Academy Awards [phone removed] Portraits -

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$500

Academy Awards [phone removed] Portraits -

Price:

$500

Location:

Medford, NJ

Description:

Academy Awards 1928-1961 Portraits - $500 (Medford, NJ)Very rare...originally purchased in Hollywood for $3.00.A number of years ago the prominent artist, Nicholas Volpe embarked on a venture or recording, through portraiture, the stars who had received the Academy Award since they are were conceived in 1927. And, so he began to haunt the picture morgues of the Hollywood studios, for many of the recipients had passed on. he searched private collections, film libraireis, old magazines for any bit of information, that would help him in rendering the studies. The very first winner, Emil Jannings, who onw the the award in 1928 for "The Way of All Flesh," was hardly an auspicious start for Volpe, for nowhere could he find any satisfactory material on what Mr. Jannings looked like as he grew old in the film. In desperatrion Volpe looked up Ern Westmore, the make up artist who actually made up Emil Jannings, and from Westmore's verbal description of the make-up, the portrait was accomplished.This is a complete Portrait Collection of Academy Award Winners.....very suitable for framing.In the artist's mind the theme was now set as to how to interpret the whole vast project-- whenever an actor or actress altered their identifty in characterization. Volpe decided to draw a dobule portrait -- as the players really looked and as they appeared in the characterization. Then notice how in the single studies the theme of characterization is handled -- a kind of smile, a kind of frown, a quality in the eyes, the set of the ead, a suggestion of costume-- all contributing to the end result. ...the complete collection of portraits in charcoal of the best performance by an actor and actress since 1928 through the year of 1961. I have taken a few examples below. Sophia Loren, Marlo Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace KellyHere's the list:1961 -- Maximilian Schell1961 -- Sophia Loren1960 -- Burt Lancaster1960 -- Elizabeth Taylor1959 -- Charlton Heston1959 -- Simone Signoret1958 -- David Niven1958 -- Susan Hayward1957 -- Alec Guinness1957 -- Joanne Woodward1956 -- Yul Brynner1956 -- Ingrid Bergman1955 -- Ernest Borgnine1955 -- Anna Magnani1954 -- Grace Kelly1954 -- Marlon Brando1953 -- William Holden1953 -- Audrey Hepburn1952 -- Gary Cooper1952 -- Shirley Booth1951 -- Humphrey Bogart1951 -- Vivien Leigh1950 -- Jose Ferrer1950 -- Judy Holliday1949 -- Broderick Crawford1949 -- Olivia deHavilland1948 -- Laurence Olivier1948 -- Jane Wyman1947 -- Ronaold Colman1947 -- Loretta Young1946 -- Fredric March1946 -- Olivai deHavilland1945 -- Ray Milland1945 -- Joan Crawford1944 -- Bing Crosby1944 -- Ingrid Bergman1943 -- Paul Lukas1943 -- Jennifer Jones1942 -- James Cagney1942 -- Greer Garson1941 -- Gary Cooper1941 -- Joan Fontaine1940 -- James Stewart1940 -- Ginger Rogers1939 -- Robert Donat1939 -- Vivien Leigh1938 -- Spencer Tracy1938 -- Bette Davis1937 -- Luise Rainer1937 -- Paul Muni1936 -- Luise Rainer1935 -- Victor McLaglen1935 -- Bette Davis1934 -- Clark Gable1934 -- Claudette Colbert1933 -- Charles Laughton1933 -- Katharine Hepburn1932 -- Fredric March1932 -- Wallace Beery1932 -- Helen Hayes1931 -- Lionel Barrymore1931 -- Marie Dressler1930 -- George Arliss1930 -- Norma Schearer1929 -- Warner Baxter1929 -- Mary Pickford1928 -- Emil Jannings1928 -- Janet GaynorColored Photo of Brenda Marshall

Category:

Antiques

Posted:

November 14 2023 on Americanlisted