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Ellery Queen

      A lurid and outright creepy cover painting by Nicholas Solovioff for the August, 1955 edition of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, loosely illustrated the interior story Bride In Danger. A beautiful corpse, a once blushing bride on her honeymoon, is now found alone on a desolate beach, bloodied and left in the open […]

The Body

Artist: Nicholas Solovioff

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, lurid, Nicholas Solovioff, pulp, sci-fi, Scince Fiction
Added to Gallery: July 3, 2018

A dark, macabre and cleverly rendered gouache cover illustration by Ed Emshwiller for The January 1956 Ellery Queens’s Mystery Magazine. An expertly rendered rare surviving example of this vanguard artist’s cover mastery and peculiar set of defining talents. A published example of the book is included in the sale and the work is beautifully matted and framed and ready to enjoy.

An Alpine Cadaver

Artist: Emsh

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Ed Emshwiller, Ellery Queen, Emsh, magazine cover, noir, original cover art, pulp, skiing, The Golden Gallery, winter
Added to Gallery: August 25, 2008

 

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