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Auction History Result 3j0312 LOUISE BROOKS 11x15 French original art 1931 R. Polleunus art of the beautiful cult star! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Piece of French Original Art (measures 10 3/4" x 14 1/2" [27 x 37 cm]) (Learn More) Louise Brooks was born Mary Louise Brooks in 1906, and she was always unconventional. She was the daughter of a Kansas lawyer, but she left at the age of 16 to go to New York and join Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn with their Denishawn dancers. Two years later she had a falling out with Shawn and was fired. She then worked in the George White's Scandals, the Ziegfeld Follies (where she was a semi-nude dancer, and was noticed, and signed to a Hollywood contract by Paramount Pictures, where she had several minor movies as a sexy flapper girl in comedies). She finally got her big break in a starring role in Beggars Of Life, and predictably she left Hollywood to go to Europe. But she had had the title role in The Canary Murder Case in 1929, which had been filmed as a silent, and Paramount asked her to return to dub the movie, and she refused, which effectively blacklisted her in Hollywood. She made two incredible movies with legendary German director G.W. Pabst, Pandora's Box, and Diary Of A Lost Girl and I highly recommend both. She made Prix de Beaute in France, and in the early 1930s she returned to Hollywood (minus her trademark flapper hairdo) where she could only get minor roles, and she returned to Kansas, and later New York. She lived an alcoholic life in obscurity (supported by former admirers including William S. Paley, founder of CBS). In the 1950s and 1960s she was "rediscovered" by film critics, and she wrote many articles and books about her life, which I also highly recommend. She is likely best remembered for her distinctive hair style! She passed away in 1985 at the age of 78. Artist: R. Polleunus Important Added Info: Note that this is original art of this legendary star that was drawn by a French artist named R. Polleunus in 1931. In 1930 Brooks made Prix de Beaute in France, and this art (which is a graphite and charcoal pastel on paper) was surely created to publicize her in that movie. We don't know if it was artwork for a magazine or for another purpose, but it was surely created in 1931. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good to very good. The art has light staining in the bottom border as seen in our image. It was once attached to a mat with paper tape on the back of the borders. Obviously this can be displayed as it is, or certainly restoration could be performed to this one of a kind piece of art of this legendary star! Learn More about condition grades 
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