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Pearl Frush
Female Pin Up Artist Smooth Sailing, Sweethearts of Sport

$27,000
£20,338.23
€23,729.62
CA$38,192.66
A$38,426.62
CHF 22,304.10
MX$468,316.54
NOK 257,447.14
SEK 264,175.36
DKK 177,371.92

About the Item

For those who appreciate good academic painting and drawing, study Pearl Frush. She gets it right. In the present work, Frush paints a perfect face. Not just anatomically, but also in capturing the subject's grace and charming 1940s femininity. Here's a face to fall in love with, and that was the point. Study her hands, they are portraits as well and evoke the epitome of femininity. The painting was done for a calendar, so it had to be graphic to stop, grab, and hold the spectator. Capturing a peak moment of joyous exhilaration. "Smooth Sailing" floats on air as much as it sails on water... with style, grace, and timeless elegance. It's a woman painting a woman for men. How wonderfully interesting a concept, and executed in 1945 at the end of WWII. Faintly signed lower left: Pearl Frush. Provenance: Property from the Louis and Susan Meisel Collection. The present work is published as a calendar for Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Co. and appears as figure 423 in The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel (Taschen, 1996).
  • Creator:
    Pearl Frush (1907 - 1986, American)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)
  • Medium:
    Gouache,Illustration Board,Pencil
  • Movement & Style:
    American Realist
  • Period:
    1940-1949
  • Condition:
    A few very faint scratches to the upper region of the negative space, not affecting the figure. Two pinpoint abrasions at the center left area of the boat near the figure's hand. Some slight fading commensurate with age UV examined.
  • Gallery Location:
    Miami, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU385318024152

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