Pál Fried was a Hungarian artist best known for his eroticized paintings of female dancers and nudes. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. Fried emigrated to the United States in 1946 after World War II,[2] where he taught at the New York Academy of Art. He prepared portraits of American celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe.
