art

Style "S". Water lilies, aquatic plants and goldfish for pools and aquariums. 1932.

Egyptian mold for a Heron (a bird associated with the sun, the annual flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife)

2nd - 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic period)

Moonswept (2025)

"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday"

Folio 23v from Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Author: Nizami (present-day Azerbaijan, Ganja, 1141–1209)

Calligrapher: Maulana Azhar

Place: Afghanistan, Herat, ca. 1430

Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

The artist has achieved superb color harmony while still conveying the darkness of the pavilion required by the text. The perfection of such patterns as the tile work, and such details as the trays holding bottles, cups and fruit for the royal pair are characteristic of the supremely high quality of these Herat miniatures.

Alex Ceslas Rzewuski, Erté (Romain de Tirtoff), Lanvin, Woman's Costume Ensemble for Ganna Walska as Juliet, 'Roméo et Juliet' (Headdress and Dress), 1925