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Port ‘O Dreams

Artist:Enoch Bolles
Date:1925
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 17 1/2" x 23 1/2" Framed 19" x 25"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover Illustration For Film Fun - October 1925
Above: Full view
Above: The artists initialed signature
Above: The work as it appeared on the Cover of Film Fun October 1925

A rare surviving early signed cover painting by Enoch Bolles for the October 1925 issue of Film Fun Magazine. A delightful modernist flapper girl envisioned as only Bolles could see, titled “Port ‘O Dreams.” Painting is initialed lower middle and in a fine state of preservation. Recent auction records for this artist have topped $65,000.00 and as collectors know his original cover works are very scarce.

Above: Detail
Above: Verso view of old canvas and original pine stretchers
Above: Framed in simple wood frame

Port ‘O Dreams

Artist: Enoch Bolles

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, bathing beauty, Enoch Bolles, Film Fun, flapper, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, streamline, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 13, 2010

 

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