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Daughter of Satan

Artist:George Gross
Date:1948
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size: 15 1/4" x 20 1/4" Framed: 17 1/2" x 23"
Condition:Very Good with Overpainted White Border Fields
Original Use:Cover for Women In Crime Digest Pulp - March, 1948
Full view
Full view
The artist's signature lower middle
The artist’s signature, lower middle
The illustration as it appeared as the cover on the March ,1948 - Women In Crime Pulp
The illustration as it appeared as the cover on the March, 1948 – Women in Crime Pulp

A lurid, true crime themed, spicy pulp cover pin-up painting by George Gross featuring a bathing beauty, gun toting moll as “The Daughter of Satan,” for the March, 1948 pulp digest title Women in Crime which purported to have stories based on True Fact Detective Cases. The tagline on the cover reads “Some Women Love To Kill – Some Kill To Love…” though the viewer is left wondering which category this bad girl belongs in.

The work has been re-lined and re-stretched and the white borders have been neatly overpainted to create a visually appealing image by an artist the Gallery really admires – George Gross.

From the collection of Bob and Diane Yaspan.

Detail
Detail
Framed view
Framed view
Verso view of relined and re-stretched canvas
Verso view of re-lined and re-stretched canvas

Daughter of Satan

Artist: George Gross

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, bathing beauty, Daughter of Satan, erotic, George Gross, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

 

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