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Sorry, It's Sold

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!

A Courtroom Circus by Jack Levitz Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges is a large, colorful, and 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 […]

Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges

Artist: Jack Levitz
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, burlesque, circus, Jack Levitz, oil painting, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2020

Commercial Advertising Art by Harold McCauley In the 1960s, after a successful career as a pulp, and later, paperback cover artist, Harold McCauley was faced with the reality of a dwindling market for his brand of sci-fi and fantasy illustration. Moving away from freelance work, the artist found employment as a company illustrator for The […]

Seaplanes

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, aviation, Commercial Illustration, gouache, Harold McCauley
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2020

Edwardian Interior Scene by Clarence F. Underwood This is an original gouache on artist’s paper painting by American artist and illustrator Clarence F. Underwood. An emotional family portrait, we see a group of solemn men and women seated opposite an older woman, all looking forlorn and sad. We have been unable to pinpoint the exact […]

Figures on a Porch

Artist: Clarence F. Underwood
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, Clarence F. Underwood, Edwardian, gouache
Added to Gallery: September 22, 2020

Cropped view of watercolor painting by Bob Dacey showing a young high school girl in conversation with a boy

Original illustration by Bob Dacey from A Sense of Shelter This is an original watercolor illustration by Bob Dacey. A captivating piece, it captures the emotion of two high school students in the middle of a conversation about their feelings for each other. This is a tender and youthfully nostalgic piece that was used to […]

A Sense of Shelter

Artist: Bob Dacey
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1980s, Bob Dacey, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, John Updike, original interior illustration, Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: September 22, 2020

Demure Woman in Straw Bonnet by J. Knowles Hare This is a large, early 1900s pastel illustration by John Knowles Hare that was created for the calendar market during the Edwardian era. In this portrait, a demure brown-eyed lass gazes out towards the viewer from underneath a stylish, wide-brimmed straw bonnet with flowers. This lovely […]

Demure Woman in Straw Bonnet

Artist: J. Knowles Hare
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, Calendar, Edwardian, J. Knowles Hare, Norman Platnick, pastel
Added to Gallery: September 21, 2020

A Portrait in Abstraction by Lester Molleson This is a colorful and modernist oil on canvas painting by Lester Molleson, a Milwaukee based artist. Titled “Madam”, this abstract portrait features a glamorous woman in a cleavage-baring dress draped in a fur stole and accessorized with a feathered hat. Grapefruit Moon Gallery acquired an interesting collection […]

Madam – An Abstract Portrait

Artist: Lester Molleson
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, abstract, Lester Molleson, oil painting
Added to Gallery: September 20, 2020

A Yachting Champion by F. Earl Christy This is a considerably sized oil on illustration board painting date to c. 1910–1915. Created by F. Earl Christy for American Art Works in Coshocton, OH, this was published as calendar art. An example of this painting as a published print is shown above and is included in […]

Yachting

Artist: Earl Christy
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, American Art Works, boat, Calendar, Earl Christy, F. Earl Christy, Norman Platnick, oil painting, sailor
Added to Gallery: September 9, 2020

Exotic Harem Cover Girl by John Drew This is an original c. 1920s–1930s oil on canvas painting by pulp artist and illustrator John Drew. An alluring glamour portrait, Drew has created an enchanting view of a raven-haired harem girl with gold headband draped across her forehead, matching gold earrings and arm cuff, and a colorful […]

Harem Beauty

Artist: John Drew
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, Cover Art, John Drew, oil painting, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 23, 2020

Fair and Warmer by Arnold Armitage We are ecstatic to offer this never before on the market pin-up painting by artist Arnold Armitage. This piece was published in the late 1940s by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company, St. Paul, Minnesota with the title “Fair and Warmer”. The image also appeared on a trade stimulator […]

Fair and Warmer

Artist: Arnold Armitage
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Arnold Armitage, Calendar, Louis F. Dow, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2020

Off Her Pins, a classic cheesecake pin-up girl by Arnold Armitage This is a fresh-to-the-market pin-up calendar painting by Arnold Armitage published in the 1940s by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company, St. Paul, Minnesota. This bowling themed cheesecake offering features a classic situational mishap scene wherein a brunette in a flirty red ensemble finds […]

Off Her Pins

Artist: Arnold Armitage
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Arnold Armitage, cheesecake, Louis F. Dow, oil painting
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2020

Charming Family Illustration by Samuel Frantz This is a wholesome interior scene done en grisaille in oil on canvas by Russian artist and illustrator Samuel Frantz. A young family is gathered in celebration as the young men of the family present a youthful flapper beauty with gifts of candy and a wax sealer set. We […]

The Surprise

Artist: Samuel Marshall Frantz
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, en grisaille, oil painting, Samuel Marshall Frantz
Added to Gallery: August 10, 2020

This is a  C.1940 pastel illustration created by Hungarian artist and illustrator Jules Erbit for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. Titled, “Betty”, this is a glamorous pin-up offering of a pretty blue-eyed girl with flushed, rosy cheeks and inviting red lips. Erbit was a prolific illustrator who worked for seemingly all of the major […]

Betty

Artist: Jules Erbit
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Brown & Bigelow, Jules Erbit, Norman Platnick, pastel
Added to Gallery: August 5, 2020

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