Mahlon Blaine Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Mahlon Blaine Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 20, 2024
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) Untitled (Revealing).
Est: $600 - $900
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) Untitled (Revealing). Illustration for Vol. I, Page 47 of The Decameron of Boccaccio (London: Bibliophilist Society, circa 1930). Pen, ink, and gouache on paper. 15 x 9 1/4 inches, on 16 x 10 1/4-inch sheet. Initialed "M.B." in lower left image. Hinged to board with window matte.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 16, 2023
Painting, Mahlon Blaine
Est: $800 - $1,200
Mahlon Blaine (American, 1894-1969), "Lochiel, Arizona," oil on canvas, signed and titled lower right, sight: 24.5"h x 30"w, overall (with frame): 31"h x 36"w
Clars Auctions
Dec. 15, 2022
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) "Crossing The Water or At The Water's Edge." (BOCCACCIO / DECAMERON)
Est: $800 - $1,200
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) "Crossing The Water or At The Water's Edge." Illustration for Vol. II, Page 230 of the Bibliophilist Society edition of The Decameron of Boccaccio (London, circa 1930). Pen, ink, and gouache on paper. 380x235 mm; 15x9 1/4 inches, on 16 1/4x10 1/2-inch sheet. Initialed "M.B." in lower right image. Hinged to board with window matte.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 16, 2021
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) Woman Tending Young Goats. The Decameron of Boccaccio.
Est: $600 - $900
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) Woman Tending Young Goats. The Decameron of Boccaccio. Illustration for Vol. I, Page 89 of the Bibliophilist Society edition (London, circa 1930). Pen, ink, gouache, and collage on paper. 380x240 mm; 15x9 1/4 inches, on 16x10 1/2-inch sheet. Initialed "M.B." in lower right image. Hinged to window matte with board.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 10, 2021
Mahlon Blaine (AM 1894-1969) Bathers
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Mahlon Blaine (American 1894-1969) Bathers 1954 Watercolor and gouache on paper 16 x 20" 25 x 29" as framed signed lower right .
Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers
Jun. 24, 2021
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) "Nastagio degli Onesti's vision." [DECAMERON OF BOCCACCIO]
Est: $600 - $900
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) "Nastagio degli Onesti's vision." The Decameron of Boccaccio. Illustration for Vol. II, Page 15 of the Bibliophilist Society edition (London, circa 1930). Pen, ink, and gouache on paper. 380x235 mm; 15x9 1/4 inches, on 16x10 1/2-inch sheet. Initialed "M.B." in lower right image. Hinged to board with window matte. The scene illustrates Nastagio degli Onesti's vision of the knight Guido degli Anastagi intending to kill a young woman, who is enduring never-ending punishment for past sinful behaviors."
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 28, 2021
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) "[Tibetan] Water Walker."
Est: $700 - $1,000
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) "[Tibetan] Water Walker." Mixed media with gouache, glaze, and tempera on board. 506x406 mm 20x16 inches. Signed and titled in pencil on verso: "Tib[et] Water Walker / Mahlon Blaine/ Dunninger/ 760 Cauldwell Ave / NYC." A gift by Blaine to his friend and patron, the famous magician and mentalist, Joseph Dunninger. Both Blaine and Dunninger were cult figures in the circles of magic, mystery, science fiction and fantasy, most prominently in New York City. Blaine illustrated several of Dunninger's books and painted several commissioned works for him. "The Amazing Dunninger" performed for Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and appeared on radio and television, even inspiring Soupy Sales and Johnny Carson to base humorous characters on him.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 28, 2021
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) "Ratna Manggali - daughter of Rangda and Bodhisattva."
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) "Ratna Manggali - daughter of Rangda and Bodhisattva." Mixed media with gouache, glaze, and watercolor on board. Inscribed, signed, and dated "For Dunninger / Mahlon Blaine 1938" in lower right corner. Additionally signed and titled by Blaine on verso. 505x400 mm; 20x15 3/4 inches. Framed. Inscribed and signed by Blaine to his friend and patron, the famous magician and mentalist, Joseph Dunninger. Both Blaine and Dunninger were cult figures in the circles of magic, mystery, science fiction and fantasy, most prominently in New York City. Blaine illustrated several of Dunninger's books and painted several commissioned works for him. "The Amazing Dunninger" performed for Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and appeared on radio and television, even inspiring Soupy Sales and Johnny Carson to base humorous characters on him.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 28, 2021
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) The Decameron of Boccaccio.
Est: $600 - $900
MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1969) The Decameron of Boccaccio. Illustration for Vol. I, Page 105 of the Bibliophilist Society edition (London, circa 1930). Pen, ink, and gouache on paper. 380x235 mm; 15x9 1/4 inches, on 16x10 1/4-inch sheet. Initialed "M.B." in lower left image. Hinged to board with window matte.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 11, 2020
Mahlon Blaine - Chess Match
Est: $500 - $800
Lot 134 Mahlon Blaine American (1894-1969) Chess Match gouache on paper board signed lower right sight: 13 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches inscribed for George Ginsburg
Capsule Gallery Auction
Jul. 28, 2018
Three Nude Drawings.
Est: $500 - $700
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Three Nude Drawings. Circa 1940s. Four female nude drawings, inclusive of two drawings on opposite sides of one page, each approx. 12 x 10”, one signed. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jul. 28, 2018
Three Original Pen and Ink Illustrations.
Est: $500 - $700
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Three Original Pen and Ink Illustrations. Circa 1940s. Drawings intended to accompany a story, with captions and page numbers penciled on the versos of two of the works. 14 x 11”. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jul. 28, 2018
Original Erotic Illustration.
Est: $500 - $700
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Original Erotic Illustration. Circa 1940s. Ink and watercolor, sight 17 ¼ x 11”, matted. Initialed “MB” lower right. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jul. 28, 2018
Movable Erotic Illustration.
Est: $800 - $1,200
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Movable Erotic Illustration. Circa 1940s. Ink and watercolor, in original faux-wooden covers, movable gloved hand. 13 ¾ x 11”. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jul. 28, 2018
Movable Erotic Illustration.
Est: $800 - $1,200
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Movable Erotic Illustration. Circa 1940s. Ink and watercolor, in original faux-wooden covers, movable woman’s skirt. 13 ¾ x 11”. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jul. 28, 2018
Movable Erotic Illustration.
Est: $800 - $1,200
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Movable Erotic Illustration. Circa 1940s. Ink and watercolor, in original faux-wooden covers, with movable swan figure. 13 ¾ x 11”. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jul. 28, 2018
Movable Erotic Illustration.
Est: $800 - $1,200
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Movable Erotic Illustration. Circa 1940s. Ink and watercolor, in original faux-wooden covers, depicting a Roman whose laurel wreath folds aside to reveal a nude woman. 13 ¾ x 11”. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jul. 28, 2018
Movable Erotic Illustration.
Est: $800 - $1,200
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Movable Erotic Illustration. Circa 1940s. Ink and watercolor, in original faux-wooden covers, depicting a woman licking an ice cream cone, which folds down to reveal a phallus. 13 ¾ x 11”. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jul. 28, 2018
Movable Erotic Illustration.
Est: $800 - $1,200
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894—1969). Movable Erotic Illustration. Circa 1940s. Ink and watercolor, in original faux-wooden covers, depicting a burlesque dancer whose fan moves to reveal herself. 13 ¾ x 11”. Provenance: Collection of Joseph Dunninger, one of Blaine’s best friends and patrons.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Oct. 28, 2017
Original Drawing of Chrystal Dunninger by Blaine.
Est: $200 - $400
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 18941969). Original Drawing of Chrystal Dunninger by Blaine. On the verso of the title page to Blaines poetry and art portfolio Nova Venus (New York, 1939), a depiction of Dunninger in grass skirt and other tropical garb. Inscribed: For Chrystal/ Mahlon Blaine/ 39. 9 ¾ x 7. Note: Lot includes title page only, not entire portfolio.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jun. 29, 2017
[Blaine (Mahlon)] - The Arboreal Approach,
Est: £300 - £400
by Arbor Vitae, 14 original drawings in ink and crayon by Mahlon Blaine (including pictorial title), numbered 1-14 on versos, loose, 296 x 225mm., [?c.1930] Much of the life of Mahlon Blaine (1894-1969) is surrounded by mystery and uncertainty, often encouraged by the artist himself. He was a prolific book illustrator with a taste for the erotic, weird and decadent. These drawings depict a sexual encounter and consummation between two tree creatures.
Dreweatts 1759
Apr. 26, 2015
Mahlon Blaine "The Decameron of Boccaccio"
Est: $200 - $300
Mahlon Blaine (American, 1894-1969), "The Decameron of Boccaccio" (illustration for the Bibliophilist Society) Volume 2, P. 34, initialed lower right. Framed, not examined out of frame. Sight size: 15 1/4" high, 9 1/2" wide. Frame size: 20 1/2" high, 14 1/2" wide.
Schwenke Auctioneers
Dec. 11, 2013
BLAINE, MAHLON. 1894-c.1970.- "Ex-Libris Mahlon Blaine," pen and ink drawing on paper, 430 x 265 mm (sight),
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
"Ex-Libris Mahlon Blaine," pen and ink drawing on paper, 430 x 265 mm (sight), with pencil beneath, faint creasing, slightly toned. Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). A demonic and erotic bookplate design by shadowy illustrator Mahlon Blaine. Little is known biographically about the artist: born at the turn of the century in Oregon, he emerged as an illustrator in the 1920s and 30s, providing bawdy, fantastical, and macabre illustrations for editions of Vathek (John Day, 1928), Candide (Concord, 1930), Justine (Concord, 1931), Limehouse Nights (1926) and numerous other decadent classics.
Bonhams
Jan. 24, 2013
MAHLON BLAINE. The Disciples.
Est: $400 - $600
MAHLON BLAINE. The Disciples. Ink on illustration board. 290x205 mm; 11 1/2x7 3/4 inches. Signed with monogram upper left. Old adhesive residue to margins not affecting image. Nd.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jul. 27, 2011
Mahlon Blaine (American, 1894-1969) Heading Toward the Mesa. Signed "MAHLON/BLAINE" followed by a circle of dots l.r. Gouache and graph
Est: $200 - $400
Mahlon Blaine (American, 1894-1969) Heading Toward the Mesa. Signed "MAHLON/BLAINE" followed by a circle of dots l.r. Gouache and graphite on illustration board, 15 x 20 in., unframed. Condition: Scattered abrasions, fine craquelure, toning, wear to edges of support.
Skinner
May. 06, 2010
Blaine, Mahlon - Garden of Eden
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
MAHLON BLAINE (American, 1894-1970) Garden of Eden, 1956 Mixed media on board 26 x 15 in. Signed lower right
Heritage Auctions
Mar. 12, 2009
MAHLON BLAINE (American 1894 - 1969) Edgar Rice
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
MAHLON BLAINE (American 1894 - 1969) Edgar Rice Burroughs book illustrations, group of 4, c. 1960s Ink and white paint on board Each 22 x 17 in. Each signed with initials Mahlon Blaine produced these ERB Canaveral Press illustrations while living above the bookshop of the publishers. His bohemian lifestyle was such that no one really knew precisely when he died for many years. The style in these drawings is highly detailed, yet boldly stylized, and to some viewers his work is reminiscent of the sixties underground comix artists' efforts.
Heritage Auctions
Jun. 16, 2007
(SIX SIGNED BOOKS FROM DUNNINGER S LIBRARY)
Est: $400 - $600
496. SIX SIGNED BOOKS FROM DUNNINGER'S LIBRARY Great lot of six books from Dunninger's library, each bearing an original signed ink drawing by the illustrator of his book Dunninger's Magic Tricks, eccentric American artist of fantastic images, MAHLON BLAINE (1894-1970). Blaine's intricate line work often centered on exotic, suggestive or occult subject matter, representative of the artist's own mysterious life, he confounded interviewers, misleading them with invented tales of travel and high adventure. On The Living Buddha by Paul Morand, Henry Holt & Co., 1928, a sketch of a horned creature in a tweed suit, inscribed to Dunninger; on The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor & The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, Three Sirens Press, New York, a sketch of an oldtime sailing ship, to Dunninger; on Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet, Walden Publications, New York, 1939, a portrait of the fictitious G. Christopher Hudson (the pseudonym Blaine used for his art in The Maniac. A Realist Study of Madness from the Maniac's Point of View), inscribed to Dunninger, with dustjacket; Bushwhacking, by Hugh Clifford, Harper & Bros., New York, 1929, a rendition of a swordsman in a headwrap, to Dunninger; another copy of the same book, with sketch of two native women beside a shaded stream, to Dunninger; and Black Majesty, by John W. Vandercook, Literary Guild, New York, 1928, with dustjacket, bearing a fine drawing of a black fieldhand carrying her hoe as she walks down a path, also to Dunninger. Conditions vary, generally very good, three with Dunninger's bookplate, also based on a striking, exotic Blaine illustration. An association of magic and mystery! Six books total. From the estate of JOSEPH DUNNINGER (1892-1975). Dubbed "the Amazing Dunninger", he was one of the most famous and proficient mentalists of all time, a pioneer performer of magic on radio and television, and close friend and associate of Harry Houdini, with many lots directly related to Houdini. Dunninger showed a prodigious skill at prestidigitation as a child, and was encouraged by his family to pursue the art. By age 16, Dunninger had already made a name for himself as a mentalist with a vaudeville tour on the wildly popular Keith-Orpheum circuit. He soon became sought-after for private performances, including those for prominent personalities such as Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison. Everywhere he performed, Dunninger garnered amazement by his ability to read minds. Though this incredible ability was the perfect target for skeptics and nay sayers, Dunninger never claimed to have any psychic gift. He waged war against fraudulent mediums and "mind readers" throughout his life, and repeatedly offered the sum of $10,000 to anyone who could prove that he used props or "stooges" in his act. He even claimed that he could raise that reward to $100,000 should he be proven a fake. The style of Dunninger's act went ways in dispelling any doubts about his competency as a mentalist: shunning an elaborate set, he typically sat on a stool or in a chair aided only by a simple pad of paper and a pencil. He would doodle while he called out names, initials, or numbers thought of by some member of his audience. When audience members replied, Dunninger would spell out names, read social security numbers, or even serial numbers from dollar bills. He would reveal word for word phrases merely written by a spectator. He usually concluded a reading by asking "Are you thinking of the word 'amazing'? Is it in reference to me? Thank you very much". With the start of commercial radio in the 1940s, Dunninger was given a show in which he demonstrated hypnosis through radio. In the 1950s and 1960s he made frequent appearances on television alongside stars such as Lucille Ball, and authored numerous works. The following material from his estate is an intriguing look into the field of mentalism, illusionism and its historic and philosophical bases. Many of the books offered are rare and desirable in and of themselves, and, with the personal association to Dunninger and Houdini, show the influences and preoccupations of the two great magicians. The magic props, their eccentric appeal aside, show the proverbial "inner workings" of Dunninger's eclectic stage performances which dazzled thousands and ensured his legacy. Overall a wonderful offering. $400-600
Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
Mar. 26, 2007
Mahlon Blaine (1894-1970 Los Angeles CA) View
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Mahlon Blaine (1894-1970 Los Angeles, CA) View from Fulton Market, New York City at ferry looking across East River to Brooklyn, large mural, oil on canvas, 7' x 9'5", unframed, signed, titled, dated '55, paint loss, as found
Rose Hill Auction Gallery
Nov. 09, 2006
MAHLON BLAINE (American 1894 - 1965)
Est: $500 - $1,000
MAHLON BLAINE (American 1894 - 1965) Untitled Mixed-media on paper 16 x 13in. Signed lower right PROVENANCE: From the collection of John McLaughlin
Heritage Auctions
Mar. 12, 2004
Mahlon Blaine (1894 - 1969)
Est: $150 - $300
Large framed original painting of two buffalo dancers, signed Mahlon Blaine (Quahokah). 18" x 12"
Allard Auctions
Dec. 06, 2003
Mahlon Blaine (American, 1894-1970)
Est: $400 - $600
Lot of Two Images of Nudes: Sunday Comics and Before the Window. Both signed "...MAHLON BLAINE" l.r. Pastel and watercolor, respectively, sight sizes to 17 x 10 3/4 in., framed. Condition: Not examined out of frames.
Skinner