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Wedding For Three

Artist:Edwin Georgi
Date:1958
Medium:Gouache on Illlustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 25 1/2" x 17 1/2" Framed 30" x 35"
Condition:Mint
Original Use:Interior Story for Redbook Magazine January 1959
Price: $7,000.00
Full view of gouache by Edwin Georgi

A large, luminous, and otherworldly gouache illustration created for Redbook Magazine, verso is dated January 1958, but this appeared illustrating the story “Wedding for Three” by Ann Kennedy in the January 1959 issue. A dazzling work by one of our favorite artists in a rainbow inspired color palette that only Georgi could have conceived. Beautifully matted and framed in a period gold gesso frame.

Detail of artwork

Framed view in beautiful period gesso frame

Edwin Georgi (1896 – 1964) Originally leaving Princeton with the ambitions of being a writer, Georgi wrote copy in an agency until persuaded that he would make a better painter. His depiction of sultry, sensual femininity, with a bewildering palette of pearlescent hues, created a powerful image of eroticism in fifties America – and one of impeccable morality. His quality of light was unique – the highlights burning with adjacent areas of pink and lilac. The reflected light he loved so much seemed to come from beneath, and scattered around the face giving an almost unearthly glow.

 

Detail of frame
Above: Verso notations

Wedding For Three

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  $7,000.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Edwin Georgi, mid-century, original interior illustration, Redbook Magazine, slick magazine
Added to Gallery: March 2, 2023

 

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