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A Sleeping Beauty

Artist:Henry Clive
Date:1940s
Medium:Pastel on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight size 16 1/2" x 20 1/2" Framed 24" x 28"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Fine Art
Price: S O L D
Above: Framed and matted behind glass in period gold wood carved gallery frame
Above: The artist’s signature lower right
Above: Detail

A delicately rendered pastel on illustration board by Henry Clive, capturing an exotic pretty nude pin-up model with ruby red lips envisioned as a sleeping beauty. This captures effortlessly the prolific artist’s unique take on feminine allure. We believe this to be an unpublished illustration, retains its original handsome hand carved wood gallery frame and is cloth matted and lined behind glass.

Above: Detail
Above: Frame profile and corner detail

Henry Clive’s colorful life began in 1882 as Henry O’Hara in Austrailia. He made his way to Hollywood supporting himself as a magician.
After acting in several silent films, Clive began painting the Ziegfeld Follies Girls for Florence Ziegfeld. This led to work painting silent film era screen stars for Paramount Films such as Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Pola Negri.
The artist worked for many years creating covers for The American Weekly, a Randolph Hearst publication, he maintained a studio in Hollywood and was married six times.

A Sleeping Beauty

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, erotic, Henry Clive, hollywood, nude, pin up, risque
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2012

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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