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Alberto VargasSeductive Platinum Blond Hair and Blue Eyed Pin Up in Turquoise Hat 1950s
1950s
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Study of a sultry and seductive reclining platinum blond Pin Up with a wide-brimmed sun hat. Most likely done for Playboy. This work is very finely rendered and looks better the closer you view it. It was executed on tracing paper, with mild handling buckling and minor creases and with toning throughout. It looks different under different lighting situations. The color of the work will slightly change with different lighting situations. With a frontal light, it looks pretty normal and flat. The buckling is most significantly noticeable with side light or what they call in the industry "raking light ". Work is unframed. Estate stamp lower right. 20 x 26 inches sheet. Based on the bathing suit style, I would put this in the 1950s time frame.
- Creator:Alberto Vargas (1896 - 1982, Peruvian)
- Creation Year:1950s
- Dimensions:Height: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)Width: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:The work is in fair to good overall condition depending on the light source. . The sheet is gently toned but buckling and wrinkling most noticeably with raking light. With frontal light the wrinkling is minimal. Minor handling creases are present.
- Gallery Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU385312946252
Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, the son of a successful photographer, and was educated in Switzerland. Arriving in New York in 1916, he was determined to stay in America and pursue what became an illustrious career. His name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a guy hired by Esquire magazine to imitate departed star George Petty, who bolted over pay. Vargas initially aped Petty's sleek women with their telephone posing and large-hat lounging; soon, however, his own distinctive, delicate watercolor style emerged. His wide-eyed wonder- women rivaled Betty Grable as the ultimate pin-up girl of World War II. Vargas, who signed his Esquire work "Varga", had already achieved some notoriety for his Ziegfeld Follies and movie poster art. But Esquire made him famous, though he was paid poorly and, like Petty, eventually quit. Legal problems over ownership of his work, even of his own signature, plagued him. But late in his life, Vargas was given a second shot at fame and fortune by longtime fan Hugh Hefner. His regular Playboy slot in the 1960s and '70s elevated Vargas to a pinnacle eclipsing Petty. One of the true giants of American illustration, Alberto Vargas has created an art style so sensuous, so exquisite, that for the past six decades his magnificent paintings of women have come to embody the fantasies of three generations of women and men around the world. His work also appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Theatre Magazine, and Tattler. He died in December 1982.
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