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Norma Shearer

Artist:Mila Baine
Date:1930s
Medium:Pastel on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 16" x 19 1/2" Framed 26 1/2 x 30 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover Art for Unidentified Title
Price: S O L D
Above: View of image
Above: Artist signature

A smart and crisp c.1930 pastel by frequent Golden Age of Hollywood movie magazine cover artist Mila Baine, showing a rediant and stylish Norma Shearer. Likely a cover for the title Movie Mirror, where Blaine did numerous commissioned cover works in the early 1930s. From the collection of Ken Galente, former owner of Silver Screen Gallery in New York City. Handsomely matted and framed behind glass in a fine period frame.

Above: Full framed view
Above: Detail of frame

Mila Baine was one of many successful illustrators commissioned to contribute cover art for Hollywood leading ladies during the 1920s – 30s. Titles like Photoplay, Silver Screen, and a host of more obscure titles competed for the talents of Rolf Armstrong, Earl Christy, Marland Stone, Zoe Mozert, Charles Sheldon Alberto Vargas to create a shimmering vision of Hollywood glamour for the magazine market.

Norma Shearer

Artist: Mila Baine
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, Mila Baine, Movie Mirror, Norma Shearer, original cover art, portrait
Added to Gallery: September 27, 2012

 

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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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