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A large and expertly rendered pastel on illustration board by Hungarian artist Pal Fried. Fried, who commonly worked in oils, was equally adept with pastels and this is a fine offering revisiting one of his favorite themes; a young ballerina in anticipation of her performance. Work is nicely matted and framed and in an excellent state of preservation.

Preparing For The Ballet

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, ballerina, dance, fine art, hollywood, hungarian, Pal Fried
Added to Gallery: September 25, 2008

An extraordinary and experimental early work by Hannes Bok, featuring a bizarre surreal landscape with a young boy riding a prehistoric creature. Hannes Bok was the pseudonym of Wayne Woodard, a self taught artist who was fascinated by the luminous quality of Maxfield Parrish’s oil paintings.

Upon a visit from the impoverished teenage Bok, and impressed by the examples of Bok’s work, Parrish gave Bok an expensive set of oil paints and brushes to help the teenager build on his obvious gifts.

Boy on Animal in Surreal Landscape

Artist: Hannes Bok

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, fantasy, fine art, Hannes Bok, landscape, science fiction, surreal, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: September 25, 2008


A large oil on canvas of a pensive young nude by noted American illustrator and artist Guy Hoff. Hoff was a prolific illustrator whose paintings illustrated covers of The Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, Judge and The American Magazine.

The Pensive Nude

Artist: Guy Hoff

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, american, fine art, flapper, Guy Hoff, nude
Added to Gallery: September 2, 2008

This kinetic and bold original oil on canvas depicts a moment from choreographer and dancer Katharine Dunham’s seminal avant garde revue Bal Negre. With its unique color palate and unexpected perspective, the painting evokes the excitement of the Hot Jazz modern dance which reached its peak at the moment the artist moved to the United States. Pal Fried was known for his unsurpassed ability to capture the emotion of dance, and this painting proves his mastery with its physicality and vanguard beauty.

Bal Negre

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, avant-garde, dance, fine art, hungarian, jazz age, Pal Fried
Added to Gallery: August 20, 2008

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.

Madison Avenue Skyline

Artist: Leon Dolice

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, fine art, Leon Dolice, machine age, new york city, skyline
Added to Gallery: May 29, 2008

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.

Half Figure of A Young Woman

Artist: Gilbert Stone

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1970s, american, fine art, Gilbert Stone, modernist, nude
Added to Gallery: May 26, 2008

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.

New York City Skyline

Artist: Leon Dolice

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, fine art, jazz age, Leon Dolice, machine age, new york city, skyline
Added to Gallery: May 10, 2008

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.

Woodland Melodies

Artist: Robert Ryland

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, erotic, fine art, new york city, nude, Robert Ryland, satyr, seduction, The Golden Gallery, woodland nymph, World's Fair
Added to Gallery: March 24, 2008

A whimsical pen and ink drawing by Heinrich Kley depicting a pair of crocodiles holding a tightrope for an art nouveau circus aerialist balancing with umbrella. Titled in the corner by the artist Seiltanz or “Rope Walk.” A fine example of Kley’s dazzling technical skills, work also visits the artist’s penchant for humanizing the animal kingdom. Beautifully framed and matted in a period fine gold gilt plein air aesthetic antique frame.

Rope Walk

Artist: Heinrich Kley

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, art nouveau, circus, fine art, german, german expressionism, grotesque, Heinrich Kley, Jugendstil, original illustration art
Added to Gallery: March 19, 2008

A whimsical and dazzling watercolor by Heinrich Kley titled “Siche Rude Seiten;” loosely translated, “Our Unrefined Side”. THe splendid cast of characters captures the essence of this fondly remembered avant-garde, Jugendstil, German Expressionist artist. This is a rare full color example of the artist’s work, most surviving pieces by Kley are pen & ink drawings. 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 evocative painting is rich in humor, technique and imagery.

Our Unrefined Side

Artist: Heinrich Kley

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, erotic, fine art, german, german expressionism, Heinrich Kley, industrial age, Jugendstil, machine age, original illustration art, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: March 3, 2008

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