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      On offer is a remarkable published pulp cover painting by Lejaren Hiller (American, 1880-1969), titled Absinthe, for Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Magazine – April 21, 1928. Between 1924 and 1939, the artist created hundreds of covers for this long running title, and this is among the most captivating. The image showcases an up-to-the-minute smoking flapper girl feeling strangely […]

Absinthe

Artist: Lejaren Hiller

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, flapper, Golden Age, illustration, Lejaren Hiller, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, portrait, pulp, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 17, 2018

This electric and inventive progress-through-industry themed gouache painting by Mahlon Blaine is signed and dated 1955. The image dramatizes the industrial era with a shirtless industrial worker forging steel in a machine-age apocalyptic scene that draws its light and intensity and sense of movement from the fire’s sparking glow emitted from within an ominous furnace.

Forging Ahead

Artist: Mahlon Blaine

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, gay interest, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, WPA
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2018

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”One Thousand and One Nights – The Surprise by Raphaël Kirchner” amount=”4500.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] A defining example by the influential Austrian artist and illustrator Raphael Kirchner, this charcoal & gouache illustration  is an exotic display of Middle Eastern themed eroticism, mystery and intrigue. Kirchner has painstakingly rendered the beautiful, […]

One Thousand and One Nights – The Surprise

Artist: Raphaël Kirchner

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Arabian Nights, art nouveau, Charcoal, illustration, Interior Book Art, Raphael Kirchner
Added to Gallery: June 18, 2018

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One Thousand and One Nights – The Presentation

Artist: Raphaël Kirchner

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Arabian Nights, art nouveau, Charcoal, illustration, Interior Book Art, Raphael Kirchner
Added to Gallery: June 18, 2018

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One Thousand and One Nights – The Harem

Artist: Raphaël Kirchner

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Arabian Nights, art nouveau, Charcoal, illustration, Interior Book Art, Raphael Kirchner, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 18, 2018

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”One Thousand and One Nights – The Jewelry Box by Raphaël Kirchner” amount=”3500.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] With great attention to detail and an exquisite sense of realism, this charcoal illustration from artist & illustrator Raphaël Kirchner is an exotic display of Middle Eastern themed eroticism, mystery and intrigue. Kirchner has […]

One Thousand and One Nights – The Jewelry Box

Artist: Raphaël Kirchner

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Arabian Nights, art nouveau, Charcoal, illustration, Interior Book Art, Raphael Kirchner
Added to Gallery: June 18, 2018

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”One Thousand and One Nights – The Plot by Raphaël Kirchner” amount=”3500.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] With great attention to detail and an exquisite sense of realism, this charcoal and gouache illustration from artist & illustrator Raphaël Kirchner is an exotic display of Middle Eastern themed eroticism, mystery and intrigue. Kirchner […]

One Thousand and One Nights – The Plot

Artist: Raphaël Kirchner

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Arabian Nights, art nouveau, Charcoal, illustration, Interior Book Art, Raphael Kirchner
Added to Gallery: June 18, 2018

“I came like water and like wind I go,” reads the verse which inspired this wonderful signed gouache illustration by Willy Pogany, one of our favorite Golden age artists. The image shows a nude maiden on a serene ledge in contemplation of the leaves blowing in the breeze. This appearedas an illustration for the 1942 […]

Like Wind I Go

Artist: Willy Pogany

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Golden Age, illustration, original illustration art, risque, Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: June 1, 2018

Who–Who’s There? is a large and genre defining oil on board pin-up painting by Edward Eggleston, which was published by the American Art Works calendar company in the early 1930s. This is a rare surviving published calendar painting by the New York artist, created in an impressive light and shadow technique, capturing an art deco nude […]

Who – Who’s There?

Artist: Edward Eggleston

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, American Art Works, art deco, Edward Eggleston, erotic, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, illustration, jazz age, machine age, nude, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

This large, colorful, and bustling painting by the prolific American artist Louis Glanzman appeared in the April 26, 1952 issue of Collier’s magazine, illustrating “Honkytonk – U.S.A.” by William Slocum. In this scathing analysis, the honkytonk is described in great and scandalous detail as a lawless den of sin, whose unscrupulous owners prey on male weakness, hiring low-class strippers […]

Honkytonk-U.S.A.

Artist: Louis Glanzman

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, burlesque, Collier's, Golden Age, Honkytonk, illustration, Louis Glanzman, nude, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

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