This subtle and captivating pastel on board by Haskell Coffin shows Greta Garbo with her signature mysterious gaze in a stylish cloche hat.
Artist: Haskell Coffin
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Greta Garbo
A deftly rendered luminous pastel portrait of silent and early talkie legendary Hollywood film star Greta Garbo, created as the cover for the November 1935 issue of Screenland magazine. The artist captures the glamorous side of Garbo as styled from a publicity shoot promoting her starring turn in the M-G-M adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. […]
Artist: Charles Sheldon
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A deftly rendered luminous pastel portrait of silent and early talkie legendary Hollywood film star Greta Garbo, created as the cover for the June 1934 issue of Screenland Magazine. One of the finest examples of cover portraiture we have ever come across by Charles Gates Sheldon who had a very prolific career creating stylized glamorous art deco Hollywood film star portraits for many of the leading jazz age movie magazine titles.
Artist: Charles Sheldon
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The relationship between Greta Garbo and photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull is perhaps the most storied pairing in the star system of Golden Age Hollywood. Only Bull could coax the immortally sensual and iconic images that defined Garbo from the notoriously shy and reserved star. In this portrait from the 1934 film The Painted Veil, Garbo is seen in profile, with the luscious light and shadow for which the photographer was known.
Artist: Clarence Sinclair Bull
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