Sleeping Beauty. Four Architectural Concept Design Illustrations by Willy Pogany for Murals at W. R. Hearst Estate Wyntoon Commissioned by Julia Morgan [ORIGINAL COLOR DRAWINGS SIGNED BY POGANY]
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
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Sleeping Beauty* color drawings: main panel (8 x 16 7/8"); top panel (7 1/4 x 6 1/4"); two wing panels (9 3/4 x 7"). Complete one of a kind concept design on four panels (14 7/8x 30 5/8") in graphite pencil, color pencils, watercolor, and gouache. Exquisite original panorama of four color drawings constituting the design for a building facade named Sleeping Beauty. The drawings were presented in a four panel set by Willy Pogany to renowned architect Julia Morgan, William Randolph Hearst's preferred architect. Pogany had been commissioned by Julia Morgan to design and paint fairy tale murals for the three houses at Heart's Wyntoon estate, California. The name inspired by the Native American tribe of the Wintu people who originally inhabited the area. Though the Sleeping Beauty house (known as Angel House today) was built, Pogany's murals were executed only at the Cinderella House and the Bear House. Wyntoon is a private estate north of San Francisco owned by the Hearst Corporation. The estate was originally developed by San Francisco attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler, his client Phoebe Apperson Hearst and her son William Randolph Hearst. The original seven story house in the Gothic style of a Rhine River castle was completed in 1902 but burned down in the winter of 1929. William Randolph Hearst decided to build an even larger castle designed by Julia Morgan who also had contributed to his mother's castle. Though the Great Depression put an hold to Heart's plans he had already moved 10,000 stones of a dismantled 700 year old Spanish Cistercian monastery to a warehouse in San Francisco to give Wyntoon the desired ancient air. Hearst also had shipped the great tithe barn of Bradenstoke Priory in England to his castle at San Simeon. When Hearst realized he could not afford the $50 million project at Wyntoon he asked Julia Morgan to design a "Bavarian village" in the medieval style of Germany and Austria instead. Hearst sent Julia Morgan to Germany and Austria to study suitable buildings and Morgan designed a group of guest houses with romantic names such as Cinderella House, Sleeping Beauty, and Bear House. In addition to commissioning exterior inscriptions, decorative patterns and carved Gothic decorations the Hungarian muralist and Hollywood set designer Willy Pogany was commissioned to paint murals depicting Russian and German fairy tales. Wyntoon was completed in stages from 1935 to 1941, and appeared in an article in Life Magazine in 1935. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, blackout conditions were imposed on Hearst's home at San Simeon, Hearst and his partner the actress Marion Davies moved to Wyntoon to live at Bear House with their Dachshunds, entertaining guest including Clark Gable, film director Louis B. Mayer, aviator Charles Lindbergh, and industrialist Joe Kennedy with his son J. F. Kennedy, the future US president. In very good condition, centerpiece with minor fraying and two small chips along right edge. Some age-toning generally with some slight damp-staining in top and center piece, a little more pronounced in right panel. * "Willy Pogany created these drawings for Mr. Hearst's estate called Wyntoon in Northern California." (Mary L. Levkoff, Museum Director, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California; Hearst the Collector, Abrams, 2008) Vilmos András Pogány(1882-1955) was born in Szeged, Hungary. Pogany became a prolific artist and illustrator known for his Art Nouveau style, intricate pen and ink work, and fairy-tale themes. He was well established in London, Paris and Munich before he moved to New York at the age of thirty-three in 1915. Here his illustrations first appeared in Hearst publications like Town and Country, Theater Magazine and American Weekly. Pogany also designed sets for ballet, opera (Le Coq d'Or) and film (Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times). At the West Coast he designed movie set decoration for every major studio. He designed and illustrated some 150 children's books. A seizable collection of h.…
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- Title
- Sleeping Beauty. Four Architectural Concept Design Illustrations by Willy Pogany for Murals at W. R. Hearst Estate Wyntoon Commissioned by Julia Morgan [ORIGINAL COLOR DRAWINGS SIGNED BY POGANY]
- Author
- Pogany, William Andrew (Vilmos András Pogany)
- Publication year
- 1935
- Condition
- Fine condition
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Loose leaf
- Edition
- Original artwork.
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- Arts: Fine
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