Mink Pleasure
Mink Pleasure by Hungarian Painter Jules Erbit (1889 – 1968); a pastel painter known for his female portraits and calendar illustrations.
This is a beautiful art deco period portrait of a ravishing young golden blonde with blue eyes, and a alluring warm toned complexion.
She is wearing a silver necklace with a large square brooch with an embedded ruby on its end, along with a matching square cut ruby ring on the fourth finger of her left hand.
She is wearing a white coat that is lined along the collar and the cuffs with matching white mink; that contrast nicely with the blue background.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a rolled canvas print online.
Info Below Derived From Askart.com
Erbit was born in 1889 in Budapest Hungary and studied at the Budapest Academy of Art and Munich, Germany and Paris, France; he also worked for the sculptor George Zala for several years.
Erbit then carved several statues for Budapest’s parks and also sculpted the bust of the last monarch of Hungary, King Charles IV.
During the communist take over of Hungary Erbit fled to New York City and established a portrait studio; then shortly later moved to California, where he continued as a portrait painter in Hollywood and Santa Barbara.
Though there is not a great deal of details known on the life and work of Erbit; it is known that he was one of the most prolific pin up artist between the 1930s to the 1950s, specializing in the use of pastels and was known as the master of pastels.
Unlike most other artist of the time, such as Alberto Vargas and Gil Elvgrin; Erbit’s pin ups, focused on the glamour aspect of the genre featuring, beautiful woman in gowns in elegant poses; and like his contemporaries, much of his art was published Brown & Bigelow, C. Moss and other publishers.
