Two original Mort Künstler pieces are up for auction on Saturday April 2, 2016 at 9:30 PT Online bidding is available!
"Gunsmoke in Nevada" by Mort Künstler
Lot 110 • Oil on Board • 9 x 17.5 inches • Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
| Gunfight Illustration by Mort Künstler "This Painting was used for many paperback book covers. The first was for Avon books. The art director at Avon, Barbara Bertoli, gave me free reign with the covers. She even sent me to galleries out West. For this painting and others, I visited Old Tucson, a recreated western town, for my research. I think this painting is one of my better action pictures." |
| Frank O'Rourke's Violence at Sundown |
Mort's original painting Gunsmoke in Nevada was used as the Cover Illustration for Frank O'Rourke's book Violence at Sundown. A copy of Frank O'Rourke's Violence at Sundown will accompany this lot. Additionally, this painting was used on the 1963 book cover "Gunsmoke in Nevada by Burt Arthur.
"From Naples Missing..." by Mort Künstler
Lot 109 • Oil on board 19 x 15.5 inches • Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
| Desert Crash Illustration |
"This was the only cover I posed for - I am the pilot on the far right. My good friend and artist James Bama is the pilot on the far left, wiping his brow. Jimmy has become well known for Western art." -MK
| Stag Magazine, December 1959, Cover Illustration |
