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A whimsical and stylized rare original gouache painting on illustration board by Anne Harriet Sefton a.k.a. Fish; this was the cover for The April 1919 edition of Vanity Fair Magazine published by Conde Nast. Work is in the humorous yet refined swinging youth style that came to personify the art deco Jazz Age. Painting is silk matted and beautifully framed in a period antique gold gilt wood frame under glass.

The Gondola Ride

Artist: Anne Harriet Fish
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1910s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, flapper, gondola, high society, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, Vanity Fair
Added to Gallery: April 21, 2017

An elegant art deco gouache-on-board created for General Motors who commissioned this work for their Cadillac ad campaign during the late 1920s-early 30s. This remarkable composition features a modernist, jazz age, formally attired woman flanked by majestic wolfhounds. She is shown entering a castle as her Cadillac touring sedan rests among palm trees in the background. Work is unsigned, in the manner of Edouard Benito or George Wolfe Plank.

Elegant Woman & Wolfhounds

Artist: Unknown
Price: $1,850.00  $1,295.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, art deco, Cadillac, General Motors, glamour, high society, jazz age, modernist, original illustration art
Added to Gallery: February 18, 2017

A pretty Parisian showgirl is shown on her way to the Opera in this large and lovely original Pal Fried fine art oil on canvas painting. Along with his nude studies, Fried is best remembered for these lovely and provocative high-society, sophisticated yet sultry views. This remarkable example retains its somewhat garish, but now iconic, mid-century ornate frame. This is signed lower […]

The Opera

Artist: Pal Fried
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: fine art, glamour, high society, hungarian, Pal Fried, paris
Added to Gallery: December 12, 2014

This large and luminous oil on canvas by Charles E. Chambers was created most likely as an interior story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post. Though the piece is unsigned, it contains all of the characteristics of Chambers work, and is undoubtedly an example of his glossy magazine socialites. Dating to about 1930, the scene features a number of refined jazz age beauties in modest yet flapper inspired apparel enjoying a garden teatime with a dapper suitor.

Tea in the Afternoon

Artist: Charles Edward Chambers
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, Charles Edward Chambers, flapper, high society, jazz age, original interior illustration, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: May 23, 2011

A beautiful and serene commissioned pastel portrait of the young, wealthy blue blood high society beauty N.H. Fill. American illustrators often subsidized their earnings by taking lucrative portrait commissions from wealthy New York City Industrial Revolution aristocratic patrons. Often these jobs found the artists depicting the heiresses as glamour girl beauties in stylized, iconic, modern fashion. Gifted artist and illustrator Haskell Coffin excelled at this sort of beauty, and was best known as a cover artist contributing covers for countless American magazines including The Saturday Evening Post. His wholesome American stylized beauties also graced many Calendars for The Thos D. Murphy Calendar Company and other early twentieth century companies.

A Demure Society Girl In Pastel

Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, flapper, Haskell Coffin, high society, N.H. Fill, new york city, portrait
Added to Gallery: January 14, 2007

This stylized pastel portrait of a dashing high society fashionable blonde with bright red lips is bright, colorful, fresh and new to the market. The 1930s era portrait was most likely used for print ads for a beauty product in American glamour magazines. A large seductive example of Rolf Amstrong’s unsurpassed pastel work. A winsome idealized vision of American feminine beauty by The Father Of American Pin-up.

Smiling High Society Glamour Portrait

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, american, art deco, glamour, high society, pin up, portrait, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: August 12, 2006

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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