Vogue covers by great artists: Dalí, Andy Warhol, Miró…

Vogue has been a mirror of the art movements of each period since the first issue was published in 1892.Their commitment with arts has accompanied fashion on its pages, as there hasn’t been a single year without an artist collaboration, whether they were photographers, painters or sculptors. Maybe the most known works are the photographs from genius such as Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson or Herb Ritts (in fact, Vogue was the first magazine to publish a photograph on a cover). But there’s also been great painters that created masterpieces for the cover of Vogue, such as Dalí, Miró, and Andy Warhol.

During the first years of the magazine the most usual illustrators were Georges Lepape, Bonnie Cashin, Ethel Wright, Eduardo García Benito… Impeccable drawings that reflected the collections of the season, but also represented the art trends. The covers from the 20′s are inundated with the art-decó spirit, they are my favourites. André E. Marty was one of the main artists that created the covers in the 30′s. Dalí created four covers in total, starting in 1944, and his colleague Marcel Duchamp also appeared indirectly on a cover in which a model posed next to his “The Large Glass” photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld. From that year on, the illustrated covers were more and more scarce as photography was taking over. Nevertheless, there are great examples from René Gruau (check this post to see his illustrations), the Carolina de Monaco’s portrait by Andy Warhol, the cover-painting by Joan Miró…

Nowadays it’s David Downton (check this post) the one that usually collaborates with Vogue, even though there are hardly any illustrated covers now. I wish they were back!

Ethel Wright, 1902