Exceptional Original Theatre Costume Design by Léon Bakst, 1905-1910

Henri Pfeiffer joined the Bauhaus at the age of 17 where he became a student of Paul Klee. He created many abstract works with a renewed vision of the use and perception of colors. V...

Exceptional painting (mixed techniques on canvas mounted on cardboard) "Pirogue" by Alexander Evgenevich Iacovleff (1887-1938); signed, situated a...

Superb watercolor by René Gruau (1909-2004). Ink, watercolor and mixed media on paper. Signed lower right. Origin: Private collection, Paris. Given by the artist to the previous pr...

André Margat is a French artist widely known for his representations of animals. He is a member of the 'Groupe des Douze,' an association of artists created in 1932 with the aim of presenting French animal art...

Exceptional oil painting on masonite by Raphael Delorme (1885-1962) representing Venus with doves on a beautiful garden landscape background. Signed at the bottom. A certificate by...

Original watercolor by Boris Lacroix (1902-1984) representing architecture elements, a boat and the seaside. Wall paper design from the Art Deco p...

Susanne Earls Carr (American, XX-XXI), Costume Design Sketches, tempera on paper, depicting costumes from the "Everyman," "Joan of Arc," and "The...

Charles Betout was the principal costume designer for the Comedie-Francaise in Paris for twenty years until his death in 1939. This is costume was designed for the 1926 production of...

Final costume design drawing by Jose Varona for the New York City Opera's 1967 production of Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel). This design is for the title character. The drawing is ink, watercolor and gouache. Two other designs for this opera are in the collection of the McNay Museum in San Antonio, TX. Sight measurement is 19 1/4 x 14 1/8 inches. Jose Varona American was born 1930 in Argentina. He began his art career in the 1950's and later became a renowned international costume designer mostly with opera and dance productions. He moved the the United States in 1962. He designed costumes for Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland...

A mixed media on board from the 1960's by American Artist Agnes Sims "Agi" Sims is known for paintings and sculptures inspired by prehistoric rock art of New Mexico. Born in Devon, Pennsylvania, Sims attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. She managed a traveling marionette theater before establishing herself as a textile and needlework designer in Philadelphia. After a visit to New Mexico in 1938, Sims returned to Philadelphia, packed her belongings, and returned to make Santa Fe her permanent home. She opened a classical record store in an eighteenth-century farmhouse on Canyon Road, but the shortage of shellac during the War put her out of business. Sims then became a building contractor (skills taught her by her contractor father), purchasing and renovating historic houses around Santa Fe. She later bought a nineteenth-century house with acreage on Canyon Road and built a compound including a house for herself and one for her long-time partner, Mary Louise Aswell, the fiction editor at Harper's Bazaar who had brought writers such as Eurdora Welty and Truman Capote to the public's attention. Shortly after her arrival, a friend introduced Sims to the Galisteo Basin south of Santa Fe which was dotted with the ruins of prehistoric Indian Pueblos, and home to tens of thousands of ancient petroglyphs. The rock art captivated Sims and became her primary inspiration for the rest of her career. Over the next decade she recorded 3000 petroglyphs in drawings and thousands more in photographs. In 1949 she received a grant from the American Philosophical Society to further her research, and in 1950 she published a portfolio of selected rock at drawings in her monograph, San Cristobal Petroglyphs. Most of Sims paintings and sculptures were inspired by petroglyphs, but unlike her documentary drawings they never were literal copies. Rather she adopted and adapted the two-dimensional representations of people and animal into an art that fit comfortably into the larger world of mid-century modernism. She used simple, idiosyncratic figures to create her own symbolism, the original meanings of the ancient art being mostly lost to the past. Sims worked in a wide array of media. Her oil paintings on canvas often were mixed with an earthen medium which gave them a rough, stone-like texture. She developed a batik-like resist process for painting on cloth, and used it to produce large, un-stretched wall hangings. She used this technique to produce an architectural frieze 3.5 feet high and almost 150 feet long which still adorns the Century Bank lobby in downtown Santa Fe. Sims was a prolific sculptor, working in wood, stone, bronze, terracotta, fiberglass, and polyester. Sims was given one-woman shows at the Brooklyn Museum, U.S. Embassy in London, Folger Library, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, McNay Art Institute in San Antonio, Texas, and the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe. She also showed her work at the gallery she owned on Canyon Road. At times, she rented studio space in her gallery building to local artisans, hoping to spark a revival of early New Mexico...

The painting depicts a man sitting in a theatre, watching a horror drama. The artist has incorporated several skulls depicting the atmosphere of the play. The author of the work is J...

Original oil on canvas painting "The Back Porch" by listed artist Robert Tyler Lee. Robert Tyler Lee was an Emmy award nominated art director. Also a set decorator painter and scu...