Rare Vintage Alberto Vargas Webel Cocktail Tray

Very Rare Vintage Alberto Vargas Playboy Cocktail Serving Tray, made from plastic, depicting two playboy models and the Playboy Bunny, produced by Webel Italy, with the artist’s name on the front, in superb condition. C1953 

The art work is by the famous artist Alberto Vargas, born in Peru, he was the son of noted Peruvian photographer Max T Vargas,  Alberto Vargas moved to the United States in 1916 after studying art in Europe, Zurich, and Geneva prior to World War I.  His early career in New York included work as an artist for the Ziegfeld Follies and for many Hollywood studios. Ziegfeld hung his painting of Olive Thomas at the theatre, and she was thought of as one of the earliest Vargas Girls. Vargas’ most famous piece of film work was the poster of the 1933 film The Sin Of Nora Moran, which portrays a near-naked Zita Johann in a pose of desperation, bearing little resemblance to the real actress. The poster is frequently named one of the greatest movie posters ever made.

Later Vargas became most famous for his poster pin up art work of the famous Playboy Girls, depicted on this cocktail tray.

A great collectors piece of Vargas Art work.

Dimensions: H: 29cm W: 44cm  D: 2cm