Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Willy Müller-Gera (1887-1981) was a German artist and illustrator whose work is visible in museums across Europe. Müller-Gera is known for his etchings and landscapes of the pastoral German countryside as well as apocalyptic renderings such as this work. Titled Faun this is an unusual finely detailed artwork in a modernist, art deco, avant-garde aesthetic. Nicely framed in a period art deco antique frame and ready to enjoy.
Artist: Willy Müller-Gera
Price: $1,800.00
A grotesque and unsavory gathering of creatures is assembled in this inventive signed work which is disguised as a children's fairy tale - in this mixed medium drawing from the German expressionist artist Heinrich Kley. Here two nude nymphs shower yellow flowers upon the body of an upright champion in the heroic mold, while an […]
Artist: Heinrich Kley
Price: Sold
In this whimsically imaginative drawing from the German expressionist and Jugendstil artist Heinrich Kley, a nude water nymph, whose form and pose evoke Venus, frightens away a sea demon as her consort, a dolphin of sorts, looks on laughing. In this mixed medium detailed work, Kley inverts the viewers expectation of women's sensuality in […]
Artist: Heinrich Kley
Price: Sold
Enchantment is a large and important painting by Edward Eggleston, which was published by the American Art Works Calendar Company in the early 1930s. In part as an escapist response to the Great Depression, the 1930s saw a huge trend of calendar art featuring exotic fantasy-themed, ethereal and breezy images of harem attired pin-up girls, and Egyptian goddesses, and mythical […]
Artist: Edward Eggleston
Price: Sold
A dazzling and evocative gouache illustration painting for a 1972 edition of Hans Cristian Andersen's classic tale "The Little Mermaid". A shining deftly rendered example in the manner of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. Work is matted and framed and signed by the artist lower left and titled in the margin lower right.
Artist: Harold Thompson
Price: Sold
The Intruder is a rare surviving oil on canvas American Impressionist painting created in 1921 by Arthur Prince Spear. This underwater sea nymph scene was exhibited that year at Boston's St. Botolph Club, and the Chicago area Rosenbach Galleries and The House of O'Brien, where it is believed to have been sold. Reviewing the St. […]
Artist: Arthur Prince Spear
Price: Sold
Grapefruitmoongallery is proud to offer one of 3 original commissioned large circular oil paintings that adorned the restaurant walls of Larue's a legendary Hollywood, Sunset Blvd. haunt that was owned by gangster character actor Jack LaRue. Henry Clive was a frequent patron and close friend of LaRue, and this painting, titled Spirit of Capri was purchased directly from the restaurant about 45 years ago by the artist's son Henry Clive O'Hara. In addition to being a prolific cover illustrator for Randolph Hearst's American Weekly, Clive painted several large risque and attention garnering commissioned mural works for Hollywood landmarks like The Jade and The Masquers Club as well as LaRue's.
Artist: Henry Clive
Price: Sold
A large and important exhibited American impressionist oil painting by the Boston artist Arthur Prince Spear, 1879-1959. The painting features an outstanding large ethereal and luminous trio of sea nymphs in silhouette - ablaze at sea under a full moon. This is painted in an impressionist style with a textured heavy impasto technique. Housed in its original carved gold leaf wood frame.
Artist: Arthur Prince Spear
Price: S O L D
An important original oil painting by the German artist Paul Thumann titled "Psyche". This groundbreaking erotic and risque winged fairy image was the artist's most revered work. Thumann brought this painting to The United States in 1893 and sold the reproduction rights to "White Rock Table Water" for use in print ads and tin lithographic tip trays (a period example is included with sale). This was acquired by the prestigious Vose Gallery in Boston in 1913 and was framed at that time by them in a hand carved, signed and numbered Carrig-Rohane wide profile Arts & Crafts frame that like the painting is of museum quality.
Artist: Paul Thumann
Price: S O L D
An elementally beautiful nymph in the midst of metamorphosis rises from the churning sea in this mythic and beautiful 1907 oil on canvas by Paul Swan. This important early example from the artist, who was himself a social butterfly, features tremendous sophistication of technique, and combines the Art Nouveau style which was popular at the time with hints of the streamlined figural forms which would become synonymous with the art deco era.
Artist: Paul Swan
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