Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574
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Sale 2574 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DON BRAUTIGAM (1946-2008)
"The Island of Dr. Moreau." Cover illustration for the special movie edition of the book of the same title by H. G. Wells (New York: Signet, 1977). Primarily airbrush with liquid acrylic finished with Krylon artist spray fixative on board. 505x305 mm; 20x12 inches. Signed "D. Brautigam" in lower right image, with artist's stamp and date of June [19]77 on verso. Laid into matte with archival tape. Framed.

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.
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