Margaret Brundage Pastel: Golden Automaton Seizes Woman, Weird Tales 1930s

Almost certainly original cover art for Weird Tales magazine, the premier venue for Margaret Brundage's notorious pastel covers throughout the 1930s. A gleaming golden android or animated statue — muscular, curly-haired, rendered entirely in burnished gold — seizes a swooning dark-haired woman clad only in diaphanous white drapery. The composition explodes against a deep violet background with an aureate halo, framed by ornate gold borders. Classic Brundage: sensual menace, alien otherness, and pinup glamour fused into pulp perfection.