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This is a 1930s signed, Art Deco watercolor painting on illustration board by the listed artist George Le Duc. It depicts a fashionable stylized woman with grapes on her way to the bacchanal. The painting has been silk matted and handsomely framed under glass and is ready to enjoy.

Art Deco Woman with Grapes

Artist: Georges Le Duc

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art deco, bacchanalia, french, George LeDuc, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: October 15, 2019

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Art Deco Blonde in Black Satin

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, blonde, Calendar, fashion, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, jazz age, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2019

This is a classic example of vintage American pin up art, featuring a brunette in fashionable red ensemble with heart shaped hat. The model wears a classic cheesecake “ooh” face. Signed lower right by the artist Hagan. This is just darling, housed in the simple original wood frame.

A Vision In Red

Artist: Hagan

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, cheesecake, glamour, Golden Age, Hagan, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2019

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Big Eye Girl In Paris

Artist: Roff Of Paris

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, Big Eye, fine art, Margaret Keane, modernism, modernist, paris
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2019

Earl Moran created this coquettish and sassy pin-up pastel for Brown and Bigelow’s 1941 calendar line.  It was published with the title Fishermans’s Luck. The image shows an outdoorsy redhead beauty fly fishing wading into the water, legs on full display. This fresh-to-the-market original pastel is in a pristine state of conservation and retains the […]

Fisherman’s Luck

Artist: Earl Moran

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Earl Moran, fishing, glamour, Golden Age, original calendar art, original illustration art, pastel, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 4, 2019

    This is an exciting, fresh-to-the-market paperback book cover illustration by Al Schmidt for the 1952 Cardinal Complete Book Edition of The White Tower by James Ramsey Ullman. The text slug on the paperback reads, “Five men and one woman gazed upward at Weissturm – The White Tower – hypnotized by the beckoning shadows […]

The White Tower

Artist: Al Schmidt

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Golden Age, illustration, lurid, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp
Added to Gallery: June 3, 2019

This vintage illustration features a disheveled Jimmy Stewart type in rumpled raincoat and hat, being side-eyed with disdain. The other fellow appears to be wearing last night’s tuxedo, if the stack of pancakes is any indication. Since we have yet identified the use or artist of this piece, we can’t do more than speculate on […]

Meeting At A Diner

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1950s, en grisaille, Golden Age, Men's Magazine art, noir, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2019

A feisty redhead is caught in a private moment in this voyeuristic and menacing published pulp painting that was used as the cover of Ecstasy Books #15 “Wanton By Night.” The image is filled with classic pulp iconography, from the scantily-clad femme fatale hurryingly drawing down her shade in the close confines of urban apartment […]

Wanton by Night

Artist: George Gross

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: damsel in distress, Ecstasy Books, George Gross, paperback, pin up, pulp, Pursuit, True Crime
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2019

This oil on canvas painting by Reginald Bolles is a classic example of Golden Age illustration and was likely created as cover art for an American glossy magazine in the 1920s. Showcasing a smartly attired flapper girl in a cloche hat closely admiring a cherry tree branch with a birds nest attached that is filled […]

The Robins Nest

Artist: Reginald Bolles

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, american, art deco, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2019

This is an original men’s magazine interior illustration of unknown usage, dating to the 1950s to 60s. The scene shows a dramatic alley fight, with one man falling to the ground, flashlight tumbling, after the other got the jump on him.  A grisaille gouache on illustration board, this painting is very nicely framed and matted […]

Alley Fight

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: en grisaille, lurid, Men's Magazine art, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sweats, Urban
Added to Gallery: May 19, 2019

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