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Henry Clive

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is honored to be able to offer “Ye Chiseler – Yo Ho Ho And a Bottle of Rum”, a large, commanding, seductive and masterful mural created by Henry Clive, to our eyes the finest illustrator working in jazz age Hollywood. Along with its companion work “The Infidel” (also available through Grapefruit Moon Gallery), Clive created this masterwork for the tavern of The Masquers Club, a historic and fascinating Hollywood institution.

Ye Chiseler

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, escapism, harem, Henry Clive, hollywood, Masquers Club, mural, nude, orientalist, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 18, 2021

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 darling and very Art Deco in aesthetic portrait of Mary Brian, the silent and early talkie era Hollywood film star. We do not have the specific usage of this oil on masonite painting but it was likely created as a cover for a late 1920s Hollywood Movie Magazine by the artist, who worked prolifically for a number of titles during the period. The china doll imagery was one which Clive favored, as it plays on the coquettish doll like charms of the flappers of the period. The painting is signed lower right and handsomely framed in a period wide profile antique frame behind glass.

Sue Carol with Boudoir Doll

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, doll, flapper, Henry Clive, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, Mary Brian, orientalist, original cover art, portrait, silent movie, Sue Carol
Added to Gallery: February 20, 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

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is ecstatic to offer Sultana, the original Louis F. Dow commissioned calendar pin-up painting by Henry Clive. Created in 1925, Sultana is in all regards the artist’s signature and defining creation, featuring an exotic nearly nude dreamy enchantress in an Art Deco Egyptian fantasy dreamscape. This enchanting artwork is littered with sophisticated touches such as the Moorish architecture which glimmers behind Sultana as she releases a white dove. This timeless image was again issued in 1941 as a mutoscope card with the title Lucky Dove–a vintage calendar print and mutoscope card are included in the sale.

Sultana

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Charles Martignette, egyptian, erotic, escapism, harem, Henry Clive, Louis F. Dow, orientalist, original calendar art, pin up, sultana, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2016

An original early 1930’s oil on canvas illustration, presumably of exotic silent movie film star, Anna May Wong. Henry Clive did a series of oil paintings titled Enchantresses of the Ages for Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly Magazine of ethnic glamour portrait studies.

Portrait of Anna May Wong

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Anna May Wong, art deco, Henry Clive, hollywood, orientalist, pin up, portrait, silent movie
Added to Gallery: November 14, 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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