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Billy DeVorss

This remarkable, large, and colorful pastel by Billy Devorss was created for pin up calendar use and published under the title The Flame Girl.

The Flame Girl

Artist: Billy Devorss
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Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Billy DeVorss, blonde, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2022

Dazzling original pin up by Billy Devorss from the art deco era, for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

Personality Plus

Artist: Billy Devorss
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Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Billy DeVorss, Calendar, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, illustration, jazz age, original calendar art, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: September 30, 2018

    This remarkable, large, and colorful pastel by Billy Devorss was created for Brown & Bigelow’s 1941 calendar line and was published under the title Pretty Smooth. Unlike most of the pin-up artists working during the Golden Age of Illustration, Devorss never signed an exclusive contract with any of the calendar companies, and instead enjoyed incredible popularity […]

Pretty Smooth

Artist: Billy Devorss
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Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Billy DeVorss, Brown & Bigelow, Golden Age, illustration, original calendar art, pastel, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: March 23, 2017

The moment when Rita Hayworth pops onscreen for the first time in Gilda ranks among the most iconic film introductions of the 20th century. Her gravity defying hair flip and blinding smile seemed to epitomize mischievous flirtation, and through the extensive publicity campaign surrounding the film and a series of now legendary glamour photos by Robert […]

Billy Devorss, Rita Hayworth and the Public Imagination

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Tagged With: Billy DeVorss, George Petty, Gilda, Henry Clive, hollywood, Irv Winer, pin up, Rita Hayworth, World War II
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2016

A colorful and deftly rendered pin-up calendar pastel by Billy Devorss from 1942 titled A Real Leg Show, for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. Devorss was never under contract with any single calendar company which allowed him to work for virtually all of the golden age of Illustration calendar firms, his work was very […]

A Real Leg Show

Artist: Billy Devorss
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Tagged With: 1940s, Billy DeVorss, Charles Martignette, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 11, 2014

This is a dazzling, masterful original calendar commissioned pastel by Billy Devorss. The large scale, finely rendered artwork was created for the Louis F Dow company, and the lavishly attired young model is the artists wife Gleena. This keenly detailed art deco portrait expertly demonstrates the attention to culture, haute couture fashion, and style that set Devorss apart from his contemporaries. Pastel is properly lined and matted and comes framed in a lavish gold gilt carved fine museum quality frame.

The Emerald Girl

Artist: Billy DeVorss
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Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, Billy DeVorss, fashion, glamour, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: April 7, 2013

A large and radiant calendar girl pin-up pastel by Billy Devorss created for The Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company of Red Oak Iowa. Devorss had a studio in New York City in the Beaux Arts Building and worked for many Calendar Companies of the day creating large format pastel illustrations of modernist fashionable attired heart-breakers in an inventive art deco manner.

A Bathing Beauty in Yellow

Artist: Billy DeVorss
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Billy DeVorss, Great American Pin-up, original calendar art, pin up, streamline, Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company
Added to Gallery: October 19, 2010

An alarmingly beautiful art deco era original pastel pin-up illustration by Billy Devorss titled “Prize Winner”. A ravishing and radiant blond bathing beauty contestant winner in her slinky and current one piece suit and beach cape. One of the artist’s most successful and enduring creations. In original limed wood frame behind glass with a framing label from “M.Goldberg picture frames, 323 W. 45th St. N.Y. A rare surviving radiant work from Devorss’ most productive period, when his penthouse studio was in New York City’s prestigious Beaux Arts Building.

Prize Winner

Artist: Billy DeVorss
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Billy DeVorss, original calendar art, pin up, streamline, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: December 21, 2008

 

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