Artwork Title: Hard Rock Randall

Hard Rock Randall, 1935

Virna Haffer

Possibly her son or third husband. "Gene Randall, the son of Virna Haffer, was one of her frequent models. Born “Jean Paul Haffer,” he later Americanized his first name to “Gene” and, after the divorce of his parents, took his adoptive father’s last name. With the arrival of Norman Randall, Haffer’s third husband, on the scene, everything changed. “He was a savior for me,” Gene Randall says. “He was my daddy — and my father and my daddy were two different people,” he adds, in allusion to his birth parent Paul Haffer who disappeared from the family’s life by 1932. Norman was also one of Haffer’s liveliest models — “extremely photogenic,” Gene notes — and as colorful as they came. He claimed he’d been a West Coast welterweight champion, that he’d been a “coal expert” at age 19 (he was later a hard-rock miner) and that he made a million in the burial-vault business before the 1929 crash...." [https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/virna-haffers-son-sheds-light-on-her-artistry]
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