Antique Planer

This work uses asymmetrical abstract planes to suggest architectonic spaces and incorporates collaged fragments of maps and undecipherable scripts.

The sarcophagus form is raised up on boldly carved and dramatic Roman style lion paw feet giving the heavy case a lighter appearance while the flat planes of the sides and top are ha...

As the technique favours flat planes of colour rather than texture and detail, the Swedish poster artists who employed this printing method created bold compositions of geometric sha...

He explores the unlimited potential of chromatic and tonal scales, visual planes, and volume within a two-dimensional framework.

A perfect study in the dynamism of a picture plane and a celebration of the power of line, the composition depicts a lady in her boudoir being attended to by an artisan and her maid.

At its end it is decorated with a simple recessed carving, with a geometric motif on two planes." Size: 10 x 10 x 160 cms. Weight is orientative.       

URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEV...

During King Charles X Light colored woods, yellow or bleached, such as lemon tree, maple, sycamore, orange tree, plane wood and the delicate gnarl of elm, of ash or Ambon wood were d...

The sideboard still retains many of the late Regency tendencies to present large blocked planes of wood and an almost architectural presence to a room.

Formally, it is a sequence of planes, but the two-dimensionality of the motif creates a spatial effect.

The open taupe field is its defining gesture, a vast plane of softened tonal variation that feels almost atmospheric.

First hand accounts tell of King George VI, Montgomery, Eisenhower and Churchill watching the preparations for the D-Day landings from here, First a destroyer made a smoke screen alo...

Together, they form a central vignette that feels both grounded and transcendent, as if suspended within an infinite plane. The open space surrounding this medallion enhances its pre...

They are pushed forward on the picture plane as if they were on a stage with a simple indication of a horizon line dottee with more flowers.

His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorra...

His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorra...

This dense, interlocking design creates a mesmerizing rhythm across the entire plane, typical of allover rugs where the pattern extends seamlessly from edge to edge without a central...

There was a heated debate about cubism, in which the artist broke up the motif into smaller components, sometimes called facets, in order to rebuild it on the flat surface of the pic...

Erté’s distinctive and elegant style came to epitomise the Art Deco era; it is characterised by a combination of sharp geometric line - like the harlequin background to this print - ...

Hand-built ceramic elements grow out of the vase whose tendrils thrust outwards and break the plane into 3-dimensionality. Disappearing at the neck, there is an illusion that the vin...

Sue Kendall says: "In their classical poses and formalized compositions, Miller’s shoppers become ovoid and columnar forms in cloche hats and chokers, a study of geometricized volume...

The painting, indeed, can be divided into two horizontal planes: the upper part is completely empty while the lower part is characterized by the movement and heat of the battle.

HALLMARKED: The reverse side of vase's round foot is plane - there is ENGRAVED DAUM NANCY SIGNATURE OF CIRCA 1895-1900 WITH CROSS OF LORRAINE visible.

Thus, we see compositions in "V", closed on the sides and open in the center, very low horizons that allow a wide development of the sky, spaces built in depth based on successive pl...

Her dreamy condition is emphasized by the weird out-of-focus treatment of her eyes, the flat, gray sockets of which are hatched in parallel blacks and seem to be superimposed, like t...

Rather than completely disappearing, the Trimotors gained an enviable reputation for durability with Ford ads in 1929 proclaiming, "No Ford plane has yet worn out in service." First ...

The structure of the rare and stunning work expresses the Futurists fascination with speed and continual movement in its use of multiple planes and defracted space; and the use of ve...

The entire composition is animated by a ternary rhythm: three horizontal planes (from left to right, the sideboard with the table clock and the tray of fruit, the cup on the studded ...

He constructed refinements to the clockwork in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane, making possible the revolving dials of clocks in urns or in globes characteristic of t...

The chiaroscuro contrast creates two parallel planes that open up a space for the imagination of what the city could be.

Lugt 2021a) Le Cafe du Commerce represents Laboureur’s early adaptation of the cubist idiom to his own purposes – thereby creating a modernist vision that was really all his own. Th...

The trunks, growing upward, form a vertical structure that is horizontally penetrated by the spreading branches and the pine needles, which are rendered as a plane. This structural t...

Later opening Stuart Salon at Marie Leavell, he gained notoriety for creating the signature hairstyles for Mary Wells and Braniff-International Airlines' "End of the Plain Plane" cam...

Maria appears in a rotating, dynamic and typically baroque position, and shows one hand outstretched towards the ground plane, another on her chest and her head slightly turned, with...

His compositions often compress spatial depth, so that a patterned dress, a parasol, and a flowering background occupy nearly the same visual plane. Art historian William H. Gerdts o...

Fantastic design featuring colorful historic illustrations showing Some of the Means of transport in London from A.D. 327 to 1927 with stylized text below, starting with Shank's Pony...

As for the subject, Volò generally painted bouquets of flowers in two-handled vases placed on transversal planes seen from the front. It is possible to compare this work with other D...

Seeing paintings by Cézanne, Derain, Dufy, Pascin, and the cubists affected his style, and throughout the teens and early twenties Kuhn experimented with fauve colors, using blocks o...

Behind the boulders and the shallows, a cave occupies the central plane of the composition. In the secluded dell of Turner's view, the artist does not employ human staffage.

His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorra...

His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorra...

HALLMARKED: The reverse side of vase's round foot is plane - there is ENGRAVED NUMBER visible: 3708 The artist's signature is visible at area below, above the round foot (at ...

During World War II, they were a favorite with GIs, and his picture adorned innumerable footlockers, ships and planes as well as playing cards and calendars.

Material: Sycamore veneer wood or perla Horn and plane tree and black stained pearwood or additionally, several inlay woods and mother-of-pearl existing.

Every contour and plane of this exquisite tray-top, mahogany table on wheels is outlined with glinting brass stringing — a hallmark of Russian cabinetry in the late 18th and early 19...

Cambiaso infuses the otherwise inert biblical narrative with dynamism by placing the figures close to the pictorial plane and orienting them along a steep diagonal, from the upper le...