Angelo asti biography

It began with a gift from a friend who was helping to clean out the house of a man who died without heirs. My friend saved an oak-framed picture from the dumpster and gave it to me.

A couple of months later, I was looking on the Web for information on an artist and on the same page as the artist I sought was the picture on my wall. Its title was “Solitude,” and the artist’s name was Angelo Asti.

Angelo asti biography

A French artist from an Italian family, he worked in Paris, mostly, but spend some time in Cincinnati, Ohio, working for a lithographer. And he came to know the principals at Brown & Bigelow, selling them their first image of a beautiful woman and inadvertently becoming the Father of American Pinup Calendars.

So I went to eBay, to see if perhaps I could find an Asti postcard, and saw the one above, the same image as the print hanging in my office.

And in the other works up for sale, there was another postcard, one that I already owned, a gift of another f