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Enchantment

Artist:Edward Eggleston
Date:Early 1930s
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 28 1/8" X 38 1/8" Framed 32 1/2” X 42 1/2”
Condition:Excellent relined condition
Original Use:Calendar Art for The American Art Works Company
Price: Sold
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Enchantment: an original oil on canvas by Edward Eggleston

Enchantment is a large and important painting by Edward Eggleston, which was published by the American Art Works Calendar Company in the early 1930s. The subject of this playful scene is a nude water nymph bending over to kiss a little frog (sure to soon become a prince). The scene is captured in a Maxfield Parrish-like electric blue color scheme. Painting is in excellent condition and has been relined and is handsomely framed in a wide profile gold wood gallery frame. This is a remarkable work of art and one of the finest surviving Eggleston paintings to come on the market.

Edward Eggleston & Depression-Era Escapism

In part as an escapist response to the Great Depression, the 1930s saw a huge trend of calendar art featuring exotic fantasy-themed, ethereal and breezy images of harem attired pin-up girls, and Egyptian goddesses, and mythical nudes. In 1931, Maxfield Parrish famously declared “I am done with girls on rocks”, leaving a void for his immensely popular nude fantasy maiden works of the 1920s. Edward Eggleston — a gifted and well-established artist in his own right — seems to have taken that declaration as direct inspiration for much of his calendar work. Eggleston is best remembered today for his Atlantic City Resort advertising posters of the 1930s which all featured stylized opulent bathing beauty pin-up girls.

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Verso view of relined back canvas on original pine stretcher bars
Verso view of relined back canvas on original pine stretcher bars

Enchantment

Artist: Edward Eggleston
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, American Art Works, art deco, Calendar, Edward Eggleston, erotic, fantasy, flapper, Golden Age, Maxfield Parrish, nude, nymph, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: February 1, 2020

 

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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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