Hand-Drawn Color Thumbnails for a Person Falling from a Wookiees Roof by Ralph McQuarrie

Sold Stock #125865 | Sold Jul 13 2020

Hand-Drawn Color Thumbnails for a Person Falling from a Wookiee's Roof by Ralph McQuarrie

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A page of color thumbnail sketches for what became a matte painting of a person falling off the roof of a Wookiee house in the Star Wars Holiday Special, by Ralph McQuarrie. McQuarrie eventually completed several matte paintings for the program. Titled in McQuarrie's hand: "Someone falls off the roof of a wookie [sic] house / Star Wars christmas T.V. special." There is also a note in McQuarrie's hand on the reserve side stating "George -- I'm going to go on to the T.V. show matt [sic] work now. There was a delay as [ends]" Ink and marker on paper.
This is a hand-drawn artwork by concept artist Ralph McQuarrie. McQuarrie is widely considered one of the seminal Star Wars artists, having designed the look of Darth Vader, C-3PO, R2-D2, and countless other elements of the original film. McQuarrie was one of Lucas’s first collaborators on Star Wars and created numerous concept sketches and production paintings that were used to convey Lucas’s vision to those working on the film, and later used to market it. McQuarrie’s paintings were published in portfolios that are well known to Star Wars collectors. He went on to work on all three films in the original trilogy and later did additional work for Lucasfilm in the 1990s, on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe project, and two Star Wars Pop-Up Books. Original artwork by McQuarrie is exceedingly rare and sought after by collectors.
Dimensions: 10.875" x 8.5"

This item is located in London.