European Drawings

Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017. Collaboration with the serigraphy workshop of the dead artist José Pérez Ocaña. Limited edition of 50 copies. Each...

Arthur Reiwald drawing

Original artwork by the master. It is in as-found poor condition. It will be shipped in a tube without glass or framing. Pencil signed with information on backing paper, crayon numb...

Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017. Limited edition of 50 copies. Each lithographies is different from the others and are unique pieces. Hand signed by...

One and only piece, by French Artist Elisabeth Brainos signed Painting, 2005, France, in a white wood frame. With her unique and colorful style, Elisabeth Brainos, French artist, ...

Wonderful and powerful work of a cat washing itself by Dutch artist Estella den Boer. Such a pleasure to look at. This trusting cat in utmost concentration to clean its coat. It is drawn almost minimalistically, causing all attention to go to this cleaning lady. Signed on the front: Estella. Work comes from the legacy of Estella den Boer. Estella den Boer (1912-2010) was born in Middelburg, the Netherlands. She made expressive and abstract work, drawings, paintings and ceramics and found absolute freedom in constructive art. A visit to Piet Mondrian's retrospective exhibition in 1955 in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague made an overwhelming impression on her. Her conviction that geometric arrangements are the most appropriate visual language to act out of Material limitations and find a way to a larger space was confirmed here. Den Boer was influenced by the Russian Constructivists like Kandinsky. In later works we see influences from Italian Futurists, such as Gino Severini. In playfulness and use of color her painting is sometimes related to that of the artist Sophie Taüber...

Italian Painting from the 1960s: Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia.Overall, charcoal drawing is a dynamic and expressive medium that offers artists a wide range of creative possibilit...

Decorate an office or study with this antique black and white engraving. Hand colored in Italy circa 1770, the large monochromatic etching is...

Modernist nude study of the female figure by an anonymous artist, circa early 20th century. Loose, expressive strokes with emphatic shading. Drawn in charcoal on paper. We have two r...

Lovely etching on paper in back ink by Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto). Measurements: 22" x 15" Hand-numbered in pencil at the bottom right with the number 6. Part of a co...

Danish 19th Century Watercoloring Painting of a Windmill in a Period Gilt Wood Frame, Copenhagen circa 1850. Signed on the rear, E. L. for EdwardLehman. Also handwritten in Danish o...

Framed drawing of a Torso by Greek born artist Alexandra Athanassiades (b. 1961). Composition: Charcoal and gouache on distressed paper. Property fro...

Drawing diptyque composed by two portraits representing a "Seated man" and a "Lying man", charcoal and chalk drawing. France, 1960s

Oil painting on board from 20th century. French painting signed lower right, for antique dealers and collectors. Work depicting a mountain landscape of great charm and good pictorial...

Large work on paper by Georgios Mavridis, titled "Married Woman Pissing with Two Characters", dating from the 1990s. On an ocher background, the artist casts...

Large Watercolor depicts the daily life of French soldiers belonging to the cavalry. This scene can be dated thanks to the clothes worn by the men in this work. Indeed, the bright bl...

'Composizione' original drawing by Luigi Veronesi, circa 1984. Crayon on paper. In original good condition. Luigi Veronesi (1908-1998) was an Italian photographer, painter, ...

Drawing, Attributed to Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1657 Amsterdam). Ruins of an old fort on a hilltop inscribed 'A. no.2' black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, pen ...

Landscape Drawing, Black Marker Boat and Harbor Scene, France 1966. This vintage black felt-tip pen drawing from 1966 captures a scene of the Cape Antibes, located on the French Riv...

This large and important drawing was made by Eduardo Benito, the pioneering artist who helped to establish the impossibly sophisticated images of modern...

An original Maison Jansen pencil drawing on velum, depicting an architectural detail "Rosace de Plafond" page 135 Stamped: Jansen, 9 Rue Royale Paris 8e

This large and very nice Venice view is a charcoal. This is the amazing the way Venezia is reflected into the water. This is a work signed by François Stro...

Charming drawing of the XIXth century, representing a character of the famous tale of Charles Perrault: " Le petit Poucet ". It shows the young boy in country dress, wearing a hat to...

Set of four studies of archaeological excavations of the 18/19th in Nola and Sicily. Nola is known to be a city at 20 km from Pompeii, very famous for its archaeological wealth. The ...

Nissim Merkado (born 1935), a listed Bulgarian/French artist. Colored crayon and mixed media. Abstract composition on cardboard. Untitled. Studio stamp. In perfect condition. Dimensi...

Italian oil painting on board from 20th century. Artwork depicting popular scene The Sunday game in Impressionist style. Artwork of excellent pictorial quality signed lower right (se...

3 antique 18 th c Italian ink drawings on paper of views of Venice- Dougaba and Santa Maria church, Piazza San Marco with Campanile, Venice fort. framed later. Inscribed and dated.

Original gouache & ink masterwork on paper. The artist captures the magnificence of the era with precise architectural perspective. Cerulean, ochre, & shell white celebrate the nosta...

Large framed pastel depicting silk merchants presenting their fabrics to wealthy clients in Venice. Illegible signature in the lower left corner. Pastel in good condition (pr...

Italian painting from the second half of the 20th century. Oil painting on cardboard depicting a glimpse of an Impressionist-style country road. Framework signed in the lower right corner (see photo) signature under study. Modern silver plated wooden frame equipped with protective glass (see photo). Small size painting...

White Bunny Drawing by Oleg Cassini for Playboy October 1979, Signed. Illustration of a woman wearing a white body suit, choker, and hat. Signed by Oleg Cassini. Notice the body suit is in the shape of the head of a bunny with clever use of the 'whiskers'. Approximate Measurements: Length: 11" Width: 14" Property from the Collection of Steven Rosengard, Chicago, Illinois This original drawing was commissioned by Playboy and included in the October 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine (pages 225-227) in a feature that included works from designers such as Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, Edith Head, Fernando Sanchez, and Monika Tilley, among others, who create their versions of the Playboy bunny costume. Candace Collins can be seen modeling some of the designs in the feature. Oleg Cassini is an icon of twentieth-century fashion. Though born to Russian aristocracy and raised in Italy, he built a fashion empire that was unmistakably American. Cassini is perhaps best known for the hundreds of designs he created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (see images 4-8), but his achievements as a collector, connoisseur, and quintessential twentieth-century man go far beyond Camelot. In 1913, Oleg Cassini was born in Paris to the Russian diplomat Count Alexander Loiewski and Countess Marguerite Cassini, a Russian aristocrat of Italian ancestry who also had an interesting link to America. The daughter of Count Arthur Cassini, Russian Ambassador to the United States during the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, Marguerite dazzled turn-of-the-century Washington as her father’s official hostess and left her mark on the capital city. Stationed in Denmark when the Russian Revolution toppled the czar, Ambassador Cassini and family were exiled to Switzerland before settling in Florence, Italy, where young Oleg was raised. A true Renaissance man, he spoke Russian, French, and Danish before adding Italian and English; he studied medieval and modern European military history and costume and learned to draw; he learned horseback riding, fencing, and the art of chivalry; and, most importantly, he came to understand the struggles of the Russian titled class and other European aristocrats in the wake of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Countess Cassini started a successful fashion business in Florence, and soon the talented young Oleg was sent to Paris to sketch the latest collections for recreation in Italy. In Rome in his early 20s, Cassini created fashions for high society women and designed for a few films, which planted the seed for his move to Hollywood. The drive to reinvent himself brought Cassini to America in the 1930s; in his autobiography he describes arriving nearly penniless in mid-Depression New York City where his title as an exiled Russian Count meant even less than in war-devastated Europe. Down and out, Cassini struggled for employment, having sketching skills but no knowledge of the wholesale trade required for survival in Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue fashion district. However, he excelled at making connections, and Cassini slowly entered New York society. He was soon joined by younger brother Igor (who had studied in America and travelled with the young Emilio Pucci) and his parents, the once-dazzling Countess and his father, the displaced diplomat still loyal to Russia. The family settled in Washington, D.C., and Igor worked his way up the Hearst newspaper chain to become the famous society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker. In New York, Oleg Cassini married the troubled socialite Merry Fahrney (who would go on to marry eight times), but the marriage ended in scandal for Oleg, and he decided to follow his original intention and head for Hollywood. Despite initial difficulties, Cassini gained access to Hollywood’s elite (partially through his skills on the tennis court), and was soon hired as a designer at Paramount Pictures alongside the redoubtable Edith Head. In her 1941 film debut I Wanted Wings, Veronica Lake wore a memorable Cassini design. That same year, Cassini met and married the newest young Hollywood star on the scene, the beautiful 20th Century Fox–talent Gene Tierney. With the outbreak of World War II, Cassini enlisted in the Coast Guard but was transferred to the U.S. Army Cavalry which allowed officers of foreign birth. He attended basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the horsemanship he learned as a boy served him greatly. He attended Officer Candidate School and reached the rank of First Lieutenant (he also became an American citizen at this time, losing his title of Count). Cassini spent several years posted at Fort Riley, where Tierney joined him before he landed a convenient military post in Hollywood. As Tierney’s career thrived (she played the title role in Otto Preminger’s Laura in 1944), she was able to assert her influence over 20th Century Fox’s head Daryl Zanuck, who hired Cassini as designer for Tierney on her 1946 film The Razor’s Edge, which proved to be a brilliant showcase for his talents. The pair separated the same year and, again seeking reinvention, Cassini re-established himself in New York City as a fashion designer. By 1950, the Oleg Cassini label was born. Combining his knowledge of Old World and modern Europe, Hollywood, the tennis courts of Palm Beach and Newport, and of course, New York City, Oleg Cassini invented a new brand of fashion that was distinctly American and of its moment. For his first collection, Cassini took to the stage, narrating the looks and imbuing the scene with his personality, unusual in an industry where the designers typically remained backstage and the models were called by number over a PA. The first collection was a smash — the president of Lord & Taylor devoted all of their storefront windows to his designs — and by 1955 sales had reached $5,000,000. Oleg Cassini’s career had turned a very positive corner. Cassini spent the early 1950s traversing the country, personally selling his collections to department stores in the interior, something his predecessors had never done, and moving between the Hollywood and New York scenes. Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the Riviera. In 1954, Cassini set out to woo Grace Kelly and sent her roses every day. The two were briefly engaged before her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. In December 1960, Cassini’s career-defining opportunity came when he was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her fashions for the White House. Cassini had long known Joe Kennedy and his war-hero son John, and had first met Jacqueline Bouvier before her marriage in the early 1950s. Invited by President-Elect Kennedy to meet Jacqueline at Georgetown Hospital (she had just given birth to son John Jr.) to present to her drawings of potential dresses and First Lady looks, Cassini worked furiously to prepare a new line for the First Lady. Mrs. Kennedy had always had her clothes made by the top French couturiers of the day, but for the White House she wanted an American designer. Cassini wrote in his autobiography that he told the First Lady: “‘You have an opportunity here,’ I said, ‘for an American Versailles.’ She understood completely what I was trying to communicate; she began to talk excitedly about the need to create an entirely new atmosphere at the White House. She wanted it to become the social and intellectual capital of the nation” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 327). Mrs. Kennedy loved Cassini’s design for a gown to wear to the Inaugural Gala (she had already ordered a dress from Bergdorf’s for the Inaugural Ball), and Cassini was selected as the First Lady’s designer and was soon dubbed the “Secretary of Style.” From 1960 to 1963, Oleg Cassini would design over 300 items for Mrs. Kennedy, creating the “Jackie Look” that contributed not only to a fashion revolution but also the dawn of a new age. Cassini wrote that “Jackie played a very active role in the selection of her clothes. She loved brilliant colors — pistachio, hot pink, yellow, and white among others. Her sense of style was very precise; she would make editorial comments on the sketches I sent her. She always knew exactly what she wanted; her taste was excellent” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 334). After the Camelot years, Cassini’s business flourished and grew into a major industry; his name appeared on everything from couture to tennis-, sport-, and swimwear, car interiors, housewares, and perfume. He collected beautiful and rare artwork, arms and armor, and antique furniture, and lived the lifestyle projected by his image. From this period onward, Cassini also came to live in important homes. Of his Gothic Gramercy Park townhouse on Manhattan’s 19th Street he would write imaginatively, “I walked into the foyer and immediately fell in love. It was a place unlike any other in New York, a sixteenth-century Dutch house transported brick by brick from Europe by the Wells Fargo family in the early twentieth century. There was a vaulted, twenty-foot ceiling in the living room, leaded windows, elegantly carved wood paneling...

Wonderful watercolour of elegant Belle Époque daytime fashion for women and men. One lady wears an elegant daytime town outfit with hat and fur, the other lady wears an elegant outfi...

Sigurd Swane (1879-1973), Danish artist. Mixed media on paper. Landscape with trees. Expressive lines. Mid-20th century. Signed in pencil. In good condition with some paint loss and ...

Magnificent restored mid-19th century lithograph in it's original frame. Transporting your senses to a place far away is what great art does, thus being the case with this. The waves...

Vintage Original Pencil and Charcoal Study A drawing after the original artwork by Honoré Daumier, French (1808-1879). The original, which constitutes No. 22 of ‘Les Gens de Justic...

Drawing of a sleeping nude man by Evelyne Luez, 20th century. Watercolour drawing of a sleeping nude man from the 20th century by Evelyne Luez. H: 51cm, W: 50cm, D: 0.2cm

Signed and Numbered Yaacov Agam, Colors of Love, Serigraph

Italian drawing from the second half of the 20th century. Framework mixed media on paper depicting an abstract subject without title. Signed Tarantino lower right (see picture) referable to the artist Giuseppe Tarantino (1916-1999) lacking authentication. Gilded wooden frame with canvas passe-partout (see picture) of beautiful decoration. Framework of beautiful size and pleasant decor, for antique dealers, interior decorators and collectors of modern Italian painting...

BIC blue colored pen on paper. Serie "Aquafan" Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz 1976: He has had numerous individual exhibitions highlighting (He) artbr...

Male Portrait, Pastel In Its Frame, Around 1800

Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Artwork oil on board depicting a girl with a calf of good pictorial quality. Impressionist style painting of good brightness adorned with ...

An original Maison Jansen pencil drawing depicting an architectural detail "Petit Panneau Empire" page 72 Stamped: Jansen, 9 Rue Royale Paris 8e

Lovely and atmospheric, this drawing of a series of male nude figures at the swimming pool -- one diving, one readying to dive, others at the mirr...

Painting mixed-media on masonite from 20th century. Italian painting signed and dated lower left (Giletti Carlo Maria - 1980). Work depicting a beautiful urban district. Carved and g...

Detailed 18th century style framed pastel bouquet drawing. Intricate burlwood and ebonized wood period frame. Very decorative.

The posters and prints may display signs of aging, such as paper discoloration, tears, folds, and other imperfections. These pieces were part of an art collection owned by a German ...

Pop Art Pol Mara, mix-media on paper (pencil, aerograph, watercolor, pastel) framed.' Dimension for drawing only: 107 x 72cm, signed and dated '74. Pol Mara (1920-1998) was a Bel...

Exquisitely drawn in pencil and a feather, light ink wash, creating a pale, ghostly image that is refined and haunting, this full length male nude was accomplished by Cecil de Blaquiere Howard...

Drawing, painting representing a child's head, black pencil and red chalk drawing. Painting representing a drawing of a child's head, black and red chalk print, stamped from the Jul...

Detailed 18th century style framed pastel bouquet drawing. Intricate burl wood and ebonized wood period frame. Very decorative.

Product description: This is a very attractive aquarel drawing by the artist Hiroshi Nakaema. Not a lot can be found on the artist's background leaving us only with the appreciation...

This period and vintage Label Riche black and white etching of woman with dropped shawl is very sensual. It is hallmarked at bottom left with male caricature and signed at bottom right. It is by Lobel...

One of a series of drawings Bernard Boutet de Monvel made circa 1922 while participating in the Croisière Citroën, an expedition comprising scientists and artists who traversed the S...

Painting, drawing of dancers from the mid-century time, circa 1950. It is signed H. Sjardi. The drawing has an original green bamboo frame. The pain...

A pair of gouaches depicting two scenes of the blue grotto. Late 19th Century

Superbly conceived and executed by Gaston Goor in the late 1940s, when he was at the height of his powers, this drawing brings together three male figures -- all beautifully depicted...

This delicate and detailed artwork, dated Paris, July 18, 1896, is a study for a fan portraying scenes from South America. It is rendered primarily in charcoal and blue pencil, which...

Very handsome original portrait drawing signed Chady, dated 1967. This interesting piece of art resembles Vincent van Gogh's self portrait. Measur...

Two engravings from the book "The Description of Egypt", a major publication by the scholars who accompanied Napoleon, which included descriptions and engravings made by these schola...

Diminutive etching of Magdelena in a gilt frame signed and dated. This highly decorative print is 6 inches x 8 inches unframed and when sitting in its finely gilt and carved frame it measures 11 by 14 inches. Very well done, signed and dated in a matted background. Daniel John Pound (active 1842-1877), Engraver. Pompeo Girolamo Batoni...