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GIL ELVGREN (Attributed to).
“What aView!”Study for the 1959 Brown & Bigelow calendar featuring model Myrna Hansen.
Oil on canvas. 508x406 mm; 20x16 inches. Not signed. Craquelure in areas (no losses,)
several linear cracks. Framed.
[3,000/4,000]
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BRADSHAW CRANDELL.
Bathing Beauty (Carole Lombard). Pastel on thick paper. 762x559 mm; 30x22 inches.
Signed in lower left image. Pinholes along edges, adhesive residue on verso. Framed. Nd,
circa 1930s.
[3,000/5,000]
Crandell (1896-1966) was the undisputed “artist of the stars,” befriending and immortalizing
Hollywood’s most beautiful starlets in his portraits. Among his subjects were Bette Davis, Judy
Garland, Carole Lombard, and Lucille Ball. His career took off when he replaced Harrison Fisher
as the cover artist for Cosmopolitan magazine, ushering in a new era of glamour. Crandell was
inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2006.
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