Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction: Los Angeles Spring 2025
Lot # 87. Hand-Painted Brian Froud urSkeks Artwork - Sold on Propstore.com, March 31, 2025
"urSkeks artwork hand-painted by conceptual and creature designer Brian Froud for the production of Frank Oz's and Jim Henson's fantasy film The Dark Crystal.
Froud hand-painted this piece onto a cardboard panel and expertly smudged it to give the subject an ethereal glow. He hand-signed his name and inscribed the date "1981" within the artwork in the bottom right corner. Additional annotations of "NO7, "13 3/8," and "50.1%" are handwritten in the right corner of the bottom border, while "11 1/2" is handwritten in the top border.
This artwork appears on page 21 of The World of the Dark Crystal book, which describes it as "a depiction of an urSkeks, as yet unidentified in etched phosphor inlay on a blue jadeite slab. The coronas of superabundant energy around the head, the circling tides that flow around the heart, and the shimmering connections with the earth that suggest constantly reforming triangles are particularly well displayed." Dimensions: 31" x 19.5" (79 cm x 49.5 cm)"
p classl1desctextwhitestrongSPAN STYLEfont-size14pxBidding for this lot will end on Wednesday, March 26th. The auction will begin at 1030AM