Grapefruit Moon Gallery's collection of fine arts features art created for private patrons, gallery showcases, and public spaces. American Illustrators from the Grand Age excelled at this application of their skills -- mural work by Maxfield Parrish is legendary and an example still exists at the Saint Regis Hotel Bar in New York City. Henry Clive was commissioned to create glorious large art deco nude mural panels for long gone Los Angeles haunt "The Jade Room". And illustrators such as Charles Allan Winter, Arthur Spear, and even Rolf Armstrong were represented by galleries and sold to patrons of the arts at gallery-hosted shows.

A Nude Forest Nymph Visited By Satyrs Charles Bosseron Chambers	Spirit of Capri Henry Clive

A large and monumental allegorical oil on canvas by Charles Allan Winter featuring a dying Roman warrior being attended to by a firey haired maiden. Work is signed by the artist "Chas. Winter 1896 Paris" lower right, an early offering from this highly regarded vanguard artist. This was presumably created while Winter was studying at the Julianne Academie of Paris, this has a wonderful Pre-Raphaelite dramatic and impacting style. The grand scale of the painting adds to its evocative epic charm.

A large impressionist pastel by Leon Dolice with an electric view of an illuminated New York City skyline, looking down Madison Avenue towards Chelsea's Flatiron building. Leon Dolice spent over 60 years painting New York City landscapes, borrowing from the French Impressionists and Claude Monet specifically. He depicted his beloved Manhattan in varying lighting and color combinations, capturing the extreme skyscrapers and machine age industrialism which transformed the New York skyline during the art deco jazz age.

A modern, inventive, and vertically compressed nude by the New York artist Gilbert Stone dated 1978 and signed by the artist. The model was the artist's wife Carol, who, like the artist, sadly died young. Before his career was cut short by his death in 1984 Stone's work was exhibited around the world and included in public and private collections like the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Brooklyn Museum. His illustrations appeared in publications such as Esquire, The London Times, Sports Illustrated, New York Magazine, and Playboy, National Geographic, Art Voices, also as album covers and books, for which he received three Gold Medals from the Society of Illustrators, three Art Directors Awards and the Chicago Art Directors Club.

A large pastel by Leon Dolice featuring a stark view of an illuminated New York City skyline. Leon Dolice worked for over 60 years painting New York City views borrowing from the French Impressionists and Claude Monet specifically. His countless pastel variations capture his beloved Manhattan in varying lighting and color combinations and pastel configurations. The work highlights the extreme skyscraper forms and machine age industrialism which transformed the New York skyline during the art deco jazz age. A fresh estate find from the Collection of The Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota.

A dark and deeply erotic Salmagundi Club Exhibited large oil on canvas by R.K. Ryland titled "Woodland Melodies." Ryland was a celebrated New York based illustrator and fine artist who worked extensively creating modernist murals and posters for the 1939 New York World's Fair. A work by Ryland illustrating that fair is on permanent display at the Wolfsonian Museum of Modernism in Miami. A large, defining example of the woodland nymph imagery that captivated 1920's artists and illustrators.

An early original pastel work by the well-listed and prolific French Canadian artist and illustrator Philip Boileau, dated 1903. This is similar in composition to another artwork by Boileau titled "Adagio Appasionata." That oil painting (c. 1898-1901) was featured in the Nov. 1901 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Boileau often recreated his late 19th century oil paintings in pastel for both private patrons and publication.

A technically dazzling pen & ink drawing by Heinrich Kley titled "Electrodämonen," translated "Electric Demons." A brooding and troubling satire on the machine age and ongoing industrialization. This captures Kley's technical brilliance and foreshadows the later science fiction pulp drawings of Virgil Finlay. Kley, whose work first appeared in "Die Jugend" in 1908 caught the eye of Walt Disney in 1937 and Kley inspired much of the animation of "Fantasia". This drawing appears as a full page plate in The Drawings of Heinrich Kley.

A sensational colorful & brilliantly rendered nude oil painting by Robert McGinnis, who is arguably the most talented living American illustrator. A fetching stylized nude by the iconic illustrator. He is responsible for the creating some of our cultures most ingrained visuals, including movie poster campaigns including the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" poster design and hundreds of book covers. A fine original work by a unique and gifted living legend and Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame member.

Grapefruitmoongallery is proud to offer one of 3 original commissioned large circular oil paintings that adorned the restaurant walls of Larue's a legendary Hollywood, Sunset Blvd. haunt that was owned by gangster character actor Jack LaRue. Henry Clive was a frequent patron and close friend of LaRue, and this painting, titled Spirit of Capri was purchased directly from the restaurant about 45 years ago by the artist's son Henry Clive O'Hara. In addition to being a prolific cover illustrator for Randolph Hearst's American Weekly, Clive painted several large risque and attention garnering commissioned mural works for Hollywood landmarks like The Jade and The Masquers Club as well as LaRue's.

We are delighted to offer an extraordinary, large, masterfully executed, and cleverly conceived oil on stretched canvas by Charles Bosseron Chambers. This is a dark take on the nude forest nymph theme which captivated the likes of Arthur Spear, Maxfield Parrish and Robert Atkinson Fox. In this work the nude nymph is visted by elfin eared musical satyrs which represent, to the deeply religious Chambers, the underworld of sensuality. This allegorical work is haunting and evocotive, the nude is rendered with great care and a mastery of the female form which is second to none. This is among the finest works we have offered; the painterly technique and technical expertise of C. Bosseron Chambers is masterfully harnessed in this work. Framed in a museum quality art deco aesthetic gallery frame. A haunting epic work that examines the allure of temptation and the temptation of allure.