Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
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 […]
Artist: Hamilton King
Price: $3,500.00
This big eye brunette seen standing in front of an urban window is signed by the artist “Roff of Paris” and dates to 1961. It offers a compelling view of a stylish albeit blue lady who towers above the quiet streets of France. This is from the era of the Big Eye girl paintings by […]
Artist: Roff Of Paris
Price: Sold
Original 1943 painting by Tom Lovell for Cosmopolitan magazine, for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Tom Lovell
Price: SOLD
This very well rendered and rare surviving watercolor illustration painting by the French boudoir artist Suzanne Meunier dates to around 1920.
Artist: Suzanne Meunier
Price: $3,500.00
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.
Artist: Sacha Zaliovk
Price: SOLD
An early pastel work of a modernist avant-garde dancer by a then young Rolf Armstrong, which was done in Paris as he studied at the Academie Julian his first year there in 1919. The work appears to have been exhibited and to have received a bronze prize as referenced in the inkstamp on the […]
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price: SOLD
An early dated 1886 arwork by Will Hicok Low, in deep sepia monochromatic tones with the young winged lovers Cupid & Psyche in amorous embrace.
Artist: Will Hicock Low
Price: Sold
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 […]
Artist: Pal Fried
Price: Sold
This collection of three published Brown & Bigelow calendar girl paintings from 1950 offers a mid-century modernist Parisian take on classic pin up art. We believe the artist to be Jean-Gabriel Domergue who was active at the time in France, creating breezy coquettish often times topless hatted sophisticates. These are signed “Ioxia of Paris” we […]
Artist: Attributed to Domergue
Price: S O L D
An early offering by legendary American pin-up artist and cover illustrator Peter Driben likely created in the late 1920s when the artist was a resident of Paris France and contributed popular illustrations in various French showgirl magazines chronicling the exciting Parisian nightlife and its lovely erotic burlesque Follies Dancers. Nicely matted and framed behind glass; from the famed collection of Charles Martignette.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: Sold
