Drawing on Style – Four Decades of Elegance, Gallery 8, 8 Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1, 11th – 16th September 2014
René Bouché (1905 – 1963)
Original Cover Illustration Commissioned for British Vogue
1953, November Issue, Watercolour on Paper, signed
56 x 46 cms
£10,000
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Leading specialists in fashion illustration GRAY M.C.A are holding an exciting selling exhibition of original fashion illustrations from Post War 1940s through to the 1970s.
Christian Dior (1905 – 1957)
Original Fashion Drawing
‘Satin Blanc’
Inscribed
Pen & Ink on Cream Lucien Lelong Headed Paper
28 x 22 cms
£5,500
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There will be forty plus original works by some of the leading illustrators from Britain, America and Europe, including René Bouché, René Gruau, Dior and Barbara Hulanicki. Prices will range from £300 to £3,000. These really are delightful original works and the artists are sadly rather under-recognised; a fact which fortunately this exhibition seeks to put right. They are wonderful things to live with in your own homes as they conjure up style, glamour and period and suit all types of interior.
Brian Stonehouse M.B.E. (1918 – 1998)
Original Working Fashion Illustration for US Magazine
Cow Girl
C1970’s, Charcoal, signed & inscribed
64 x 46 cms
£2,500
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René Gruau (1909 – 2004)
Original Fashion Illustration
C1960’s, Ink, signed
50 x 64 cms
£6,000
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Thursday, September 11 – 10am – 8pm
Friday, September 12 – 10am – 6.30pm
Saturday, September 13 – 10am – 6.30pm
Sunday, September 14 – 10am – 6.30pm
Monday, September 15 – 10am – 6.30pm
Tuesday, September 16 – 10am – 6.30pm
Tim Forrest's E & A 