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ALEXANDER LEYEDENFROST (1881-1961) Bomb over Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Oil on canvas. 660x610 mm; 26x24 inches, image. Signed "A Leydenfrost" in lower left image; laid into 42x40-inch handmade art frame.
Leydenfrost was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer and illustrator who specialized in depicting photorealist aircraft and spaceships. He worked with Willy Pogány on his arrival in the United States, and then with Norman Bel Geddes, he helped design the 1939 World's Fair for General Motors, but his best known work was a series of pictures of warplanes painted during World War II.
