CHARLES SHELDON PHOTO INCREDIBLE NUDE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

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Thanks to all our ebay bidders, we are honored to be your one-stop, 5 star source for vintage pin-up, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changing assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, art nouveau, art deco, & mid-century modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions about the items and our policies and please take a moment to peruse our other great ebay listings. All sell no reserve! ITEM: Grapefruitmoongallery recently purchased a vast collection of artist's studio C. 1916-1930 gelatin silver antique photographs taken by the American Illustrator Charles Gates Sheldon in his Carnegie Hall New York City Studio. These stills were used to create advertising pastels and paintings for lingerie companies, and his other advertising accounts including Breck Shampoo, as the artist was the originator of the "Miss Breck" series of pastel portraits. Sheldon went on to create hundreds of stylized covers for Photoplay Magazine and the other Silent Movie pre-code titles. These photos are amazing as you who follow our auctions on ebay will discover, we will be posting the collection in the coming months exclusively on ebay in a no reserve auction format You are bidding on a circa 1915 - 1920 gelatin silver photograph, a 5" by 7" inch original vintage photograph of a young and nude beautifully posed Ziegfeld Follies showgirl, who is at this point unidentified by us at Grapefruitmoongallery. A fine old wildly erotic portrait still with early art deco elements and really tremendous sepia drenched beauty. We have come into an extraordinary collection of antique Hollywood and assorted erotic photographs and memorabilia and are happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. 100% guaranteed original and vintage. CONDITION: This 1st generation double weight matte finish antique original old still photograph is in very good condition, with a tiny corner missing in the lower left margin t is a flaw in the developing as seen lower right this is not a finish scuff or crease or cut it is in the process of developing and minor yet dutifully noted... 100% guaranteed vintage and original. Charles Sheldon was a prolific and gifted early 1900's American Illustrator who specialized in "pretty woman" themed cover portraiture and advertising in the Art Nouveau and Edwardian styles. After studying at the Art Students League, he went to Paris to study under the legendary Alphonse Mucha. He returned to America and set up a studio at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 1918 Sheldon received his first pin-up commission, a series of ads for La Vogue lingerie. He went on to do a series of work for the Fox Shoe Company as well as front covers for Collier's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post and Photoplay. By 1921 he was contributing high fashion portraits to Woman's Home Companion and Theater magazine. Famous women all over the world arranged to sit for portraits in his studio in Carnegie Hall in New York. The pastels he created for Photoplay 1925- 1930 launched his career as a portrait cover artist. During this time period most of the stars sat three or four times for each of these portraits, later came cover art commissions for Screenland, Movie Classic and Radio Digest magazines. His glamorous interpretations of Clara Bow, Mae West, Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, Gilda Gray, Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple and hundreds of other early tinsel town enchantresses were in high demand for these attention grabbing newsstand viewed publications. Charles Sheldon like many of his contemporary illustrators was also a competent photographer, Grapefruit Moon Gallery recently acquired a large archive of his Carnegie Hall studio portraits that we will be offering for sale on our ebay site in the coming months. In 1936, Breck Shampoo asked this famous portrait artist to develop a national ad campaign and the ever-successful "Bre... read more

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