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The Pale Man's (Doug Jones) screen-matched torso from Guillermo del Toro's fantasy horror Pan's Labyrinth. After being tempted to eat two grapes at the Pale Man's banquet, Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) accidentally woke him. On being roused, the Pale Man placed a pair of eyeballs into the eye sockets on his palms and then devoured two of the fairies accompanying Ofelia. The formation of the dried blood on this torso matches the blood drips seen after the Pale Man first bites the fairies heads off.

Del Toro and concept artist Sergio Sandoval's design for the Pale Man was heavily influenced by Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring One of His Sons and the melting clocks in Salvador Dalì's The Persistence of Memory. Sculpted by Arjen Tuiten and Arturo Balseiro, this foam-latex body is hand-painted in pink and purple skin tones. It displays drips of dried stage blood running down its neck and chest - the remnants of two fairies the Pale Man devoured which, before they were replaced digitally in post-production, were actually two condoms filled with artificial blood.

The prosthetic body is presented on a black fibreglass display affixed to a black metal base. The foam latex remains hardened in places and fragile, with some areas of deterioration and cracking due to age. Dimensions: 21 cm x 49.5 cm x 80 cm (8 1/4" x 19 1/2" x 31 1/2")

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Estimate: £10,000 - 20,000 Ω

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