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| A Dashing Marion Davies |
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| Artist: | Charles Sheldon |
| Date: | 1936 |
| Medium: | Pastel on Illustration Board |
| Dimensions: | Sight Size 16" by 22" Framed 28 1/4" by 34" |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Original Use: | Original Cover Art For Movie Classic Magazine, March 1936 |
| Price: | $9500.00
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| Above: Detail |
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| Above: The artist's signature |
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| Above: A scan of the published printed cover |
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| Above: Framed and beautifully matted behind glass in a period gesso ornate antique frame |
A dashing original pastel illustration, a scarce surviving Golden Age of Hollywood cover portrait of the lovely Marion Davies. Davies, a true film legend, is captured in an opulent and unabashedly art deco pose by frequent Golden-era tinsel town illustrator Charles Gates Sheldon. This large and inventive work was used as the March 1936 cover of "Movie Classic Magazine". Pastel is in a fine original state of conservation and framed and matted behind glass in an an ornate gesso period antique frame.
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| Above: Detail |
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| Above: Verso notation: Movie Classic Magazine March 1936 |
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| Above: Marion Davies as photographed by Charles Sheldon in his Carnegie Hall studio |
Though Charles Gates Sheldon maintained a studio in New York City at Carnegie Hall, his list of sitters reads like a "who's who" of Golden Age Hollywood. He created from live in studio sittings hundreds of stylized glamorous pastel cover portraits for the various movie titles of the era. The list includes Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Katherine Hepburn, Mae West, Carole Lombard and dozens of other studio stars.
Recent auction records on the artist top out at $17.935.00 for a similar pastel portrait of Katherine Hepburn from the same year as this work.
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