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An inventive and smart C.1930 pastel by frequent Golden Age of Hollywood Movie Magazine cover artist Mila Baine, showing a radiant and stylish Claudette Colbert. Likely a cover for the title Movie Mirror, where Blaine did numerous commissioned covers of Hollywood’s leading ladies in the early 1930s. From the collection of Ken Galente, former owner of Silver Screen Gallery in New York City.

Claudette Colbert

Artist: Mila Baine
Price:  SOLD

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Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Claudette Colbert, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, Mila Baine, Movie Mirror, original cover art, portrait
Added to Gallery: September 27, 2017

A smartly conceived and modern jazz age oil-on-canvas painting of a ravishing Jeanette MacDonald, the cover for The New Movie Magazine, June 1932. Executed in a high glamour, severe art deco style by the American Illustrator McClelland Barclay. Work is a defining example by this talented and prolific artist and comes beautifully framed in an ornate gold gilt American Arts & Crafts fine museum quality carved frame. A lost treasure from the golden age of Hollywood glamour and elegance.

Jeanette MacDonald

Artist: McClelland Barclay
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, glamour, hollywood, Jeanette MacDonald, magazine cover, McClelland Barclay, New Movie Magazine, original cover art, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: August 11, 2017

Pulp illustrator James Lunnon created this oil on canvas painting of Norma Shearer for the September 1935 issue of Movies Magazine. The hair and styling seem to date this to the mid 1930s-the height of Shearer’s renown as the Queen of MGM, a title bestowed upon her in 1927 when she married Irving Thalberg. Unusually […]

A Smiling Norma Shearer

Artist: James Lunnon
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, Irving Thalberg, James Lunnon, jazz age, magazine cover, Norma Shearer, portrait, pulp
Added to Gallery: July 2, 2017

A dashing original pastel illustration, a scarce surviving Golden Age of Hollywood cover portrait of the lovely Marion Davies. Davies, a true film legend, is captured in an opulent and unabashedly art deco pose by frequent tinsel-town illustrator Charles Gates Sheldon. This large and inventive work was used as the March 1936 cover of “Movie Classic Magazine”. Pastel is in a fine original state of conservation and framed and matted behind glass in an an ornate gesso period antique frame.

A Dashing Marion Davies

Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price:  $6,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Charles Sheldon, flapper, Golden Age, hollywood, magazine cover, Marion Davies, Movie Classic, original cover art
Added to Gallery: July 1, 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

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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 stylish and decidedly art deco cover illustration for the September 9th, 1939 issue of Liberty magazine, painted by the prolific illustrator Victor Tchetchet. Depicting a Carole Lombard-esque blonde bombshell in a Diana the Huntress mythological pose. Dedicated and inscribed to the fabled Hollywood film producer Otto Preminger, as seen lower right. Painting has been handsomely […]

Diana The Huntress

Artist: Victor Tchetchet
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, Liberty, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp, risque, Victor Tchetchet
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2017

This alluring jazz age portrait of Evelyn Brent by Rolf Armstrong of silent film star Evelyn Brent was commissioned as original artwork for the cover of the March 1930 issue of Screenland Magazine. Armstrong executed a series of covers for this title between 1929 – 1930; he once remarked that Brent had the most perfect face he had ever portrayed. Pastel is matted and framed behind glass and in a fine state of original conservation.

Portrait of Evelyn Brent

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  $8,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Evelyn Brent, flapper, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, portrait, Rolf Armstrong, Screenland, silent movie
Added to Gallery: March 16, 2017

This Orientalist art deco avant-garde pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins is an early work by the renowned illustrator that recalls the erotic and stylized work of British artist Aubrey Beardsley. This is part of a series of similarly exotic and provocative drawings Higgins created between 1927 – 1929, which would much later be marketed as a series of […]

Dragon Lady

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, fantasy, fine art, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, jazz age, machine age, risque
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2017

Carmen, painted in 1929, is one of four monumental and epic, larger than life oil paintings created by Rolf Armstrong after his return from a yearlong excursion to Paris, where the artist was inspired by the fine art salon movement nudes which were on display in museums, galleries, and private homes throughout France. Known as the Paris […]

Carmen

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  SOLD

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Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Brown & Bigelow, Carmen, erotic, fine art, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, jazz age, Monumental, nude, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, portrait, risque, Rolf Armstrong, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 23, 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
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, Anna May Wong, art deco, Henry Clive, hollywood, orientalist, pin up, portrait, silent movie
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2016

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