The man behind the mask of one hundred and fifty different roles, spanning over fifty years, now reveals himself to be Tony Curtis, fine artist.

Tony Curtis’ incredible skill and versatility in the performing arts, is matched by his innate ability to create great beauty in fine art, reflecting the rich life of the artist, giving enormous pleasure to the collector.

While his acting career continues unabated today, what happens to his enormous need to create when the cameras are off and the sound stages are silent at the end of the day?

The same questioning and receptive mind that captures the subtle nuances of daily life, and later incorporates them into his film roles, has spent the last several decades storing sights and memories that are now flowering on his vivid, intensely colored canvases, that virtually burst with life.

Mr. Curtis’ paintings are awash with the artistic spirit of the turn-of-the-century “Fauves”, whose works exploded upon the gentle world of the Impressionists with brilliant, contrasting colors, and flowing sensuous forms, setting the stage for many of the 20th Century artistic revolutions.

He has been sketching, painting, and constructing beautiful assemblages for almost five decades.  Each film locale and co-star has provided him with new inspiration for his art work.  His paintings address a broad range of subjects, with lush, pattern-filled, multi-colored still life's, a personal favorite of the artist.

The glamour of the film world has left its mark on his visual images. Many works seem bigger than life, encompassing great visual concepts within the confines of the canvas.  Bold and explosive, the paintings brim with the sheer joy the artist experiences in creating them, and are a feast for the eyes, as colorful patterns swirl in a crescendo of disciplined movement and contrasts, making a powerful statement of the artist’s taste, skill, and experiences.  Painted with great spontaneity and sureness of attack, they reflect the underlying discipline that is the source of his confidence in his artistic gift.

Tony Curtis’ long-standing love affair with the beauty and glamour of Las Vegas has inspired the brilliantly conceived and colorful paintings that he creates at his studio here.

Extraordinarily successful exhibitions all over North America, Europe, and Asia, of Tony Curtis’ brilliantly colored paintings, assemblages, collages, and boxes, have earned him tremendous acclaim as a highly sought after artist and a prominent place in many world famous public and private collections.

	Tony's Films   Criss Cross (1949) City Across the River (1949) The Lady Gambles (1949) Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) Francis The Talking Mule (1950) I Was a Shoplifter (1950) Winchester 73 (1950) Sierra (1950) Kansas City Raiders (1950) The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951) Son of Ali Baba (1952) Flesh and Fury (1952) No Room for the Groom (1952) Meet Danny Wilson (1952) Houdini (1953) The All-American (1953) Forbidden (1953) Beachhead (1954) Johnny Dark (1954) The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) So This Is Paris (1954) Six Bridges to Cross (1955) The Purple Mask (1955) The Square Jungle (1955) The Rawhide Years (1956) Trapeze (1956) Mister Cory (1957) The Midnight Story (1957) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) The Vikings (1958) The Defiant Ones (1958) Kings Go Forth (1958) The Perfect Furlough (1958) Some Like It Hot (1959) Operation Petticoat (1959) Who Was That Lady? (1959) The Rat Race (1960) Spartacus (1960) The Great Imposter (1960) Pepe (1960) The Outsider (1961) Taras Bulba (1962) Forty Pounds of Trouble (1962) Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)   Not With My Wife You Don't! (1966) Arrivederci, Baby (1966) Chamber of Horrors (1966) Don't Make Waves (1967) The Chastity Belt (1967) The Boston Strangler (1968) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969) Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1969) The Chastity Belt (1969) You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) Lepke (1974) The Count of Monte Cristo (1975) The Last Tycoon (1976) Casanova and Co. (1977) The Manitou (1977) Sextette (1978) The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) It Rained All Day the Night I Left (1979) Title Shot (1979) Double Take (1979) Little Miss Marker (1980) The Mirror Crack'd (1980) Brainwaves (1982) Othello: The Black Commando (1982) Balboa (1982) Where is Parsifal? (1984) Insignificance (1985) King of the City (1985) The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) The Last of Philip Banter (1986) Passagier - The Welcome to Germany (1988) Midnight (1989) Lobster Man from Mars (1989) Walter and Carlo in America (1989) Prime Target (1991) Center of the Web (1992) The Mummy Lives (1993) Naked in New York (1993) The Immortals (1995) The Continued Adventures of Reptile Man (1996)
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