Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 1,024
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
MERLIN ENABNIT.
Nude pin-up. Oil on canvas. 900x750 mm; 35 1/2x29 1/4 inches. Unsigned. Circa 1940s.

Additional Details

Iowa-born Enabnit was famous for his wartime 'Merlin girls' pin-ups. He was also a respected portrait painter and worked on several successful advertising campaigns for Coca Cola, V-8, Miller Beer and other products. Though an American, Life magazine called Enabnit "England's answer to George Petty" due to the popularity of his Merlin Girls amongst British G.I.'s. during WWII.