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The distinguished American artist and illustrator Walt Otto created this glitzy magic-themed original published pin up oil on canvas calendar painting in the late 1950’s.

The Swami Told Me

Artist: Walt Otto
Price:  $4,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1960s, Brown & Bigelow, magician, pin up, risque, Walt Otto
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2017

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

An odd interior illustration by the prolific American illustrator Fredric Varady, this large scale painting accompanied a story titled “The Payoff” on page 45 of the April 1950 issue of an as-of-yet unidentified mainstream American magazine. This classic depiction of post-WWII co-eds takes the buttoned up wholesome style of Cold War Americana to an almost surreal extreme. The scene shows emotions […]

The Payoff

Artist: Fredric Varady
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Frederic Varady, magician, original illustration art, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: April 17, 2016

    This unhinged and provocatively erotic original illustration by the artist & illustrator Mahlon Blaine dates to the 1940s. It has two functioning doors that when opened reveal the magicians assistant engaged in coitus with a horned satyr.  The gouache painting is housed inside an innocuous  faux wood, paper, hardcover display folio. Garishly colored and […]

Sawing Through A Woman

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: devil, erotic, Magic, magician, Mahlon Blaine
Added to Gallery: June 14, 2015

 

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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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