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Smiling High Society Glamour Portrait

Artist:Rolf Armstrong
Date:1930s
Medium:Pastel on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 20" x 25" Framed 30" x 35"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Most Likely a Printed Glamour Advertisment
Above: Detail of Pastel work
Above: The artists signature

This stylized pastel portrait of a dashing high society fashionable blonde with bright red lips is bright, colorful, fresh and new to the market. The 1930s era portrait was most likely used for print ads for a beauty product in American glamour magazines. A large seductive example of Rolf Amstrong’s unsurpassed pastel work. A winsome idealized vision of American feminine beauty by The Father Of American Pin-up.

Above: Full View of Pastel
Above: Framed view in fine gold gesso frame

Smiling High Society Glamour Portrait

Artist: Rolf Armstrong

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, american, art deco, glamour, high society, pin up, portrait, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: August 12, 2006

 

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