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Too Hot To Touch af amerikansk maler Peter Driben (1903 – 1968); maler, illustratør og en af de mest produktive pin-up kunstnere i 1940'erne og 1950'erne.
Too Hot To Touch har en hot sexet ravnhåret skønhed i sort trusse, en sort bh med et guldhåndpynt hængende over midten og sorte stiletto sko med accent med et guld navneskilt ankelarmbånd, med to store grønne blomster, der pryder venstre side af hendes hår.
Baggrunden er en dyb rødlig orange, der går over til gul og skaber et brændende farveudbrud, der strømmer ind på den orange cushione -sofa, hun læner sig op ad.
Too Hot To Touch is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase online as a rullet lærred print.
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Peter Driben blev født i Boston, og han studerede på Vesper George Art School, inden han flyttede til Paris i 1925. Mens han tog klasser på Sorbonne i 1925, han begyndte en række meget populære pen-og-blæktegninger af byens showgirls.
I marts af 1934 Driben skabte sin første kendte pin-up, som var forsiden til La Paree Stories; og af 1935, han producerede covers til Snappy, Pep, New York Nights, Fransk natteliv og Caprice.
Da Dribens popularitet fortsatte med at stige i slutningen af trediverne, skabte han flere forsider til andre tidsskrifter, herunder Silk Stocking Stories, Film Merry-Go-Round og ægte skærmsjov.
Driben’s career expanded into advertising when he moved to New York in late 1936. Here he created original three-dimensional die-cut window displays for Philco Radios, Cannon Bath Towels, and the Weber Baking Company.
Perhaps his most famous work being the original posters and publicity artwork for The Maltese Falcon. Peter Driben was also a close friend of publisher Robert Harrison, og i 1941 he was contracted to produce covers for Harrison’s new magazine Beauty Parade.
From there Peter went on to paint hundreds of covers for that publication and for the other seven titles Harrison was to launch – Flirt, Whisper, Titter, Wink, Eyeful, Giggles, and Joker.
Driben would often have as many as six or seven of his covers being published every month. Driben’s work for Harrison established him as one of America’s most recognized and successful pin-up and glamour artists. Just before he began to work for Harrison, Driben married the artist, actress and poet, Louise Kirby.
I 1944 he was offered the unusual opportunity, for a pin-up artist; that was to become the art director of the New York Sun, a post he retained until 1946. During the war, hans populære maleri af amerikanske soldater, der hejede flaget ved Iwo Jima, udløste en betydelig mængde medieopmærksomhed.
I 1956, Driben og Louise flyttede til Miami Beach, hvor han tilbragte sine pensionistår med at male portrætter (herunder en af Dwight D. Eisenhower) og andre kunstværker, som blev organiseret i vellykkede udstillinger af hans kone. Driben døde i 1968, Louise ind 1984.