Eugene Berman Untitled Stage Design

Two costume drawings for a production of "L'Incoronazione du Poppea." Watercolor and ink on paper. Matted and framed in white painted wood with glass....

Marie Suri The "Constellation" fire screen Fire screen with scattered 2.5” and 4” steel medallions with bronze decoration. Mesh backing makes these ...

Table lamp inspired by Chinese philosopher's stones. The artist sculpts then casts the lamp base in plaster resin with a hand-applied plaster finish. Raised on four sculpted legs. La...

Marie Suri "The Luna Andirons." Andirons with polished gold bronze balls and patinated steel fire dogs. Custom inquiries welcome. Also available with a brushed or antiqued finish,...

Elliott Levine "Philosopher's Stone" table lamp Table lamp inspired by Chinese philosopher's stones sculpted then cast in resin and acrylic with patina ...

Karl Springer (1930-1991) Square waste paper basket with curved sides wrapped entirely in tan lizard embossed leather. American, circa 1980.

This haunting image by Eugene Berman was painted on a sheet of paper cut in the shape of a heart, mounted to a paint-speckled ground, encircled with metal shavings, and placed in a frame of the artist’s own devising. Berman wrote the title, Radiograph of a Heart, on the back. It refers to the medical X-rays that doctors had recently come to rely on. Yet Berman’s point seems to be that while a heart can be monitored scientifically, the emotions associated with it lie beyond the power of medical science. Russian by birth, Berman fled St. Petersburg during the Revolution and settled in Paris. Later, as a Jew, he fled the Nazi advance and took refuge in New York and Hollywood. His peace of mind, however, was shattered by the suicide of his wife, actress Una Munson (who played Belle Watling in Gone With the Wind). That distressing event — “Don’t follow me” she admonished in her suicide note...

Gouache on paper costume design for Annabella, for the John Ford play: "Tis a Pity She's a Whore" by Eugene Berman signed with the cypher (E.B.), dated 1942 and annotated. Pencil ske...

Pen, ink and gouache on paper, painting "The Temple of Dendur' by Eugene Berman. Signed and dated, 1964. Framed size is 28.25 x 22.25.

Eugene Berman, vintage hat seller print, "Prologue: Vendeau de Chapeaux," a midcentury numbered print of a charming colorful sketch by the Russian born Amer...

Eugène de Sala, 1899 - 1987. Charcoal drawing on paper, portrait of his wife 1920s. Eugène de Sala's an avant-garde painter from the 1920s are considere...

Frank Poole Bevan (1903-1976) Studied at Yale and a Professor of Theatrical Design, Yale School of Drama from the 1930's through 1971. Offering an annotated and signed original costume design watercolor...