Fine Art From The Playboy Archive

This auction features approximately 350 items from the Playboy Archives, including paintings, drawings, and sculpture that appeared in the pages of the magazine from the 1950’s to the 1990’s, (LeRoy Neiman, Alberto Vargas and Richard Hunt), there are a high percentage of Chicago and Mid-west illustrators, because Hefner championed giving the local students from Chicago art schools their start. Many of these artworks appeared in the magazine to illustrate stories and articles by famous authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Roald Dahl, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, and Ray Bradbury. There are also pieces of abstract art labeled "HMH Collection" (Mid-century...