Cover Girl Models (1975)

I usually don't much care for T&A for the sake of showing a bit of flesh but thought the idea behind the design on this one was quite inventive. The artist was unidentified at the time of purchase but with the original at hand there is a name lightly penciled onto the lens image of 'R. Kee', who I'm not familiar with? The Prop Store's blurb, from whom I purchased this painting, read:

"Believed to be finished artwork for a UK Quad poster, for an American film, circa late 1980's and almost certainly commissioned by an independent UK distributor but artist and indeed film title are unknown. An interesting design which pictures the two women in the eye of the camera lens. This artwork came from the archive of Alan Wheatley whose agency Alan Wheatley Associates supplied advertising material to the bulk of British independent cinema/video distributors from the late 1960's to the late 1990's."


A friend, Marzio Frei, has now identified the movie this painting promotes, which actually dates from 1975:

COVER GIRL MODELS (1975)

"A fashion photography assignment teams three American models and inadvertently pitches them into the mystery and danger of international espionage, when an invaluable roll of microfilm secreted into one of the girls’ fashion gowns, draws them into the violence and intrigue of a spy-vs-counterspy conspiracy."


So there you have it . . . a 1975 movie (a date I'm using as a starting point), though this artwork was obviously created at a later time.

Signed by the artist.