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[Original Cover Painting for a Seemingly Unproduced Science Fiction Novel, NOT IN OUR STARS]

[Original Cover Painting for a Seemingly Unproduced Science Fiction Novel, NOT IN OUR STARS] by [Original Art]: Brillhart, Ralph

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Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC
Title
[Original Cover Painting for a Seemingly Unproduced Science Fiction Novel, NOT IN OUR STARS]
Author
[Original Art]: Brillhart, Ralph
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description
New York: Monarch Books, 1964. Gouache and tempera on art board, 19.5 x 14 inches, total board size 25.75 x 20 inches. With Monarch Books' printed label on verso. Minor edge wear and thumb-soiling to margins, publisher's registration marks framing the edges of the painting. A visually stunning original painting produced as cover art for a seemingly unpublished Monarch Books mass market paperback title in the 1960s. The artist, Ralph Brillhart (1924-2007), painted just over a dozen covers for Monarch in three years. Monarch itself lasted only eight years, publishing lurid pulp fiction and sci-fi between 1958 and 1965. The painting is composed of three creepy green-masked figures in a field of fire at left, next to a field of textured tempera in dark purple, all set above a tranquil scene of a futuristic midcentury home comprised of two clear glass bubbles, radio antennae, and a tall tower with red and white alternating stripes along the length of the pole. After an exhaustive search of the history of Monarch Books online, we simply could not find a record of this novel's publication.