Illustration & Cover Art

Cupids No.2 - An Indian Maiden
Artist:Henry Clive
Date:1933
Medium:Gouache on Illlustration Board
Dimensions:Sight size 18" by 20 1/2" Framed 31" by 32 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover for The American Weekly-June 18, 1933
Price:$16,500.00
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Above: Full view of goauche painting

Above: The artist's signature lower right

Above: The American Weekly-June 18, 1933


A rare surviving Henry Clive illustration painting used as the cover for the June 18,1933 edition of The American Weekly, a Randolph Hearst publication. Clive was often called upon to create serialized images of enchantresses that shared a thematic thread. This is one of those works - from a series of cupid inspired images that the artist created finding the sitters in the crossfire of cupids quiver. Accompanying rhyme by Carolyn Wells reads:
Said Cupid, I've often been told
You're haughty and scornful and cold
I've broken my dart
On your hard, stony heart!
You're mistaken, she said, it's pure gold.

Above: Detail

Above: Detail

Above: Framed and matted behind glass in handsome gallery frame

Above: Frame profile and corner detail


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