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An Iron in the Fire

Artist:Vaughan Bass
Date:1940s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 22" x 28"
Condition:Mint
Original Use:Louis F. Dow Calendar Company Pin Up Art
Above: Full view of oil painting
Above: The artist’s signature

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer a fresh (in all respects!) original oil on canvas pin up painting by Vaughan Bass for The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company. A young strawberry-blonde nude bombshell with a curling iron readying herself for a night out on the town. A never on the market before fabulous estate find by this under valued and very talented and prolific calendar artist. Work is on original pine stretchers and in a very fine state of conservation, in all regards “The Great American Pin-up.”

Above: Untouched verso canvas and old pine strtchers
Above: Detail

An Iron in the Fire

Artist: Vaughan Bass

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, boudoir, Great American Pin-up, Louis F. Dow, Minnesota Artist, nude, original calendar art, risque, Vaughan Bass
Added to Gallery: June 15, 2009

 

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