Contemporary Art

Jean de Paleologu (or Paleologue) (1855 – 24 November 1942) was a Romanian poster artist, painter, and illustrator, who often used Pal or PAL as his signature or logo and was active in France and the United States.
The Rumanian-born artsist worked in England under the name of Julius Price and then went on to Paris and assumed the name of Pal, creating thousands of illustrations and over one hundred posters in the period of 1893 to 1900, the hallmark of which is always a sensuous, extremely well-endowed lady. In fact, Pal, with his voluptuous women, is avidly collected by dirty old men everywhere.

Charles Matlack Price commented that "Pal's idea was to make drawings of a nature more commercial than those of Cheret, yet no less artistic. He was also the only designer at the time, except Cheret, who understood the technique of lithography, and was able to put his own touches on the stone".

He must have been a very colorful figure; In an interview in a Miami paper just before his death in 1942, he is described as "Prince Paleologue, a direct descendant of the last Christian emperor of Byzantine. His ancestor, Emperor Constantine XII, died on the ramparts of Byzantine fighting the invading Turks in the year 1453 A.D."

He apparently came to the United States with Sarah Bernhardt in 1900, settled in New York, working as a portrait painter, illustrator, billboard painter, film designer and cartoon animator. He became a U.S. citizen in 1923 and lived the last two years of his life in Miami, Florida. ...

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