Italian Drawings

Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd.: An Exhibition of Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, New York & London, 2004, at Adam Williams Fine Art, New York, 4 - 28 May 2004, and Baroni's London Gallery, 1...

Set of watercolor hand-painted botanical prints most likely created in the mid to late 1700s. Some of the descriptions are written in Latin and Greek and accompany absolutely stunnin...

original sculpture panel from the 1980s drawing by marta marzotto , probably made in high relief in wood or on a compact support overall size 60 x 60 cm, worked panel 40 x 40 cm ...

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...

Pencil drawing depicting a single-seat biplane airplane fighter Hanriot HD 1, by Riccardo Cavigioli. Measure with frame cm 49 x 31 - inch19.3 x 11.8. Riccardo Cavigioli was born in ...

Venetian Capriccio, after Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793) Unsigned, with a label from Wandenberg Freres (Paris) affixed to the back of the mat.

Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Work oil on canvas (applied on board, see photo) depicting bucolic landscape with characters and city in the background of good pictorial ...

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...

Pair of Architectural Etchings by Giovanni Piranesi. One presents a grand panoramic view of St. Peter's Basilica, with Bernini's sweeping colonn...

Original 1952 Car Design Drawing by Gio Ponti for Touring Carrozzeria, Milan A rare fusion of automotive innovation and Italian design mastery, this original 1952 concept drawing was...

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...

2.nd Half of the 18th cenutury, hand-colored The pictures are showing dance scenes based on Etrukian vase painting.

The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art of Washington: Tiepolo, Canaletto, Sargent, Whistler, by Andrew Robison. Publ...

This fantastic 1920s Academic Study Drawing of a Male Nude Model by Luigi Lobito was done in Italy 1927. It is framed. A unique piece which is a great eye-catcher for your antique, ...

Italian lead pencil drawing, entourage of Ciro Ferri, depicting an offering scene in front of a temple, in the manner of the antiquity. Measurements: 7.8/5.9 inches ...

Italian painting from 20th century. Oil painting on canvas depicting an impressionist seascape of particular pictorial quality and pleasant decor. Wooden frame with fabric passe-part...

Architectural drawing in red pencil on paper, depicting a design for a tabernacle gate with the words "Ave Maria" in the center, crowned with floral motifs and kneeling angels. The w...

Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Oil painting on board depicting impressionist landscape signed at the bottom left Carlo Musso (1907-1968), without authentic. Framework fo...

A rare and fascinating group of three drawings, beautifully presented together in modern frames with UV-protective glass and surrounded by high-quality black pasteboard mounts. This ...

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...

Mid-Century Modern Italian abstract painting on paper with wooden structure from 1970 The paper of the paint shows little signs of wear cons...

This large original drawing from 1952 highlights the creative brilliance of Gio Ponti, one of the most important figures in 20th-century design and architecture. Ponti’s hand is imme...

Italian painting, 20th century. Oil painting on cardboard depicting a wooded landscape with architectural elements on the background of good pictorial quality. Wooden frame with passe-partout and beautifully decorated protective glass. Small size painting...

A brilliant example of Stile Littorio or Italian Rationalist design promulgated by Mussolini in 1930s Italy, this original drawing by Armando Bernabiti depicts his proposal for a str...

This pair of Italian academic charcoal drawings captures the grace and disciplined form of classical male nudes. One portrays an artist's model, his pose reflective and studied, whil...

Remarkable artwork by Ugo La Pietra. Wood frame and handwritten signature on the front.

Italian Bolognese School, Late 17th Century Study of a Kneeling Young Man Red chalk (sanguine) on paper, circa 1680 This expressive sanguine drawing depicts a kneeling young man, r...

Italian painting dated 1977. Oil painting on canvas depicting a country view in the Impressionist style. Beautiful and pleasant framework signed and dated in the lower right corner (...

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...

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.

Framed Gio Ponti drawing Accompanied by Gio Ponti Archive certificate attached to verso.

Ugo La Pietra, " Bosco In Citta' " Acrylic on Canvas, 2015 Signed and Dated by Artist on front and rear. Coded and Archived by Ugo La Pietra Archives. Certificate of Authenticity av...

This captivating set of prints features several small black-and-white drawings by various artists. The common thread throughout this collection is the expression of the human figure ...

Stunning Midcentury pen & ink drawing of a dark haired woman with a floral bouquet, dressed in black & restored in its original black frame. A striking image by an unknown a...

Pair of portraits of Italian bandits, oil on panels, gilded frames, circa 1880

This original Gio Ponti sketch, created in the 1950s as a portrait of a girl for a terracotta sculpture, is a rare and captivating piece of design his...

Painting from the series "Trophies," Piero Fornasetti, Italy, 1970, silkscreen on lacquered wood with brass frame, decorative elements inspired by neoclassical motifs, Fornasetti sig...

Veneto, Italy, early 18th century Oil on canvas 20th century frame carved and gilded in pure gold Dimensions: cm W 93 x H 78,5 x D 5.

A wonderfully whimsical concept drawing of two vases. Authentication papers from the Gio Ponti archives provided with drawing.

Pencil and charcoal drawing of a large frieze. In the photos it appears to be two colors because of the reflection of the glass. the wooden frame is lightly lacquered. ref. ST/527 -

Silvio Gambini Italy, 1913 Art Nouveau Iron Gate Drawing on paper Wood Frame Artist Sign below on the right Size drawing: 27.5x39 Frame size: 77.5x61x2.5 cm Silvio Pellico Gamb...

Group of 4 (individual) lithographs of important men of their day. Finely detailed. Framed and matted with bone linen matte. Silver-leafed frames. 21 available.

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

A wonderfully whimsical concept drawing of a vase. Authentication papers from the Gio Ponti archives provided with drawing.

This work likely Italian dates from circa 1680-1700. It relates directly to a 16th century engraving of the same subject after a drawing by Giul...

Suite of 3 framed drawings depicting views of Rome: *The Trajan column *The Vatican *The port of Ripa grande These drawings bear partially faded annotations and an illegible si...

This very fine drawing from the early Baroque period is in Sanguine on laid paper. this Italian drawing in a rich brown-red is framed in a fine old gilded frame...

A Double-sided Drawing: Studies of a Man Holding a Horn Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, and study for an Ecce Homo Black chalk on buff paper 14 3/4″ high x 10 3/8″ wi...

charcoal nude study

Lithograph titled "Sails," created by Michele Cascella in the 1960s. Ø cm 38 h cm 29 including frame Michele Cascella (Ortona, September 7, 1892 - Milan, August 31, 1989) was an im...

Italian modern colored tempera work of art painted signed by G. Maffei, 1970s Abstract painting in tempera, painted with thick brushstroke with various colors, with chromed steel frame. Work signed by G. Maffei, around 1970. Good conditions. Measures in cm 54x4x54cm Beautiful painting, with large brushstrokes and numerous colors. The particularity of blue contrasts perfectly with the frame which makes this work of art even more important and unique. Dating back to the seventies, with this work you will feel like taking a leap...

18th century Italian drawing, "The Theological Virtues" in pen and brow ink, blue washes. By Fidele Fischetti, Naples 1732 - 1792. A good size drawing in an 18th century gilt wood f...

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...

17th century, pair of ink drawings on paper with studies for grotesques, friezes and helmets. Painter of central Italy of the 17th century, signed with monogram “A.M.”. Measurements: cm L 45.5 x H 59.5 x 5.5; cm 22 x 33 / cm L 46.5 x H 59 x 5.5; cm 22.5 x 31.5 The pair of sheets, in good condition, is framed by antique frames in carved and gilded wood. They show some china studies with some studies for different subjects. Specifically, the first sheet represents the design of a frieze of Renaissance taste under which are some studies probably referring to a family coat of arms. Below the center is a monogram “A.M.”. The sheet is also worked on the back in which are drawn some articulated elements of decoration in the style of the Renaissance grotesque...

Series of Six Architectural Drawings Italy, '40 - '50 Signed and dated "P. Sinisi" (between 1948 - 1951) Pencil on paper black frame 67 x 52 x 1.2 cm (with frame) 48 x 33.5 ...

Pencil drawing representing a two-seat biplane for reconnaissance Brandenburg C I produced in Austria by Phonix in 1917, equipped with a Hiero 200 hp engine and armed with twin machi...

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...

This is an exceptional original drawing by renowned Italian Renaissance master Camillo Procaccini (signed lower right with initials), born in Parma in 1561 and active mainly in Mila...

19th Century Antique Religious Painting Antique, neoclassical paintin from the 19th century. It retakes Bernardo Strozzi work "Annunziazione fata dal...

Ugo La Pietra, " Genius Loci' " Acrylic on Canvas, 2018 Signed and Dated by Artist on front and rear. Coded and Archived by Ugo La Pietra Archives. Certificate of Authenticity a...