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Pin up 296/3/2023 The immense majority of pin-ups were actresses such as Jane Russell and Betty Grable, who reached their maximum popularity during the Second World War. The term pin-up emerged in the 1940s to refer to models who appeared in posters, drawings, photographs and calendars that were pinned to the wall since the end of the 19th century. They referred to them as “ things to make you tremble and laugh,” and they did so increasingly in the 1950s, when both were already in their seventies. These small creations are an example of the humour that impregnated their friendship, not evading any type of joke, not even the dirty or sexual ones. The compositions with pin-up girls form a sub-category in the correspondence between Pablo Picasso and Jaume Sabartés. Coloured grease pencils on printed magazine paper.
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