Harold Mott-Smith

Hawaiian Art Deco Nude

1920s - 30s

A radiant and lushly executed fine art nude oil painting by the well listed Hungarian artist Maria Szantho, who had a long and decorated career both in Europe and in the United State...

This gouache on illustration board painting was painted in 1927 by John Vassos, a singularly unique inventor, industrial designer and artist and illustrator, and appeared in the E.P....

This gouache on illustration board painting was created and used as cover art for Naked Sinner, the 1959 "savage novel of a wild call girl and her shocking immoral affairs". Certainly this sultry illustration ranks as one of the highlights of the lurid and steamy hard not to pick up consumer driven style used by sleaze paperback publishers in the late 1950s. Naked Sinner was published by the Bedside Book imprint of Greenleaf Classics. Greenleaf was the infamous publishing house run by William L. Hamling which remained a hub of controversy from the 1950s-1970s for testing the boundaries of protected first amendment through its advertising, selling and publication of adult books...

A dazzling both in technique and conception large editorial illustration from 1971, used in a Psychology magazine of the era for a story concerning the future of education. The artist, Peter Lloyd was a leading airbrush illustrator who worked in many arenas. In the 70s he created album cover art for Rod Stewart's Atlantic Crossing, Jefferson Starship and Kansas among many other musicians. His editorial illustrations also appeared in Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Playboy, Oui, And Esquire magazines. In the 80s the artist found work in Hollywood as an illustrator and concept designer for such films as Tron and An American Werewolf...

A haunting and epic large scale finely detailed and tonally impacting oil on canvas painting by Charles E. Chambers. An orientalist Black Market alter scene that utilizes ocher and u...

This scene of a geometrically comprised modern couple ice yachting with the unexpected help of a pierrot deckhand was presumably created as a cover painting for Collier's magazine. O...

ROBERTO LUPETTI "SHY NUDE" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED CALIFORNIA, C.1970S PROVENANCE: CORY GALLERIES, SAN FRANCISCO 40 X 20 INCHES Roberto Lupetti 1918-1998 Born in Milan, Italy on Dec. 6, 1918. Lupetti studied at the Royal Academy in Rome and was apprenticed to the school of restoration at the Vatican. Following service in WWII, he moved to San Francisco where he taught at the Art Institute. As well as decorating churches throughout the U.S., he also painted portraits of such celebrities as Ingrid Bergman, Barbara Stanwyck, and General George Marshall and Douglas MacArthur...

Oil on canvas signed R.B.FELTRAP, France, 1937. Nude. With frame : 101.5x82.5 cm - 40x32.5 inches ; without frame : 92x73 cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. Format 30F. Signed and dated "R.B.Fe...

Marcel von Herrfeld, born in 1889, was a son of Alice Herrfeldt and the Spanish painter of nudes Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) who worked in Pari...

Marcel von Herrfeld, born in 1889, was a son of Alice Herrfeldt and the Spanish painter of nudes Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) who worked in Pari...

FRANZ VON MONTFORT "NU ASSIS" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED BELGIUM, DATED 1928 39.5 X 32.5 INCHES Franz Von Montfort 1889 –1980 Von Montfort was a Belgian...

CHARLES KVAPIL "NU" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED BELGIAN, DATED 1932 46 X 32 INCHES FRAMED 55.5 X 41 INCHES Charles Kvapil 1884-1957 Charles Kvapil was born in 1884 in Anvers...