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Varga: The Esquire Years, a Catalog Raisonne
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Alberto Varga - Varga - The Esquire Years - New York, Alfred van der Mark, 1987 - 1st edition - 176 pp - hardcover with light grey dust jacket and dust jacket - 23.5 x 31.5 cm – English.
Beautiful collection of Varga pin-up art from the period 1940-1947. Contains all Varga Girl pop-up booklets, calendars, and playing cards from Esquire magazine, as well as all Varga advertisements (not published in Esquire) from the period 1941-1947. Full color, with two fold-out pages.
Alberto Varga created his iconic pin-up art using live models. His most important model, lifelong muse, and business manager was his wife, Ana Mae Clift. She was a former dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies. Varga painted fantasy women. Characteristic of his signature were the very slender fingers and toes with striking red nails. He combined watercolor painting with airbrushing and worked from rough sketches and photographs he took of his models. The models were rarely depicted simply naked; he always dressed them in elegant creations and placed them in refined, suggestive poses. The goal was to capture the aesthetics, elegance, and 'glamour' of the American woman, without it becoming vulgar.
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ConditionExcellentColorsMulti ColorMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeSmallHeight31 cmWidth23 cm
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Private sellerUtrecht, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since October 2022 • 34 sales