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Paperback & Pulp Art

Publishers of depression-era pulp magazines, post war men’s adventure and girlie magazines, and lurid paperback titles all used risqué, action-packed illustrations to make their offerings jump off the newsstands in the highly competitive market for readers attention. Cover art pushed the boundaries of what was allowable in a heavily-censored era, coming up with increasingly deviant and outlandish portrayals of sex, violence, and perilous escapes from danger. Today, these works—which provide an intriguing peek into the shadow side of 20th century American culture—are studied by historians and coveted by collectors.

A large format, lurid and iconic paperback cover painting by Verne Tossey that was used as the cover for the 1955 Ace paperback Left Bank Of Desire.

Left Bank Of Desire

Artist: Verne Tossey
Price: $5,500.00  $3,850.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Ace Books, Left Bank Of Desire, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, Verne Tossey
Added to Gallery: November 10, 2017

Joseph Pignone created this haunting and just mesmerizing gouache illustration painting for the July 1934 cover of Radio-Craft magazine. In this visually commanding original cover illustration from the machine age era of science and industry and modernist design aesthetics, a blind flapper girl with short bobbed hair holds a radio device that was created to guide the blind. Includes a printers proof tear sheet of the published magazine.

Radio Device Guides The Blind

Artist: Joseph Pignone
Price: $4,500.00  $3,150.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, flapper, Joseph Pignone, machine age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, Radio, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: June 29, 2017

Futuristic, detailed, and very precise, we believe this science-fiction inspired imagination of cosmos exploration to have been created for cover use in the British magazine Understanding Science, a Sampson Low Publication.

Mars Satellite

Artist: Unknown British Illustrator
Price: $1,200.00  $840.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1960s, British, cold war, sci-fi, science, Understanding Science Magazine
Added to Gallery: June 28, 2017

Two squared jaw toughs slug it out as a pretty redhead damsel in distress looks on in this classic pulp cover painting for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

Master Detective Pulp Cover Art

Artist: Mel Phillips
Price: $3,500.00 $2,450.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Golden Age, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2017

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
Price: $14,000.00 $9,800.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
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

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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