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FREE APPRAISAL.  To appraise, auction, buy, consign or sell your HR Giger Alien poster that is for sale, please email [email protected] or contact Nate D. Sanders at (310) 440-2982. We will also grant you a high reserve which no other auction house will let you do.

HR Giger Alien Poster Set Sold

At Nate D. Sanders Auctions we sold the following HR Giger Alien poster set for $3,899. Here is the description:

H.R. Giger “Alien” Limited Edition Posters 41/350

Complete portfolio of H.R. Giger signed prints from his cinematic masterpiece, “Alien”, printed by 20th Century Fox in a limited edition of 350 to commemorate the film’s release. This set of six prints, #41 of the limited edition, brings to life the terrorific Alien creature and the haunting set pieces that won Giger an Academy Award in 1980. Set includes Giger’s visual interpretation of the Alien egg, the Space Jockey character, and the Derelict Spaceship that housed the dormant, but still alive, Alien creature. Each print is titled “ALIEN / HR Giger 78″, signed and numbered 41/350 by Giger. Prints measure 27.5″ x 39.5″, housed in a 41″ x 28.5” black hardcover folder with “ALIEN” embossed on the cover. Light wear to each print, with creasing and chips confined to edges. Portfolio case has some scuffing. Overall a rare set, in very good condition. From the collection of former 20th Century Fox executive Peter Beale, and with his LOA. Sold for $3,899.

HR Giger Alien poster

“Alien” Limited Edition Posters 41/350

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We at Nate D. Sanders Auction House (http://www.NateDSanders.com) also sold the ultimate original HR Giger art, his original space jockey from the Alien movie in 1979.  It sold for $31,250.  This is the first time that a space jockey came up for auction.  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.  HR Giger personally gifted Peter Beale with this HR Giger art space jockey.

Description:

Scarce model from the 1979 film “Alien” of the famed “Space Jockey” character aboard the “Derelict Spaceship”, designed and hand-painted by H.R. Giger. One of the most recognizable scenes in sci-fi cinema, the haunting Space Jockey aka The Pilot, found dead aboard the alien spaceship, was conceived and designed by famed Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and visual effects artist H.R. Giger, whose work on “Alien” won an Academy Award in 1980.

The enormous Space Jockey and cavernous spaceship are quintessential Giger, renowned for human-machine melded beings called biomechanoids; the walls of the spaceship appear to be either vertebrae from a once living creature, or cogs in a vast industrial machine system, or perhaps both. Space Jockey is fused into his command station and wears either a mask, or has a elephantine trunk extending from his face. In the “Alien” set — which was built based on this model — Space Jockey sits 26 feet tall, dwarfing the characters of Kane, Dallas and Lambert who find him dead, his rib cage blasted open, serving as foreshadowing to what awaits the crew later in the film.

So pivotal was the scene — establishing the world of the Alien creature and serving as ground zero for the film’s mythology — that Ridley Scott insisted upon its construction, despite the enormous cost of building the life-size (or larger than life) set. Space Jockey so enthralled the audience of “Alien”, that the character would even go on to serve as a critical and central story point in Scott’s “Promethus”, the “Alien” origin story released in 2012.

The model is reportedly one of only three known to exist and comes from the collection of Peter Beale, 20th Century Fox executive who was given the model by Giger and whose LOA accompanies the piece. The original mold was intentionally broken into smaller parts to be used by the technicians who constructed the set, so the remaining models are the only extant original sculptures of the scene. This model measures 43″ wide x 36″ long x 16.25″ high, hand painted in tones of grey, brown and black by Giger. Space Jockey is fused into his pilot seat, which swivels around on a circular platform. The swiveling piece can be removed and measures 13.5″ long x 10.25″ high x 4.5″ wide. Entire model weighs over 47 lbs., glued to a painted sheet of plywood. A few chips to the resin, otherwise in near fine condition. One of the finest “Alien” props ever to be sold at auction.

HR Giger Alien poster

HR Giger Alien poster

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It sold for $31,250.

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