Allen Townsend Terrell

Library Salon Interior Watercolour by Allen Townsend Terrell

1950-1959

Elegant & fabulously rare, original Philippe Jullian (1919-1977) (ink signed LR) watercolour depicting a lavish Moorish opium salon interior with a reclining nude portrait on the wall and two monkeys with their turban clad handler. Sagittarius Gallery, NY label inscribed Jullian No. 18 on verso Art Sz: 8 3/4"H x 11 1/8"W Frame Sz: 16"H x 18"W w/ Hermes orange mat & antique bamboo frame Provenance: The estate of D. D. Ryan (1928-2007), noted fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, an associate of Halston and a regular on best-dressed lists! Another widely appreciated achievement is her association with the creation of Eloise, the fictional little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel. Eloise began as a character that Kay Thompson, a cabaret singer, portrayed to amuse her friends, of whom Ms. Ryan was one. Ms. Ryan urged her to write a book, put her together with Hilary Knight, the illustrator, and never stopped pushing her to finish the job. The result was “Eloise,” published in 1955 and a best seller the next year, and its popular sequels. “The book would never have existed without D. D. Never,” Mr. Knight said in an interview Thursday. “She would have just dropped it and gone on to something else.” Beyond her historic Eloise moment, Ms. Ryan thrived at the crossroads of New York’s fashion and artistic worlds, seeming to make a statement every time she dressed, almost always in clothes she made herself, always recognizable with her famous precisely stylized eyebrows. Her first job in Manhattan was as an assistant to the photographer Richard Avedon; she was photo editor at Harper’s Bazaar under the legendary editor Diana Vreeland, and she designed the costumes for Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Broadway musical “Company.” Her social circle included Cole Porter, Andy Warhol, Mr. Sondheim and Truman Capote. When she recommended a new pair of sandals or a piece of costume jewelry — only “really good costume jewelry...

JULIAN BARROW (1939-2013): "OAKENDALE", FROM FRONT HALL TO DRAWING ROOM Oil on canvas, 1993, signed 'Julian Barrow' and dated lower right, signed, titled a...

Tres chic, original fashion watercolour illustration for Pierre Balmain Couture together w/ a fabric swatch attached Image Sz: 12 1/8"H x 8 1/4...

Chic pastel c1950s portrait by Jana of an elegant lady wearing diamond earrings- Image Sz: 19"H x 15"W Frame Sz: 26"H x 22"W

Art Sz: 12 1/2"H x 16"W Frame Sz: 18 3/4"H x 22"W c1938 Conte Crayon w/ Gouache

Image Sz: 17 1/2"H x 14 1/4"W Frame Sz: 23"H x 20"W Classic gouache on paper of polo player up Signed R. Joucla- Pelous & dated April, 1923 (LL)

French Quarter Courtyard

This is a 30 x 36 inch work on paper created in 2020, which places flowers and "pink subjects" in the clearly dotted, gridded space of the rectangle. Ideas of what Masculine and Femi...

Hotel interior painted using watercolors on paper.

Frederick McNamara Evans (English, 1859-1929) Signed: F.M. Evans (Lower, Left) " A Game of Patience ", circa 1900 (Titled in pencil on verso and original label.) Watercolor on pape...

Art Deco Movie Set 20th Century American Modernism Hollywood WPA Social Realism Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981) Art Deco Movie Set, Probably MGM Studios, 1937 17 x 27 inches Gouache on illustration Board Signed Art Ross, ‘37 lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist. BIO Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure. In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935. He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2. It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war. Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959. He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job. Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955. They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross. He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...

Panel painting has bright colors abstracted portrait faces, interior, flowers, loose visible gestural brushstrokes C. Dimitri says this painting is a tribute to a painter friend of ...