Alberto Vargas

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Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez (9 February 1896 – 30 December 1982) was a popular Peruvian painter of pin-up girls.

He is often regarded as one of the pin-up artists most well-known.

Numerous Vargas paintings have sold and continue to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Life and career

He was born in Arequipa, Peru, and was the son of Peruvian photographer Max T. Vargas. Alberto Vargas came from Europe to the United States in 1916 after studying art in Europe, particularly in Zurich and Geneva, ahead of World War I. He was in Europe when he discovered the French magazine La Vie Parisienne, with a cover by Raphael Kirchner, which he said had a major influence on his work.

He began his career in New York as an artist for the Ziegfeld Follies and for many Hollywood studios. Olive Thomas was on view at the theater, and she was regarded as one of the oldest Vargas Girls by Ziegfeld. The poster of Vargas' 1933 film The Sin of Nora Moran depicts a near-naked Zita Johann in a pose of defiance with little resemblance to the actual actress. The poster has been dubbed one of the best movie posters ever produced.

Vargas was known in the 1940s as the 'Vargas Girls,' iconic World War II pin-ups. Vargas painted 180 paintings for the magazine between 1940 and 1946. Many American and Allied World War II aircraft's nose art was inspired and adapted from these Esquire pin-ups, as well as George Petty's and other artists' works.

Hugh Hefner, the Playboy's founder and Editor-in-Chief, who had previously worked for Esquire, wrote: "The US Post Office attempted to deter Esquire's existence in the 1940s by withdrawing its second-class mailing license." The Feds, particularly the cartoons and Alberto Vargas' pin-up art, were in opposition. Esquire prevailed in the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court, but the magazine kept the cartoons in order to be on the safe side. Vargas was found guilty of a court fight over the use of the word "Varga" in a decision. He suffered financially until 1959, when Playboy magazine began to use his artwork. He made 152 paintings for the magazine over the next 16 years. His career flourished, and he had major exhibitions of his work around the world.

Vargas' artistic drawings, paintings, and color drawings were regularly included in Playboy magazine's 1960s and 1970s issues.

Anna Mae's death in 1974 left him distraught, and he stopped painting. Anna Mae had been his model and company manager, as well as his muse. The publication of his autobiography in 1978 revived interest in his art, bringing him partially out of self-imposed retirement to produce a few pieces, including album covers for The Cars (Candy-O, 1979) and Bernadette Peters, 1981). He died of a stroke on December 30, 1982, at the age of 86.

The Spencer Museum of Art in Kansas has acquired several of Vargas' works from his time with Esquire. The exhibition was presented in 1980 along with a substantial body of other art from the magazine.

The 1967 Vargas painting Trick or Treat sold for $71,600 at Christie's auction of Playboy archives in December 2003.

He tended to make his art a blend of watercolor and airbrush. The founder of the Vargas Award, which was named after him, is recognized for his mastery of the airbrush. Despite always using figure models, he often presented elegantly dressed, semi-nude to nude women of idealized proportions. Vargas' signature feature would be long fingers and toes, with nails often painted in red.

Vargas is widely known as one of the top artists of his time. He also served as a judge for the Miss Universe beauty competition from 1956 to 1958.

Olive Thomas, Billie Burke, Nita Naldi, Marilyn Miller, Paulette Goddard, Bernette Goddard, Bernadette Peters, Irish McCalla, Ruth Etting, and Candy Moore from The Cars' Candy-O album are among Vargas' notable women.

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