Michel Fokine as Harlequin, Life-Size Painting by Lynn Curlee

Nijinsky as Till Eulenspiegel Original life-size painting by Lynn Curlee. The great dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in one of his famous roles. This painti...

Nijinsky in the Lezginka Original life-size painting by Lynn Curlee The great dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in one of his famous roles, 1909. This painti...

Hamlet. A small study in acrylic on canvas board for a proposed large painting by Lynn Curlee, award winning children's book author and illustrator. The painted sketch has a gilt frame.

Comic mask Original painting by Lynn Curlee, professional artist and author or illustrator of award winning picture books for children Acrylic on stretch canvas. The canvas is stre...

George van Herwaarde (1938–2011) was a Dutch fashion photographer and societal painter born in Haarlem. He began his career in 1957 as an assistant to fashion photographer Hans Dukke...

Chester Snowden (1900 - 1984) Houston Artist Image Size: 16 x 12 Frame Size: 23 x 19 Medium: Oil on Board. Signed Lower Right 1951 "Harlequin" Biography Chester Snowden (1900 - 1984) Chester Snowden was born in Elgin, Texas. He attended The University of Texas in Austin and the Cooper Union in New York as well as studying at the Art Students League of New York, Grand Central Galleries Art School, also in New York and the Richard Art School in Los Angeles. His teachers included Harry Sternberg, Boardman Robinson and Walter Jack Duncan. Snowden worked as a painter and an illustrator, for decades providing art for the publications of naturalist author, Royal Dixon...

The most common motif depicted by Philippe Alfieri is the clown or harlequin. Often posed for a portrait but regularly also seen paused between moments of action, Alfieri's harlequins are somber and reflective, straddling between the joyous nature of their role and the depressing nature they are so regularly depicted in contemporary media. This oil painting is nicely framed in gold and signed by the artist on the lower right. Royal Harlequin Philippe Alfieri, Italian/American (1921–2009) Date: ca 1965 Oil on Canvas...

George van Herwaarde (1938–2011) was a Dutch fashion photographer and societal painter born in Haarlem. He began his career in 1957 as an assistant to fashion photographer Hans Dukke...