Vargas

For more than sixty years, Alberto Vargas has been celebrating the American woman in all her beauty and sensuousness. Now, accompanied by his remarkable life story, 160 of Vargas's most lushly alluring paintings have been gathered together in one exquisite volume. Voluptuous beauties from every period abound: the Ziegfelde Follies girls, the glamorous Hollywood sex goddesses, and, of course, the inimitable Vargas Girls - those sensational creatures hwo have been gracing the pages of Esquire and Playboy magazines for nearly forty years. Vargas is a spectacular showcase of the art of the pin-up. -- from back cover.