Frank Gallo Signed 1987 Limited Edition "Persephone" 39x46 Custom Framed Hand-Painted Cast Paper Relief Sculpture #64/100 (Circle Fine Art COA)

Custom frame measures 39" x 46" in size and has been hand-signed and numbered #64/100 in pencil by Frank Gallo. Mixed media on cast and hand painted cut-out paper with color, signed & numbered, from an edition of 100.

August 1984, Playboy Enterprises leased it to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for five years at $10 a year. ``It is our intention to make a permanent donation (of the mansion) within that time,`` said Christie Hefner, Playboy`s president and chief operating officer.

The Art Institute also bought the south addition to the mansion at 1336 N. State Parkway for $500,000.

The connection between Hefner and art has been long-standing. As a student, he took a course in figure drawing at the Art Institute. Later, he filled the mansion with the works of such artists as Picasso, Pollock, de Kooning, Abbott Pattison, Frank Gallo, Franz Klein and LeRoy Neiman.

His work is often mildly erotic, with elongated figures that may sit or recline in postures suggesting extremes of boredom or self-involvement. Frank Gallo has also made lithographs, using the same thematic material. Examples of his work are in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. and the Los Angeles County Art Museum.

Museum exhibitions include The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals 1964-1967 and Young America, 1965; Alliance on Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC 1968; Venice Biennale, 1968; Works on Paper, Art Institute of Chicago, 1978; and Frank Gallo Retrospective, Paine Art Center, Oshkosh WI, 1983.

Awards include: Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1966 and Best Illustrator of the Year, Society of Published Designers, 1979

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