HOLLYWOOD] NEGULESCO, JEAN. Portrait of Greta Garbo 1930 . Hollywood: 1930. An original drawing in graphite with areas of heavy shading and some added color depicting Garbo in profile, signed and dated lower left "J. Negulesco/1930 Hollywood." Image 24 x 18 inches (60 x 45.5 cm); in its original hand-ruled and colored mat and frame. Lightly toned and mat-stained. A striking early Garbo portrait from the year of her first "talkie," drawn by Jean Negulesco who had trained as an artist before becoming a prominent Golden Age director and screenwriter. Trained in Paris from 1919, Negulesco befriended the fellow Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi painter Amedeo Modigliani and worked with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso as a stage designer before settling in Hollywood by 1930. Negulesco got his start as a sketch artist before becoming an Academy Award nominated director (in 1953 he directed Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall in How to Marry a Millionaire). This profile portrait of Garbo contains the Art Deco qualities of Hollywood's most glamorous period and it was Negulesco who proposed an honorary Oscar for Garbo in 1955, though the special award was refused by the notoriously private film star. We find no example of Negulesco's early work at auction. C
HOLLYWOOD] NEGULESCO, JEAN. Portrait of Greta Garbo 1930 . Hollywood: 1930. An original drawing in graphite with areas of heavy shading and some added color depicting Garbo in profile, signed and dated lower left "J. Negulesco/1930 Hollywood." Image 24 x 18 inches (60 x 45.5 cm); in its original hand-ruled and colored mat and frame. Lightly toned and mat-stained. A striking early Garbo portrait from the year of her first "talkie," drawn by Jean Negulesco who had trained as an artist before becoming a prominent Golden Age director and screenwriter. Trained in Paris from 1919, Negulesco befriended the fellow Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi painter Amedeo Modigliani and worked with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso as a stage designer before settling in Hollywood by 1930. Negulesco got his start as a sketch artist before becoming an Academy Award nominated director (in 1953 he directed Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall in How to Marry a Millionaire). This profile portrait of Garbo contains the Art Deco qualities of Hollywood's most glamorous period and it was Negulesco who proposed an honorary Oscar for Garbo in 1955, though the special award was refused by the notoriously private film star. We find no example of Negulesco's early work at auction. C
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