VARGAS

Famous for his illustrations in Playboy and Esquire and credited with creating an often copied erotic style, Alberto Vargas is revealed in a book that combines both art and biography. Being of the true giants of American illustration, Vargas has created an art style so sensuous, so exquisite, that for the past six decades his magnificent paintings of women have come to embody the fantasies of three generations of women and men around the world.

This collection of two hundred illustrations, over 60 in full color, portrays the evolution of Vargas's vision of women. Luscious examples from every period abound-the Ziegfeld Follies girls, the glamorous Hollywood beauty queens, and finally, the "Varga" Girls, ethereal creatures who have graced the pages of Esquire and Playboy for nearly forty years.

Out of print. Condition: Fine. Softly bumped corners.