Lot 234
Clara Bow: A Scandalous and Superb, Oversized Full Portrait Photo in Swimsuit with Holstered Pistol and a Cigarette Dangling. Clara Bow pushed the outside of the envelope in creating a persona as the consummate flapper which rocketed her to the top box-office star of the 1920s silent era and later transitioning to talkies. Offered is a phenomenal full portrait photo by acclaimed photographer Otto Dyar. Here Bow is in a sexy one-piece bathing suit, a cigarette provocatively dangling from her lips, her right hand on her holstered pistol, wearing large straw beach hat and standing aside a surfboard with a woman stenciled on it. So much wrong never looked so right. B&W photo printed on blue double weight photographic paper blind embossed Portrait by Otto Dyar in lower right corner.
A spectacular, signature piece. Estimate Value $900 - UP
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