Neat, but would that really be worth a million bucks?
If you have to ask you can’t afford it. ;-)
Compared to this POS Picasso that sold for over $100 million, I’d answer yes:-)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6443DV20100505
No.
I would say any large original painting by Frazetta is rightly and justifiably that valuable; I can only imagine what the original canvas of his superb "Death Dealer" is worth.
Frazetta kicked ass. He was not only a fine artist, he was a GREAT artist, though I'm sure that those of the elitist liberal artist community have always looked down their noses at him as not being a "real" artist the same way they sniggered and sneered at Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth.
I am married to a professional artist and painter, and many of our friends are professional artists and painters (including one VERY FINE artist in the sci-fi genre ... I love his stuff, and am looking over at a little print he gave me of a 'nother planet scene as I'm typing this sentence). Many FReepers will be surprised to learn that nearly all of the fine artists in our sphere are CONSERVATIVE Republicans. They make livings from their own skills and application of considerable self-discipline; they don't depend on government grants and their work isn't purchased by the kinds of idiots (most often Liberals, but not always) who mistake graphics for fine art and give ridiculously high value to crap that a third-grader could match in creation.
I used to be one of those idiots, or close to one (though never a liberal). I have changed my ideas as to how I gage art and I have a very simple test now that I am older and I hope wiser:
If I, with no training, could duplicate the piece myself given a week or two and sufficient materials, then it's overpriced if it's more than a few hundred bucks. Now I once saw a painting "valued" at nearly $100,000 and this "painting" consisted of: a 7 ft x 7 ft white canvas with a very large green circle painted on it.
Given the materials, I could replicate it in less than a day.
No matter how much paint and canvas and time you gave me, there's no way I could replicate a single one of Frazetta's gloriously beautiful paintings, let alone CREATE IT out of white canvas.
Yes, it is RIGHTLY valued at $1 million or more because it is an irreplaceable precious, unique work of very fine art that was the result of decades of training, discipline, and skill.
I am sad to hear that Frazetta is gone. RIP.