{"id":7401,"date":"2009-11-18T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:17:43","slug":"frazettas-conqueror-sells-for-a-cool-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/frazettas-conqueror-sells-for-a-cool-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Frazetta’s “Conqueror” Sells For a Cool Million"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frazetta's "Berzerker," renamed due to legal disputes with de Camp.<\/p><\/div>\n

After hanging in the Frazetta Museum in East Stroudsburg for ten years, the painting used for the cover of Conan the Conqueror<\/a><\/em> is now in the hands of a private collector. All it cost the unnamed buyer was a reported one million dollars.<\/p>\n

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\"escape-on-venus\"According to the Fenners<\/a> over on the Spectrum Fantastic\u00a0Art website, the previous record for a Frazetta painting sold at auction was two hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars. That sum\u00a0was paid for\u00a0the painting used\u00a0as the cover of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Escape on Venus<\/em>.\u00a0Now, just a little over a year later,\u00a0“Conqueror” has sold for nearly four times that.<\/p>\n

The Frazettas have held on to all the\u00a0paintings Frank created\u00a0for the Lancer Conans<\/a> for forty years now. There has been no reason given as to why that particular trade embargo has now\u00a0been lifted. Exactly why there ever was<\/em> one in the first place is a little hard to understand when\u00a0you consider this statement from Frazetta (supposedly a very recent one) in reference to the Lancer Conans:<\/p>\n

I didn’t read any of it. It was too opposite of what I do. I told them that. So, I drew him my way. It was really rugged. And it caught on. I didn’t care about what people thought. People who bought the books never complained about it. They probably didn’t read them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“They probably didn’t read them.” I beg to differ with Mr. Frazetta on that one. This \"thongor\"Howard\u00a0website and all the others<\/a> constellated about the Net like bloody-hued stars are a testament to the fact that quite a few people did<\/em> “read them” and have<\/em> read the fiction of Robert E. Howard for\u00a0more than eighty years now (even if\u00a0Frazetta himself has\u00a0not). “People who\u00a0bought the books” also bought damned near just as many Conan novels with the Duillo<\/a> (and later, Boris) covers as they did with the ones\u00a0bearing Fritz’s signature. It is a stone-cold\u00a0certainty that the Thongor, Brak<\/a> and Jongor books that sported Frazetta covers\u00a0never sold anywhere nearly as well\"brak-vts\" as the Howard Conans. This in spite of the fact that\u00a0several of those paintings were just as good as, if not better than, some of the Frazetta Conan paintings (in my opinion).<\/p>\n

Having been an avid fan of Mr. Frazetta’s work for over thirty years now, I’ve read a lot of his interviews. He likes to contradict himself at times. I’ve\u00a0read where he has praised Edgar Rice Burroughs and I’ve seen him disparage the man. The same thing with Karl Edward Wagner’s <\/a>Kane. This appears to be another\u00a0example of that same syndrome. Frank has suffered several strokes in recent years and I would like to think that has something to do with this newest quip, though\u00a0several\u00a0similar statements from Frank date back to the 1970s. To be honest, I’m not very sure why Mr. Fenner chose to publish that quote from Mr. Frazetta.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got a copy, Mr. Frazetta, please\u00a0pull out the Lancer edition of\u00a0Conan the Conqueror<\/em> and read it. Nearly pure Robert E. Howard right there. Who knows? You might\u00a0find that what REH wrote was not<\/em> “too opposite” from what you\u00a0used to do.<\/p>\n

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