Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Adventurous Book

Willy Pogany had a style that seemed to oscillate between each adventurous book that he illustrated —the same basic style, but on slightly different frequencies — always with classical composition and graphic impact. So many of his books were wonders to behold.

The book below has a number of pen & ink illustrations, but here are the color plates.

Willy Pogany
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy — 1918

The Judgement of Paris


The Fair Helen

Achilles Victorious

The Princess Threw the Ball

The Sorrowing Odysseus

Circe

The Sirens

Penelope Unravelling the Web

3 comments:

M. D. Jackson said...

I love Willy Pogany's work!

Bob said...

These are quite beautiful.

Glen Story said...

There's some very bold use of negative space!

Glen