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  This is a beautiful, unique, and rare preliminary graphite drawing by Gil Elvgren for a Brown & Bigelow artwork, though it appears the final composition shifted somewhat, as this bears resemblance to a few different published pieces. Gil Elvgren took, on average, one week to complete each of the 400+ pin-up paintings he created […]

Brown & Bigelow Preliminary Sketch

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 23, 2023

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Nude Figure Study Sketch by Gil Elvgren” amount=”10500.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] This original fine art figure study by the pre-eminent pin-up illustrator comes from a collection of Gil Elvgren preliminary graphite drawings that we acquired which were found in a house in Sarasota, Florida where the artist once lived. With restraint […]

Nude Figure Study Sketch

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Gil Elvgren, nude, pin up, Sketch
Added to Gallery: August 23, 2023

  This interior illustration published in the July 17th 1954 issue of the Saturday Evening Post comes from the estate of the artist Edwin Georgi. The image shows a couple on a tense afternoon drive, and appeared on the second page of the first installment of the serialized mystery “Invitation to Murder.” A copy of […]

Invitation to Murder

Artist: Edwin Georgi

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Edwin Georgi, Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: April 13, 2023

  This beautiful and mysterious illustration by Edwin Georgi was created in 1954 as illustration for an interior story in the Saturday Evening Post. Later, a very similar but more tightly rendered variation on this theme would appear in Redbook Magazine illustrating a story titled Marry For Money. While we have been unable to locate […]

Marry For Money Variant

Artist: Edwin Georgi

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Edwin Georgi, gouache, Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: April 3, 2023

Enric Torres-Prat and Selecciones Ilustradas In this original oil on board cover painting for an as-of-yet unidentified crime paperback, Enric Torres-Prat, better known simply as Enric, draws on the style of Robert McGinnis to create a montage featuring a redheaded femme fatale and an oversized purple gun. Please note, the gun is applied via a […]

Femme Fatale with Gun

Artist: Enric

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1970s, Enric, paperback, pin up, redhead, Robert McGinnis, Vampirella
Added to Gallery: February 15, 2023

Marjorie, pin-up model and more This charcoal on paper sketch shows Marjorie Shuttleworth, one of Gil Elvgren’s favorite models in the 1960s in a gorgeous good girl portrait view. Along with modeling for some of Elvgren’s best pin-up paintings, Shuttleworth and Elvgren began a personal romantic relationship after the death of his wife Janet in […]

Sketch of Marjorie

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, Gil Elvgren, pin up, Sketch
Added to Gallery: February 14, 2023

This remarkable, large, and colorful pastel by Billy Devorss was created for pin up calendar use and published under the title The Flame Girl.

The Flame Girl

Artist: Billy Devorss

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Billy DeVorss, blonde, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2022

A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art.

Season’s Greetings

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, illustration
Added to Gallery: February 12, 2022

A beautiful original 1930 dated pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Out of the earth you came.”

Out Of The Earth You Came 

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: February 11, 2022

A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Playthings of Eternity.” A stunning example from the prolific illustrator.

Playthings of Eternity

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins
Added to Gallery: February 11, 2022

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