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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Emil Bonnet Day


Quite some time ago, Emile (or is it Emil?) Bonnet's name came up in some discussion here on the blog.  There was a request for more photos of him, so today I'm posting all I have been able to find.  For someone who was a Mr. World title holder (1938) and appeared on the cover of Strength and Health no less than three times, there are surprisingly few pictures of him in circulation.

 

6 comments:

  1. Are there any images of him post war? Perhaps his near obscurity as an up-and-coming bodybuilder in the late 1930s is because of the war. Let us hope he didn't become yet another statistic.

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    1. I hadn't thought of that. I did find a small piece on him in an old time bodybuilder website, but it only mentioned his titles and magazine covers.

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  2. A beautiful man!
    There are 2 additional pics I found of Emil at:
    https://malemodelsvintagebeefcake.blogspot.com/search/label/Emil%20Bonnet

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    1. Thanks! I have posted the derriere shot, but did not have the fig leaf.

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  3. I read somewhere online that the "fig leaf" Arax used in this pic was water color based, for easy removal -- a gimmick you mentioned elsewhere.

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    1. Right. I had heard of using lead pencil, grease pencil, and erasable ink, but not watercolor. Leave it to the artistic French to do that, lol.

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