Hardly anybody * ever did brand - and - black magic fine art better than Boris Vallejo — complete with beefcake and cheesecake figure in larger - than - life place . With middle - popping colour and a flair for the spectacular . And now a few freshly discovered Vallejo originals are up for auction .
As reader Jessica tells io9 :
My friend ’s husband died about this time last year , and as she was go through his stuff she discovered he was an avid gatherer of all kinds of things ( they have a big house ) .
She call off me up to help oneself , and among the item we discovered were three original paintings by the fancy creative person Boris Vallejo … . After much consideration , she determine to release the picture for sales agreement this free fall , and they are now available on Heritage Auctions .
There are three paintings for auction , and you’re able to see two of them below . Here ’s the full cover of Savage Sword of Conan # 15 :
And here ’s the screening of Red Sonja , “ The Ring of Ikribu ” :
reckon one of these hanging in your home .
There ’s a third house painting , a humor piece depicting Vikings occur to America in 1000 A.D. — but it ’s pretty NSFW , and also peradventure set off for a lot of multitude . It ’s the kind of thing that would have been view as acceptable in the seventies , but would not fell today . you could see that third image at the data link .
See more about all three painting , and see how to press on them , at the contact . [ Stan ’s Amazing Kingdom of Collectibles ]
- As various hoi polloi have already pointed out , Frank Frazetta did do it better . detail taken .
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