James Avati, artist and art
Born Dec 14 1912, Birth Bloomfield, USA.
Died Febr 27 2005 deathPetaluma, CA, USA.
Paperback Cover Artist
Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
Auctions & Auction Results
From leading auction houses worldwide, James Avati on Mutualart
For about twenty years roughly between 1940 and 1960 – there flourished in this country a singular style in painting and illustration. It was brooding, colorful, realistic, and often vaguely pornographic, and it manifested itself on the covers of paperback books…
Probably no other paperback
illustration style has had more
imitators than that developed
by James Avati…
Gemeentemuseum Helmond; Estate of James Avati
