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A pair of original Harold Lloyd color studies and family portraits
10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
Los AngelesUS$1,500 - US$1,800
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A pair of original Harold Lloyd color studies and family portraits
Oil on canvas board, one featuring two labels on the reverse indicating display at the "Art of Celebrities" Festival of Arts exhibition in 1954. Though best known for his spectacular body of work in silent films on a par with peers such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Lloyd was a prolific painter and photographer whose color studies and 3-D photography became all-consuming. Harold began doing color combinations in the late 1940s and early '50s, the secondary colors of which he sold to the Shiva Oil Paints Company. Lloyd's paintings have never been out of the family and this is the first time they have been offered at auction. Accompanied by three photos of Lloyd with his paintings. Together with a silver gelatin portrait of Harold Lloyd, with "Lewis F. Nathan" written into the negative at lower right, matted and framed with the inscription, "Merry Christmas / [missing] / With lots of love and good wishes" (likely to daughter Gloria) on the paper backing of the frame. Accompanied by a photograph of Lloyd with wife Mildred Davis and newborn son, Harold Lloyd, Jr. and a portrait of Mildred alone during her days as Harold's leading lady.
Provenance: the estate of Harold Lloyd.
Both overall: 18.5 x 22.5 in.; within frame: 12 x 16 in.; Framed portrait: 15.5 x 18.5 in.
Provenance: the estate of Harold Lloyd.
Both overall: 18.5 x 22.5 in.; within frame: 12 x 16 in.; Framed portrait: 15.5 x 18.5 in.


















