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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 charming original oil on canvas by the hotly collected artist Pal Fried. A well rendered and colorful depiction of four young ballerinas at dance class. Fried, an artist of the Hungarian school, was known as an important figure painter, and most often depicted beautiful young women, nudes, ballerinas, Parisian society women, western scenes, horse racing, and an occasional seascape. His oil paintings and pastels have gained much deserved recognition and notoriety and are increasingly desirable.

Ballet Class

Artist: Pal Fried

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, ballerina, dance, hungarian, impressionist, mid-century, Pal Fried, theater
Added to Gallery: July 28, 2008

A large, masterfully rendered, noir dramatic interior illustration of a startled beauty by Cecil Calvert Beall. From the illustrated serialization of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, published by Collier’s Magazine, June 12, 1948. Artwork is beautifully framed in a period gold gesso ornate frame. Story caption reads : “Camille lay on a heap of coarse canvas piled up in a corner of what seemed to be a large warehouse. There was a smell of dampness and decay in the air.”

Lurid Fu Manchu Interior Watercolor

Artist: C. C. Beall

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, C. C. Beall, Collier's, Fu Manchu, noir, original interior illustration, Sax Rohmer, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 7, 2008

Jewel Flowers was Armstrong’s favorite model and closest personal friend. She passed away last year and is fondly remembered and sorely missed by the pin-up and illustration art community. Her zesty, sexy spirit, and the kinship between the artist and model are clearly visible in this wonderful pastel.

Here We Go

Artist: Rolf Armstrong

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Brown & Bigelow, cowgirl, illustration, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: July 2, 2008

An original 1961 Oil on Canvas by Gilette Elvgren commissioned for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company and published under the title “A Neat Package”. A sexy Elvgren pin-up that explores the silk stockings and garters scenario that the artist is best known for. For those of you not keeping track, recent auctions have seen Elvgren’s pin-up works for Brown & Bigelow topping $200,000.00 at auction on more than one occasion with a high water mark of $262,900.00 this June.

A Neat Package

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, original calendar art, pin up, stockings, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 23, 2008

This Raphael Kirchner Ziegfeld Follies pastel is a newly unearthed piece of New York City theater history, and a once in a generation find. Part of a suite of five illustrations which feature the erotic and luminous showgirls who starred in the legendary theater revue Ziegfeld Follies and made the name synonymous with images of the most beautiful, brazen and sensuous women in early 20th century New York. This portrait of Justine Johnstone hung in the lobby of the historic Century Theater until it shut its doors in 1936.

Justine Johnstone: Ziegfeld Follies Century Girl

Artist: Raphael Kirchner

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, new york city, original illustration art, Raphael Kirchner, Ziegfeld Follies
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2008

A fashionable demure art nouveau maiden with a parasol is leered at by an Edwardian gent in a wig with opera glasses in this gouache illustration which dates from 1910 – 1920. The work is unsigned and is mindful in style of the works which appeared in Vogue and Vanity Fair Magazines. This is beautifully framed in a carved wood gesso antique frame.

Admiring a Fashionable Woman

Artist: Unknown

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, art nouveau, belle epoque, Edwardian, fashion, maiden, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2008

A monumental and important original large pastel illustration on stretched canvas by James Ross Bryson, executed in 1914 for The Thos. D. Murphy Calendar Company of Red Oak Iowa under the title “Reverie in Green”. Bryson was an influential and supremely gifted and handsomely paid American Illustrator who earned a hefty $200.00 per commission for images of his risque for the day, modern enchantress themed Art Nouveau Maiden depictions. This work is housed in it’s original wide solid mahogany gold gilt lined antique frame and is properly lined behind glass.

Reverie in Green

Artist: J. Ross Bryson

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, belle epoque, Edwardian, glamour, J. Ross Bryson, maiden, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery, Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company, victorian
Added to Gallery: June 11, 2008

A large impressionist pastel by Leon Dolice with an electric view of an illuminated New York City skyline, looking down Madison Avenue towards Chelsea’s Flatiron building. Leon Dolice spent over 60 years painting New York City landscapes, borrowing from the French Impressionists and Claude Monet specifically. He depicted his beloved Manhattan in varying lighting and color combinations, capturing the extreme skyscrapers and machine age industrialism which transformed the New York skyline during the art deco jazz age.

Madison Avenue Skyline

Artist: Leon Dolice

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, fine art, Leon Dolice, machine age, new york city, skyline
Added to Gallery: May 29, 2008

A whimsical snow scene pastel illustration by Rolf Armstrong which initially appeared as the cover for College Humor in December of 1929. This image was slightly altered by Armstrong and appeared again in 1936 as a Brown & Bigelow Calendar titled “The Call of the North”. The pastel was dedicated to Stan Fenelle another Brown & Bigelow artist by Armstrong and is a new to the market Saint Paul Minnesota estate find. Work is matted and framed in a period art deco era Newcomb-Macklin antique gold carved frame.

Call of the North

Artist: Rolf Armstrong

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, Brown & Bigelow, College Humor, flapper, original calendar art, original cover art, pin up, pulp, Rolf Armstrong, The Golden Gallery, winter
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2008

A modern, inventive, and vertically compressed nude by the New York artist Gilbert Stone dated 1978 and signed by the artist. The model was the artist’s wife Carol, who, like the artist, sadly died young. Before his career was cut short by his death in 1984, Stone’s work was exhibited around the world and included in public and private collections like the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Brooklyn Museum. His illustrations appeared in publications such as Esquire, The London Times, Sports Illustrated, New York Magazine and Playboy, National Geographic, Art Voices, also as album covers and books, for which he received three Gold Medals from the Society of Illustrators, three Art Directors Awards and the Chicago Art Directors Club.

Half Figure of A Young Woman

Artist: Gilbert Stone

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1970s, american, fine art, Gilbert Stone, modernist, nude
Added to Gallery: May 26, 2008

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