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Spare?

Artist:Art Frahm
Date:1952
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size: 24" x 30" | Framed: 26.5" x 32.5"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Published Calendar Pin-Up Art
Price: SOLD
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The artist’s signature, lower left

 

Vintage calendar print (included in sale).

 

This original pin-up calendar painting by Art Frahm appeared in 1952 under the title Spare? and nows lives in pop culture infamy as one of the artist’s “Embarrassment Series” images. In this oil on canvas painting a startled pretty but hapless young blonde bowls a frame and loses her undergarments much to the delight of the other male bowlers. This is one of the most popular and reproduced images from the oftentimes wacky world of calendar pin-ups. This painting was previously in the famed collection of Charles Martignette. Spare? was reproduced as figure 409 in The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel, Taschen Books, 1996. The painting remains in a fine state of conservation; modestly framed and ready to hang with a published vintage calendar print included in the sale.

Frahm is best remembered for his “Embarrassment Series” of cheesecake images in which gleefully conceived, fresh-faced young wives trying to make their way through the world have found themselves caught with their underpants down while boarding buses, dropping off the mail, and bowling, just to name a few. The artist’s name has become synonymous with lighthearted cheesecake, and this title is easily one of the most iconic offerings by the artist and in the whole pin-up genre specifically.

 

Detail

 

Verso view

 

Verso detail in the artist’s hand

 

Spare?

Artist: Art Frahm
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Art Frahm, Bowling, Calendar, Charles Martignette, cheesecake, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

 

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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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