65 / 172
95
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LOU MARCHETTI.
“Intimate Affairs of a French Nurse.” Gouache on board. 503x387 mm; 19
3
/
4
x15
1
/
4
inches.
Signed lower left. Cover for pulp novel of the same name by Florence Stonebraker; New
York: Croydon, February 1953 (Croydon book, Number 3).
[600/900]
96
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LOU MARCHETTI.
“Danger in the Wind.” Oil on canvas. 905x510 mm; 35
1
/
2
x20 inches. Signed lower right.
Mounted to original stretcher. Cover art for novel of the same name by Margaret Eastvale,
a paperback romance published by Pocket Books, 1974.
[600/900]
97
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LOU MARCHETTI.
“The Smuggler #4 - Mother Luck.” Acrylic on board. 730x550 mm; 28
1
/
2
x21
1
/
2
inches.
Signed lower right. Bottom corners bumped. Cover art for Mother Luck, number 4 in The
Smuggler paperback book series by Paul Petersen, featuring Eric “Smuggler” Saveman,
published by Pocket Books, 1974.
[600/900]
98
●
LOU MARCHETTI.
“Deuces Wild.” Gouache on canvas. 762x509 mm; 30x20 inches. Cover illustration for
paperback of the same name by Dell Shannon, NewYork: Pocket Books, 1976. Signed in
white, lower right. Mounted to original stretcher.
[600/900]
99
99
●
ALLAN MARDON.
“The Making of a Surgeon.” Pen and ink on board. 686x914 mm; 27x36 inches.
Illustration for the story “Fight for Life,” published and exhibited by The Reader’s Digest.
Publisher’s tags taped to recto of board which has story titled in blue pencil. Circa 1980.
[300/400]
A grand and detailed illustration of operating room drama by Mardon, best known for his work for
Sports Illustrated and Time among several other magazines where he showed his reportorial style. His
later work in large-scale color canvases on Native American themes have become very collectible.