1962 Vargas Playboy Pinup Girl “Too Small”

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Vintage November 1962 “Too small” Sexy Blonde Nude Mature Pinup Vintage Original Alberto Vargas Pin Up Print “That’s funny – the bottoms are too large for me but the top is too small.” In 2004, Hugh Hefner, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Playboy, who had previously worked for Esquire, wrote: “The US Post Office attempted to put Esquire out of business in the 1940s by taking away its second-class mailing permit. The Feds objected, most especially, to the cartoons and the pin-up art of Alberto Vargas. Esquire prevailed in the case that went to the Supreme Court, but the magazine dropped the cartoons just to be on the safe side”.[4] A legal dispute with Esquire over the use of the name “Varga” resulted in a judgement against Vargas. He struggled financially until 1959 when Playboy magazine began to use his work. Over the next 16 years he produced 152 paintings for the magazine.[1] His career flourished and he had major exhibitions of his work all over the world. Vargas’ artistic work, paintings and color drawings, were periodically featured in some issues of Playboy magazine in the 1960s and 1970s.