SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A major retrospective of Alberto Vargas’ original artwork opens November 13 at the San Francisco Art Exchange. The exhibition is celebrating two important anniversaries: Twenty-five years since SFAE brought Vargas artwork to the art market for the first time with a world retrospective in 1985, and the 50-year anniversary of the first monthly appearance of Vargas’ artwork in Playboy magazine. Vargas’ watercolors were published as a full page in each issue of Playboy magazine, virtually every month from 1960-1975. It has been 70 years since the first time a Vargas painting ever appeared in print, under the name “The Varga Girl,” in a 1940 issue of Esquire magazine. Sixty works of art, representing every period of Vargas’ career from 1919 to the 1970s, will be on display. The multi-million dollar retrospective includes rare paintings and drawings from the Max Vargas Estate, origina