" Costume Design, 1968 Film Sight: 14 x 8 3/4 inches Gouache, wat...

"My Fair Lady" 1958 West End Theatre Costume Drawing Mid 20th Century Modern Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) "My Fair Lady," Pen and ink on paper...

Candide Orig Broadway Production Costume Design Musical Operetta Barbara Cook Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "Candide" Irene Sharaff costume design for the 1956 Film Sight: 16 x 12 inche...

"Studio 54" Original Neon Dancer Designs. Final Print and 4 Preliminary Drawings Tony Walton (1934-2002) Studio 54 "Neon Dancers" Ink, pen, pencil, collage, print on paper and tis...

"Sweet Charity" Original Broadway Musical Costume Design Tony Award Nomination Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "Sweet Charity" 1966 Original Broadway Production Sight: 14 1/4 x 17 1/2 inc...

Original TV Guide Illustration Caricature Esther Williams John Raitt Dinah Shore. Published December 25, 1957 in TV Guide as an editorial to promote the Di...

"King & I" Orig 1951 Broadway Drawing Published NYT Tony Awards Mid 20th Century Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003) "The King and I," 14 3/4 x 30 inches. Ink on board. Signed lower right. ...

"Let's Make an Opera" Original Drawing NYT Published, Norman Del Mar Conducts Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) "Let's Make An Opera" Ink on board 13 1/2 x 18 1/2, sight Framed: 22 1/2 x 27...

"West Side Story" Natalie Wood Film Costume Design Academy Award Oscars Iconic Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "West Side Story" Natalie Wood as Maria Costume Design, 1961 Film Sight: 15 ...

"The King and I" Academy Award Costume Design Musical Film Rodgers & Hammerstein Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) "The King and I" costume design, 1956 Film Sight: 16 1/14 x 10 1/2 inches Gouache, watercolor, pen and ink, with applied to fabric swatches. Signed "Sharaff, titled (illegible) "The King & I" lower right Framed: 22 x 16 1/2 inches This is one of two costume design drawings...

Mary Martin "South Pacific" Broadway Musical Theatre Caricature Tony Award Sam Norkin (1917-2011) Marty Martin in "South Pacific," 1949 Sight: 11 x 8 3/4 inches Ink and gouache on ...

Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy WOMAN OF THE YEAR Oscars Film NYT Published Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in "Woman of the Year" Lithograph on hea...

Bette Midler Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) Bette Midler 15 x 11 inches (sight) Etching 22 x 18 inches Framed Signed an...

Ann Miller in Follies Broadway Musical Contemporary Drawing Illustration Eloise Ann Miller in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies." The 1998 production, played at the Papermill Playhouse. Affixed to the back of the drawing is a brochure promoting the show. Mixed media on paper. Signed lower left. Inscribed lower right: "Ann Miller at 75 'I'm Still Here' in Stephen Sondheim's 'Follies' 1998." Framed. 17 x 12 in. (sight). 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (frame) 'Tops in Taps' Ann Miller was still going strong at 75 years old when she made her last appearance in the musical, "Follies." She was one of M.G.M's most prolific dancers and considered by many to be the greatest female tap dancer of all time. Hilary, a friend of many years, is still going strong at 96. We saw this production at the Papermill Playhouse. Years ago, I was a press agent working in Henry Luhrman's office where we represented "Sugar Babies" with Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney. Bio Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926) is an American writer-artist who is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise (1955) and others in the Eloise series. Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums and posters for Broadway musicals, including Gypsy, Irene, Half A Sixpence, Hallelujah Baby! and No, No Nanette. The son of artist-writers Clayton Knight...

Meryl Streep in HAPPY END Broadway Musical Debut. Original Drawing NYT Published Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Meryl Streep in "Happy End" Sight: 22 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches Board: 27 x 21 i...

Original "Phantom" Broadway Musical Drawing by Al Hirschfed Recently Discovered Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) "Phantom of the Opera - Down Once More" Image size: 16 x 15 1/4 inches Sign...

Barbra Streisand "Funny Girl" Film Costume Design Academy Award Oscars Icon Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) Funny Girl Costume Design, 1968 Film Sight: 15 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches Gouache, wat...

Beverly Sills Opera Singer Diva Classical Music Grammys Caricature 20th Century Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Beverly Sills Lithograph on heavy paper, 1983 Sight: 11 1/2 x 14 inches Sig...

Sam Norkin's original illustration for COUNTERATTACK, 1943, featuring Morris Carnovsky; ink on paper, dimensions: 19 ¾” x 15 ½”. Unframed. Samuel Norkin (1917-2011) was a Brooklyn, New York-born cartoonist who specialized in theatre caricatures for more than seven decades. His drawings of theatre, opera, ballet and film celebrities appeared in Variety, Backstage, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. Norkin learned composition and anatomy from the muralist Mordi Gassner...

Bless You All Tony Award Broadway Costume Design Mid 20th Century Theatre Modern. Miles White (1915 – 2000) "Bless You All" 15 x 11 (sight) inches. Signed center right Inscribed: With all love, Mary McCarty and titled "Bess You All" Mixed media on paper. The musical opened December 13, 1950 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The show starred Mary McCarty Miles won the 1951 Tony Award for Costume Design. Miles was one of my closest friends for the last 20 years of his life. We live with one of his two Tony Awards and a dozen drawings. BIO White was a top Broadway and Hollywood costume designer. The artist created the costumes for the original Broadway productions of OKLAHOMA, CAROUSEL, PAL JOEY and BYE BYE BIRDIE...

Ethel Merman "Annie Get Your Gun" original Mid Century Broadway theatre drawing Ethel Merman in the pre-Broadway tour of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, 18 ½ ...

"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA. 8 x 10 ¾ inches. Graphite on paper, 1936. Initialed on lower right. The play opens October 14, 1936 at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre. Handwritten title, date, and signature on lower center of original matte which is now affixed to the verso. Inscription on lower right of matte reads, "For Prince & Barbara - Jo Mielziner...

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 published in the New York Daily news on April 11, 1976. Samuel Norkin (1917-2011) was a Brooklyn, New York-born cartoonist who specialized in theatre caricatures for more than seven decades. His drawings of theatre, opera, ballet and film celebrities appeared in Variety, Backstage, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. Norkin learned composition and anatomy from the muralist Mordi Gassner...

Sam Norkin's original caricature of Liza Minnelli in "FLORA THE RED MENACE" Off Broadway Musical Theatrical Caricature. Published in the NY Daily News on May 9, 1965. Ink and gouache on board; dimensions: 23" x 15 1/4. Framed Samuel Norkin (1917-2011) was a Brooklyn, New York-born cartoonist who specialized in theatre caricatures for more than seven decades. His drawings of theatre, opera, ballet and film celebrities appeared in Variety, Backstage, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. Norkin learned composition and anatomy from the muralist Mordi Gassner...