Lever Gallery

Lever Gallery Print

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Paper size 42 cm X 29.7 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; 1967, acrylic on board

The cover for this Corgi Crime 1967 publication of Mickey Spillane’s novel, features quintessential Fratini.  A couple, a struggle, a gun; cheekily posed and skilfully painted with emphasis.  The groovy, colour-soaked fashion nods to the next decade.

The original painting art board is approximately 30 cm wide x 38 cm tall. The artwork is float mounted on to conservation grade mountboard and presented in a white wooden box frame glazed with anti-reflective glass.

Lever Gallery Print

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Paper size approximately 42 cm X 30 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; c.1960s, acrylic on board

A splash of pink offsets the dark metal of a gun on this piece, a great example of Robertson’s painstakingly detailed work. Note the paper fibres evident on the crumpled ‘wanted’ poster, and the subtle scratches to the gun metal. The illustration was used for the cover of 'Death in a Sleeping City' by John Wainwright published by Fontana, published January 1st 1967. 

The original painting art board is approximately 19 cm wide x 30 cm tall. 

Lever Gallery Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Background

For the 1964 Fontana edition of Alistair MacLean’s 1959 novel Night without End, Fratini captures the conflict of two men trapped on the ice after a crash-landing. It appears to depict a fight to the death, the eventual victim painted in aggressive red and bearing a gun.

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

The original painting art board is approximately 45 cm wide x 33 cm tall. 

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Lever Gallery Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Paper size 42 cm X 29.7 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; fragment of a film poster, gouache on paper, featuring French actress Marina Vlady. c.1967

The original work is a fragment of a film poster, gouache on paper, featuring French actress Marina Vlady.  Vlady won best actress at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for the Italian comedy “The Conjugal Bed” directed by Mario Ferrari.  Born into a family of talented Russian emigres, Vlady has had an extraordinary life working with Robert Hossein, Jean-Luc Godard and Orson Welles among others.  Simbari paints her as the Sixties icon she was.

Lever Gallery Print Edition

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Paper Size 42cm x 29.7cm

Original artwork; c.1967, gouache on board

Fratini produced a number of options for for Mickey Spillane’s Tiger Man novel; this is an option that didn’t make the final cut. Fratini used cool colours, perhaps to offset with the book’s graphics, whereas the final version was backed by red.   A different interpretation of the brief, perhaps influenced by the book’s title.

The original painting art board is approximately 35 cm wide x 47 cm tall. The artwork is float mounted on to conservation grade mountboard and presented in a white wooden box frame glazed with anti-reflective glass.

Lever Gallery Print

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Paper size 42cm X 29.7cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

1966, original artwork

Fratini's cover for Mickey Spillane's 'The Flier' published by Corgi Books in 1967 was later used for the cover of 'The Sour Lemon Score'.

Donald E. Westlake wrote 'The Sour Lemon Score', one of his ‘Parker’ series under the pseudonym of Richard Stark in 1969. Fratini's illustration was used on a Danish publication of the story in a raunchier style than those produced for English versions.

The painting is classic Fratini, provocative poses in a setting reduced to stylistic bare-bones.

The original painting art board is approximately 30 cm wide x 38 cm tall. The artwork is float mounted on to conservation grade mountboard and presented in a white wooden box frame glazed with anti-reflective glass.

Lever Gallery Print

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original Painting, acrylic on board, 1960s 

The Fourth Postman was originally written by Craig Rice in 1948, though this image was never used as a cover for later editions of the book. Laid thick with reds, the clever use of a cool highlight on the gun brings it out of hiding. Note also the apparent smears on the gunmetal, picked up almost effortlessly in breaks in the highlighting colour.

The original painting art board is approximately 40 cm wide x 55 cm tall. The artwork is float mounted on to conservation grade mountboard and presented in a white wooden box frame glazed with anti-reflective glass.

Lever Gallery Print

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Paper size 42cm tall x 29.7cm wide

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; c.1965, acrylic on board

Russell O’Neil wrote The Devil’s Profession in 1963. A novel about a good-looking, narcissistic actor who will do anything to get a Hollywood contract, becoming his gay agent’s ‘kept boy’, despite being heterosexual. The image is painted in greys and lit starkly, as if by theatre spot lights; the foreground figure is depicted in an almost androgynous way. Homosexuality was not decriminalised in the U.K. until 1967.