Willy Pogány attribute?

Hi all,

Need some help here... Please see the illustration link: http://www.collectingfool.com/published/pogany-devilpage.jpg

Can anyone shed some light on this "illuminated manuscript" like illustration?
It is a scan of original art from one of my friend's collection.

It has been attributed to Pogány from about 1910 or so. I have checked my collection and the Ibis Journal 1... to no avail *sigh*.....

Thanks again!!!

No help from me - beautiful page though.

-- John

Wonderful work - no clues though. Wish I could be more help!!

I've recently been all up to my elbows in Pogány— dug through about 30 books from all phases of his career. I wish I could say the piece looked familiar, but I can't. I tried searching for the line of text- If it was from any but the most obscure piece of literature, it would have come up, but again, nothing. Could it be earlier, I wonder, than his 1910-1914 run? Experimental, perhaps. We don't really know a lot about what Pogány was doing the years he spent in Munich and Paris. The letterforms don't seem up to standard with his Rime and Wagner books.

The other thing that throws me is the gold leaf. The piece here was likely meant to be an original- not a piece to be reproduced from. There is no easy way to photographicly separate gold into a fifth color in printing. (or combining it convincingly into the other four, for that matter) I doubt that an illustrator with professional experience would prepare a painting for commercial use this way. I certainly acknowledge the Pogány influence, in the combination of elements, and the illustration, especially.

I might suggest an email to Geoffrey Beare, or Robin Greer, who wrote the IBIS Journal piece that is the cornerstone of public knowledge on Pogány. Impressive piece, regardless. Keep us posted-

Jeff A. Menges

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