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This painting was purchased from the Illustration House in the early 1990s and this exhibited artwork is rumored to have been modeled by Constance Bennett and for a time hung in the bedroom of her lover Phillip Wrigley.

New York World’s Fair Mermaid

Artist: C.D. Williams

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: C.D. Williams, Constance Bennett, Exhibited, mermaid, nymph, World's Fair
Added to Gallery: May 9, 2018

This is a signed and dated 1917 oil on canvas fine art painting from Polish artist Joseph Kostka. The artist exhibited throughout Europe during the late 1800s and early 1900s with a focus on still lives and dreamy turn-of-the-century figurative studies.

Sally At The Seashore

Artist: Joseph Kostka

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Joseph Kostka, nude, nymph
Added to Gallery: May 8, 2018

This symbolist watercolor painting by the important Austrian artist Paul Grabwinkler shows a luscious nude on the cliffs with a skeleton at her feet.

The Precipice Of Death

Artist: Paul Grabwinkler

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: allegorical, german, gothic, Jugendstil, macabre, memento mori, nude, Paul Grabwinkler, skeleton, skull, Symbolism, symbolist, The Golden Gallery, Vienna Secession
Added to Gallery: April 30, 2018

This richly colored, large, and dazzling mid-century illustration is a likely interior illustration for Redbook magazine (a publication for which Edwin Georgi worked frequently) and is a defining example by the gifted and inventive artist and illustrator. Painting has been signed by the artist in the lower left corner and is nicely matted and framed behind […]

The Social Hour

Artist: Edwin Georgi

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Edwin Georgi, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: April 26, 2018

This oriinal painting by the Russian-American illustrator Bernard Gussow appeared as the cover of Theatre Magazine – The Magazine For Playgoers.

The Children’s Theater

Artist: Bernard Gussow

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, Bernard Gussow, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, russian, Theater Magazine
Added to Gallery: April 22, 2018

A dark and mystical exhibited fine art oil painting by the prolific and frequent Golden Age of Illustration pulp artist Harry Fisk.

Nude Contemplation

Artist: Harry Fisk

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: black magic, Exhibited, nude, pulp, Salmagundi Club
Added to Gallery: April 21, 2018

In this gouache-on-board cover illustration for 1952’s The Scarlet Slipper, James Meese captures the unique mixture of the American homestead with a tough-talking private eye in the mix.

The Scarlet Slippers

Artist: James Alfred Meese

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, James Alfred Meese, lurid, original cover art, paperback, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: April 13, 2018

This was the original camera ready artwork used in the production of the 1970 Avon paperback edition of the novel The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen.

The Favorite Game

Artist: Milton Charles

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Avon Books, Color Photograph, Leonard Cohen, paperback, The Favorite Game
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

This gouache illustration painting appeared on the cover of Naked Sinner, the 1959 “savage novel of a wild call girl and her shocking immoral affairs”.

Naked Sinner

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Bart Frame, Bedside Book, erotic, Greenleaf Publishing, Naked Sinner, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

  A captivating, lustful, original cover painting by Victor Kalin created for use as cover art for the 1959 Dell paperback edition of the Scott Jordan mystery Murder on Broadway by Hal Masur. The work was titled The Last Gamble in its hardback incarnation, but the paperback title captures the lurid allure of the mystery of […]

Murder On Broadway

Artist: Victor Kalin

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: erotic, Hal Masur, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pin up, pulp, sleaze, Victor Kalin
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

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