Sep 29, 2016 - Sale 2423

Sale 2423 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GEORGE GROSS.
"A Tiger in the Night." Cover art for the book of the same name by Robert Kyle (pseudonym of Robert Terrall), published by Dell in 1955. Acrylic on board. 400x311 mm; 15 3/4x12 1/4 inches. Not signed. Mild flaking along edges. Provenance: Ex-collection John Edward Parker, a 45-year Dell Publishing employee.

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Gross (1909-2003) was a prolific American Illustrator who produced hundreds of covers for pulp novels and men's magazines over the course of his career.