Saturday, July 5, 2025

Peter Arno: A Signed Publicity Still for "Artists and Models"

Peter Arno is one of six illustrators who appear together in a scene in the 1937 comedy "Artists and Models." The artists appear at a ball and draw Sandra Storme, "England's most famous model," supposedly to benefit a charity.


A publicity still from the movie is currently listed on eBay. It shows Arno pretending to draw Storme; his pencil point doesn't actually make contact with his sketch pad. The photo is signed by Arno and includes a small doodle of a woman's face.

Peter Arno and Sandra Storme


The photograph is priced at $4,000, although best offers will be entertained by the seller.
Peter Arno
eBay listing accessed July 4, 2025

Peter Arno
eBay item description


I have added a detail of the inscription to someone named Joe taken from a previous eBay listing:
"To Joe
Best wishes
Peter
Arno"




In the movie, the scene with the illustrators sketching Storme on stage at the ball begins at 1:18:37 and runs for five or six minutes through 1:23:50.
"Artists and Models" (1937)

"America's Leading Artists and Illustrators"

Peter Arno's drawing of Sandra Storme surrounded by artists

Peter Arno and Jack Benny


Later on during the day I posted this, the eBay seller made me an offer but—alas—it didn't move the needle.




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