Original Artwork

1966, mixed media,  25 cm wide x 37 cm tall

A Perry Mason novel written by Erle Stanley Gardner in 1943 and made into a film in 1935. Coppola applies his modernist approach to the pulp novel and, inspired by legendary art director Germano Facetti, elevates it to sit easily alongside Penguin’s classic literary fiction. The montage of jarring, mismatched imagery, creates an uneasy composition which has much in common with fine-art abstraction.

The artwork is sold with an original The Case of the Curious Bride paperback that features the Coppola illustration.  

The original painting art board is approximately 25 cm wide x 37 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.

1966, mixed media

Copolla was commissioned by legendary Penguin art director Germano Facetti and under his guidance was inspired to create a series of ground breaking covers. 

The translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1943 novel L’Invitee was published in the U.K. by Penguin in 1966.  Coppola’s vibrant use of collage juxtaposed with careful, detailed line work gives the book contemporary styling for a new audience.

The artwork is sold with an original She Came to Stay paperback that features the Coppola illustration.  

The original painting art board is approximately 22 cm wide x 27 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.