Charles Gesmar (born Geismar), known as Gesmar, was one of the designers of costumes and posters during the golden age of the Paris music hall during the Jazz Age and was primarily renowned for his work for the Parisian star Mistinguett. Although his tenure was short, his output was prolific, and his creativity and talent unrivaled at the time. Gesmar’s costumes and graphics caused as much excitement at the time, as shown a few years earlier by the elegance of Leon Bakst’s Ballets Russes. The seductive and sophisticated elegance of his art influenced generations of graphic designers, and he was indisputably a bridge linking the works by other two great artists who worked for the Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and René Gruau. Gesmar allegedly died of pneumonia in February 1928, before his 28th birthday.
$1,850
Original Moulin Rouge Mistinguett, 1926 French cabaret vintage poster on linen
By Charles Gesmar
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1926 Mistinguett Moulin Rouge Poster - Linen Backed, Professionally Restored with fold marks, ready to frame. It seems that most of this specific poster was folded when rele...
Lithograph
$6,075
Rare Art deco painting of Jane Marnac in a hat by Gesmar, gouache and ink 1921
By Charles Gesmar
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A rare and exquisite gouache and watercolor painting of Jane Marnac by renowned Art Deco artist Charles Gesmar. The artwork features a topless Jane Marnac in an elegant, oversized ha...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
$378Sale Price|30% Off
H 20.87 in W 15.56 in
Vintage French Fashion Poster
Located in London, GB
Vintage French fashion poster, original lithograph, by Jean Choiselat, (1947). Take a step back to the 1940s to immerse yourself in the surprising work ...
Lithograph
$475
H 13.88 in W 11.75 in
Foke-Luste-Hajo, Seminole Chief: Antique Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph
By McKenney & Hall
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Foke-Luste-Hajo, A Seminole Chief, No. 84", published by Rice, Rutter & Co. ...
Lithograph
$2,236
H 27.56 in W 39.38 in
Tender words - XX Century, Mixed Media Figurative Painting, Nude, Couple
By Katarzyna Wazyk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Gabryela Wasowicz is a Polish painter born in 1947. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam. Once she graduated in 197...
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
$600
H 19.5 in W 13.75 in D 0.1 in
Pensando & recordando a Luis Caballero, Nude Watercolor on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Pastel, Watercolor, Paper, Ink
$480
H 31.5 in W 18 in
CANDACE 1992 Tribute To African American Women Black Woman Graphic Portrait Head
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
ELIZABETH CATLETT Candace - 10th Anniversary Celebration 1992, A Tribute to African American Women National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Commemorative Fine Art Poster Year printed...
Lithograph
$500
H 19.5 in W 13.75 in D 0.1 in
Duchándome en Cuerpo Ajeno May 30th. Watercolor and ink on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
$520
H 19.5 in W 13.75 in D 0.1 in
Duchándome, June 5th, Watercolor Nude, Pastel and Ink on Archival Paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Pastel, Watercolor, Paper, Ink
Official Portraits: Immigrant
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with collage, Edition 30 Hung Liu grew up in China and came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She spent four years in the countryside as a laborer, s...
Lithograph
$1,883
H 7.09 in W 12.21 in D 0.79 in
Art Decò Italian Portrait by Enrico Crespi Signed Located Dated Watercolor
Located in Roma, IT
Young Woman Portrait by Enrico Crespi Signed Located Dated Italian Watercolor Beautiful and evocative watercolor technique painting by the great Milanese school artist Enrico Crespi...
Paper, Watercolor
$950
H 3.25 in W 7.75 in
'Bacchanal', Mid-century Pompeii, Roman Mythology, Bacchus, Neo-classical
By Giovanni Gallo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gallo Giovanni' for Giovanni Gallo (Italian, 20th century) and dated 1954. Titled lower left, 'Eseguito a Pompei, 'Trionfo di Bacco'' (Done in Pompeii, 'Triumph...
Paper, Gouache
$600
H 19.5 in W 13.75 in D 0.1 in
Pity June 4th. Nude watercolor on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalted the figure and genitality of the Latin American man, putting into tension the limits imposed by the sex/gender system that are part of an unquestionable patriarchal and phallocentric order. The majority of those portrayed are inhabitants of the Colombian coast, also constructing alternative ways of conceiving Latin American identity. By breaking taboos about corporality and male sexuality, his work has been censored on numerous occasions due to public accusations of immorality and pornography. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
Pastel, Watercolor, Paper, Ink
$2,500
H 59 in W 43 in D 0.1 in
The Old Man from the last Expo. Crayon pencil on archival paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Crayon, Ink, Watercolor
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H 18.5 in W 12 in D 1 in
Art Deco watercolour study of a dancer with a parasol by Charles Gesmar
By Charles Gesmar
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Charles Gesmar (French, 1900 – 1928) Study of a dancer with a parasol Signed ‘C. Gesmar’ (lower right) Pencil and watercolour on paper 18.1/2 x 12 in. (47 x 30.3 cm.)
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
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H 18.5 in W 24.5 in D 2 in
Vintage Art Deco Fashion Original Illustration by Charles Gesmar c.1920
By Charles Gesmar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Art Deco Fashion Original Illustration by Gesmar c.1925 Fabulous 1920s Fashion! This original drawing by Gesmar was done in 1925 and still looks great after 93 years! Fashi...
Ink