Art Lovers discussion

Frank Frazetta was best known for his cover art of fantasy and science fiction book covers. He did comics and movie poster art and other works as well.

His Conan the Barbarian cover art was so compelling it pulled many a reader into a purchase and revealed worlds of sword and sorcery from Robert E. Howard, Karl Edward Wagner, and others.

An 'action' artist, imo. Some may refer to as pulp on the art front. A close second in my favorite artist list.

His Egyptian Queen just sold at auction for 5.4 million dollars (hat tip to Jim from the Robert E. Howard group):

https://www.ha.com/heritage-auctions-...

I've never heard of this one, thank you for introducing him! Thanks for the link, now I have an idea of his style.


Egyptian Queen

I like it!

"The painting bests the world record as the most expensive piece of original comic book art ever sold at public auction. The previous record was the $1.79 million paid for Frazetta's Death Dealer 6, 1990, which was set by Heritage in May 2018"


Death Dealer 6

"This result elevates Frank Frazetta's art into the stratosphere of visual narrative art on a par with the likes of Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and other luminaries," Heritage Auctions Vice President Todd Hignite said. "

I wouldn't know or think this was 'comic book art' per se. When I think of that, I think more of Roy Lichtenstein. This is very different and I actually like it better!
And wow! What a difference from his Death Dealer 6 selling for $1.79M and now this Egyptian Queen topped it by almost four times that at $5.4M!

I don't read comic books, I never had. But I can honestly say, I would pick these up just to look at the pictures.

Wow, Frazetta, takes me right back to the seventies when every other SF or Fantasy book I bought had a cover by him ;-)
I even bought two books with his artworks in those days (heck I was a teenager and I loved the scantily clad ladies ;-)



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Excellent!