Aslan (born Alain Gourdon), (23 May 1930;

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– 11 February 2014; Sainte-Adèle, Quebec,

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) was a French painter, sculptor and

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artist. He is mostly known in France for his pin ups. He contributed to '' Lui'' from the creation of the magazine in 1964 to the early eighties, providing a monthly pin up. He is the sculptor of the

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's funerary statue on her tomb from 1987, and her bronze bust that was erected on

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in 1997. He also sculpted the Fifth Republic

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in 1970, followed by the

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Marianne.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aslan (pin up) 1930 births 2014 deaths Pin-up artists French illustrators French sculptors French male sculptors French erotic artists Artists from Bordeaux