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This deliriously posed nude original artwork is by Earle K. Bergey and was created for a 1933 cover of La Paree Stories.

Parisienne Gaiety

Artist: Earle K. Bergey

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art deco, Earle K. Bergey, erotic, flapper, jazz age, magazine cover, nude, pin up, pre-code, pulp, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: March 23, 2017

    This remarkable, large, and colorful pastel by Billy Devorss was created for Brown & Bigelow’s 1941 calendar line and was published under the title Pretty Smooth. Unlike most of the pin-up artists working during the Golden Age of Illustration, Devorss never signed an exclusive contract with any of the calendar companies, and instead enjoyed incredible popularity […]

Pretty Smooth

Artist: Billy Devorss

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Billy DeVorss, Brown & Bigelow, Golden Age, illustration, original calendar art, pastel, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: March 23, 2017

This dazzling and otherworldly painting by Virgil Finlay appeared on the cover of the July 1954 issue of Fate magazine, a special issue solely focused on the powers of Hypnotism. A scarce original pulp cover illustration from this long running title, this was for many years part of the storied collection of Robert Weinberg. Work is nicely matted and framed […]

How To Hypnotize

Artist: Virgil Finlay

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Fate Magazine, Golden Age, Hypnotism, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, risque, sci-fi, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: February 28, 2017

This original oil painting of a hauntingly pretty blue-eyed lass is a stunning example by noted American illustrator and fine artist, Charles Allan Winter. Winter studied in France and Italy, we are really fans, his oils have a unique, peculiar, haunting quality. The artist illustrated Roycrofter Hubbard’s ‘Little Sermons’ in Cosmopolitan magazine, his work was often featured in Hubbard’s The Fra […]

Blue Eyed Girl

Artist: Charles Allan Winter

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art nouveau, arts & crafts, fadeaway girl, fine art, portrait
Added to Gallery: February 28, 2017

A large expressive C. 1920 Art Deco American painting signed by the artist Sidis, a name which is unfamiliar to us. Though mysterious, this is a fabulous work featuring a harem of nude forest sprites making merriment in lavish erotic dance. The tree foliage is boldly applied impasto paint, which provides stark contrast to the muted tones […]

The Forest Nymphs

Artist: Sidis

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art nouveau, arts & crafts, beaux arts, erotic, fantasy, fine art, Golden Age, harem, jazz age, orientalist, pin up, risque
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2017

The Main Attraction is a large, colorful, and very well-executed 1930s art deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This oil on canvas shows a seedy New York City theater, with a writhing burlesque dancer bathed in […]

The Main Attraction

Artist: Jack Levitz

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, burlesque, erotic, Jack Levitz, lurid, new york city, risque, Urban, vaudeville, WPA
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2017

    This is a large preliminary charcoal drawing by Gil Elvgren that evokes two calendar works the artist completed for Brown & Bigelow; 1951’s Party Line and 1958’s A Good Connection. This is signed by Gil Elvgren lower right, above a note by the artist for the art director at Brown & Bigelow, Clair […]

A Good Connection – Preliminary Drawing

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, glamour, Golden Age, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, Preliminary
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2017

This is a large preliminary charcoal drawing by Gil Elvgren, a study for the Brown & Bigelow pin-up calendar painting published in 1956 with the title Fit To Be Tied. This comes from a collection of Elvgren preliminary graphite drawings that we acquired which were found in a house in Sarasota, Florida where the artist once […]

Fit To Be Tied – Preliminary Drawing

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, Golden Age, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, portrait, Preliminary, risque
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2017

This is simply an electric in coloring and technique pastel and conté crayon large format erotic work by the well listed illustrator and fine artist Mahlon Blaine.

The Conjurer

Artist: Mahlon Blaine

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, erotic, fantasy, fine art, jazz age, Mahlon Blaine, nude, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: February 21, 2017

The Circle Of Life is an art deco allegorical avant-garde pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins. This early offering by the renowned illustrator recalls the erotic and stylized work of British artist Aubrey Beardsley while considering man’s relationship to mortality. This is part of a series of similarly exotic and provocative drawings Higgins created between 1927 – 1929, which would much […]

The Circle Of Life

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, art deco, avant-garde, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: February 21, 2017

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