Oil Pastel Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

This work is the study for Pool Chairs. It is different chairs and also brightly colored but painted on board and framed. This work is an indoor work only and is beautifully framed...

Here for your consideration is a very well executed oil pastel on archival paper by the well known French artist, Marcel Vertes. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1930. The artwork was done early in the artist’s career; most likely in Paris during his time studying at the Academie Julian. The artwork is housed in its original frame under glass. The ornate gold frame has been recently restored and is in good condition. Overall framed measurements are 31.5 by 26.5 inches. Provenance: A Pennsylvania estate. Marcel Vertès (born Marcell Vértes), was born on August 10, 1895 in Budapest, Hungary. His first commercially successful works of art were sketches of corpses, criminals and prostitutes he did for a sensationalist magazine in Budapest. He then did illustrations for many of the clandestinely printed publications opposing the Hapsburg monarchy at the end of WWI. After the war he moved from his native Hungary to Vienna, Austria and then to Paris, where he was a student at the Academy Julian, living and working in the famous Latin Quarter. Vertes quickly established himself as a regular in the Paris art scene and his work became lighter and more lyrical. In Paris he concentrated on illustration, painting and printmaking, especially lithography. In 1935 he made his first trip to New York to make contacts. Two years later he had his first one-man show in New York. At the end of WWII he returned to New York with his wife, escaping the Nazi invasion of Paris by two days. He then began to divide his time between New York and Paris. Ten years later, he returned to his beloved Paris and spent the remaining years of his life there. While in the United States he became a consultant to the Producers and Set Designers of the 1952 Award Winning film Moulin Rouge, about the life and times of artist Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). He won two Academy Awards for ‘Best Art Direction’ and ‘Best Costume Design’. Interestingly, Marcel Vertès originally earned his tuition money for his European education by making forgeries of Lautrec's works. As such, his expertise was exhibited in the film when his hand is used as the hand of Toulouse Lautrec as he drew, and his images were accordingly used in the film and given appropriate credit in the trailer to the film. Vertes also appeared in the British production credits as Color Production Designer, and Costume Designer for the film, with Schiaparalli (the same of Paris, and Italy). They both jointly won the British Academy Film award in 1952 for Best Costume Design for Moulin Rouge. Vertès is also responsible for the original murals in the Café Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City and for those in the Peacock Alley...

Original oil pastel drawing on handmade paper mounted on linen backing board, 1986. Paper Size: 23.5 x 23 inches. Signed and dated. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebr...

Original oil pastel drawing on handmade paper mounted on linen backing board, 1986. Paper Size: 23 x 21 inches. Signed and dated. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrat...

Original oil pastel drawing on handmade paper mounted on linen backing board, 1986. Paper Size: 23 x 23 inches. Signed and dated. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrat...

Original oil pastel drawing on handmade paper mounted on linen backing board, 1986. Paper Size: 21 x 23 inches. Signed and dated. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrat...

Fresh from the summer harvest, we’re delighted to serve a new crop of demure fruit and vegetable diptychs from Abstractionist, Daisy Craddock. Daisy’s lush pairings of skin and flesh...

Fresh from the summer harvest, we’re delighted to serve a new crop of demure fruit and vegetable diptychs from Abstractionist, Daisy Craddock. Daisy’s lush pairings of skin and flesh...

Original oil pastel on archival paper drawing by Anton Refregier of flowers and radishes in a still life. Signed upper right. Circa 1965. Condition is good. Overall measurements fra...

Daisy Craddock's Gold on Gold on Green is an abstracted still life of a melon, rendered in oil pastel. Drawn from life, Craddock considers her diptychs to...

Drawn from life, Craddock considers her diptychs to be literal depictions of her fruit and vegetable subjects: skin on the left side, and flesh on the right. When seen from a distanc...

Daisy Craddock's, Gold on Gold, is an abstracted melon, rendered in oil pastel. Drawn from life, Craddock considers her diptychs to be literal depictions ...