Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/10/frazettas-a-princess-of-ma.html
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It’s no Boy with Apple but, I’d proudly hang it.
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Sorry Scientologists, those endless prints of Frazetta’s Battlefield Earth cover are still mostly worthless.
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Finally got around to watching the Andrew Stanton adaptation earlier this week.
I personally prefer this vision to what ended up on screen but I guess that costume design probably got a hard pass from Disney. It makes Princess Leia’s slave girl bikini look like a burqa.
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I love all of Wes Anderson’s films…but Grand Budapest is my fave.
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Indeed.
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My Dad’s an engineer and his company once got a promotional poster for a precision instrument company (micrometers and whatnot) that was in this style – it had a leggy maiden drooped over a warrior, the warrior hand an upheld micrometer shooting out bolt of lightning beneath some alien moon. Had that poster for years but lost it a couple of moves ago.
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Sorry, your princess is on another planet…
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It’s also the highest price realized for one of the painter’s pieces since his 1974 cover to the At The Earth’s Core paperback sold for $1,075,500 in August 2016.
This article claims that Egyptian Queen sold for for $5.4 million last year…
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*The Princess of Mars ’ … the piece upon which Tom Jung modeled the first Star Wars poster…"
I wonder if Lucas was in the approval process for the poster art; if so, then this is yet another example of his — ahem — “skill” at “honoring” (cough! cough!) others’ work.
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Nah… Frank Frazetta didn’t become a millionaire in his life time…
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Well the lady who designed the slave costume for Leia said this and one other Frank Frazetta work were highly influential in the design. Frank Frazetta is one of the most influential creators in comics and fantasy and sci-fi art.
It took him a little bit to grow on me. I wasn’t into that style of art in HS. I think part of the issue was how some of the older printing methods really muddied and darkened up his work, and I hadn’t seen his earlier pen and ink stuff. But later I revisited it and wow - his figure work is fantastic. Great use of light and color.
Yes, he was different too back in the day as he insisted on getting back originals. This was unheard of back then. It was for work for hire commercial art, art was usually trashed, given away, or poorly stored somewhere. It resulted in him working for lower pay for getting pages back when he was doing comic interiors.
But he was pretty shrewd and I think unlike many of his peers, he did reap some of the fruits of his labor while he was alive with originals later licensing art for posters and shirts, etc. I know he had a museum of his work while still alive. Too bad he never sold a million dollar painting while alive.
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Nice, but I wish he could have waited until I got a haircut.
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Will the new owner paste it onto the side of his van?
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Wouldn’t surprise me if Lucas turned out to be the buyer here.
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Back in the day, there was a John Carter game from SPI. They had a social encounter table, and one of the results was “You commit a grievous faux pas by spilling your dessert down the front of a princesses dress. Fight a duel.” (In the fine print it explains that you didn’t actually spill it on the dress since their outfits were topless.)
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He’s had paintings sell for as much as $5 million.
Any idea of who is ending up with the money? The family museum? His son famously was arrested stealing paintings from the collection a few years ago.
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