Category: illustration, dessin, drawing, etching, drypoint, aquatint, gouache, watercolor, Zeichnung, Entwurf, disegno, illustrazione

Adrian costume design, 1925

An Adrian costume design for Myrna Loy for What Price Beauty? (1925)
Pathé Exchange, 1925. Pencil and gouache on illustration board, signed at lower right, (“Adrian”), and inscribed on lower left: “Birthday Greeting / Myrna Loy.” The drawing, which depicts a blonde Myrna Loy in a sleek black gown with low gold sash, was executed for the Natacha Rambova-written and produced silent. This was one of the earliest film appearances of Myrna Loy, who played an exotic vamp, and among the earlier films for which Adrian designed costumes. | src Bonhams

Kyōsai’s One Hundred Demons

Artist: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (1831-1889)
Title: Kyōsai hyakki gadan 暁斎百鬼画談 (1889 and 1890 editions)
Publishers: Inokuchi Matsunosuke and Kaishinrō
Medium: Woodblock printed book (gajōsō / orihon, accordion-style binding), ink and color on paper.
image source: The Met and The Arthur Tress Collection at Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
image on top from this edition: Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons. Painted by Kawanabe Tōiku Sensei. August, Meiji 23 (1890)

Hyakki Gadan (1889)

Artist: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (1831-1889)
Title: Kyōsai hyakki gadan 暁斎百鬼画談 (1889)
Publisher: Inokuchi Matsunosuke 井口松之助
Medium: Woodblock printed book (gajōsō / orihon, accordion-style binding), ink and color on paper.
image source: The Met and The Arthur Tress Collection at Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries