Heather by Leo Hansen - Vintage Replica

19x25 vintage piece sealed w/ epoxy over beautiful wood no maker markings or signatures on this piece. Purchased 20 years ago from an oddities shop in Ybor City, FL #pinupgirl#leojansen About the artist: Jansen is best known throughout the United States and Europe for his mother's day plates and puppies plate series. Despite his national reputation as a portrait artist, Leo Jansen refused many demands and resumed his childhood love affair of painting women. He took residence in Southern California for eighteen years.In Southern California Low was commissioned by #Playboy Magazine to paint the playmate of the month. His works hang in Hugh Hefner's Playboy corporate headquarters and in the mansion. In his first six years, he was the artist chosen to paint 58 of the 72 portraits. Ranking among the nation's best interpretive artist of nudes, Jansen's canvases' hang in a wide collection of notables from Jean-Claude Pascal to the late Judy Garland and more too numerous to list