Profiles in History auction catalog for their December 11th Hollywood Auction 96 lists an original wall art from I Love Lucy. Fans of the show will recognize the landscape that appears on the back wall of the Ricardo’s living room (it replaced the Utrillo print when Lucy got her new furniture). It is a lithograph print by Frank Serratoni. The illustration above is taken from the auction catalog.
More details at the auction site:
https://profilesinhistory.com/auctions/hollywood-auction-96/
Familiar to fans of the early I Love Lucy shows, an ornate framed version of this print was seen on the back wall of the Ricardo’s livingroom. It is by Maurice Utrillo and the title is “La Rue Du Mont Cenis” signed 1922 Maurice Utrillo
There is one currently offered on on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/142524721625
Vintage serigraph print of Maurice Utrillo 1922 as seen in the Rocardo’s living room on I Love Lucy. Click on image above to view to eBay listing. The image size is 18 inches tall x 23 1/2 inches wide.
In the screen capture from the I Love Lucy episode Lucy and the Loving Cup which aired on 7 January 1957, Lucy is wearing the thinly disguised Loving Cup on her head as she travels the subway. On the wall is a Red Cross Disaster Relief poster and an NYC Subway map. Below are pasted in vintage color versions.
The Red Cross Poster was found on eBay at this link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1956-Red-Cross-Poster-On-The-Job-Series-Join-and-Serve-/252978239454
The Subway map looks very like the 1951 version which can be seen at this link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-York-City-1951-Subway-Map-MTA-20×36-/371347257031
And finally a few more colors added:
LUCY VISITS GRAUMAN’S #128 S5, 10.3.55
After Lucy gets her foot caught in the pail of cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, she hides from Ricky over at the Mertz’s hotel room. On the back wall above Fred and Ethel’s beds we see two framed ballerina prints.
They are done by painter Cydney Grossman, entitled, “Between the Acts” on the left and “Curtain Call” on the right.
Ref:
RICKY SELLS THE CAR #131 S5, 10.24.55
When Lucy tries to switch back her train tickets while Fred is sleeping in his hotel room, we now see two different ballerina prints over Fred and Ethel’s beds. They are done by painter Pal Fried.
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/artists/pal-fried-4033
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Fried-Pal-Print-framed-artwork/322376880288
This Maurice Utrillo lithograph print entitled Restaurant Au Mont Cenis (1922) is like the one seen on I Love Lucy in the Ricardo’s livingroom, except it appears to be a smaller sized print. It is offered as an original item from the movie Night of the Living Dead (1968) at http://www.ebay.com/itm/Night-Of-The-Living-Dead-Framed-Maurice-Utrillo-Movie-Prop-Horror-Home-theater-/131957171297
The print on I Love Lucy was 26″ x 21″ and the smaller print image size is usually seen at around 11″ x 14″ unframed.
Details of the print from I Love Lucy in this post:
http://www.50slucy.com/i-love-lucy-prop-utrillo-painting-print.html
Note: There are a couple of other prints of this picture on ebay at present – one has water damage, another one looks darker in color than is usual and is overpriced in comparison with others sold recently. Continue reading Utrilllo Print from Night of the Living Dead 1968 offered on eBay
I Love Lucy fans may recognize these oval framed prints from the early episodes. The pair of framed oval prints by Borghese were recently sold on eBay.
Here is a closer look at the stylish ladies in fancy bonnets.
Seen on ebay this rarely seen NYGS print like the one on I Love Lucy http://www.ebay.com/itm/Maurice-Utrillo-1883-1955-First-Edition-Print-by-NYGS-Well-Framed-Very-French-/252318239542
A framed print of this 1922 scene by French artist Utrillo was usually seen on the back wall of the Ricardo’s livingroom on I Love Lucy. However I spotted it on the bedroom wall in the same ornate frame in at least one episode as seen on the above screen grab.
Typically it is seen on the living room wall.
Here we see a framed print of Georges Braque‘s Still Life With Jug and Lemons seen on the wall on I Love Lucy. I dont recall seeing this print on any of the other episodes. Georges Braque (1882 – 1963) produced hand signed lithographs of this print and this could be one of them. Braque worked closely with Picasso and together they developed the cubist style of painting. The image below is of a lithograph signed by the artist on offer at this link: http://www.masterworksfineart.com/artist/georges-braque/nature-morte-avec-un-pichet-et-citrons-still-life-with-pitcher-and-lemons-c-1950/
[phpbay keywords=”georges Braque” num=”8″ siteid=”1″ category=”550″ sortorder=”BestMatch” templatename=”columns” columns=”4″ paging=”true”]
Framed Cavalry Prints on I Love Lucy
In a previous post we looked at small military prints in the livingroom on I Love Lucy. The pictures on the show are mid-century framed reproductios from an old book on broad sword exercises with some color added. The vintage framed prints are hard to find. However I found that the original book is archived online so you could print out some to frame. Below is a scan of the page showing pictures from the book like those seen above in the screen grab from the show.
Source:
https://books.google.ie/books?id=UfwpAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage
https://archive.org/details/newsystemofbroad00step