ELECTRICITY auction result
ELECTRICITY On January 6, 2026, this watercolor by Louis Grell was auctioned and sold at Ripley Auction, Indianapolis, IN for…
Birth of Electricity
This large painting was purchased by a Chicago artist from the Romano Galleries at Tree Studios artist colony, Chicago, in…
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’s dance
The story of Salome’s beheading involves her dancing for her stepfather, King Herod Antipas, who promised her anything she desired. Prompted by…
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),…
Portrait of the Broadway Actor, Flo Brooks
Florence “Flo” Brooks b1906; New York City Broadway chorus girl, dancer and actor; aka Flo Barrett Flo Brooks performed in…
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….
Susanna bathing
The religious story of Susanna and the Elders involves two men who surprise a bathing woman, and the biblical account of David…
Sword fight
oil on canvas 14.5″ x 18.5″ source: color photo with painting dimensions written en verso graphite on paper sketch, source:…
Pastel Friedl
portrait of the artists’ wife, Friedl graphite & gouache on paper, signed l/r “LOUIS GRELL 1928”
