Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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A spectacular and otherworldly Edwin Georgi gouache painting on illustration board in a color palette so unusual it could only have been envisioned by this particular artist. A pair of lovers literally and metaphorically going different ways in their relationship sensing the distance between them, both nattily attired and icy cold in disposition. Published in an as of yet determined slick magazine (likely Redbook or Cosmopolitan) as a full color interior story illustration circa 1950s.

Two on a Match

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  $6,500.00

A large, luminous, and otherworldly gouache illustration most likely created for Redbook Magazine, verso is dated January 1958. A most awkward wedding day depiction where seemingly the groom new the bride and the bride’s maid of honor when they used to rock and roll. 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.

Wedding For Three

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  $7,000.00

An unpublished original pastel by Rolf Armstrong of model Dea Jamel Smith, a pretty young dancer from Julliard who Armstrong worked with extensively during the 1920’s and early 30s as she had the face and physique of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz-age. This work was never published, we acquired it from the model’s descendants. Armstrong really excelled at these pastel close-up portraits, this is a lovely and fresh to the market example that captures the allure of the flapper girl effortlessly with a blue eyed flirty smile.

A Blue Eyed Beauty

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  $4,950.00

An early cover pastel by Rolf Armstrong that served as the cover for The January 1916 issue of “American Magazine” featuring a lovely portrait of artist’s model Betty Lester. While Armstrong is best known today as “The Father of America Pin-up”, he created hundreds of covers for American magazines with titles as diverse as Photoplay, College Humor, The Saturday Evening Post and American Magazine.

Portrait of Betty Lester

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  Sold

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is honored to be able to offer “Ye Chiseler – Yo Ho Ho And a Bottle of Rum”, a large, commanding, seductive and masterful mural created by Henry Clive, to our eyes the finest illustrator working in jazz age Hollywood. Along with its companion work “The Infidel” (also available through Grapefruit Moon Gallery), Clive created this masterwork for the tavern of The Masquers Club, a historic and fascinating Hollywood institution.

Ye Chiseler

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  Sold

A hauntingly beautiful dated 1919 oil on canvas painting by the American artist and illustrator Charles Allan Winter. A nude Art Nouveau maiden with a purple iris posed in front of mosaic work in a style and aesthetic that recalls Alphonse Mucha. Painting is framed in a completely hand crafted gesso batwing frame that was created specifically to house this jewel of a painting.

Art Nouveau Nude With Purple Iris

Artist: Charles Winter
Price:  SOLD

Bunny Yeager as Model and Photographer Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963. The artist and model showcases her draw on both sides of the camera by posing on Miami Beach in Florida wearing a teeny-weeny polka dot bikini (that she made herself) as […]

Bunny Lying in Surf in Handmade Bikini – Miami Beach, FL

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  SOLD

Bunny Yeager as Model and Photographer Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963. The artist and model showcases her draw on both sides of the camera by posing on Miami Beach in Florida in a pair of curve-hugging hot pants and a fuzzy bandeau […]

Bunny with Feathers – Miami Beach, FL

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  Sold

Bunny Yeager as Model and Photographer Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963, showcasing her draw on both sides of the camera by posing in a negligee handmade by the photographer. The platinum Yeager channels original blonde bombshell Jean Harlow in this sensual self […]

Bunny in Handmade Negligee (after Jean Harlow)

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  $2,250.00

 

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