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The Queen of Summer

Artist:Willy Pogany
Date:1916
Medium:Oil on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 15 1/2" x 19 1/2" Framed 24 3/4" x 28 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover for Metropolitan Magazine - July 1916
Price: Sold
Full view of painting behind oval window matting
Full view of painting behind oval window matting
The artist's signature and date lower left
The artist’s signature and date lower left
Framed view in handsome wide profile silver gallery frame
Framed view in handsome wide profile silver gallery frame
Printed version of Metropolitan Magazine July 1916 included in sale
Printed version of Metropolitan Magazine July 1916 included in sale

In Willy Pogany’s dazzling oil on board illustration painting, an Art Nouveau maiden finds herself in the summer foliage conversing with a little bird. This whimsical scene was created for and used as the front cover of Metropolitan Magazine, July 1916. This artwork marks the best period in Pogany’s prolific and well remembered long and successful career. A stylized Belle Epoque, tightly rendered work that features a vibrant color palette and intricate use of the free-flowing forms that came to define the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

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Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are A Treasury of Verse for Little Children, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children. He later did covers for “The Metropolitan Magazine” and worked for his friend William Randolph Hearst’s “American Weekly.”He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children’s books and did a series of annual gift books, special deluxe editions.He was not a British citizen, and soon after World War I began, he emigrated with his family to New York City and became a permanent resident there. He continued illustrating books and also designed scenery and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera House and mural decorations for public and private residences including that of William Randolph Hearst. For a period he lived in Hollywood and did celebrity portraits and set designs before returning to New York where he died on July 30, 1955.

Corner frame profile
Corner frame profile

The Queen of Summer

Artist: Willy Pogany
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, belle epoque, Edwardian, Golden Age, hungarian, magazine cover, maiden, Metropolitan, new york city, original cover art, summer, The Golden Gallery, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: September 28, 2008

 

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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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