ALBERTO VARGAS : Works from the Max Vargas Collection

ALBERTO VARGAS : Works from the Max Vargas Collection by Reid Stewart Austin. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780316077699.

PThe storied and turbulent career of glamour artist Alberto Vargas took him from Florenz Ziegfelds Follies in the 1920s to Hollywood in the 30s to IEsquire/I magazine and the emergence of the "Varga Girl" in the 40s and, ultimately, to a lasting home at IPlayboy/I in the 60s and 70s.pThis is the first book on the works of Vargas in more than a decade, drawn from the collection of his nephew, Max Vargas. It is also the first to include a generous selection of his vivid original drawings and his finest work for IPlayboy/I magazine. Along with these highly sough-after pictures, the book features early unpublished works from the 1920s, unpublished sketches and watercolors rendered for IEsquire/I, the celebrated Legacy Nudes, and more.pThe decade-by-decade narrative essay and captions are by BReid Stewart Austin/B, who worked with Vargas as his IPlayboy/Ieditor for nearly twenty years and who wrote the bestselling Vargas biography in 1978 with the artist.p