Drawings on Sale

Marguerite Acarin AKAROVA (1904-1999) watercolor on paper signed lower left AKAROVA Sight size: 6.7 in. (17 cm.) x 8.85 in. (22.5 cm.) Size with frame 15.74 in. (40 cm.) x 12....

Vintage Framed Pen Drawn Cartoon by "Ole Olsen" from comedians "Olsen & Johnson". $ This original pen-drawn cartoon depicts a crowd in front of a man on a desk. It measures 17 inch...

Early 20th century Japanese black and white paper print of drawings of 18th century Japanese screen. This black and white paper print ...

Antique Charcoal Nude Study Drawing. Newly framed and museum mounted. Part of a collection of 7. Six nude drawings, and one portrait. (Please see ot...

Antique Charcoal Nude Study Drawing. Newly framed and museum mounted. Part of a collection of 6. Five nude drawings, and one portrait. (Please see o...

Larger than usual. Antique Charcoal Nude Study Drawing. Newly framed and museum mounted. Part of a collection of 6. Five nude drawings, and one port...

Larger than usual. Antique Charcoal Nude Study Drawing. Newly framed and museum mounted. Part of a collection of 6. Five nude drawings, and one port...

Larger than usual. Antique Charcoal Nude Study Drawing. Newly framed and museum mounted. Part of a collection of 6. Five nude drawings, and one port...

Antique Charcoal Nude Study Drawing. Newly framed and museum mounted. Part of a collection of 6. Five nude drawings, and one portrait. (Please see o...

Set of 4 paintings (Engravings) of 20th Century Greek vases 39cm x 36cm perfect condition, new.

Original monochrome drawing from 1963 to be approached as a walk into a mental landscape. The painter's signature does not allow us to identify him. There is in this work a non-figur...

Antique Pencil Portrait Drawing of a Seated Man, Framed, 19th C Measures - 19"h x 15"w x 2"d

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...

An antique French etching by Jean Charles Millet offers evening cityscape scene with river, bridge and structures, artist signed as photographed...

Framed Print, Copy after Corot French Impressionist La Sepia Landscape, 20th C Measures - 23"h x 28"w x 1"d

Italian Technical design school of mechanics and machine design by G.colombo Drawing created by the arts and crafts encouragement society (SIAM), founded in 1838. This specifically c...

Vintage Wooden Frame Abstract Nature Drawing. Moose in Lake Drawing. Possibly Pastel. Dimensions. 26 1/2 W ; 1/2 D ; 21 H

Vintage Abstract Figure Drawing on Paper with Plastic Covering Possibly Charcoal or Pastel Dimensions. 16 W ; 1/4 D ; 20 H

Vintage Abstract Nude Woman Figure Drawing on Board Possibly Pastel Retro broad strokes unique unsigned artwork handmade Dimensions. 18 W ; 0.25 D ; 24 H

Early 19th century French botanical crayon & aquarelle in antique oak frame. Label en verso: Ecole de Mulhouse, Etude de fenouil, Crayo...

Drawing is framed, signed and dated.

Władysław Zakrzewski - In the years 1922-1924 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under the supervision of Władysław Jarocki and Józef Pankiewicz, and in the years 1926-...

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, ...

Åke Holm, Bible motif, 1970s Linocut Number 127/250 The work is signed by the artist and individually numbered (pencil) Work dimensions 41/29 Framed work Åke Holm (1900-1980) was an...

Framed, signed and dated.

Åke Holm, Bible motif, 1970s Linocut Work signed by the artist (pencil) Work dimensions 32/42 Framed work Åke Holm (1900-1980) was an artist and ceramicist living in Hoganas, Sweden...

Antique, original nautical blueprint drawings, a pair. Original, professional frames. 27"×13" is the larger one. 26×11.5 is the smaller one. Used to build smaller scale versions of t...

Åke Holm, Bible motif, 1970s Linocut Number 164/200 The work is signed by the artist and individually numbered (pencil) Work dimensions 27/34 Framed work Åke Holm (1900-1980) was an...

Åke Holm, Bible motif, 1970s Linocut Number 13/200 The work is signed by the artist and individually numbered (pencil) Work dimensions 27/34 Framed work Åke Holm (1900-1980) was an ...

It is not easy to find this kind of hand drawed and hand-made French wallpaper in good conditions. The shining turquoise and the scenes of the games of the characters and jugglers i...

Framed, dated and signed.

Unknown Academy Student 19th C Drawing, pencil on paper.

Framed, signed and dated.

Superb lithograph under frame on the theme of Christianity depicting a nun in Carmelite dress, haloed, holding in her hands a crucified Christ and a bouquet of white and golden roses. A rosary is also visible on the left. The portrait is framed by two columns and an arch. We read the inscriptions: "Je veux passer mon ciel à faire du bien sur la Terre" ("I want to spend my heaven doing good on Earth") and "Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus" ("Saint Thérèse...

Superb pair of aquatints representing the life of an Iberian village in the Balearic region. Very nice performance and creation from the 50s/60s. It is rare to find a pair of this si...

A playful neoclassical drawing of a woman with children framed by the Medici Society in London. Presented in a professional gilt wood frame. Measures:...

19th C French Drawing of a Handsome Monarchie de Juillet Cadet, Paris, 1833 Apparently Unsigned, Not examined out of the frame. A well drawn oval portrait of a handsome French c...

Magnificent album of 25 plates and 60 sketches, taken on the northern front, with attestation from the commanders of the camps where they were taken, enhanced with watercolor and retouched with wash. This beautiful album was printed in 250 copies on bubble wrap, it bears the number 35. The author is none other than Louis Dauphin...

John Lennon & Yoko Ono Seals Art Poster Print. Hardware for hanging. Seascape / Nautical drawing. Taken from the personal sketchbook of John Lennon.  

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...

18th Century French Drawing 18TH CENTURY FRENCH DRAWING PORTRAIT OF A LADY FROM THE 18TH CENTURY DONE IN PASTEL THE FRAME IS BACK IN GOLDEN WOOD ...

Sublime illumination from the end of the 18th century. It is a sonnet which was composed, drawn and written by an elderly person, since his dedication mentions his seventy-fifth year, precisely dated by the author's care in 1771. Dimensions: H: 54 x W: 42cm The frame which is original has been fully restored, then fully gilded with gold leaf, presenting a double patina. We would like to thank the HB workshop and Henda Bayoudh for the care taken in this exceptional work which has spanned more than two centuries. The sonnet is certainly the most widely used fixed form of poetry. The recipes for the sonnet vary from time to time and each poet tries to add his own personal touch. Made up of fourteen lines, originally from the Decasyllables, then especially from the Alexandrines, his lines are divided into three distinct stanzas, two quatrains followed by a sizain, separated into two tercets. Here our eyes are amazed at the agility of this elderly man, who, guided by Love, gratitude and benevolence, was able to express his gratitude, through the different arts he mastered, writing and drawing. It is a thanksgiving, not intended directly for God but for one of his disciples, who on this earth was for him like the “Savior”. We will notice the quality and the care brought to the work, the symbolism is also very present and reveals the devotion of the artist. In the lower part of the work, the presence of the dog, the dog is the animal of Ahura Mazda...

Original Garry Trudeau Comic Strip Drawing from 1973. Inscribed and signed top border. Framed and matted.

Lucio Fontana. "Concepto spaziale", 1965. China ink on paper. Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm. With certificate. This is a preparatory work that is re...

Old engraving from the 17th century: Nicolas Paussin 1677 Large seventeenth century engraving dated 1677. With very decorative back frame total measures: 91x71 cm and only the engra...

Pair of silhouettes portrays the 19th century Lady and Gentleman With his Hat. This pair has been well taken care of and has minor wear consistent with the age. Wall art Silhouette of a Lady and a Gentleman framed in possible hand carved pine wood or fruitwood Frame. Charming elegant profile depicts high status man at ease with himself ensured his place in hierarchy looking sharp and same goes for the Lady holding what appears to be a document. The subjects are dapperly dressed with his top hat in his hand, trimmed haircut, leather boots and the lady with a nice Hairdo and an elaborate dress. An original continental French or British silhouette in a period fruitwood light color frames and are beveled. Antique dealer Los Angeles West Hollywood La Cienega Melrose Ave. The watercolor and paper cut silhouettes...

Rare Poster. John Lennon Kite Poster 22'' x 28'' Unframed in Good Condition.

Unknown academy student 19th c drawing, pencil on paper, framed, signed and dated.

Superb framed lithograph representing a swimming pool surrounded by colonnades with a couple of dolphins leaping out of the water in the background. We find in the foreground 2 sharks revolving around an old car (a Bugatti Type 57...

Framed, signed and dated.

This vintage poster comes from European Advertising throughout the years of 1920. 1930, and 1940. Pictured above is a woman surrounded by a bunch of furry friends.

Sandu Darie Laver Cuban pen ink graphite drawing, COA, Circa 1955. Offered for sale is a 1950s abstract pen, ink, and graphite drawing on paper by Romanian-born artist Sandu Darie Laver (Romania, 1908-Cuba, 1991). This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed and dated Pedro de Oraa...

Jörgen Fogelqvist, Composition Color lithography Number 255/260 This work is signed by the artist and has an individual number (pencil) Working dimensions 66/86 The work is fra...

John F. Kennedy Portrait - original drawing in pencil and charcoal on paper, realized by Detlef Henze, hand-signed, dated December 25, 1963. Provenance. Private collection Charcoal...

Vide Jansson, Träsnitt Graphics Work with the artist's signature and title (in pencil) Working dimensions 53/73 The work is framed Vide Jansson was born in 1924, died in 2007. He was a Swedish graphic artist, painter and sculptor. Jansson studied at the Otte Sköld painting school in Stockholm. He continued his education in Spain and France. In 1958 he founded Grödingegruppen, which included himself, Rune Pettersson and Nalle Werner...

Vintage print dating back to the seventies, Italian production. The print has a geometric design made with bright colors. The frame is in white wood, the print is protected by a tr...

Lis Zwick, Maskot, 1996 Color lithography The number 152/400 Work signed by the artist, title and individual number (in pencil) Working dimensions 36/44 This work is framed Lis Zwick was born in 1942 in Copenhagen, died in 2020. She was a Danish-Swedish artist. In 1959, she worked as an illustrator at the Harlang & Toksvig advertising agency, and then studied at the School of Graphic Arts in Copenhagen. From 1962 to 1963, she spent six months in the Drakabygget art collective in Örkelljunga, where she was tutored by artists Hardy Strid...

Drawing framed, dated and signed.