1950s KEN IRBY Moribundo 8x10 QUAINTANCE Original vtg Male Beefcake Gay Art Rare for Sale

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1950s KEN IRBY Moribundo 8x10 QUAINTANCE Original vtg Male Beefcake Gay Art Rare For Sale

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1950s KEN IRBY Moribundo 8x10 QUAINTANCE Original vtg Male Beefcake Gay Art Rare:
$650.00

QUAINTANCE COWBOYS AND OTHER GODS

KEN IRBY : Supine. Sheep posing pouch crotch bulge, legs open bare feet.

Handsome lean smooth hairless muscle. Reclining in repose, slumber style of the MORIBUNDO trilogy.

Original 8 x10 double weight gelatin silver photo circa 1952. Not digital not repro.

Very Rare and scarce Quaintance model photographed by Victor Garcia and by Bruce Bellas of LA.

George Quaintance (June 3, 1902 – November 8, 1957) was an American artist, famous for his \"idealized, strongly homoerotic\" depictions of men in mid-20th-century physique magazines. Using historical settings to justify the nudity or distance the subjects from modern society, his art featured idealized muscular, semi-nude or nude male figures; Wild West settings were a common motif. His artwork helped establish the stereotype of the \"macho stud\" who was also homosexual, leading him to be called a \"pioneer of queer\", an influence on Tom of Finland.

His first art assignments were anonymous advertising work, but by 1934 he had begun to sell freelance cover illustrations to a variety of \"spicy\" pulp magazines sold at burlesque halls as well as discreet newsstands. These illustrations, which were clearly influenced by Enoch Bolles, were often signed \"Geo. Quintana\". In 1938, he returned home with his companion Victor Garcia, described as Quaintance\'s \"model, life partner, and business associate\", who was the subject of many of Quaintance\'s photographs in the 1940s. In 1951, Quaintance\'s art was used for the first cover of Physique Pictorial, edited by Bob Mizer of the Athletic Model Guild. Quaintance and Garcia moved to Rancho Siesta, in Phoenix, Arizona, which became Studio Quaintance, a business venture based around Quaintance\'s artworks. In 1953, Quaintance completed a series of three paintings about a matador, modeled by Angel Avila, another of his lovers. \"Coral Reef\" and \"Sunlit Depths\" were completed in 1956. The text on the mailing insert states that the models were Eduardo (his long-time boyfriend) and Bill Bredlau. What it doesn\'t tell you is that the buttocks belonged to Jim Glasper. Serious Quaintance enthusiasts may be interested to note the spelling \"Eduardo.\" Every other occurrence of this young man\'s name, including the canvas named after him, uses the spelling \"Edwardo.\"

By 1956, the business had become so successful that Quaintance could not keep up with the demand for his works. Quaintance died of a heart attack on November 8, 1957

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