European Drawings

Elevate any space with this unique hand-drawn work of art. Done with pencil on paper- this is an anatomically correct excerpt from a student's figure study sketchbook from the early ...

This is a modern English painting, ink on paper from the 1930’s. The wallpaper sample has a new mat surrounded by a silver gilt frame, protective glass and hanger. This mix of modern...

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of four Geese, on parchment paper (copper engraving). It has a fine shining because of the authenticly applied...

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 3 Ducks and an Avocet, on parchment paper (copper engraving). It has a fine shining because of the authenti...

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...

Swiss alp drawing of a Vaud region women title " Pais de Vaux " the dimensions are the frame dimensions

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 6 Colibri's, on parchment paper (copper engraving). It has a fine shining because of the authenticly applie...

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 4 Geese on parchment paper (copper engraving). It has a fine shining because of the authenticly applied egg...

This captivating Bauhaus collage, created by Josef Brauner, showcases the artist's innovative approach to mixed media art. Crafted in Berlin, Germany, circa 1927, this artwork remain...

Project of the ship Ortac; launched in 1937 at the Morgan Giles shipyard, length 10.68m overall, width 3.39m, it has a mast rather tail-heavy and it won many races of RORC class. Mea...

Project of the ship Ortac; launched in 1937 at the Morgan Giles shipyard, length 10.68m overall, width 3.39m, it has a mast rather tail-heavy and it won many races of RORC class. Mea...

Fine pair of Fisher & Son London hand coloured engravings from the early Victorian Period. Beautifully framed and mounted and in good condition. Detailed scenes of Cornwall...

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...

Project coming from the archives of Uffa Fox and never entered the commercial circuit depicting Northele, a sloop 14 m long, made by Berthon Boats in Lymington Dorset in 1949 accordi...

Silver Plated French Art: La Rencontré Dangereuse Frame 12 w x 15.13 h x 1 d Art 6.75 w x 9.88 tall Etched with colors on silverplated sheet. Beautiful velvet and wood frame Made in ...

Eugene Leroy abstract composition or original artist proof, eau forte or etching. This intriguing work of art is titled "Sleep". Hand-signed on the lower ...

Folk art drawing of a young women and a dog

Charcoal Drawing Inspired by the Mano dell Davide, Venice.Overall, charcoal drawing is a dynamic and expressive medium that offers artists a wide range of creative possibilities. It'...

A perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of four Ducks, on parchment paper (copper engraving). It has a fine shining because of the authenticly applied egg-yolk as...

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 7 Parakeets: La Perruche aux ailes noires, La Perruche a collier, La Perruche aux ails variees, La Perruc...

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 3 Cockatoos: Le Kakatoes a Huppe Rouge, Le Kakatoes a Huppe Jaune and Le Kakatoes a Huppe Blanche. Also 1 s...

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 4 birds: Le Sinciulo [French], and 3 Parakeets. These are La Perruche de L'Isle de Lucon, La Perruche a Mou...

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 4 Teals on parchment paper (copper engraving). It has a fine shining because of the authenticly applied egg...

Aquarelle attributed J.Rene Prou probably for Le France paquebot , dimensions with frame H 42 by 55 cm

Remarkable artwork by Ugo La Pietra. Wood frame and handwritten inscription on the back.

Drawing in mixed technique, water-color and pastel depicting a WWI airplane, by Riccardo Cavigioli. Measure with frame cm 80x60.3. Riccardo Cavigioli was born in Milan on 10th Nov...

The category Old Marine Paintings, features a small painting, depicting a stretch of sea with a fisherman and a small boat, a late 19th-century Oil on Canvas Painting. 19th century....

Sketch for a Futurist poster, 1930s, "National Campaign against tuberculosis," made using a mixed technique of pastel and watercolor for the Italian National Campaign to fight tuberc...

Pencil-drawing by Riccardo Cavigioli in the early 1920s depicting a two-seat biplane airplane for reconnaissance Caudron G III, French production of 1914, equipped with a Le Rhone 80...

Swiss alp watercolor " Berne "

This Indian ink drawing by Riccardo Cavigioli represents a two-seat biplane airplane for reconnaissance Rumpler C I, produced in Germany in 1916 and powered by a Mercedes D III 160 h...

Woman bust portrait drawing, 1970s.

An original large French artist proof depicting two beautiful women, one wearing a stylish hat and the other is in a reclining position. Marked E.A. and signed by the artist Francis...

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...

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...

About the artist William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", He is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations...

Swiss alp watercolor " Soleure "

Swiss alp watercolor " Gouggisberg from Bern region

MIKUŠ - 'Monkey On My Back' - Surrealist colored pencil and graphite drawing on paper - signed and dated in pencil lower right - unframed - Czechoslovakia - circa 1982. Excellent...

Antique Italian painting from 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a portrait of a girl with a goldfinch of good pictorial quality. Framework of good size and pleasant fur...

Mixed technique artwork by Angelo Bozzola entitled “Tipo Differenziato” n. 15 of 60, dated 1973 and signed. Original frame 60x52 cm. Angelo Bozzola Gal...

Frans Kannik (1949-2011), listed Danish artist. Watercolor and pencil on paper. Nude study. Signed and dated 2005. In perfect condition. Dimensions: Width 46.0 cm x Height 31.0 cm.

Swiss alp watercolor " Glarus "

Swiss alp watercolor " Freybourg " from Fribourg region

Swiss alp watercolor " Oberhafsle " from Bern alp region

Framed sketch by Swedish artist Harriet Rosander de Tourtchaninoff (1912-1965), likely created in the 1940s. This artwork is a study of the female form, where Rosander de Tourtchanin...

An original wallpaper strike off from England in the 1930’s has recently been framed. The new frame is angular and ebonized with a silver gilt trim and new protective glass. The mat ...

This artwork is a finely executed ink drawing with wash, possibly from the late 18th or early 19th century, bearing an inscription that reads, "The letter killeth but the spirit give...

A beautiful piece from a larger collection of framed 20th century show horse drawings by Royal Academy artist Leslie Charlotte Benenson (1941-2018). A pastel study of exceptional qua...

Pointillist composition by Dora Maar. Signed in ink in the lower right corner. Authenticity stamp of the auction that took place in 1998 in Paris. Black ink on cream white paper. 20...

Sketch of the futurist poster "Day of two crosses, 16th April 1939, XVII", mixed technique of pastel and water-color, for an Italian campaign against tuberculosis, to inform people a...

Spanish classical bedroom indoor home scene. Original watercolor, ink and gouache drawing on vellum paper, Project for a home decoration. Cabinet maker archives stamp at the bottom p...

Pencil drawing by Riccardo Cavigioli in the early 1920s depicting a two-seat biplane airplane for reconnaissance, probably a Fokker, armed with twin Spandau’s 7.92 mm. Aircraft produ...

Kids Playing Ghost Wall Art Pencil on Paper Brown Wash Decorative object framed. The Original Artist: Richard Westall / Title: A Ghost, engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti (1765-1810), pub. by T. Simpson, 1791A Ghost, engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti (1765-1810), pub. by T. Simpson, 1791, (attaching a colored picture ) . other known artwork Building with a Turret 1790 and many portraits that he was known for. Over the Centuries and the decades, many artists recreated the Artwork and then later copies were made of them. THE ARTWORK WE ARE OFFERING IS NOT A STIPPLE PRINT...

This Italian lithograph depicts the town hall palace in Sienna, Tuscany, the center of Venice, Italy. More formally known as “Palazzo Publico Sienna”,...

Experience the refined artistry of David Nobaru with 'Biomorphic Drawing 0001,' a captivating ink-on-paper artwork that showcases Nobaru's distinctive approach to biomorphic design. ...

Italian Midcentury Large Drawing: Nude Man, Pencil and Charcoal. 1960s: Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia. It is not framed so it can be shipped standard parcel .

Laurence Setton Pastel signed and dated 1989 The Swimmer. Measures: 20" by 67" long. sight 10" by 57" long.