Peter Driben vintage and original pin up painting created as cover for Wink Magazine. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: Sold
Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Peter Driben vintage and original pin up painting created as cover for Wink Magazine. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: Sold
A subversive youth gone wild party scene original cover painting by Peter Driben likely used for a paperback book title published by the Novel Library imprint. During the 1950s a hedonistic bohemian fictional sub-culture existed where teens smoked reefer and engaged in orgiastic exploits while becoming addicted to heroin. In showing these delinquents pursuing their darkest sinful desires, the illustrators of the day seemed to take great joy and this is a prime example of this sort of homage to debauchery.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: $4,500.00
One of the finest Peter Driben pin-up girl cover illustrations to come on the market, for the December, 1948 edition of Beauty Parade.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: $18,500.00
An original oil on board illustration used as the cover for Joker No.16 - a 1949 digest sized magazine advertising "More Snappy Cartoons - Smack Full of Laughter!" A leggy, busty and quintessentially Driben pin-up beauty is seen trying her hand at a little "sofa fission" as the caption will have you know. Illustration is in a fine state of conservation, nicely framed and matted in a period, wide profile, handsome, gesso art deco frame.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: $6,500.00
A genre defining girl in peril, menace themed pulp cover painting by the prolific and gifted American illustrator Peter Driben, this appeared as the cover for the December 1941 issue of Expose Detective True Crime Cases. Illustrating the interior story The Scarlet Sinner's Final Exit, this lurid, large and rare surviving pulp cover painting has it all. Beautifully framed and in a fine state of conservation.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: Sold
A sultry brunette in a form fitting, canary yellow number cools herself with a personal pinwheel hand fan in this original oil on board pin-up painting by Peter Driben. Created as the cover of the February, 1946 edition of Titter magazine--a post-war pulp title that promised Girls, Gags and Giggles. Titter bridged the gap between the spicy pulp […]
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: Sold
An early offering by legendary American pin-up artist and cover illustrator Peter Driben likely created in the late 1920s when the artist was a resident of Paris France and contributed popular illustrations in various French showgirl magazines chronicling the exciting Parisian nightlife and its lovely erotic burlesque Follies Dancers. Nicely matted and framed behind glass; from the famed collection of Charles Martignette.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: Sold
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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