Patrick Nagel
January, 1985
Patrick NagelNot Since Alberto Vargas has an artist so captured the sensuous in lines so simple as did Patrick Nagel, who died last February at the age of 38. Every piece he created showed the same love of women. Every image had an unmistakable edge that took it out of the arena of minor illustration into the eternal. Nagel influenced a generation of illustrators.Nagel's illustrations first appeared in Playboy in 1974. His drawings of elegant, erotic women originally graced the pages of Playboy...