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Hollywood Comedy Club

Artist:Henry Clive
Date:1919-23
Medium:Pastel on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 13" x 17" Framed 24" x 27 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover Art for a Hollywood Comedy Club Burlesque Program
Price: S O L D
Above: Full view
Above: The artist’s signature lower left
Above: Framed and matted view of pastel behind glass

This Pierrot-inspired flapper girl pastel was created by Henry Clive as cover art for a Hollywood Comedy Club burlesque program. With a mischevious glint in her eye, the smiling blond embodies the devil-may-care ethos of the early jazz age. Henry Clive came to America from Australia on the Vaudeville circuit as a slight of hand magician. Working in New York and Los Angeles, he appeared in several silent movies while he built his name as an artist.

Above: Detail

Along with Raphael Kirchner and Alberto Vargas, Clive got some of his first work illustrating program covers and sheet music for impresario Flo Ziegfeld. Clive in fact created a similar image, featuring this same model in pierrot costume, for the sheet music of Irving Berlin’s “A Pretty Girl is like a Melody” which debuted in the 1919 edition of the Ziegfeld Follies.

Above: 1919 Ziegfeld Follies sheet music cover by Henry Clive
Above: 1920s Ziegfeld Theatre Program by Henry Clive
Above: 1935 Billy Rose’s Jumbo program by Henry Clive

After moving to California to work in silent films (he would become a staff illustrator for Paramount Pictures in 1927) Clive was very much a part of the Hollywood social scene. A dedicated “joiner,” he claimed membership in both the Hollywood Comedy Club and the storied Masquer’s club, for which he created the notorious erotic nude murals which decorated their central bar. This original pastel illustration is an early example of his fraternal pursuits, and includes a faint dedication to a fellow member of the Hollywood Comedy Club for which this was created.

This pastel is properly lined and silk matted behind glass in a handsome silver gesso gallery frame.

Above: Frame profile
Above: Framed and matted view of pastel behind glass

Hollywood Comedy Club

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, art deco, burlesque, flapper, Henry Clive, hollywood, jazz age, Masquers Club, original cover art, pierrot, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: August 8, 2011

 

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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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