Last SALE Framed Ancient Style Egyptian Cartonage

Pair of French colorful drawings signed and framed.   

19th Century, French extra large hand painted textile theater decoration made in vivid colours with no restorations and in very good authentic co...

Three antique handcolored engravings on a vellin type paper. First one is titled 'Rubbing Down'. It shows: a gentleman holding his horse steady in a field, while his stabile boy rub...

Four original lithographs of Versailles signed and numbered by the French artist André Hambourg. All of them are framed and the edition is written at the back, all four are from a 30...

Fine engraving of the peaceful landscape of Orcière in France with a few figures on the road. France, circa 1890.  

Fine colourful engraving presenting a wedding dance and all the guests around. France, circa 1890.  

Original 1950s Japanese people drawing with giltwood frame Frame measurements: 32x42x1cm.  

Set against a silk brocade backing, this early 20th century paper scroll is brushed with a work of painterly calligraphy. Expressing notions of endurance and moral fortitude, the scr...

Theo Meier (1908-1982) “A Balinese woman with offerings” Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel. Provenance: Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist) Private collection, London Note: Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return. In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...

1970s Indian paper drawing of a man riding an elephant, part of a large private collection.

1970s Indian paper drawing of an elephant, part of a large private collection.

1970s Indian paper drawing of a woman riding a tapir. Part of a large private collection.