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Smooth

Artist:Earl Moran
Date:1930s
Medium:Pastel on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight size 22" by 30 1/2" Framed to 25 1/2" by 34 "
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Advertising For Richlube Motor Oil
Price:$15,000.00 $10,500.00
Full view of pastel illustration
Full view of pastel illustration
The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right
The image as it appeared as an advertisement for Richlube Motor Oil
The image as it appeared as an advertisement for Richlube Motor Oil

A spectacular example of Earl Moran’s early pin-up pastel illustration work, created for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company, and used in a 1930s Richlube Motor Oil advertising calendar with the caption “Smooth”. The images showcases a sublime and sexy red headed flapper girl cutie who appears to have stepped right out of the chorus line of a pre-code Hollywood film title. The Automobilia / Petroliana advertising tie-in and pristine condition only add to the already abundant allure. Pastel is framed in a handsome and likely original gold painted wood frame and is properly lined under UV glass.

Detail
Detail
Framed and properly lined under UV glass view
Framed and properly lined under UV glass
Verso Brown & Bigleow inventory label
Verso Brown & Bigelow inventory label

Smooth

Artist: Earl Moran
Price: $15,000.00 $10,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, art deco, automobilia, Calendar, Earl Moran, flapper, Golden Age, petroliana, pin up, Richlube Oil, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 4, 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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