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The Make Out Room

Artist:Peter Driben
Date:1950s
Medium:Acrylic on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 21 1/2" x 26 1/2" Framed 24" x 30"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Paperback Cover Art for the Novel Library Series
Price: SOLD
Full view of cover painting
Full view of cover painting
The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right

A subversive youth gone wild party scene original cover painting by Peter Driben likely used for a paperback book title published by the Novel Library imprint. During the 1950s a hedonistic bohemian fictional sub-culture existed where teens smoked reefer and engaged in orgiastic exploits while becoming addicted to heroin. In showing these delinquents pursuing their darkest sinful desires, the illustrators of the day seemed to take great joy and this is a prime example of this sort of homage to debauchery.

Framed view in simple gold wood frame
Framed view in simple gold wood frame
Verso view of illustration board
Verso view of illustration board

A basement unsupervised teen party that appears to have benefited from mind altering substances, the participants are either smoking, making out or riding each other as if on a carousel, a swinging party by all accounts, from the estate of Charles Martignette.

The Make Out Room

Artist: Peter Driben
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, bohemian, Charles Martignette, illustration, Novel Library, original cover art, paperback, Peter Driben, pin up, pulp, sleaze, subversive
Added to Gallery: February 3, 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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