Maxfield Parrish’s drawing for his children provides a peek into the imagination of the artist who Norman Rockwell called “my idol”.
Artist: Maxfield Parrish
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Welcome to Grapefruit Moon Gallery. Here you will find an archived visual history of past sales. Pretty to look at, some are quite old; but when they're in here, consider them sold!
Liberty magazine commissioned this painting by Harold Von Schmidt for an excerpt from The Red Napoleon, a 1929 “future history” novel by Floyd Gibbons.
Artist: Harold von Schmidt
A fabulous American Impressionist fine art painting by the well regarded artist Charles Allan Winter depicting a bashful redhead catching her nude reflection in an idyllic secluded watering hole of a stream. The painting is signed in the lower left corner and is housed in a fabulous American Arts & Crafts aesthetic gallery frame. This […]
Artist: Charles Winter
An original signed painting by the prolific illustrator Henry Clive. This was likely commissioned for the cover of The American Weekly, a William Randolph Hearst publication. Clive spent three decades creating several hundred covers for this weekly publication, although the original paintings rarely come on the market. Pictured is pin-up model and Paramount Film Star Mona Freeman who made a nice career for herself typically cast as the perky good girl supporting actress.
Artist: Henry Clive
A subversive and suggestive gouache painting by Isabel Dawson which appeared as the cover of the Stallion Books paperback Trailer Camp Girl, a 1953 offering written by Doug Duperault. The text slugs reads : “They Called Her A Trailer Tramp – A Story of The Carefree Women Who Live – And Love – In Trailer Camps…” Painting has […]
Artist: Isabel Dawson
Original painting by André Castaigne that shows Mark Antony and Cleopatra in a gauzy opulent Egyptian interior. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Andre Castaigne
A decorative and extreme Art Deco/Machine Age pen and ink advertising drawing by Cardwell Higgins for the 1927 Cadillac Convertible. Work is signed and dated lower right and beautifully framed and matted behind glass; from the estate of Charles Martignette. Higgins was an accomplished draftsman and had a keen eye for design and graphics as seen in this smartly rendered work.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
We are pleased to have this original pastel by the talented and prolific pin-up artist and illustrator R. Wilson Hammell. This Spanish attired, flapper girl envisioning of Joan Crawford was created either as a calendar art print for The Joseph Hoover Calendar Company or an early talkie movie era Magazine Cover. Crawford was an eager publicity hound in the early 1930’s filling the void created by the elusive Garbo, who refused any publicity during the era of Crawford’s ascendancy to stardom.
Artist: R. Wilson Hammell
This jubilant pastel portrait of a young beaming pre-code chorine is an early signed offering by the famed pin-up artist Earl Moran. Dating to the early 1930s, the image appears to feature a young Alice Faye, who made her Broadway debut in George White’s Scandals in 1931 and made the move to Hollywood when the film version of the show was produced in 1934.
Artist: Earl Moran
Henry Raleigh created this signed and dated illustration for an interior story in a 1925 issue The Saturday Evening Post. The scene is a moody bedroom view with a woman crying into a pillow as a dapper man looks out the window, seeming to dream of escape from the bonds of domesticity.
Artist: Henry Raleigh
