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Oliver Messel

Portrait of a Young Man Oil Painting Celebrated 20th Century Artist
By Oliver Messel
Located in London, GB
Oliver Messel 1904 - 1978 Portrait of a Young Man Oil on canvas, signed and dated 'Oliver Messel
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20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Slim Aarons Sunbathing In Barbados
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Oliver Messel, Barbados, April 1976. Her family owned Haywood's Plantation. The entire Slim Aarons
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1970s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

Sunbathing In Barbados Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Haywood sunbathing on a lilo in a swimming pool designed by English artist Oliver Messel, Barbados, April
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sunbathing In Barbados Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Haywood sunbathing on a lilo in a swimming pool designed by English artist Oliver Messel, Barbados, April
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

'Sunbathing In Barbados' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
sunbathing on a lilo in a swimming pool designed by English artist Oliver Messel, Barbados, April 1976. Her
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color

Antique Flemish Painted Polychrome Corner Cabinet Christ Nativity Magi 1760
Located in Portland, OR
& costume designer Oliver Messel (1904-1978). He famously designed the Tony Award winning sets for Truman
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Antique 1760s Dutch Baroque Corner Cupboards

Materials

Wood, Paint

Original Suddenly Last Summer vintage movie poster, Elizabeth Taylor, US 1-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
. • Produced by Sam Spiegel. • Production designer: Oliver Messel. • A Columbia Pictures Release. A wealthy
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1960s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Offset

GUY RODDON (1919-2006) French Cafe Street Scene ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING signed
Located in Cirencester, GB
before transferring to the Camouflage Unit, which included Frederick Gore, Oliver Messel, Roland Penrose
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sunbathing In Barbados
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
English artist Oliver Messel, Barbados, April 1976. Her family owned Haywood's Plantation. Slim Aarons
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing In Barbados' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
designed by English artist Oliver Messel, Barbados, April 1976. Her family owned Haywood's Plantation. 40
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sunbathing in Barbados
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oliver Messel, Barbados, April 1976. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide
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1970s American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Dapper Lord Snowdon Photo Suit & Tie
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
commissions were theatrical portraits, often with recommendations from his uncle Oliver Messel, and "society
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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Portrait Study By Oliver Messel
By Oliver Messel
A Charcoal Portrait Study Of A Man By Stage Designer Oliver Messel
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1950s Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Set Design By Oliver Messel For The Queen Of Spades
By Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel
A Stunning Scenic Design By Oliver Messel For The 1949 Film "The Queen Of Spades".
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1940s Other Art Style Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk, Charcoal, Paper, Watercolor

Costume Design By Oliver Messel For The Marriage Of Figaro
By Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel
A Costume Design By Oliver Messel For A Production Of The Marriage Of Figaro At The Metropolitan
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1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

By Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel
A Sketch By Oliver Messel For The Banqueting Scene In Gabriel Pascal's 1954 Film Ceasar And
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1950s Other Art Style Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Wax Crayon

A Pair of Gilt Framed Oliver Messel Inspired Oil
By Riseborough
Located in New York, NY
A pair of gilt framed Oliver Messel inspired oil on board paintings depicting “Indians” with draped
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Vintage 1950s American Paintings

Materials

Board

Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Dapper Lord Snowdon Photo Suit & Tie
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
commissions were theatrical portraits, often with recommendations from his uncle Oliver Messel, and "society
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Dancer - 20th Century British painting by Oliver Messel
By Oliver Messel
Located in London, GB
OLIVER MESSEL (1904-1978) Group of six paintings: Dancer The Medium Ceasar and Cleopatra Costume
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Watercolor

Oliver Messel - Costume Design for Vivian Leigh as Cleopatra - 1945
By Oliver Messel
Located in London, GB
OLIVER MESSEL (1904-1978) Costume Design for Vivian Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra - 1945 Signed
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1940s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Theatrical Lady in Costume by Sir Oliver Messel
By Oliver Messel
Located in Bristol, CT
Original Oliver Messel (1904-1978) pencil signed (LR) watercolour with gouache highlights depicting
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Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Figaro - 1950s British Costume Design for Opera by Oliver Messel
By Oliver Messel
Located in London, GB
OLIVER MESSEL (1904-1978) Figaro – The Barber of Seville, 1954 Signed l.r.: Messel Watercolour
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1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

"Juliet's Bedroom" Watercolour & Gouache 1936 MESSEL, Oliver
By Oliver Messel
Located in Bristol, CT
Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (13 January 1904 – 13 July 1978) was an English artist and one of
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

The Gentleman - Lithograph by Marcel Vertès - 1930s
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Roma, IT
costume designer. In 1940, he had designed the costumes for The Thief of Bagdad together with Oliver
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1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Fantastic Giant Palm Tree Floor Lamp
Located in Southfield, MI
bulb lighting built into the canopy. Reminiscent of designs by Sirmos, Syrie Maugham, Oliver Messel and
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Vintage 1970s Italian Floor Lamps

Materials

Gold, Vermeil, Silver

Fantastic Giant Palm Tree Floor Lamp
Fantastic Giant Palm Tree Floor Lamp
H 88 in W 52 in D 7.5 in
Oliver Messel Costume Design For The Ballet Sleeping Beauty
By Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel
A Costume Design By Oliver Messel For A Production Of Sleeping Beauty At The Royal Ballet In 1946.
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1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Carbon Pencil, Paper, Watercolor

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Firelight, 1893
By Frank Weston Benson
Located in New York, NY
Renowned portraitist Frank West Benson paints a young woman by the fireplace reclining in a chair in his artwork entitled, “Firelight.”
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Marguerite Folin, Gerald Brockhurst
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in London, GB
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst 1890 – 1978 Portrait of Marguerite Folin Oil on panel, signed lower right Image size: 18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 34.3 cm) Original frame The sitter for this po...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Man with Trousers
By Arthur Tress
Located in London, GB
Silver gelatin print, 19cm x 19cm (print size), (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed, but contained within archive quality mount. Tress is one of the most renowned and innovative photo...
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1980s Surrealist Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

!8th century Irish or English portrait of a woman with Ermin, blue dressing lace
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful 18th century Irish or English portrait, attributed to the Irish painter Nathaniel Hone. Nathaniel Hone was born in Dublin but by 1748 had settled in London. Originally a m...
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1780s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

English Country House Bar Cabinet
Located in Westwood, NJ
A very finely carved flame mahogany veneered architectural bar cabinet of the Althorp House façade, the upper section with a gabled brass galleried roof with 8 dormers, with a Spence...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George II Dry Bars

Materials

Wood

English Country House Bar Cabinet
English Country House Bar Cabinet
H 82.25 in W 62.75 in D 22.75 in
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...
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1970s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Five Olympic Rowers", Monumental 1930s Painting of Nude Male Oarsmen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most stunning and monumental depictions of male nude figures -- and male athletes -- ever accomplished in the Modern era, this large painting shows five nude rowers, relax...
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paint

Carrara Marble Double Janus Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A spectacular, hand-carved Carrara marble double Janus sculpture. Note: green marble showing in some detail images is from a pedestal and not part of the sculpture.
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Early 1800s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Carrara Marble Double Janus Sculpture
Carrara Marble Double Janus Sculpture
H 17.5 in W 11.25 in D 10 in
Untitled (Green and Purple Circle)
By Julian Stanczak
Located in Austin, TX
Acrylic on canvas. Signed verso. 36.5 x 36 in. 42.75 x 42.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple tray frame with an heirloom white finish. Provenance Private Collection, C...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Up the Valley"
By Daniel Garber
Located in Lambertville, NJ
In an original Harer frame. Illustrated in "Daniel Garber Catalogue Raisonne" Vol. II, pg. 271, and in book titled "Blue Chips", pg. 33 Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Fox Trot" Wayman Adams, circa 1915 New Orleans Figures Dancing American Scene
By Wayman Adams
Located in New York, NY
Wayman Adams Fox Trot, circa 1915 Signed upper left; titled on the reverse Oil on board 15 1/2 x 12 inches Adams was born on a farm in rural Indiana near Muncie. His father, a hors...
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1910s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

19th Century Regency Weighted Salver Stand
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century Regency weighted salver stand having figured mahogany veneers, beaded mouldings, and simple feet. The shaped rectangular moulded back above a rectangular lead-loaded bas...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Magazine Racks and Stands

Materials

Mahogany

19th Century Regency Weighted Salver Stand
19th Century Regency Weighted Salver Stand
H 17.25 in W 8.25 in D 4.75 in
Looking Into the Past
Located in Atlanta, GA
For sculptor/ painter/ photographer Roberto Santo, art became a way of life when, at age16, he embarked upon an apprenticeship with Bob Peak, the celebrated illustrator… and his fath...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Looking Into the Past
Looking Into the Past
H 59.06 in W 47.25 in D 59.06 in
Pomme bouche, Claude Lalanne, Design, Art, Apple, Bronze, Gold, Fruits, Lips
By Claude Lalanne
Located in Geneva, CH
CLAUDE LALANNE (1925-2019) Pomme Bouche circa 1975 Ed. 250 pcs Bronze with a golden patina 13.5 x 12 x 11.5 cm Monogrammed, signed and numbered underside : CL, Lalanne, 177/250 Certi...
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1970s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Gold Leaf

La Carmencita by John Singer Sargent
By John Singer Sargent
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Singer Sargent 1856-1925 American Stamped by artist's estate (en verso) Oil on canvas John Singer Sargent, widely regarded as one of history's most distinguished portraitists...
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19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fabergé Silver Service
By Fabergé
Located in New Orleans, LA
This extraordinary 128-piece service by Fabergé is a rare treasure in more ways than one. Enclosed in its original oak chest, the exquisite service remains complete and in pristine c...
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Antique 19th Century Russian Sterling Silver

Materials

Silver

Fabergé Silver Service
Fabergé Silver Service
H 10.25 in W 20.75 in D 16.38 in
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How Much is a Oliver Messel?

A oliver messel can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $2,498, while the lowest priced sells for $1,190 and the highest can go for as much as $3,350.