Viva Vargas!

December, 1978

Viva Vargas!Ever since, March of 1957, when he first appeared in these pages. Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chavez, the Peruvian-born artist known as Vargas; has delighted Playboy readers with his delicately sensuous renderings of the female form. Vargas began his career as a portan artis for the Ziegfeld Follies, producing hundreds of works using the famed Ziegfeld Girls as his models. During the Thirties, Vargas moved to Hollywood where he worked for Paramount 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. stud...