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The Toast Of The Town

Artist:Victor Tchetchet
Date:1950
Medium:Pastel on illustration board
Dimensions:Sight Size 13" by 19" Framed 25 1/2" by 32 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Calendar Art
Price: Sold
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The artist's signature and date of 1950 lower right
The artist’s signature and date of 1950, lower right
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Dating to 1950, The Toast of The Town is a captivating, pin-up pastel by noted illustrator and occasional calendar artist Victor Tchetchet. In an unusual nod to Coles Phillips’s “Fadeaway Girls”, the artist depicts this nude blonde reveler disappearing into the background even as she commands the full attention of the viewer, giving the work an almost dream-like quality.

Tchetchet is best known for his pin-up The Favorite Model, and for his many movie magazine covers. We have never come across the published version of this pastel, though presumably it was a commissioned pin-up calendar illustration. Beautifully double matted under glass in a handsome gallery frame.

Framed view
Framed view

The Toast Of The Town

Artist: Victor Tchetchet
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, bacchanalia, Calendar, fadeaway girl, martini, pin up, Victor Tchetchet
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

 

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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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