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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!

This lighthearted cheesecake pin up illustration graced the January 1956 page of Bill Randall’s wildly popular “Randall’s Date Book” 12 page calendar series. For his “Date Book” commissions, Randall played off the success of the Brown & Bigelow Calendar company’s yearly Artist Sketch Pad pin up calendar, while adding his own charm and whimsy. Work […]

When Pat Goes out to Play

Artist: Bill Randall

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Bill Randall, cheesecake, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 19, 2014

This lighthearted cheesecake pin up illustration graced the January 1957 page of Bill Randall’s wildly popular “Randall’s Date Book” 12 page calendar series. For his “Date Book” commissions, Randall played off the success of the Brown & Bigelow Calendar company’s yearly Artist Sketch Pad pin up calendar, while adding his own charm and whimsy. Working […]

A Snowball Fight With Jackie

Artist: Bill Randall

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Bill Randall, cheesecake, nude, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: January 19, 2014

Evoking both French impressionism and the regionalist spirit of the WPA, this Dewey Albinson oil on canvas shows a pair of figures (seemingly father and daughter) walking through a country lane on a summer afternoon. With their backs to the viewer, the pair walk from the shadows towards the sunshine, but further down their path […]

Down the Lane

Artist: Dewey Albinson

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Dewey Albinson, Minnesota Artist, regionalist, WPA
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2014

This stylized and dramatic large gouache painting was created by the well regarded American Golden Age Illustrator Wilmot Emerton Heitland as an interior magazine illustration. In this dramatic art deco scene, a confrontation in an artist’s studio plays out as the handsome male artist appears to be at odds with his pretty svelte modernist flapper […]

Confrontation in the Artist’s Studio

Artist: Wilmot Heitland

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Dean Cornwell, Duluth Superior, Golden Age, Henry Raleigh, Howard Pyle, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: December 17, 2013

A wildly erotic and revealed pin-up girl cover painting by the well regarded and prolific American illustrator and cover artist Paul Rader, for the 1960 Midwood Book titled “The Blonde”. Part of what is today considered the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction, “The Blonde” tells the story of a tormented working girl who finds […]

The Blonde

Artist: Paul Rader

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: blonde, erotic, lesbian, lurid, original cover art, paperback, pulp, stockings and garters, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: December 4, 2013

A lurid and prototypically noir paperback cover painting by the prolific American artist and illustrator Victor Olson, for the 1965 Midwood Book title Down And Out. Written by Les Masters – a well proportioned young housewife gets herself in financial hot water unbeknownst to her husband, she has to sell her valor to this snarky […]

Down And Out

Artist: Victor Olson

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Midwood Publishing, original cover art, paperback, pulp, sleaze
Added to Gallery: December 4, 2013

This original late 1940s-early 1950s pin-up sketch drawing is attributed to Gil Elvgren and was originally purchased from the artist’s son.  Years ago, this was acquired by our colleague Rick Martin, author of the reference guide Vintage Illustration, and full provenance history comes with purchase. The work is unsigned, and as such can only be […]

Gil Elvgren Pin-up Sketch

Artist: Attributed to Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, nude, pin up, Sketch
Added to Gallery: November 23, 2013

A patriotic red, white and blue in color 1940s WWII era original pin-up painting by the prolific calendar artist Walt Otto. A darling depiction of a curvy brunette pin-up girl bowling, in sexy Victory Girl attire. Otto made a career of creating the active type pin-up, his paintings appeared twice as covers for the Saturday […]

A Victory Roll

Artist: Walt Otto

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Bowling, patriotic, The Golden Gallery, victory girl, World War II
Added to Gallery: November 21, 2013

An enchanting and one of a kind original watercolor by my favorite illustrator, Henry Clive. Given as a Christmas present in 1928. Inscribed “Dear old Art — Be good and you’ll be eccentric.” Dated “Hollywood-Christmas 1928.” Watercolor mimics a published Smart Set cover. I will include color copy of the published cover with sale.

Flapper Girl Painted by Pierrot

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, christmas, flapper, Henry Clive, holiday, jazz age, pierrot, Smart Set
Added to Gallery: November 20, 2013

A classic situational cheesecake pin up mishap unfolds in this original Louis F. Dow calendar painting by the Chicago area artist Charles Showalter titled “High & Dry.” The lovely nude is caught, high, and perhaps now dry after removing her clothes. Grapefruit Moon Gallery recently acquired this and several other Louis F. Dow published calendar […]

High and Dry

Artist: Charles Showalter

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, boat, Charles Showalter, cheesecake, chicago, Great American Pin-up, nude, original calendar art, pin up, sundblom shop, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: October 7, 2013

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