Two original Mort Künstler paintings are up for auction at the Scottsdale Art Auction,
Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 9:30 PT
Online bidding is available
Gunsmoke in Nevada by Mort Künstler
Lot 110 • Oil on Board • 19 x 17.5 inches • Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
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| 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. For this painting and others, I did research in Old Tucson, a re-created western town. I think this painting is one of my better action pictures." – Mort Künstler |
| Frank O'Rourke's Violence at Sundown |
This painting was used on the 1963 Avon paperback book cover Gunsmoke in Nevada by Burt Arthur. In 1987 it was used as the Pocketbook paperback book cover illustration for Frank O'Rourke's Violence at Sundown - a copy of which will accompany this lot.
B-24 From Naples Missing...Crew Presumed Dead by Mort Künstler
Lot 109 • Gouache on board 19 x 15.5 inches • Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
| Desert Crash Illustration |
"This was the only magazine 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." - Mort Kunstler
| Stag Magazine, December 1959, Cover Illustration |
