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 ARBIB, Richard (1917-1995) attributed to
Designs for a Nash Metropolitan Station Wagon
[New York: 1956]. Pencil and pastel on paper, somewhat soiled and creased. Image size (including text): 15 1/2 x 35 3/4 inches visible. Framed. 25 1/4 x 45 inches.
This drawing is attributed to Richard Arbib by a previous owner. There is a label on the back giving Arbib as the artist and the date of January 17, 1956. After working for Harley Earl in Detroit, Arbib opened his own studio in New York and ultimately developed designs for more than three hundred companies over the last 45 years of his career.
This design for a Nash Metro station wagon was never developed, and Nash never pursued the idea of a compact station wagon. Arbib's drawing, which is unusually large, added some fins and sharp edges of the sort that American Motors generally seemed to resist, though they were among the defining characteristics of American car design for the next decade or so.
#18781 $3,200.00  
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 ARBIB, Richard (1917-1995)
"Dorade"
1973 or 1978. Mixed media on blue composition board. Signed "Arbib 73" or "Arbib 78". Framed.
A Richard Arbib personal luxury car, modelled on the Cadillace Eldorado
It's not clear whether the written date on this piece is 73 or 78, but it is definitely by Richard Arbib and definitely in keeping with the look of the 1970's Cadillac Eldorados. In the license plate spot, he has written "Dorade" and there are two shields very similar in shape to the Cadillac emblem. The Dorade is a Mediterranean Bass, the Dorado is a much larger fish known also as the dolphinfish and mahi-mahi. Eldorado however comes from El Dorado, the mythical City of Gold, thought by the conquistadors to exist in South America.
Arbib's "Dorade" has nice lines and unusual features. The car is a large two door coupe with a huge hatchback type back window that extends over the trunk. The back lights are recessed into new style fins that extend backwards but not above the plane of the trunk. There are stylized sun roofs above driver and passenger.
There are two views given, one from the side and one from the back.
#18798$3,850.00
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 ARBIB, Richard (1917-19950
Strange Concept Car with Beautiful Woman
1954. Mixed media on charcoal gray composition board. Signed "R. Arbib '54". Framed.
Highly imaginative concept car by Richard Arbib
This unusual, bird-like front design was conceived of and drawn by Richard Arbib. It is clearly a notion derived from something other than other cars and represents an invitation to a world of creature-like vehicles that car manufacturers turned down. It is enticingly odd, and the beautiful, laughing woman leaning against it seems to be there to reassure the fearful viewer. If someone that beautiful and well-dressed is comfortable with it, why shouldn't I?
#18774$3,500.00
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 ARBIB, Richard (1917-1995)
Front grill concept design
1953. Watercolour and pastel on composition board. Signed, "Arbib '53" . Image size (including text): 17 x 23 1/4 inches. Framed. 25 1/4 x 31 1/4 inches.
A striking frontal encounter with an innovative grill design
This full-on, confrontational drawing of a new front grill by RIchard Arbib embodies the thrill of innovation that played such a large part of car design in the 1950's. During this rather euphoric period, cars became more open, colourful and "modernistic": curvilinear and sleek. In Arbib's picture, we come right up against a shield-like center piece that branches out to either side in a no nonsense, two level bumper and that threatens to knock us down, despite the genial, middle-aged driver. Elements of this front configuration appeared in many incarnations in subsequent years.
Richard Arbib was a tireless industrial designer whose work ranged from watches to yachts, and included many lasting automotive innovations. Born in Gloversville, New York of Egyptian parentage, he attended Pratt. He worked on GM's exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, and then various automotive, industrial and military designers (during the war) until he set up his own firm in New York in 1949. His work during the 1950's was especially important to the future as many of his dynamic and "space-age" designs were incorporated into production models of the late 50's, 60's and 70's. He also supplied illustrations to science fiction magazines and novels.
Scharf, Richard H. Arbib 1917-1995 Visionary American Designer. 2006.
#18793$3,500.00
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 ARBIB, Richard (1917-1995)
Nash Olympic Concept Art
1954. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated "Arbib '54". Image size (including text): 16 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches. Framed.
This interesting design for Nash by the great automotive designer, RIchard Arbib, suggests greater luxury than Nash usually aspired to. 1954 was the year Nash absorbed Hudson becoming American Motors, and the new company may have wished to broaden its appeal to the upper classes. The sporty polo player at the wheel, with helmet, suggests this as well, so too, its name. It is an extraordinary hybrid of luxury car features compacted into a 2 door convertible. The grill derives from Lincoln/Mercury and the modified tailfins from Cadillac, though all in nascent form in 1954. All in all a very interesting experiment that was unfortunately never developed.
Richard Arbib was a tireless industrial designer whose work ranged from watches to yachts, and included many lasting automotive innovations. Born in Gloversville, New York of Egyptian parentage, he attended Pratt. He worked on GM's exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair and then various automotive designers until he set up his own firm in the 1960's, having taken time during World War II to work on bomber design.
Scharf, Richard H. Arbib 1917-1995 Visionary American Designer. 2006.
#18778$3,600.00
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 ARBIB, Richard (1917-1995)
Nash Palomino Concept Art
1954. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated "Arbib '54". Image size (including text): 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches. Framed.
"A great automotive designer..." (Coachbuilt.com)
1954 was the year the Hudson and Nash-Kelvinator Corporations merged to form American Motors, with Nash as the predominating partner. The design demonstrates the somewhat prosaic virtues of Nash but also one of the waves of the future: Compact cars. Sturdy and practical, Arbib's "Palomino" rejects both the pretentiousness and the sexiness of much car design of the period. This design, features of which were incorporated into designs of the next 30 years, has a "good American citizen" quality that has always had an audience, though oddly enough it was commandeered by Volkswagen and later Toyota and Honda.
Richard Arbib was a tireless industrial designer whose work ranged from watches to yachts, and included many lasting automotive innovations. Born in Gloversville, New York of Egyptian parentage, he attended Pratt. He worked on GM's exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair and then various automotive designers until he set up his own firm in the 1960's, having taken time during World War II to work on bomber design.
Scharf, Richard H. Arbib 1917-1995 Visionary American Designer. 2006.
#18776$3,600.00
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 ARBIB, Richard H. (1917-1995)
"Riviera Coupe" Concept Art
[Detroit]: 1940. Mixed media on paper. Signed "Richard H. Arbib" and dated "9/24/40". Image size (including text): 15 1/8 x 23. Framed.
A conceptual precursor of the famous Riviera of a later era
This Arbib drawing was from his early involvement with GM's Styling Section under Harley Earl. It anticipates the famous Buick Riviera, which first appeared in 1949, also a 2 door hardtop. The Riviera Buick is most famous for is the one which appeared on the market in 1963. Like this distant predecessor, it was sleek and sexy, comfortable and speedy.
Arbib's drawing emphasizes the sleek contoured shape that seems the antithesis of the boxy cars of the 20's. At evening, in a California-like (or Riviera) seaside setting, the stylish coupe with its stylish driver pull up in front of a neo-Moorish portal where woman who looks like a model awaits him, cool and handsome like the car.
Richard Arbib was a tireless industrial designer whose work ranged from watches to yachts, and included many lasting automotive innovations. Born in Gloversville, New York of Egyptian parentage, he attended Pratt. He worked on GM's exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, and then various automotive, industrial and military designers (during the war) until he set up his own firm in New York in 1949. His work during the 1950's was especially important to the future as many of his dynamic and "space-age" designs were incorporated into production models of the late 50's, 60's and 70's. He also supplied illustrations to science fiction magazines and novels.
Frederick Sharf, Richard H. Arbib 1917-1995 Visionary American Designer. 2006.
#18766$4,500.00
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