Surreal Composition - Etching - mid-20th Century

Mid-20th Century

Orpheus is an artwork realized by Gustave Bourgogne in the 1940s.  Pencil and watercolor, ink on paper.  Good conditions. Gustave Bourgogne (1888-1968), a french painter born in 1888 in Veigné in Indre et Loire and died in Paris in 1968. He excelled in landscapes, still lifes and portraits and specialized in the abstract interpretation of great musical compositions. In 1928, hearing the great carillon of the cathedral of Mechelen, he had the revelation of the correspondence of sounds and colors and began to reproduce in his paintings the impressions felt while listening to music, considering that painting is like music, the result of the same deep rhythm. In the company of Henri Valensi, Charles Blanc-Gatti and Vito Stracquadaini, Gustave Bourgogne published the Musicalism Manifesto in 1932 and created with them the Association of Musical Artists. He exhibited his works at the first three salons of musical artists (which were held at the Renaissance Gallery) which were joined by, among others, Louise...

Alpine Landscape is an original Artwork, Drawing, realized in the second half of the 19th Century by Marie Hector Yvert. Original pencil and white chalk on brown paper. Stamp of At...

Garden is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Gustave Pierre. No signature, but Stamp signed on the back. Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (37x55 cm). Gustave René Pierre...

Venus Goddess is an original Drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented through...

A wartorn composition of a soldier on the left, a Jewish blacksmith in the middle and a little shepherd on the right. This is a lithograph pastel and colored pencil on paper. Saul Rabino (1892-1969)Best known for his paintings and drawings of Jewish culture, Saul Rabino was a Russian-bornartist who spent most of his life in Los Angeles. Born Saul Rabinowitz in 1892 in Odessa, Russia,Rabino studied art at the Russian Imperial Art School. During a brief stay in Paris, he continued hiseducation at the École des Arts Decoratifs. After mastering techniques in painting, sculpture, andlithography, Rabino moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a WPA printmaker during the1930s. He stayed in Los Angeles for the rest of his life, making work about political turmoil and theJewish community. During the 1940s, he drew allegorical images of war and the plight of Jewsin Eastern Europe. These political works, usually drawings or prints, are dramatic, symbolic, andemotionally rousing. He also made art portraying the scholars and religious leaders of the Jewishcommunity, including portraits that are more delicate than his political pieces and express anobvious admiration for the leaders of his community. Before he died in 1969, Rabino exhibitedat the World’s Fair New York in 1939, the Los Angeles Museum Historical Society of Art, and theLaguna Beach Art Society. His work is in the collection of the Los Angeles Public...

Nam June Paik Do You Know...?, from the New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio, 1973 Silkscreen on paper, in original portfolio sleeve Signed and dated '73 and numbered 36/300 i...

Created in 1952, this Engraving, paper, cut paper, tissue paper and graphite on paper mounted on paperboard is hand-signed by Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, 1925 - Captiva, 2008) in pencil in the lower left margin. Numbered from the edition of 65 in pencil in the lower left margin. About the Framing: Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (Christian Symbol) from the North African Collage...

Original 1960s fashion design from a Northern Italian fashion house. Sketched and coloured by hand with a pencil sketch of the reverse. The name and description of the outfit is type...