Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574

Sale 2574 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DON BRAUTIGAM (1946-2008)
"McNally's Luck." Cover illustration for book of the same title by Lawrence Sanders (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992). Primarily airbrush with liquid acrylic finished with Krylon artist spray fixative on board. 762x506 mm; 30x20 inches. Signed "D. Brautigam" in lower left image.

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

Brautigam was a highly skilled illustrator who pioneered the use of black paint against striking colors to create some of the most iconic heavy metal album covers and thriller/horror genre book covers throughout the 1980s and 90s. Among his most famous are the 1986 Metallica album Master of Puppets, Mötley Crüe's 1989 album Dr. Feelgood, and numerous covers for the wildly popular Signet paperbacks of Stephen King novels including The Stand and The Dark Half.