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GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Something's Bothering You (What's Wrong?), 1957
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed center-left
Nowhere is Elvgren's mastery at pin-up art more evident than in this brilliantly colorful, thematically bold and scintillating 1957 painting.

This painting was reproduced as figure 346 in Gil Elvgren All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel.

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.


More information about Elvgren, Gil. See also: Gillette Elvgren.



Condition Report*: Unframed original canvas with minor scattered abrasions along edges possible from previous framing, faint stretcher creasing along edges, under uv minor areas of inpainting along edges and small areas in upper left quadrant; otherwise good condition.
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Auction Dates
October, 2009
27th Tuesday
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