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A spectacular and otherworldly Edwin Georgi gouache painting on illustration board in a color palette so unusual it could only have been envisioned by this particular artist. A pair of lovers literally and metaphorically going different ways in their relationship sensing the distance between them, both nattily attired and icy cold in disposition. Published in an as of yet determined slick magazine (likely Redbook or Cosmopolitan) as a full color interior story illustration circa 1950s.

Two on a Match

Artist: Edwin Georgi

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Edwin Georgi, glamour, illustration, magazine cover, mid-century, noir, original cover art, original interior illustration, pin up, slick magazine
Added to Gallery: March 2, 2023

This vintage illustration features a disheveled Jimmy Stewart type in rumpled raincoat and hat, being side-eyed with disdain. The other fellow appears to be wearing last night’s tuxedo, if the stack of pancakes is any indication. Since we have yet identified the use or artist of this piece, we can’t do more than speculate on […]

Meeting At A Diner

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1950s, en grisaille, Golden Age, Men's Magazine art, noir, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2019

On offer is a large format interior magazine oil on canvas illustration that shows a refined couple in a not-so-refined moment, as a fashionable woman winds up to throw a high-end vase at the head of a man who appears to be her beau. Does he deserve it? We assume so, but since we have […]

The Confrontation

Artist: Albert Jannset

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Golden Age, noir, oil painting, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: May 7, 2019

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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

Artist: Gary Kelley

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

This is a haunting watercolor by renowned book illustrator Willy Pogany. Marked on verso “Doll House Hell” this is a dark noir rendering of an evening on a boathouse. The pylons and trees are turning into monsters and even the sky appears to be weighing down on the lone boat. Pogany is best remembered for his illustrated volumes of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Doll House Hell

Artist: Willy Pogany

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, 1940s, american, art nouveau, fantasy, Golden Age, hungarian, illustration, new york city, noir, set design, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: January 27, 2017

In this moody yet nostalgic casein-on-board illustration painting, the artist John Berkey, best remembered today as one of the leading figures of the golden era of science fiction, shows his versatility. Most identified with his posters for the original Star Wars film, Berkey was a technically brilliant commercial illustrator and his vision is what we see in our […]

Rexall Drugs

Artist: John Berkey

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: John Berkey, noir, pulp, science fiction
Added to Gallery: August 27, 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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, 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 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

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

    A dramatic and suspenseful cover paperback painting by the prolific American Illustrator Harry Barton, where train tracks take on an ominous aura, and a deadly outcome appears likely. The cover of an early Ace Double Novel paperback titled Fear No More, written by Leslie Edgley. Illustration is nicely framed and matted behind glass and a […]

Fear No More

Artist: Harry Barton

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, damsel in distress, Harry Barton, noir, original cover art, paperback, pulp
Added to Gallery: November 29, 2014

This dramatic and lurid oil painting was created by Rudy Nappi as the original cover for the now-infamous Jane Manning novel Reefer Girl, published by Detective House in New York under the Cameo Books imprint in 1953. The cover slug describes the work as “The frank, biting story of a young girl of the slums, and […]

Reefer Girl

Artist: Rudy Nappi

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: drug culture, noir, paperback, Rudy Nappi, sleaze, subversive, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 22, 2014

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