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Now, This Is Just Between You And Me

Artist:Earl Moran
Date:c. 1946-1948
Medium:Pastel on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size: 20" x 24" | Framed: 29" x 34"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Calendar Art for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company
Price: Sold
Full view of pastel
Full view of pastel

 

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The artist’s signature

 

Framed in a vintage museum quality gold gesso frame
Framed in a vintage museum quality gold gesso frame

 

Our Gallery previously sold this pastel in April of 2015; we are very pleased to offer it again for sale!

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer one of the finest Earl Moran pastels ever available for sale. Titled Now, This Is Just Between You And Me, this showcases the young Blue Book Agency pin-up model Norma Jeane Baker, who in just a short few years transformed herself into Hollywood’s most famous platinum blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. Recently resurfaced photographs taken of Monroe as a model posed for Moran’s Brown & Bigelow calendar commissions from the years of 1946-1948 have been the subject of recent newspaper articles and tremendous internet buzz. This rare, surving, published pastel is in pristine condition and is framed in a gorgeous, vintage, museum quality, carved wood frame that only enhances the allure and beauty.

This image first appeared in the 1940s as a mutoscope card with the title Now, This Is Just Between You And Me. It also appeared as the September illustration of the 1948 Earl Moran 12-page Calendar Nifty Numbers. The tantalizing quip reads: My reputation’s reached afar – I always keep ’em guessing – But the call charge needn’t stop us if your call is really pressing…. A mutoscope card is included in the sale.

 

Nifty Numbers Calendar with image as the September page (included in sale)
Nifty Numbers Calendar with image as the September page (not included in sale)

 

Gentlemen Prefer Bonds advertising tablet
Gentlemen Prefer Bonds advertising tablet (not included in sale)

 

Published Brown & Bigelow Mutoscope card of pastel
Published Brown & Bigelow mutoscope card (included in sale)

 

Frame profile corner view
Frame profile corner view

 

Below are early images of Marilyn Monroe from her modeling days for The Blue Book Model Agency as posed for Earl Moran and his numerous 1940s Brown & Bigelow calendar commissions. Several appear to be reference shots from a sitting for this pastel.

 

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Now, This Is Just Between You And Me

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold, Uncategorized
Tagged With: Blue Book Model Agency, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Earl Moran, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

 

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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.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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