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Aw, Come On

Artist:Gil Elvgren
Date:1953
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 24" x 30" Framed 28" x 34"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Pin Up Art for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company
Price: Sold
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Above: Myrna Hansen as posed by Elvgren for “Aw-Come On” photo courtesy of Marianne at moppinup.com

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer Gil Elvgren’s original 1953 oil painting “Aw-Come On” which was commissioned and completed for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. One of the artist’s more enduring and popular pin up images, this artwork features frequent model Myrna Hansen posed as a matador of sorts attempting to use her feminine wiles to persuade her disinterested poodle pup to take a turn in the ring.

Vintage Brown & Bigelow calendar print included in sale
Vintage Brown & Bigelow calendar print included in sale
Framed in simple gold painted wood frame
Framed in simple gold painted wood frame
Frame corner detail
Frame corner detail
Above: Inventory notation on back pine stretcher #32
Above: Verso view of untouched canvas and stretchers
Above: Original stretchers and verso label

The Elvgren girl enjoyed her greatest success when she was set in motion doing something. The artist quickly evolved from his early art deco era period works for The Louis F. Dow Company, where stiffer and less detailed creations appeared somewhat lifeless in their canvas confines. In comparison these 1950s – 1960s era luminous masterworks featured flirty and uniquely personal “girl next door” type models that were captured with humor, beauty and warmth of personality. So much in fact Elvgren came to be called “The Norman Rockwell of Pin-up”. The oil paintings from this association with The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company are the most coveted and prized selections from within the whole genre as recent auction records on Elvgren topping out at over $262,000.00 in 2008 attest.

Aw, Come On

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Brown & Bigelow, cheesecake, Gil Elvgren, matador, Myrna Hansen, pin up, spanish, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 26, 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.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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