Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
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 […]
Artist: Lester Molleson
Price: $1,400.00
A modernist abstract mixed media painting by Virgil Finlay, who was an important prolific American pulp and science fiction illustrator. Signed and dated 1965 lower right and titled on verso #51. Executed in a colorful and abstract manner with raised translucent areas, oil paint and pen and ink. Smartly framed and ready to hang.
Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price: $1,850.00
An inventive example of modern abstract art by the prolific pulp artist Virgil Finlay, signed and dated 1966 and titled on verso "Gambling Man". Notations found on the back of the painting in Virgil Finlay's handwriting read "The buttons of the jailer,"January 6, 1966, on reading Brian Moore re Caffey.)
Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price: $1,850.00
Cubist Maidens is a lyrical and poignant original mixed medium fine art painting by the prolific and well remembered science fiction and pulp cover artist Virgil Finlay. Work is signed and dated lower left and again on the verso. Modernist and inventive in style, the work is executed in grease pencil and water color, with a scratchboard technique of cutting back into the drawing used to define the faces. This unusual example deftly shows the technical mastery and imagination of this important American illustrator.
Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price: S O L D
