In our newest category "The Screening Room", Grapefruit Moon Gallery offers original art created and used for marketing in the movie world. Please check out our collection of original Mexican Movie Art, which takes the lurid, sensationalist, bizarre, and sometimes disturbing vision of the pulp artists a step further. This collection of newly unearthed paintings from south of the border is available exclusively through the Grapefruit Moon Gallery website.

A Glamorous Jean Harlow Pastel Charles Sheldon	A Dashing Joan Crawfod R. Wilson Hammell

A large, luminous and ethereal pastel portrait of Merle Oberon who enjoyed a long and illustrious film career spanning several decades, by noted French artist and illustrator Henri Sabin. Sabin relocated to Hollywood in the 1930s creating luminous and stylized pastel portraits of leading ladies of the day for commercial applications. This was likely a commissioned work for inclusion in a movie studio exhibitor's book. It's a fantastic rare document from the golden age of tinsel town opulence and glamour.

A large and expertly rendered pastel portrait of Joan Crawford, the infamous legendary beauty who enjoyed a long and illustrious film career spanning five decades, by noted French artist and illustrator Henri Sabin. Sabin relocated to Hollywood in the 1930s creating luminous and stylized pastel portraits of leading ladies of the day for commercial applications. This was likely a commissioned work for inclusion in a movie studio exhibitor's book. It's a fantastic rare document from the golden age of tinsel town decadence and art deco glamour imagery.

A large expertly rendered pastel portrait of Mae West the lewd and legendary beauty who enjoyed a long and illustrious film career, by noted French artist and illustrator Henri Sabin. Sabin relocated to Hollywood in the 1930s creating luminous and stylized pastel portraits of leading ladies of the day for commercial applications. This was likely a commissioned work for inclusion in a movie studio exhibitor's book. It's a fantastic rare document from the golden age of tinsel town decadence and pre-code glamour.

A large, expressive and expertly rendered pastel portrait of Delores Del Rio the Mexican beauty, by noted French artist and illustrator Henri Sabin. Sabin relocated to Hollywood in the 1930s creating luminous and stylized pastel portraits of leading ladies of the day for commercial applications. This was likely a commissioned work for inclusion in a movie studio exhibitor's book. It's a fantastic rare document from the golden age of tinsel town opulence and glamour.

A wonderful original oil on canvas which presumably was used as a poster design for the 1922 Silent Film Short Comedy In The Movies, directed by Charley Chase. Ratterman was a gifted illustrator whose work appeared in all of the major "slick magazines" as advertisements and/or covers.

A glamourous, large rendering of screen star siren Ginger Rogers in pastel done for a cover of a late 1930's movie magazine by noted Brown & Bigelow pin-up artist and prolific cover illustrator Zoe Mozert. Mozert executed over 400 covers for such titles as Screen Book, True Romance, True Confessions and Randolph Hearst's American Weekly. The most famous female pin-up artist, Mozert (1907-1993), is an exemplary disciple of the Rolf Armstrong pastel style. Often her own model, Mozert is noted for rejecting sexy girl cliches in favor of depicting more real seeming young women, with recognizably individual features and personalities.

A fine and rare surviving original pastel by Charles Sheldon of the young and lovely Jean Harlow from her early years around the time of her breakthrough role in Howard Hughes' epic film of 1930 Hells Angels.

This was undoubtably used as a cover for one of the movie magazines of the era, the work is signed lower right and inkstamped on the verso with the artists Mass. address and the number #7. Sheldon was a frequent cover artist for Photoplay Magazine and this was most likely commissioned by that publication. A coveted example of Early tinseltown glamour portraiture and featuring the eras brightest and biggest star.

We are pleased to have this original pastel by the talented and prolific pin-up artist and illustrator R. Wilson Hammell. This Spanish attired, flapper girl envisioning of Joan Crawford was created either as a calendar art print for The Joseph Hoover Calendar Company or an early talkie movie era Magazine Cover. Crawford was an eager publicity hound in the early 1930's filling the void created by the elusive Garbo, who refused any publicity during the era of Crawford's ascendancy to stardom.

A well rendered, art deco Hollywood glamour era original pastel which appears to be a cover for a period early talkie era Hollywood publication. The star looks to be Anita Louise and the work is remarkably similar in style to other period cover works of Marland Stone, and Earl Christy.

A smartly conceived and modern jazz age oil-on-canvas painting of a ravishing Jeanette MacDonald, the cover for The New Movie Magazine, June 1932. Executed in a high glamour, severe art deco style by the American Illustrator McClelland Barclay. Work is a defining example by this talented and prolific artist and comes beautifully framed in an ornate gold gilt American Arts & Crafts fine museum quality carved frame. A lost treasure from the golden age of Hollywood glamour and elegance.