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Selection of 1930's Academic Study Drawings of Male Nudes, hand drawn by Carl De Zeeuw, American, circa 1930's. The price noted below is for EACH dra...

French Art Deco black and white framed drawing. Beautifully executed stylized French Art Deco black and white drawing in a giltwood frame wit...

Selection of 1930's Academic Study Drawings of Male Nudes, hand drawn by Carl De Zeeuw, American, circa 1930's. The price noted below is for EACH dra...

Set of three architectural furniture drawings by the Sweedish arquitect Carl G. Bergsten. Circa 1930. Pencil on paper. Dimenssions: WITH FRAME Motto Gesundheit: W 31.5" x H 23.75" ...

Selection of 1930's Academic Study Drawings of Male Nudes, hand drawn by Carl De Zeeuw, American, circa 1930's. The price noted below is for EACH dra...

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...

Vivid and striking, this Classic Art Deco watercolor of an exotic female figure holding a bird in one hand was painted by Chasquest, perhaps as a costume design for a Hollywood produ...

1930s Interior Designers pencil drawing of a proposal of a living room.

Beautiful continuous line drawing by Jean Negulesco-Oscar award winning Hollywood director. New custom frame. Very rare vintage color serigraph print with blind stamp in corner. Available in the following variations: White frame, pink background and red line drawing...

Vivid and striking, classic French Art Deco watercolor of an exotic woman holding a flower in one hand was painted by Chasquest, perhaps as a costume design for a Hollywood productio...

Beautiful continuous line drawings by Jean Negulesco - Oscar award winning Hollywood director. Newly framed. 4 different variations available, priced individually: Black frame, sea foam green background, and black line drawing...

This drawing is representing a nude woman. The frame is in a brown color, and the drawing is done on a white support. It has made circa 1940. Art Deco Period. by VAN DOREN (Raymond...