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**ORIGINAL FILM ARTWORK TO BE SOLD IN HOLLYWOOD AUCTION NEXT WEEK** Paintings, sketches, and more from Star Wars, Batman, Star Trek, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters to go under the hammer in upcoming  Los Angeles auction Original hand-painted Bob Peak poster concept art from Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984) is estimated to sell between $10,000 – 15,000 (£7.6k – 11.4k) as part of Prop Store’s Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction on Wednesday 26th August and Thursday 27th August 2020, featuring a collection of film memorabilia worth over $6 million (£4.8 million) Over 850 unique and original items to be made available to bidders in one of the world’s largest live auctions of film and television memorabilia Bids can be placed online from anywhere in the world, by phone or in person Prop Store is hosting another auction and this time you could get your hands on a hand-drawn Ralph McQuarrie concept painting from BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE RIDE (1991) and the esti...

The Bearded Trio are pleased to bring you this sneak peak of Sideshow Collectibles,  Ralph McQuarrie Boba Fett Statue-Concept Artist Series  Inspired by Ralph McQuarrie’s pre-production artwork for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back . ■ Captured in action leaping with missiles ready, on a base inspired by the Slave 1. ■ The ruthless Fett appears in his original all-white armor.   ■ Featuring original super trooper helmet design. ■ Exclusive includes switch out T-visor helmet design. Release Date: Thursday, November 19th, 2015 – 12PM PT  URL: http://bit.ly/McQuarrieBoba    (Will not be live until 12:00PM Pacific Time on Thursday)   Price: $424.99 Payment Plan for as little as $54.64/month    The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST ...

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DreamsAndVisionsPress.com contacted The Bearded Trio to inform us of their Kickstarter campaign they currently have going.  Their ambition is to bring us Ralph McQuarrie fans a 400+ page coffee table book featuring  the largest collection of Ralph McQuarrie's non-Star Wars art ever published. They were also kind enough to send us a few concept drawings McQuarrie did for E.T. to wet our appetites.  We've posted them below this article.  In the mean time make sure you check out the Kickstarter campaign and make a pledge.  They are offering some cool rewards including pin badges, copies of the book and for $40 you can get a print of the "power of god" drawing Ralph Mcquarrie did and made famous in Raiders of the Lost Ark. We will add the Kickstarter at the top of our page for the duration of the campaign. Best known for his instrumental contributions to the making of the original Star Wars trilogy, Ralph McQuarrie has inspired several gener...

This image is Ralph McQuarrie's only contribution to the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. This pen drawing depicting the power of the Ark was used to create the illustration for the prop bible in the film. For the figures in the foreground, he took reference photos of several ILM employees. The staining on the right is where the oversized image was taped together, and no, the text on the page doesn't actually translate into anything. At the time it was created, Ralph never could have imagined that people might someday have the opportunity to stand within inches of the drawing to actually try and read it. Seen at A Gallery of Imagination: The Star Wars Art of Ralph McQuarrie at Celebration V.

I was sad to wake up this morning to read the news that Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. For me he was as important to the whole Star Wars package as John Williams or even George Lucas. Without his paintings Twentieth Century Fox would not have come on board. Lucas has said he is saddened by the passing of McQuarrie saying: "Ralph McQuarrie was the first person I hired to help me envision Star Wars, his genial contribution, in the form of unequaled production paintings, propelled and inspired all of the cast and crew of the original Star Wars trilogy. When words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of Ralph's fabulous illustrations and say, 'Do it like this.'" Personally for me I grew up with McQuarrie's paintings having at least one print of each painting in some form. Sometimes I would get to see the concept paintings before the related movie was released giving me a valuable sneak preview of the scene to come. I would...

This image is Ralph McQuarrie's only contribution to the film Raiders of the Lost Ark . This pen drawing depicting the power of the Ark was used to create the illustration for the prop bible in the film. For the figures in the foreground, he took reference photos of several ILM employees. The staining on the right is where the oversized image was taped together, and no, the text on the page doesn't actually translate into anything. At the time it was created, Ralph never could have imagined that people might someday have the opportunity to stand within inches of the drawing to actually try and read it. Seen at A Gallery of Imagination: The Star Wars Art of Ralph McQuarrie at Celebration V.

This painting represents R2-D2 and C-3PO first arriving on Tatooine after their narrow escape from the Imperial Stormtroopers via a Life Pod (which can be seen in the background). McQuarrie used a photograph of the Oregon coast to guide his painting of the landscape, following the line of the cliff and replacing the ocean with sand dunes. C-3PO was inspired by the beautiful robot seen in Fritz Lang's classic silent film, Metropolis but George Lucas wanted it to look more male than female. McQuarrie's C-3PO looks much more graceful and slim than the 'droid was to become in the film. The problems of a person moving in all of that equipment made it necessary for C-3PO's body to be bigger and to have larger joints. Lucas wanted R2-D2 to be like a small tripod which would move by throwing one leg outward and pitching itself forward like a man on crutches. but the problems of getting R2-D2 to move in that manner couldn't be solved, so he had to be made to glide for...

What a piece of junk?  Well, its the Millennium Falcon so it proved to be a worthy ship.  The painting too!

Here we have an incipient confrontation as the small group of fugitives try to escape the Imperial Stormtroopers. Chewbacca is carrying the Princess; a bearded Han Solo can be seen in an earlier costume design - a blue outfit with a cape; and Luke is in the background. McQuarrie envisioned the hallways as being lit indirectly, through thin slots. Defying standard principles, the light would radiate from these narrow spaces at 360 degrees, while the slots themselves would be detectable only from particular angles. It would be a testament to the genious of these people that they discovered a key to the universe that permitted them to harness an incredible energy in this manner.

Enemy Pilot's view.  These are the kind of paintings that would set my imagination into overdrive.  Hoping that one day I would get to experience this for real.  My Sinclair Spectrum just couldn't cut it.

Imagine showing this to studio executives back in the 70's and saying this is what we are going to make?  You were either on board and believed it could be done with the grand scale in tact or marched them out of the offices and told them to never come back.  Thank goodness Alan Ladd, Jr. was on board at 20th Century Fox.

The Cantina scene.  A scene that frustrated George Lucas for many years.  The final product not living up to his expectations.  The bar was set at a high level thanks to McQuarrie's painting.

George Lucas wanted to show the scale of the Death Star trench in relation to the fighters as an aid to the special effects people doing the miniatures.