Tag: illustration

Le chrysanthème, 1923-1930

Armand Vallée :: Le chrysanthème: [un défet du] “Sourire”. Dessinateurs et humoristes. Armand Vallée [défets d’illustrations de périodiques], 1923-1930. | src BnF

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

The Zone, 1882–1883

Georges Seurat :: The Zone (Outside the City Walls), 1882–83. Black ‘Conté’ crayon on cream laid paper. Seurat created the majority of his drawings with a greasy, medium-hard black crayon called Conté on thick Michallet paper with a pronounced texture. | src Chicago Art Institute