Arthur Pinajian 0

[MIL0S]

Sad story, artist achieves no recognition in his lifetime and his family wants to pitch his life’s work into the trash. Article says he worked in comics but I saw no examples on CAF, anyone own any examples of his work? 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290200/amp/30million-haul-abstract-art-forgotten-painter-run-cottage-sold-300-000.html

[Rick2you2]

58 minutes ago, MIL0S said:

Sad story, artist achieves no recognition in his lifetime and his family wants to pitch his life’s work into the trash. Article says he worked in comics but I saw no examples on CAF, anyone own any examples of his work? 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290200/amp/30million-haul-abstract-art-forgotten-painter-run-cottage-sold-300-000.html

No, but there are a couple pages over here. His fine art is very good if you appreciate that style.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290200/30million-haul-abstract-art-forgotten-painter-run-cottage-sold-300-000.html

Edited November 3, 2018 by Rick2you2

[aokartman]

Interesting, and he has multiple art credits in comic books for the late 1930s-1940 on the Grand Comics Database, but nothing on Heritage that I saw, except a comic book, no art.  David

[delekkerste]

Fake news. It later came out that the $30 million appraisal was all smoke and mirrors by those with financial interests in the art.  Nobody who knows how the art world actually works believed this farce from the start.  

[aokartman]

13 hours ago, delekkerste said:

Fake news. It later came out that the $30 million appraisal was all smoke and mirrors by those with financial interests in the art.  Nobody who knows how the art world actually works believed this farce from the start.  

The new owners have a lot of original art by a virtually unknown artist.  I saw a result on liveauctioneers in the hundreds of dollars, though.  Probably not millions in total, but good for something.  As you suggest, it is in the marketing.  Curious connection to original comic art!  Those pages could actually be good money if they are found. 

He drew many stories for early golden age comic books under the pen name Art Gordon.

The "find" of his art would be of great interest to OA collectors if any of his comic art survived. 

He drew the "Tyrant's Gold" story for this book.

Amazing Mystery Funnies, v.1, #1 for August 1938.

David

Edited November 4, 2018 by aokartman
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[Rick2you2]

10 hours ago, delekkerste said:

Fake news. It later came out that the $30 million appraisal was all smoke and mirrors by those with financial interests in the art.  Nobody who knows how the art world actually works believed this farce from the start.  

From what I saw, some of it is still very good, even if the total claim is too high.

[comix4fun]

11 hours ago, delekkerste said:

Fake news. It later came out that the $30 million appraisal was all smoke and mirrors by those with financial interests in the art.  Nobody who knows how the art world actually works believed this farce from the start.  

I remember that story now. It was something like 11 years ago they bought the house and it took them another 5-6 to really ramp up the marketing train on that story. 

It's like an intro class into Hucksterism. No one cares if you bought a piece of art for a steal from an artist or his family but if you have a "BARN FIND, LOST TREASURE, ALMOST THROWN AWAY, LIKE FINDING AN ORIGINAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT A SWAP MEET THAT WAS HIDDEN BEHIND A PAINTING OF DOGS PLAYING POKER, & DISCOVERED IN AN ATTIC JUST BEFORE THE WRECKING BALL STRUCK!!!" then it's suddenly GOLD!. 

People will, now and for all time, will buy the sizzle far faster than they will buy the steak. 

[aokartman]

Arthur Pinajian

Art Franklin, Art Gordon, Jay Fletcher, Tohm Dix

(1914 - 1999, USA)   

Madam Fatal (Crack Comics #14, July 1941)

Art Pinajian worked as a comic book artist from the late 1930s throughout the 1950s. He was a member of the Eisner-Iger Studio in 1938-39 and of Funnies Inc in 1939-42. He worked on many 1930s Centaur titles and features, including 'Capitain Juan', 'Egbert the Great' and 'Tim Roberts'. He subsequently joined Funnies Inc.

Reynolds of the Mounted

Pinajian also drew 'Captain Terry Thunder' for Fiction House, 'Inspector Bancroft' for Fox Comics, 'The Wasp' for Lev Gleason and 'Jungle Terror' for Timely. He was a regular at Quality Comics with 'Hooded Justice', 'Invisible Justice', 'Madam Fatal' and 'Reynolds of the Mounted'. In the 1950s he worked on western stories for Atlas/Marvel.

Invisible Justice

 

Artwork © 1999 Arthur Pinajian

Website © 1994-2018 Lambiek

[Electricmastro]

Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999):

“Pinajian, the son of Armenian holocaust survivors, was a native of Union City, New Jersey. He started as a cartoonist in the 1930s and found considerable success fashioning comic strips for Quality, Marvel, and Centaur Comics. 

After World War II, during which he earned the Bronze Star for valor, he rejected commercial art, attended the Art Students League in New York, and committed himself to the pursuit of serious painting. Prior to his many years in Bellport with Armen, he rented a studio in Woodstock, New York, and there and in West New York, New Jersey, he began to wrestle with the challenges of being a modern artist. This meant painting in a variety of styles ranging from the figurative to the abstract.”

http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART

[grapeape]

I love the family. Just 🗑 the 🖼 

Toss it in the bin!!!

Michael One Minute Later I’m sure would be interested in the golden age art no?

 

 

 

[bisquitodoom]

So sad. 

One of my grandmother's uncles was an artist in the 30's and I'd love to be able to get a page of his.  Can't imagine just wanting to throw them all away.