Two Pal Fried Ballerina & Clown Prints Framed "Guitar Serenade" and "Violin Serenade". Each measures 6" x 10".
In excellent order shape. The frames show a bit of wear and tear but nothing noticeable. These are ready to hang!
Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie Hongroise Des Arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas, dancers, and circus performers.
Fried emigrated to the United States in 1946 after World War II, where he taught at the New York Academy of Art. He became a U.S. citizen in 1953. He lived in Los Angeles and New York City and died on 6 March, 1976 in New York, NY.
He worked in oils and pastels and experimented with light and movement. His oil paintings were usually of dancers, nudes, and portraits. He signed his paintings, as is usual in Hungarian, with his surname first as "Fried Pál". At times, this particular artist would make
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