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Dragon Lady

Artist:Cardwell Higgins
Date:1929
Medium:Pen & ink on board with gouache highlights
Dimensions:16 1/2" X 22" Framed 25 1/2" X 32"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Exhibited Fine Art
Price: Sold

The artist’s signature lower right

1979 Promotional Brochure with illustration shown upper right

This Orientalist art deco avant-garde pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins is an early work by the renowned illustrator that recalls the erotic and stylized work of British artist Aubrey Beardsley. This is part of a series of similarly exotic and provocative drawings Higgins created between 1927 – 1929, which would much later be marketed as a series of limited edition art prints under the guidance of Charles Martignette in 1979. The work is finely matted and framed behind glass in a handsome black and silver fine gallery frame.
This finely executed illustration shows a topless Chinese dancer accompanied by a man playing an erhu, depicted in a burlesque vaudeville-era Ziegfeld Follies style production. From the vast estate of legendary art collector Charles Martignette, who befriended the artist in his retirement in Hollywood, Florida and organized a one-man retrospective for Higgins in the late 1970s.

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Dragon Lady

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, fantasy, fine art, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, jazz age, machine age, risque
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2017

 

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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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