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Parisian Victorian Maiden by Hamilton King This is a fabulous, turn of-the-last-century, large pastel on tinted artist’s paper by the prolific American illustrator Hamilton King. In this portrait a Parisian Victorian beauty in a large plumed hat stylishly traverses through a windy Paris winter day. The pastel is nicely matted and framed under glass and […]

Parisian Victorian Maiden

Artist: Hamilton King
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1900s, Edwardian, french, Hamilton King, Norman Platnick, paris, pastel, victorian
Added to Gallery: September 9, 2020

This is a 1930s signed, Art Deco watercolor painting on illustration board by the listed artist George Le Duc. It depicts a fashionable stylized woman with grapes on her way to the bacchanal. The painting has been silk matted and handsomely framed under glass and is ready to enjoy.

Art Deco Woman with Grapes

Artist: Georges Le Duc
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art deco, bacchanalia, french, George LeDuc, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: October 15, 2019

    On offer is a spectacularly erotic French pre-pin up portrait of a Victorian redheaded maiden in very low cut gown by Henri Rondel. The artist was known for his sumptuous portraiture that juxtaposed the refined faces of French beauties with states of shocking undress. This example was acquired by the Osborne Art Company […]

Provocative Pre-Pin-Up Redheaded Beauty

Artist: Henri Rondel
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art nouveau, erotic, french, Osborne Calendar Co, victorian
Added to Gallery: July 11, 2018

This large and luminous original watercolor painting by the famous Belgian painter Frantz Charlet dates to the turn of the 20th centuty and features a serene pastoral mother and child figural scene. Charlet, a student of the Acadeémie de Bruxelles and l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, known for his portraiture, landscape and genre work. Along with a group of ten colleagues, Charlet founded Les XX in October 1883.

Tranquility

Artist: Frantz Charlet
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, 1900s, beaux arts, belle epoque, Frantz Charlet, french, pastoral
Added to Gallery: May 3, 2018

This very well rendered and rare surviving watercolor illustration painting by the French boudoir artist Suzanne Meunier dates to around 1920.

Les Ongles

Artist: Suzanne Meunier
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, boudoir, Cupid, Edwardian, flapper, french, Golden Age, paris, postcard, Suzanne Meunier, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2018

An original gouache cover illustration for an unidentified issue of the notorious French publication “La Vie Parisienne”. The long running, humorous and racy magazine chronicled the exploits and sexual proclivities of sassy and free spirited French follies showgirls and their often dim witted suitors in risque, breezy, spicy pulp-like fashion. This original gouache painting is nicely double matted in an oval window in a fine antique ornate gesso gold frame behind glass.

La Vie D’Hiver

Artist: Maurice Milliere
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, erotic, Fanny, flapper, follies, french, La Vie Parisienne, Louis Icart, magazine cover, Maurice Milliere, original cover art, pulp, showgirl
Added to Gallery: October 20, 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
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: 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

This is an intriguing topical French magazine illustration depicting a decadent French woman enjoying five different forms of illumination as she goes through various stages of undress. Providing commentary on the onset of modernity in fin-de-siècle France through the metaphor illustrated mistress of the house who is seen with a broadening smile and increasingly confident demeanor as she lives with the at the time shockingly new conveniences, this is a bold and striking illustration by the controversial French cartoonist Gil Baer.

Fin De Siecle, Illuminated

Artist: Gil Baer
Price:  $950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1900s, belle epoque, boudoir, cartoon, fin-de-siecle, french, Gil Baer, illustration, original illustration art, risque, satirical, Thomas Edison
Added to Gallery: January 16, 2017

An original gouache cover painting for an unidentified issue of the notorious French publication “La Vie Parisienne”. The long running, humorous and racy magazine chronicled the exploits and sexual proclivities of sassy and free spirited French follies showgirls and their often dim witted suitors in risque, breezy, spicy pulp-like fashion. This original gouache painting is nicely double matted in an oval window in a fine antique ornate gesso gold frame behind glass.

The Vanities

Artist: Maurice Milliere
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, erotic, Fanny, french, La Vie Parisienne, Louis Icart, magazine cover, Maurice Milliere, original cover art, vanity
Added to Gallery: October 20, 2016

A mixed media gouache and pastel portrait work by the gifted and fondly remembered Russian Jewish artist Alexander Davidovich Ziliouk – Sacha Zaliouk. The artist moved to Paris in 1912 and studied at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He contributed jazz-age art deco illustrations for many of the notorious French Roaring twenties flapper girl magazines such as Fantasio, Sourire, Le Journal Amusant, La Vie Parisienne and the more scabrous Paris-plaisirs. He set up a studio in the cities Montparnasse area and was a well known and often exhibited avant-garde artist as seen by this haunting and evocotive unique portrait of a lovely young Parisian.

Through a Paris Window

Artist: Sacha Zaliovk
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, flapper, french, paris, Sacha Zaliovk
Added to Gallery: May 12, 2016

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