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A Neat Package

Artist:Gil Elvgren
Date:1961
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 24" x 30" Framed 28" x 34"
Condition:Mint
Original Use:Calendar Art for Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company
Price: S O L D
Above: Detail
Above: The artist’s signature

An original 1961 Oil on Canvas by Gilette Elvgren commissioned by the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company and published under the title “A Neat Package”. A sexy Elvgren pin-up that explores the silk stockings and garters scenario that the artist is best known for. For those of you not keeping track, recent auctions have seen Elvgren’s pin-up works for Brown & Bigelow topping $200,000.00 on two occasions with a high water mark of $262,900.00 at Heritage Auctions June 5th sale in Dallas Texas (Lot #66097).

Above: Verso view and original pine stretchers
Above: Notations on back stretcher
Above: Framed in period wood frame

This work is featured on page 174; plate #419 in “Gil Elvgren All his Glamorous pin-ups,” and included in the sale is this large printed 1962 Advertising Calendar by Brown & Bigelow with artwork image.

Above: A large framed vintage 1962 advertsing calendar of Brown & Bigelow artwork (included in sale)

A Neat Package

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, original calendar art, pin up, stockings, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 23, 2008

 

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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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