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Carole Lombard for Screen Book Magazine

Artist:Zoe Mozert
Date:1936
Medium:Pastel on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 13 1/4" x 18 1/4" Framed 22 " x 27"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover Screen Book Magazine - April 1936
Price: S O L D
Full view of pastel on illustration board
Full view of pastel on illustration board
The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right
The illustration as it appears as the cover of Screen Book Magazine - April 1936
The illustration as it appears as the cover of Screen Book Magazine – April 1936

A dazzling Hollywood glamour pastel portrait of the always radiant Carole Lombard by Zoe Mozert used as the cover for the April 1936 edition of Screen Book Magazine. This published cover illustration is signed lower right and matted behind glass in its original limed wood and black enamel painted art deco moderne frame. Really a fine example of Hollywood golden age portraiture by the prolific Mozert who was a much in demand 1930s Hollywood cover artist before settling into a long and illustrious career as a pin up calendar artist for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company.

Framed and matted behind glass in period limed wood art deco frame
Framed and matted behind glass in period limed wood art deco frame
Frame profile and corner detail
Frame profile and corner detail

The exquisitely beautiful Carole Lombard was married to Clark Gable and tragically died in an airplane crash in 1942 long before her time.

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The most famous female pin up artist, Mozert (1907-1993), is an exemplary disciple of the Rolf Armstrong pastel style. Often her own model, Mozert is noted for rejecting sexy-girl cliches in favor of depicting more real-seeming young women, with recognizably individual features and personalities.

Her cover portraits of Hollywood starlets for such publications as Romantic Movie Stories and Screen Book were particularly popular, but she also contributed covers to such periodicals as American Weekly and True Confessions.

While the bulk of her work including such deliriously romantic nudes as “Moonglow” and “Sweet Dreams” was calendar-oriented (primarily for Brown & Bigelow), Mozert also made a mark as a movie poster artist, notably for Carole Lombard’s True Confession, and the notorious Jane Russell / Howard Hughes sex and sagebrush saga, The Outlaw. Even her less sultry sirens exude both charm and sex appeal.

Carole Lombard for Screen Book Magazine

Artist: Zoe Mozert
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Carole Lombard, glamour, hollywood, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, portrait, Screen Book Magazine, The Golden Gallery, Zoe Mozert
Added to Gallery: July 14, 2013

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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