Hitting the Marc

Marc Davis also had a wonderful sense of color, Alice Davis said.

“And he used it well,” she said.

One colorful piece in the show is of four women each drinking a different alcoholic beverage.

Marc Davis was approached by the owners of the former Alfonse’s Restaurant in Toluca Lake to create a painting for the bar.

The restaurant was the hangout for the entertainment industry during the 1960s and ’70s.

Marc Davis took no money for it. He asked for six of the captain chairs from the restaurant. The couple had just moved into their first home and had very little furniture.

A showgirl holds a martini, a woman in a long dress has an Old-Fashioned while a Broadway star grasps a Manhattan.

The final woman dressed as a flapper holds a High Ball, which was in style during the 1920s, Alice Davis said.

“Every week Alfonse’s had offers to buy it,” she said, adding that when the restaurant closed, it was returned to them.

“They said it was now worth a lot more than six chairs,” she said.