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For the many avid collectors of the work of Lou Shabner, here is a checklist of the most famous images of pretty girls created by the artist. Most of these can be clearly identified by searching sites as Ebay, Google Images, Etsy, Pinterest etc.
Melanie - Charlotte - Nicola - Miss Felco - Sarah - Ursula - Gail - Ingrid - Girl with Falcon (2) - Puppy Love.
Louis Shabner, also known as Lou Shabner, was an English artist, born in Enfield, UK in 1917. He specialised in fantasy "glamour" paintings of beautiful women, executed in bright warm colours in gouache on board, although he was just as comfortable using other media including watercolour. These paintings, reproduced as prints, often called pin-ups as soldier admirers pinned them up in their lockers, became hugely popular and sold in large numbers, particularly as signed and framed prints sold through retail outlets.
Shabner had been working successfully in the UK in his chosen genre for a good number of years when in the late 1940s he got his big international breakthrough, a calendar of 12 images of glamour girls for the American calendar publisher Brown & Bigelow, one image for each month of the year. The calendar was a great success and now meant that he was popular on both sides of the Atlantic. This led in due course to demand for his work becoming truly international. (Some admirers claim they can detect subtle differences in style that the artist made between his paintings for his European audience and those destined for America.)
Like other artists providing mass market art, demand for his work was and continues to be mainly in the form of framed prints which now typically fetch up to US$250 if in good condition. Original oil paintings by Lou Shabner, on the other hand, can fetch US$1,500 or more.
The artist Louis Shabner died in 1981.
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Looking to buy Louis Shabner? We recommend starting with Ebay where there is usually a good selection of prints on offer. And remember, try to seek out Quality wherever possible. A badly faded print is not what you should be looking for unless it is a particularly rare one in which case completely different rules apply. As the man on the "Flog it" TV show never tire of telling us: "Quality always sells".
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Appeal for information: Do you have by any chance a photo of artist Lou Shabner (Louis Shabner) that we could add to this tribute page dedicated to the work of the famous painter of lovely ladies? If so, I would be most grateful if you could email me a copy for posting on this page. Many thanks in advance. Editor, Artismus247. Email: jameskt22@aol.com
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