Alberto Vargas (Varga) boek "20's - '50's" (1990, Taschen)

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Het boek "20's -'50's" van de wereldberoemde Peruviaanse schilder/tekenaar/illustrator en pionier van de airbrush kunst Alberto Vargas (1896-1982).
Vargas is bekend vanwege zijn vele tekeningen van sexy pin-ups voor bladen zoals Esquire Magazine (vanaf 1940) en later (vanaf 1959) voor Playboy.

Vargas became famous in the 1940s as the creator of iconic World War-II era pin-ups for Esquire magazine known as "Vargas Girls". Between 1940 and 1946, Vargas produced 180 paintings for the magazine. The nose art of many American and Allied World War II aircraft was inspired and adapted from these Esquire pin-ups, as well as those of George Petty, and other artists.

In 2004, Hugh Hefner, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Playboy, who had previously worked for Esquire, wrote: "The US Post Office attempted to put Esquire out of business in the 1940s by taking away its second-class mailing permit. The Feds objected, most especially, to the cartoons and the pin-up art of Alberto Vargas. Esquire prevailed in the case that went to the Supreme Court, but the magazine dropped the cartoons just to be on the safe side". A legal dispute with Esquire over the use of the name "Varga" resulted in a judgement against Vargas. He struggled financially until 1959 when Playboy magazine began to use his work. Over the next 16 years he produced 152 paintings for the magazine. His career flourished and he had major exhibitions of his work all over the world.
Vargas' artistic work, paintings and color drawings, were periodically featured in issues of Playboy magazine in the 1960s and 1970s.
(bron: wikipedia)

Uitgeverij Benedikt Taschen, 1990, ISBN 3-89450-063-8.
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