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/
REDECORATING THE MERTZESAPARTMENT, Episode 74, S3, 11.23.53
When the Ricardos offer to redecorate the Mertzes’ apartment, Fred insists they are not to touch his favorite chair, and the famous rickety lamp behind it. The painting on the wall is entitled “Roses with a Blue Tit by a Stream” by artist, Jean Baptiste Claude Robie
Here is an Ebay link:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Jean-Baptiste-Robie-Bouquet-Of-Roses-Print-Bird-Bee-Floral-Delight-/322361747845
On the wall in the Ricardo’s room in Lucerne there is a framed Medieval print from the Codex_Manesse of Walther von Klingen
Walther von Klingen AKA: “Count Walter III of Altenklingen”
Birthdate: circa 1220
Birthplace: Altenklingen, Thurgau, Switzerland
Death: Died March 1, 1286 in Altenklingen, Thurgau, Switzerland
He was a Minstrel and author of songs in the Codex. The Codex Manesse, is a medieval songbook, the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illustrated between ca. 1304 when the main part was completed, and ca. 1340 with the addenda.The codex was produced in Zürich, for the Manesse family.
The manuscript is “the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries;” its 137 miniatures are a series of “portraits” depicting each poet. ( Source Wikipedia)
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An ornate framed print of The Feast (or Festival) of Love by Jean-Antoine Watteau is seen in the set of the Monte Carlo hotel on I Love Lucy.
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