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Modern Girl Book Pin-up Girl

Artist:Cardwell Higgins
Date:1937
Medium:Pastel on illustration board
Dimensions:Image sight size of 17 1/2" by 23 1/2" framed 24" by 30"
Condition:Very good
Original Use:Cover for Modern Girl Book Magazine - May 1939
Price: $4,500.00
Detail
Detail
Framed and properly lined under glass with tear sheet of cover (included in sale).
Framed and properly lined under glass with tear sheet of cover (included in sale).
The published cover of Modern Girl Book Magazine May 1939 -Included in sale
The published cover of Modern Girl Book Magazine May 1939 -Included in sale

This original pastel on illustration board by the prolific cover artist and pin-up illustrator Cardwell Higgins features an oddly alluring modernist brunette showgirl. Used as the cover for the May, 1937 issue of Modern Girl Book Magazine, this was unsigned by the artist, as was common in the pulp world. A tear sheet of this pastel which is included in the sale, was archived in the artist’s scrapbook, which we acquired several years ago at Charles Martignette’s estate auction in Florida. So while unsigned, this is the finished pastel published cover by Cardwell Higgins. Modern Girl Book Magazine was essentially a bed-sheet sized spicy pulp publication with a very short run and small circulation. We have a companion pastel by Higgins of a blonde in the same format and similar pose that we just added to our gallery a couple of days ago that we also believe to have been used as a cover for this title.

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The pastel is handsomely framed and properly lined behind glass and ready to display.

Verso view of old illustration board
Verso view of old illustration board

Modern Girl Book Pin-up Girl

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $4,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp
Added to Gallery: January 12, 2018

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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