• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Key Artists
    • Rolf Armstrong
    • Mahlon Blaine
    • Henry Clive
    • Gil Elvgren
    • Cardwell Higgins
    • Earl Moran
    • Charles Gates Sheldon
    • Arthur Prince Spear
    • Bunny Yeager
  • About
  • Browse by Topic
  • Contact

Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

  • Gallery Blog
  • Golden Gallery
  • Fine & Decorative
  • Illustration & Advertising
  • Paperback & Pulp
  • Pin-Up & Glamour

Pal Fried

An alluring and provocatively moody original pastel by Hungarian-born artist Pál Fried, which is signed by the artist in the lower left corner and housed behind glass in a beautiful, ornate gold carved wood frame.

Seduction

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: boudoir, Pal Fried, pastel, Pearls, pin up
Added to Gallery: May 13, 2018

A pretty Parisian showgirl is shown on her way to the Opera in this large and lovely original Pal Fried fine art oil on canvas painting. Along with his nude studies, Fried is best remembered for these lovely and provocative high-society, sophisticated yet sultry views. This remarkable example retains its somewhat garish, but now iconic, mid-century ornate frame. This is signed lower […]

The Opera

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: fine art, glamour, high society, hungarian, Pal Fried, paris
Added to Gallery: December 12, 2014

A finely rendered lovely red headed nude siren by Pal Fried, this is a fresh Chicago estate find in a fine state of original conservation in a handsome ornate carved wood period frame. Titled on back of canvas “Tina” in the artists hand, a defining and sexually charged erotic depiction by the prolific and celebrated Hungarian portrait painter.

Tina

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, erotic, hungarian, nude, Pal Fried, pin up
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2009

A large, inspired, new to the market oil on canvas by Pal Fried; a smoldering reclining nude in a deeply erotic 1940s moment. Retains original ornate carved wood frame. The canvas is untouched and stamped on the verso and titled in the artist’s hand “Reclining Nude”. A fine well preserved luminous example of what this prolific European painter’s signature work.

Reclining Nude

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, boudoir, erotic, fine art, hungarian, nude, Pal Fried
Added to Gallery: September 25, 2009

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is proud to offer a fine art nude oil painting by Pal Fried from the 1940s. This fresh estate find is titled on verso “Suzanne” and retains its handsome ornate gold painted gesso frame. A luminous example by this gifted and prolific Hungarian painter and illustrator.

Suzanne

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, fine art, hungarian, nude, Pal Fried
Added to Gallery: March 28, 2009

A ravishing and deeply erotic nude oil on canvas painting by Pal Fried. Perhaps the most beautiful and inspired Fried work we have seen. Beautifully framed and in a fine state of preservation, a monumental example by this noted and prolific artist and illustrator.

Erotic Nude

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, erotic, fine art, hungarian, nude, Pal Fried, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: February 21, 2009

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

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 charming original oil on canvas by the hotly collected artist Pal Fried. A well rendered and colorful depiction of four young ballerinas at dance class. Fried, an artist of the Hungarian school, was known as an important figure painter, and most often depicted beautiful young women, nudes, ballerinas, Parisian society women, western scenes, horse racing, and an occasional seascape. His oil paintings and pastels have gained much deserved recognition and notoriety and are increasingly desirable.

Ballet Class

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, ballerina, dance, hungarian, impressionist, mid-century, Pal Fried, theater
Added to Gallery: July 28, 2008

A sultry, deviant yet sensual young nude by the Hungarian-American painter Pal Fried; a prolific, wildly popular painter who specialized in ballerinas and nudes. Marked on verso stretcher ” Lita ” # 44339. Comes in original ornate lovely gesso frame. A large pristine defining example signed upper right.

Lita

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, hungarian, nude, Pal Fried, pin up, risque
Added to Gallery: May 3, 2006

 

Contact Grapefruit Moon Gallery



    Primary Sidebar

    Join our mailing list

    Grapefruit Moon Gallery Around the Web

    • Facebook
    • Instagram

    Copyright © 2025