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$1,000,000 Frazetta painting confirmed

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spider9698

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Frank Frazetta's iconic painting "The Berserker" was sold this week for $1,000,000 to a private collector. The price establishes a new record for the foremost fantasy artist in the world.

 

 

Stephen Ferzoco

Robert Pistella

 

on behalf of the Frazetta family

 

FrazettaBerserker.jpg

 

 

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thecollectron

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Frank Frazetta's iconic painting "The Berserker" was sold this week for $1,000,000 to a private collector. The price establishes a new record for the foremost fantasy artist in the world.

 

 

 

What year was this piece from ? was it a published piece ?

 

It was used for the cover of the Lancer paperback "Conan The Conqueror."

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Frank Frazetta's iconic painting "The Berserker" was sold this week for $1,000,000 to a private collector. The price establishes a new record for the foremost fantasy artist in the world.

 

 

 

What year was this piece from ? was it a published piece ?

 

It was used for the cover of the Lancer paperback "Conan The Conqueror."

In 1967 I do believe.

 

lancers_conan_conqueror_front.jpg

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stinkininkin

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Frank Frazetta's iconic painting "The Berserker" was sold this week for $1,000,000 to a private collector. The price establishes a new record for the foremost fantasy artist in the world.]

 

Yeah, but how much of it was in trade?

 

=D

 

Seriously, well done, and one of the few artists from our side of the track who's work actually merits that sort of money IMHO.

 

Scott Williams

 

 

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Frank Frazetta's iconic painting "The Berserker" was sold this week for $1,000,000 to a private collector. The price establishes a new record for the foremost fantasy artist in the world.

 

 

Stephen Ferzoco

Robert Pistella

 

on behalf of the Frazetta family

 

FrazettaBerserker.jpg

 

 

Yay!!!

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Frank Frazetta's iconic painting "The Berserker" was sold this week for $1,000,000 to a private collector. The price establishes a new record for the foremost fantasy artist in the world.

 

 

Stephen Ferzoco

Robert Pistella

 

on behalf of the Frazetta family

 

FrazettaBerserker.jpg

 

Any previews of items coming to market ?

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comicartcom

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any speculation on what paintings "may be worth" is a waste if there isn't a buyer willing to pay a price in that area

 

$1,000,000 is an astounding sum of money and the question becomes more like "would the person who paid the record sum be willing to pay $2,000,000 for Death Dealer??" which is also an astounding sum.

 

Don't forget, regardless of the quality of Frazetta's work, people who collect Van Gogh, Renoir and Warhol are not the general candidates to buy "illustration" for a million bucks and Frazetta is an illustrator by definition due to the area where his paintings originate (as paid-for to be published as covers etc) unlike Warhol, Renoir and Van Gogh who did the paintings to be sold directly to art collectiors and not for publication. This designation (as an illustrator) will always follow Frazetta in the marketplace.

 

I do not believe that there is market support at sums above $2mil for Frazetta at this time.

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any speculation on what paintings "may be worth" is a waste if there isn't a buyer willing to pay a price in that area

 

$1,000,000 is an astounding sum of money and the question becomes more like "would the person who paid the record sum be willing to pay $2,000,000 for Death Dealer??" which is also an astounding sum.

 

Don't forget, regardless of the quality of Frazetta's work, people who collect Van Gogh, Renoir and Warhol are not the general candidates to buy "illustration" for a million bucks and Frazetta is an illustrator by definition due to the area where his paintings originate (as paid-for to be published as covers etc) unlike Warhol, Renoir and Van Gogh who did the paintings to be sold directly to art collectiors and not for publication. This designation (as an illustrator) will always follow Frazetta in the marketplace.

 

I do not believe that there is market support at sums above $2mil for Frazetta at this time.

 

Wasn't there an illustrator who went by the name of Norman Rockwell ? -

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any speculation on what paintings "may be worth" is a waste if there isn't a buyer willing to pay a price in that area

 

$1,000,000 is an astounding sum of money and the question becomes more like "would the person who paid the record sum be willing to pay $2,000,000 for Death Dealer??" which is also an astounding sum.

 

Don't forget, regardless of the quality of Frazetta's work, people who collect Van Gogh, Renoir and Warhol are not the general candidates to buy "illustration" for a million bucks and Frazetta is an illustrator by definition due to the area where his paintings originate (as paid-for to be published as covers etc) unlike Warhol, Renoir and Van Gogh who did the paintings to be sold directly to art collectiors and not for publication. This designation (as an illustrator) will always follow Frazetta in the marketplace.

 

I do not believe that there is market support at sums above $2mil for Frazetta at this time.

 

You are correct people who collect the "masters" don't often chase illustration art. So instead think of the other illustrators whos work does sell for 7 figures. Rockwell pieces sell in this range but his work is more conservative. So I can buy the argument that a Rockwell collector might not enjoy Frazetta.

 

How about N.C. Wyeth? He is also from a different era but might be closer in match. His illustation paintings generally sell for more than 7 figures when they come to market don't they? I could certainly see this $1 mil sale leading to higher $ sales.

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any speculation on what paintings "may be worth" is a waste if there isn't a buyer willing to pay a price in that area

 

$1,000,000 is an astounding sum of money and the question becomes more like "would the person who paid the record sum be willing to pay $2,000,000 for Death Dealer??" which is also an astounding sum.

 

Don't forget, regardless of the quality of Frazetta's work, people who collect Van Gogh, Renoir and Warhol are not the general candidates to buy "illustration" for a million bucks and Frazetta is an illustrator by definition due to the area where his paintings originate (as paid-for to be published as covers etc) unlike Warhol, Renoir and Van Gogh who did the paintings to be sold directly to art collectiors and not for publication. This designation (as an illustrator) will always follow Frazetta in the marketplace.

 

I do not believe that there is market support at sums above $2mil for Frazetta at this time.

 

Wasn't there an illustrator who went by the name of Norman Rockwell ? -

 

yes there was, however his contribution to American Culture is, even today, greater than Frazettas

 

Don't forget that Rockwell worked as one of the lead illustrators of his time working for the most popular magazine of the time - the Saturday Evening Post - which was looked at as the All-American magazine that influenced everything about our nation and our culture. There was not a single person in the nation that did not see his work from the 20s to the 60s. Also don't forget that to be a cover artist for the Saturday Evening Post was to be the highest paid illustrator of the day. Thousands of dollars per cover at that time.

 

In other words, Rockwell influenced hundreds of millions of people on a daily basis and was one of the most well known artists of the 20th century for decades while he was still working.

 

Frazetta does not have that stature in American culture. he does to us as fans of comics, but to the general population, Frazetta is still largely unknown wheras Rockwell was known by almost everyone.

 

To measure another way... there hasn't been a new Rockwell painting for decades - he's been dead for 31 years - when Frazetta is gone for 31 years, let's see how his paintings value against Rockwell then.

 

NC Wyeth by the way, though known as an illustrator also did easel paintings both before and after his career as an illustrator, and his family is viewed as an "American Dynasty", and as Rockwell.. these two artists historically are 2 of the most famous Americans of their time

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