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GIL ELVGREN (American 1914 - 1980). Skirting the Issue, 1952. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 in.. Signed lower right. ...

2008 June Signature Illustration Art Auction #7000

 
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GIL ELVGREN (American 1914 - 1980)
Skirting the Issue, 1952
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right
This painting was reproduced as figure 324 in Gil Elvgren All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel.

An elegant, sophisticated beauty makes this scandalous turn of events delightfully outrageous. As was often the case with his Brown & Bigelow scenes from the fifties, Gil Elvgren added a cute canine companion to serve an innocent bystander to this slapstick situation. This is just the sort of good-natured pinup humor that earned Gil Elvgren the fitting nickname of "the Norman Rockwell of cheesecake." Estimate: .

Elvgren, Gil:.

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The art is in Excellent condition.

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