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A dark, brooding, and tremendously well rendered pastel by the well regarded Society Of Illustrator’s Hall of Fame member Gary Kelley. This was created for the Franklin Library’s 1980 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Pastel has been nicely matted and framed under glass and […]

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

Artist: Gary Kelley
Price: $2,500.00  $1,750.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Franklin Library Edition, Gary Kelley, gothic, macabre, noir, Original pastel, Robert Louis Stevenson, Society Of Illustrators Hall Of Fame Honoree
Added to Gallery: April 30, 2019

      A ghastly and macabre pulp cover painting by Mel Hunter for the January, 1958 edition of Mercury Mystery Book-Magazine, this loosely illustrated a story by Floyd Mahannah titled The Broken Angel. A voluptuous redheaded vixen appears in a moodily conceived graveyard at night with an ominous figure in a top-hat looming near an […]

The Broken Angel

Artist: Mel Hunter
Price: $3,950.00  $2,765.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: bondage, erotic, lurid, macabre, Mel Hunter, Mercury Mystery Book-Magazine, pin up, pulp
Added to Gallery: July 3, 2018

This symbolist watercolor painting by the important Austrian artist Paul Grabwinkler shows a luscious nude on the cliffs with a skeleton at her feet.

The Precipice Of Death

Artist: Paul Grabwinkler
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: allegorical, german, gothic, Jugendstil, macabre, memento mori, nude, Paul Grabwinkler, skeleton, skull, Symbolism, symbolist, The Golden Gallery, Vienna Secession
Added to Gallery: April 30, 2018

This gouache on illustration board painting was created in 1927 by John Vassos, a singularly unique inventor, industrial designer and artist and illustrator, and appeared in the E.P. Dutton & Company edition of Salome.

Salome

Artist: John Vassos
Price: $11,250.00  $7,875.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Alla Nazimova, art deco, erotic, John Vassos, macabre, Natacha Rambova, nude, Oscar Wilde, Salome, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: February 25, 2018

Harold McCauley created this tense, action-packed, gritty, and dramatic illustration for an-as-of-yet unidentified pulp title, circa 1940s.

Encounter In A Sinister Place

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price: $1,650.00 $1,155.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1940s, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, lurid, macabre, orientalist, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, skull
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

An inventive early offering by the noted industrial designer Paul Ritter MacAlister, who went on to be an interior designer especially noted for his mass-produced “Plan-a-Room” kit with scale furniture and room layouts that could be used to plan and organize home spaces for consumers. This is a very well executed work it is done in the style of Erte essentially and features an art deco nude goddess of the darkness cowering under the bright sunshine radiating from the corner of the canvas – superimposed with a pipe smoking skeleton in a trompe l’oeil “trick of the eye” manner.

Spain, 1929

Artist: Paul MacAlister
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, chicago, Erté, industrial age, macabre, nude, Paul MacAlister, spanish
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2017

The sixth of ten 1939 mural designs by Mahlon Blaine, which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City industrial designer Paul MacAlister. A vacuum tube headed, praying mantis-like robot battles a cowering nude goddess in the ongoing saga of the menace of industry. Marked on verso design #6, this comes beautifully matted and framed from the estate of Paul Ritter MacAlister.

Cowering Nude With Robot

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, avant-garde, erotic, illustration, industrial age, macabre, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2016

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer a fresh-to-the-market macabre oil on canvas pulp cover painting by Rafael DeSoto which appeared on the June, 1948 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine – The Magazine of Weird Mystery. The darkly dramatic scene shows a green skeleton in formal magician’s costume pulling a hot blonde number out of […]

The Last Of Mrs. Satan

Artist: Rafael Desoto
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Dime Mystery Magazine, macabre, magician, noir, pulp, Rafael DeSoto, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 17, 2016

This feverish and provocative original illustration by Mahlon Blaine appears to date to the late 1930s, when the artist was mining the myth of Aphrodite for Nova Venus, a series of artworks illustrating a poem written by Blaine that interrogates the relationship between love, lust, and modernism. Characteristically dark, and replete with complicated and even bizarre symbolism, this gouache and ink painting explores fertility, […]

Aphrodite’s Realm

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: allegorical, Aphrodite, erotic, Interior Book Art, macabre, Mahlon Blaine, Nova Venus
Added to Gallery: February 24, 2015

  An intensely colored, dramatic and moody, mixed media illustration work by Edwin Georgi, Date With Death, which illustrated an interior story by Leslie Ford in The Saturday Evening Post. The image shows a favorite Georgi theme, the moment of discovery of betrayal in a love triangle. A complete edition of the February 12, 1949 Saturday Evening […]

Date With Death

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Edwin Georgi, macabre, noir, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: December 2, 2014

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