The Mystery of Bela Lugosi's Clara Bow Painting Solved
Hello, Thought the CHFB crowd would enjoy this new story about Bela Lugosi...and his Clara Bow painting, that's headed for the auction block. Please visit my website for the scoop:...
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David -- As for the provenance, the consignor's financial advisor contacted me several months ago. He was very thorough, had researched the painting, had seen a picture of it in my BELA LUGOSI AND...
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Great, Greg. Thanks. Sorry if I came off paranoid but as our mutual friend DN says "you always have to suspect the worst and then work backwards" - It's certainly wonderful it surfaced after all these...
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Remember when LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT's crackbrained "re-discoverer" (pfffffft!) also claimed to have rediscovered the portrait?...
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Hi David, Thanks for the message. Yes, please send me that phone number via my email on the CHFB. I appreciate it! Greg
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Do we have any painters in the CHFB house? I'm curious about what the style of the painting is. Also interesting to think of Lugosi vamping the live-action Betty Boop a few years later... since Clara...
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I kind of want a print of it.
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Whoever has the rights to make prints from this will see a tidy profit.
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Dr Acula wrote:Do we have any painters in the CHFB house? I'm curious about what the style of the painting is. Also interesting to think of Lugosi vamping the live-action Betty Boop a few years...
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On that article it mentioned restoration to remove Lugosi's cigar smoke stains. I guess we can be thankful for Lugosi's image that cigar smoke made the only stains.
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If that's Clara Bow, I'll eat my hat!
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Red Gargon wrote:What? They REMOVED the cigar stains? Fans would pay THOUSANDS for stains actually made by Bela Lugosi. The outrage. The loss to history.Neat story!well I had heard about Lugosi's...
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oregan wrote:If that's Clara Bow, I'll eat my hat!I have to say, I had a similar reaction. I wonder if there are any closer and clearer pictures of the painting. Clearly it's a painting of a woman...
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Yes, there has been some debate about whether or not the lady in the painting is Clara Bow. David Stenn, who wrote the most recent (and excellent) biography of Bow, is convinced it's NOT her. It's...
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Thanks, Greg, for bringing things into sharper focus. And you're right, it's a fascinating relic. The mystery ads to its allure (and value). As you say, it will be interesting to see how Bonhams...
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Doing my limited searching online at home on the ancient Mac, I did a google image search for Clara Bow, and some of the pictures of her without makeup did indeed look like the face on the painting.
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Judging from the red hair, I think there's no doubt whatsoever it's a interpretation of Clara Bow as well as the fact it's signed by artist Geza Kende who did the full-length Prince Albert painting of...
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soundstage28 wrote: Zero proof but my guess is Lugosi went wacko loco in the head for Bow and had Kende paint a portrait of her, without the aid of a live model (Bow) or even a photo.I think you are...
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Good link to the various paintings referenced above - http://clarabows.tumblr.com/post/60558013424/headlesshearseman-a-nude-portrait-of-clara-bow
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Give credit to Bonham's for an accurate description, other than the fact Lugosi was appearing in Los Angeles in Dracula in 1927, not 1929, having arrived in late May after the New York performances....
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