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Description
26" (66 cm.) x 21" painting. 31" x 26" framed. Highly stylized painting on canvas depicts Shirley as a young woman, with period-style costume having fitted bonnet with ruffled lace edging, matching blouse with double-tiered lace jabot collar and cuffs with interwoven blue ribbons, her hands held in her lap with needlework. The painting is signed Arno. Two newspaper clippings in Shirley Temple scrapbooks depict celebrities visiting a museum exhibit which featured this painting by Arno; on January 22, 1950, a captioned photograph appeared in the New York News, and February 1950, visitors were viewing the painting at a Hollywood art exhibit. The Berlin-born artist/actor came to Hollywood in 1939 after a career in cabaret, and notably undertook a series of paintings of the world's most beautiful women as well as maintaining his acting career. The painting has remained in Shirley Temple's personal archives throughout her lifetime.