Tense Moment: Western cover (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 13" x 20" (330mm x 500mm)
Date: c. 1960
Signature: Signed by artist bottom left
Code: BolderoCover
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Stephen Richard Boldero.
This knife fight is a super example of Boldero's atmospheric Wild West paperback cover art.
- Artist BiographyStephen Richard Boldero (1898 - 1987)
Boldero's cover artwork appeared regularly in the 1950s and 1960s, published by most of the leading paperback firms (Corgi, Digit, Arrow, Pan, Panther, Four Square, Consul).
He also had a long association with Souvenir Press, producing numerous dust jackets, including many atmospheric paperback covers for Wild West novels.