Spiral Sketchbooks collection
April 2025 acquisition Collection includes six Brudno spiral bound sketchbooks with study’s for completed and many unknown paintings mostly on…
Salome (two versions)
Two known versions of Salome executed by Grell Dancing version recently sold at 1stdibs.com asking price was $18,000 c1930’s oil…
Indian Phantasy
c1930 design for a movie palace in Chicago This drawing once hung in Grell’s Downers Grove (IL) summer home where…
The Spirit of Light
Versions of The Spirit of Light (Apollo) were commissioned inside at least four different locations including the Chicago Theatre (1933),…
New Discovery Nov 2023
November 22, 2023 “Ever since I was a little girl, I have been familiar with the name of Louis Grell. …
Four Toucans
A Grell mural study presumably for a ceiling or dome with tropical Toucan birdlike figures drawn into all four corners….
Pastel Friedl
portrait of the artists’ wife, Friedl graphite & gouache on paper, signed l/r “LOUIS GRELL 1928”
Lady with a Pearl Necklace
Heart of Hair – black and white photo of a portrait bust of an unknown young lady, possibly a student…
NEW DISCOVERY Feb 2024
Grell utilized similar scenes and characters in different works. This European winter scene is similar to The Midnight Carol (Charol) (untitled,…
Abduction of Europa, Congress Hotel Chicago, IL
One of three walls designed and painted by Grell for the Pompeian Room inside the Congress Hotel Chicago, IL that…
Skinny Old Man
Conserved at the Gerald Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, NE This portrait is of the man who cleaned the artists…
Storm and Wind
watercolor previously part of the Ruth Thomy Santa Fe collection, previous title Windy Walk sketch – 8.75″ x 11.5″ sketch…
