People We Love: Sara Moon

I have been buying a lot of art on eBay lately, the pièce de résistance being this giant oil painting of a Jean Shrimpton-esq girl and a lhasa apso. I bought it a couple of weeks ago and then today I googled Sarah Moon (the photographer) and came across the work of Sara Moon (the illustrator) whose work appeared on greeting cards, calenders, and posters that one would find in cheesy poster shops during the seventies and eighties. As it turns out, the painting that I bought is a copy of one of Moon's pieces. To make matters even more bizarre, I discovered that Sara Moon isn't actually a real person, it's an alias for this dude named Bijan Djamalzadeh. So I hit up ebay again looking for his stuff and found a gazillion prints, most priced at around $2 a pop. I bought most of them but there are still a few floating around including a framed print of the lhasa apso painting. I am especially stoked to have purchased the cat portrait at the bottom of this post, so fab!









All images (except the crappy ebay photo of my painting) from the Sara Moon fansite