Pál Fried

Pál Fried (16 June 1893 in Hungary – 6 March 1976 in New York City) was a Hungarian artist best known for his eroticized paintings of female dancers and nudes.

Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone.

[1] In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas.

Fried emigrated to the United States in 1946 after World War II,[2] where he taught at the New York Academy of Art.

At times, this particular artist would make several, almost identical versions of the same oil painting, except he would use slightly different facial expressions and/or would try different colour schemes.