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Global Glamour – Typical Beauties on All Our War Fronts A fine surviving cover illustration painting by Henry Clive for the August 27, 1944 edition of “The American Weekly”, a Randolph Hearst publication. Clive enjoyed a three decade long association with this title, he often created serialized successive monthly covers of female heroines throughout history. […]

Global Glamour – Normandy

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, American Weekly, Cover Art, gouache, Henry Clive, Norman Platnick, pin up, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2020

This rare original painting by Henry Clive graced the cover of the October 13, 1946 edition of William Randolph Hearst’s The American Weekly. Clive often played with serialized themes in his work for the magazine, and this Egyptian inspired image was from a series entitled “Pin-up Girls of History.” Pictured as Cleopatra is the lovely Hollywood film star Dorothy Lamour, whose impossibly good looks and exotic features draw comparison to the legendary queen of the Nile, though the actress never portrayed her in film.

Pin-Up Girls of History – Cleopatra

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, American Weekly, art deco, Cleopatra, Dorothy Lamour, egyptian, Henry Clive, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 23, 2019

An original signed painting by the prolific illustrator Henry Clive. This was likely commissioned for the cover of The American Weekly, a William Randolph Hearst publication. Clive spent three decades creating several hundred covers for this weekly publication, although the original paintings rarely come on the market. Pictured is pin-up model and Paramount Film Star Mona Freeman who made a nice career for herself typically cast as the perky good girl supporting actress.

The Masquarade – A Scarecrow

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, American Weekly, glamour, Golden Age, Henry Clive, hollywood, magazine cover, Mona Freeman, original cover art, pin up, portrait, scarecrow
Added to Gallery: August 16, 2018

A whimsical art deco original gouache painting titled “La Coquette” by Alberto Vargas. An early work by the Peruvian born pin-up legend exploring the Commedia dell’arte revival that took hold around 1915, the cast of characters in this boldly colored and delightful Edwardian scene features the requisite maiden courted by a Harlequin with slapstick at his side as her guardian looks on in horror. Vargas brings a unique spin to this popular genre and his artistic mastery is apparent even at this early date. This was acquired by Charles Martignette in 1989 from the Vargas estate – the painting is accompanied by a series of Kodak color photographs (dated June 1989) taken by Martignette of this painting, also included are several color photographs of the artist and Martignette taken shortly before Vargas’ death in 1982.

La Coquette

Artist: Alberto Vargas

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, Alberto Vargas, american, American Weekly, art deco, Charles Martignette, Commedia dell'arte, Edwardian, glamour, harlequin, maiden, original cover art, pin up, The Golden Gallery, Varga Girl
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2018

A rare surviving cover painting by the prolific and flamboyant artist Henry Clive who worked as an illustrator for Randolph Hearst for nearly three full decades creating covers for The American Weekly. This is one of the very last paintings Clive completed for Hearst, part of a series of pin-up girl cover images depicting “The Girl Who Inspired The Song”.

Mademoiselle from Armentières

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1940s, American Weekly, Golden Age, Henry Clive, original cover art, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: September 24, 2017

A pristine and important surviving Henry Clive illustration painting that appeared as the cover for the August 27, 1944 issue of The American Weekly, a Randolph Hearst publication. The magazine often commissioned Clive to create serialized images of enchantresses that shared a thematic thread. In this case – in the year 1944 the artist was […]

Global Glamour – Normandy

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, American Weekly, D-day, french, Golden Age, Henry Clive, hollywood, magazine cover, pulp, Randolph Hearst
Added to Gallery: June 9, 2017

A large and important bustling published colorful gouache illustration painting by Willy Pogany for an interior story titled “Nero’s Temple On The Nile”, which appeared in the January 12, 1947 edition of Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly Magazine. An over the top opulant Egyptian themed costumed imagining of life in ancient Rome, which appeared with the […]

Nero’s Temple On The Nile

Artist: Willy Pogany

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, American Weekly, Cleopatra, egyptian, Golden Age, original illustration art, Randolph Hearst, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: July 26, 2016

A large and technically adept colorful gouache illustration painting by Mario Cooper for an interior story titled “Secret Voice of The Desert Oracle“, which appeared in the August 13, 1950 edition of Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly Magazine. An over the top Egyptian themed costumed processional, which appeared in print with the following caption: “Cleopatra Probably […]

The Desert Oracle

Artist: Mario Cooper

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, American Weekly, Cleopatra, egyptian, Mario Cooper, original illustration art, Randolph Hearst
Added to Gallery: July 12, 2016

A kinetic and surrealist hypnotic work showing an African Fertility Dance that likely was a proposed cover for The American Weekly magazine, for which the artist was active in the 1940s. Inscribed Property of Andre Durenceau lower right; a jarring work by one of our favorite avant-garde art deco era illustrators. Nicely matted and framed behind glass in a period frame.

The Fertility Dance

Artist: Andre Durenceau

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1940s, american, American Weekly, Andre Durenceau, art deco, avant-garde, black magic, exoticism, magazine cover, muralist, nude
Added to Gallery: April 21, 2016

A pristine and important surviving Henry Clive illustration painting that appeared as the cover for the July 16, 1933 edition of The American Weekly, a Randolph Hearst publication. The magazine often commissioned Clive to create serialized images of enchantresses that shared a thematic thread. In this case, exotic maidens in the crossfire of cupid’s bow. Our […]

Cupids – Chinese Princess

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, American Weekly, art deco, Chinese, fantasy, Golden Age, Henry Clive, illustration, magazine cover, Mandarin, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, Randolph Hearst, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: March 9, 2016

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