The Cary Collection Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Chic, original watercolour c1980s illustration by Givenchy Paris together w/ a couture fabric swatch attached Plate Sz: 11 3/8"H x 8"W Frame Sz: 16"H ...

Chic, original c1980s fashion watercolour illustration for Givenchy Paris No. 52 together w/ a couture fabric swatch Plate Sz: 11 3/8"H x 8"W Frame Sz...

Givenchy Paris Haute Couture fashion illustration c1980s No.72. with a gold fabric swatch attached Image Sz: 11 3/4"H x 8"W Frame Sz: 15 7/8"H x 12 1/2"W w/ lavender mat & green w...

Original advert illustration c1950s Fun 'n Sun artwork for Lanvin of Paris Place Vendome to promote their suntan lotion by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-20...

An original watercolour by Doris Zinkeisen (1898-1991) for the 1948 play, The High Toby, depicting Lord Featherby Act II/ Scene I 1948 Art Sz: 14 1/2"H x 10"W Frame Sz: 21"H x 16 ...

Sun n' Fun Sun Screen featuring black poodle, original advert artwork by Alexander Warren Montel circa 1950's watercolour on paper Art Sz: 11"H x 10"W F...

Original Nina Ricci watercolor c1960s illustration w/ fabric swatch attached Provenance: a Beverly Hills, CA estate Art Sz: 12"H x 8 1/4"W Frame Sz:16"H x 12"W

Original watercolour signed Thomas (LR) depicting an elaborate chinoiserie-inspired dining room interior Art Sz: 10"H x 14 1/2"W Frame Sz: 15"H x 19 1/2"W w/ gilt bamboo frame

Charming pencil c.1930's drawing of a French chateau with elaborate gardens. Image Sz: 5.75"H x 7.5"W in coral mat w/ gilt bamboo frame

Original fashion illustration artwork c1950s commissioned by Lanvin of Paris on the Place Vendome. Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002) Art Sz: 11 1/2"H x 17 1/2"W Frame Sz: 17"H ...

Original watercolor of Grace Bay in the Turks & Caicos signed by Freddy Cushing (1934-2013) the Newport, RI scion & dated 1/20/90 Provenance: The Ishe...

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...

Classic horse racing watercolour & gouache by S.J. Anderton 1921 depicting Mr C.L. Appleton (jockey) in the salmon & black colours of Mrs Payne Whitney's Greentree Stables up on 'Web Carter' Art Sz: 14"H x 20 3/4"W Frame Sz: 21 1/2"H x 28"W Whitney was a major figure in thoroughbred horse racing and in 2018 he was voted one of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's most prestigious honors as an Exemplar of Racing. Harry Whitney inherited a large stable from his father (including the great filly Artful and her sire Hamburg, and in 1915 established a horse breeding farm in Lexington, Kentucky where he developed the American polo pony by breeding American Quarter Horse stallions with his thoroughbred mares. He was thoroughbred racing's leading owner of the year in the United States on eight occasions and the breeder of almost two hundred stakes race winners. His leading sire was first Hamburg and then the great sire Broomstick, by Ben Brush. His Kentucky-bred horse Whisk Broom...

Watercolor w/ gouache highlights Art Sz: 12"H x 18"W Frame Sz: 16"H x 22 1/2"W Inscribed LL: The Freshest thing to win a National in years- and he broke the record at that. Golden Miller wins in 9:20 2/5 1934 Golden Miller (1927–1957) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is the most successful Cheltenham Gold Cup horse ever, winning the race in five consecutive years between 1932 and 1936. He also is the only horse to win both of the United Kingdom's premier steeplechase races - the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National - in the same year (1934). Golden Miller was trained by Basil Briscoe in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire and owned by Dorothy Paget, who was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1943, and the leading National Hunt owner in 1933-34, 1940–41 and 1951-52. In 1931, Golden Miller made his steeplechasing debut at Newbury Racecourse where he finished first, only to be disqualified for carrying incorrect weight. On 30 December, he won the Reading Chase before winning the Sefton Steeplechase on 20 January 1932. In 1933, as a six-year-old and winner of two Cheltenham Gold Cups, he started as the 9/1 favourite in the Grand National but fell at the Canal Turn. In the 1934 Grand National win, he set a new course record of 9 min 20.4s for Aintree. This victory was the middle of five consecutive Gold Cup victories, a Gold Cup record.[2] He retired in 1939 with a record of 29 wins from 52 races. He is buried at Elsenham Stud, a working farm in Elsenham, West Essex. Artist Bio: Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) was born in Minnesota and soon moved to New York City with his family. A quote from his biography:"Paul Brown told his host on a radio interview held in September of 1956, 'One day in 1904, I got 50 cents someplace and went over to the National Horse Show at the old Madison Square Garden and saw 'fine leppers,' [a term used for jumpers] as we called them, and Thoroughbreds for the first time.' From then on he appeared to be hooked on drawing horses." At the age of 17, his family relocated again to Garden City on Long Island, where Brown had the opportunity to explore polo grounds...

Original Cecil Beaton (signed LR) watercolour set design for the 2nd version of Beaton's play "The Gainsborough Girls" circa 1951 theatrical production entitled "Landscape with Figur...