• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Key Artists
    • Rolf Armstrong
    • Mahlon Blaine
    • Henry Clive
    • Gil Elvgren
    • Cardwell Higgins
    • Earl Moran
    • Charles Gates Sheldon
    • Arthur Prince Spear
    • Bunny Yeager
  • About
  • Browse by Topic
  • Contact

Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

  • Gallery Blog
  • Golden Gallery
  • Fine & Decorative
  • Illustration & Advertising
  • Paperback & Pulp
  • Pin-Up & Glamour
Illustration & Advertising Art

Egyptian Princess Practices Black Magic

Artist:Maurice Greiffenhasen
Date:1900s
Medium:Gouache on illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 10" x 15 1/2" Framed 20 1/2" x 26 1/2"
Condition:Mint
Original Use:Interior Illustration for Book Plate
Above: Close Up of Image
Above: Full Image matted in Gesso Frame
Above: Artist’s Signature

This is a haunting original illustration of an Egyptian Princess trying to save her Dying Prince, by concocting some potions as a serpent feeds and assorted Black Magic abounds.

A stunning presumably interior book plate illustration signed Maurice Greiffenhasen.

This evokes the early 1900s imagery of Coles Phillips and Maxfield Parrish and is masterfully executed with a very stylized art deco Egyptian aesthetic.

Egyptian Princess Practices Black Magic

Artist: Maurice Greiffenhasen

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1900s, art deco, black magic, egyptian, escapism, fantasy, Maurice Greiffenhasen, nude, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: November 25, 2003

 

Contact Grapefruit Moon Gallery



    Primary Sidebar

    Join our mailing list

    Grapefruit Moon Gallery Around the Web

    • Facebook
    • Instagram

    Copyright © 2025