"Memories Of Cassanova, Paperback Cover" Lot no. 890
By Tom Lovell (1909-1997)
1957 (Estimated)
26.00" x 16.00"
Oil on Board
Not Signed
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Cover for The Memoirs of Casanova (Bantam books #FB-415, 1957): A New Edition of the French Translation by Lowell Blair
Memoirs of Casanova, Paperback Cover, 1957
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Had an extreme attention for detail and rarely completed more then a dozen major oil paintings a year. He was a Freelance illustrator for many well-known magazines including Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post and become known as a pulp illustrator. His work depicting life in the old west earned him his reputation of Dean of Western Art and allowed him to win just about every major Western Art prize that exist. He was voted into the Society of Illustrators in 1974 and was chosen to receive two Gold Metals.