Original Ridley Scott Alien Storyboard Drawings at Nate’s October Auction
To auction, buy, consign or sell Ridley Scott Alien storyboard drawings, please email [email protected] or phone the Nate D. Sanders Auction House (http://www.NateDSanders.com) at (310) 440-2982.
Original Ridley Scott Alien Storyboard Drawings
A lot of 21 original Ridley Scott Alien storyboard drawings including drawings of scenes with the main character, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), is at Nate D. Sanders Auction House this month. This was obtained by Nate D. Sanders directly from Peter Beale, 1970’s managing director at 20th Century Fox Productions and the executive in charge of the production of Star Wars, Alien, The Omen, Julia, The Rocky Horror Picture, etc. Recently, on the internet, a lot of press was garnered with just the release of some other Ridley Scott Alien storyboard drawings so fans could take a look at them. However, this might the first time that original Ridley Scott Alien storyboard drawings have come to auction. Minimum bid for all 21 original Ridley Scott Alien storyboard drawings is just $10,000. Also we at Nate D. Sanders Auction House (http://www.NateDSanders.com) have the ultimate Alien memorabilia, his original space jockey from the Alien movie in 1979. Bidding starts at $100,000. This is the first time that a space jockey has come up for auction.
Lot #21:
Fantastic Collection of Early Concept Art for ”Alien”, Done in 1977 — From the Collection of ”Alien” Executive Peter Beale
http://natedsanders.com/Fantastic_Collection_of_Early_Concept_Art_for___Al-LOT47572.aspx
Collection of early concept art for Ridley Scott’s ”Alien”, the 1979 sci-fi horror film unique in its genre for winning an Academy Award for Visual Effects. The collection includes 22 drawings, most dated March 1977 and signed ”Scott” or ”Scotty” likely by Elliot Scott, uncredited on ”Alien”, but who served as Production Designer for two of the Indiana Jones films. In this fascinating series of artwork, the spacecraft that would be known to film fans as the Nostromo is here called Leviathan (its early working name), with detailed sketches of what the ship would look like, including the crew’s ”Hypersleep Vault”, its exterior, the zero gravity corridors that Ripley would have to navigate through, the Engine Room, Interior Dome, Infirmary etc. Ripley is shown in several shots with notes such as ”Suggested Shot Ripley moving through ship…Ripley hangs from full site traveller on rail…”
Several drawings include three characters (Kane, Dallas and Lambert in the film) descending from the Leviathan and approaching an early rendering (labeled ”Rough Prelim. Only) likely of the Derelict Spaceship. The three are shown exploring the alien planet, here labeled ”Red City / Alternative to ‘Petra’ Location”, including the exploration of ruins from an ancient civilization. They are shown rappelling down a stone face, and then into a circular opening at the top of a cavernous structure, an early rendering of the Derelict Spaceship that would contain the Space Jockey character.
Artwork is rendered in pen and marker in colors of brown, grey, black and yellow. The 22 sketches are done on 17 sheets, with a few sheets having 2+ drawings. Size of sheets vary, but most measure approximately 17” x 9.5” with those having two drawings measuring 17” x 19”. All but one are on lightweight artist paper, with one done on construction paper (showing a detailed interior view of the Leviathan) measuring 20.5” x 12.75”. This piece has tears to right edge, but all other sheets are in very good to near fine condition with light creasing. An amazing set of ”Alien” concept art, from the collection of 20th Century Fox executive Peter Beale. Minimum Bid is $10,000.
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Fantastic Collection of Early Concept Art for ”Alien”, Done in 1977 — From the Collection of ”Alien” Executive Peter Beale / Click above for larger images.
Also, the Space Jockey is in this auction:
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H.R. Giger Hand-Painted Model of Space Jockey & the Derelict Spaceship From ”Alien” — Measures Over 3 Feet by 3 Feet, Personally Owned by 20th Century Fox Executive Peter Beale / Click above for larger image.
About Our Auction House in Los Angeles and the Sale of Screen Used Memorabilia:
Nate D. Sanders Auction House has sold over $6 million worth of original Academy Awards:
See: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/controversial-sale-of-oscar-statuettes-brings-3-million.html (this is only half of the Oscars sold)
Controversial sale of Oscar statuettes brings $3 million
The largest collection of Oscar statuettes ever offered for public sale has been sold for more than $3 million, a Brentwood auctioneer said Wednesday.
The 15 golden figures were sold to three individuals in a sale conducted online, said auctioneer Nate D. Sanders. The auctioneer would not disclose the identities of the bidders.
Thirteen of the statues were purchased by one buyer.
The most expensive statuette was Herman Mankiewicz’s 1941 Best Screenplay Academy Award for “Citizen Kane,” which sold for $588,455. The same award had been purchased in 1999 for $244,500.
The 15 statuettes had been collected by a Los Angeles businessman whom Sanders also declined to identify. However, he described the seller as having ties to the entertainment industry.
The collector decided to sell the statuettes after Sanders sold Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” screenplay trophy three months ago for $861,542. Welles and Mankiewicz had shared the screenwriting award for the film.
Each of the auctioned statuettes were awarded in the 1930s and ‘40s, before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began requiring winners to sign a contract promising they and their heirs would not sell the trophy without first offering to sell it back to the Academy for $1.
The auction, which concluded Tuesday night, had been opposed by the filmmakers’ group.
“The Academy, its members and the many film artists and craftspeople who’ve won Academy Awards, believe strongly that Oscars should be won, not purchased,” said spokeswoman Janet Hill.
“Unfortunately, because our winners agreement wasn’t instituted until 1950, we don’t have any legal means of stopping the commoditization of these particular statuettes.”
The 1933 Best Picture Oscar awarded to “Cavalcade” went for the second-highest selling price: $332,165. The 1931 Best Picture statuette won by the film “Skippy” – the oldest in the auction — sold for $301,973.
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Kate Winslet screen-worn dress coat from ”Titanic”. James Cameron directed Winslet in the 1997 blockbuster, in which she starred as the wealthy Rose DeWitt Bukater, star-crossed lover to Leonardo DiCaprio’s working class character Jack. Winslet is dressed in the pink coat during the scenes when the ship begins to sink. Staining to lower portion of silk lining due to this partial submergence during filming, else near fine. Extensive provenance includes a two year paid exhibition in a Titanic museum and write-up in the USA Today newspaper. Also with a COA from Twentieth-Century Fox, indicating that this coat was worn by Kate Winslet ”on deck during sinking scenes”, as well as an LOA from Salvador Perez, the Costume Manufacturing Foreman on ”Titanic,” confirming that this coat was screen-worn by Winslet in the film. A beautiful wardrobe piece from one of the most important sequences in ”Titanic,” the second highest grossing film of all time. Sold for $164,520.
Kate Winslet Screen-Worn Dress Coat From ”Titanic” — Worn During Her Dramatic Scenes of the Ship Sinking
To auction, buy, consign or sell Ridley Scott Alien storyboard drawings, please email [email protected] or phone the Nate D. Sanders Auction House (http://www.NateDSanders.com) at (310) 440-2982.
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