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Foster, Hal - PRINCE VALIANT Preliminary layout for the August 26, 1973 Sunday Page

Artist: Harold Rudolf - "Hal" Foster (All)

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Foster, Hal - PRINCE VALIANT Preliminary layout for the August 26, 1973 Sunday Page Comic Art

Additional Images:

Foster Panel 5 Detail

Foster Panel 4 Detail

John Cullen Murphy's Sunday Page as Printed

Typewritten Script

Typewritten Art Direction

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Artwork Details

Title:	Foster, Hal - PRINCE VALIANT Preliminary layout for the August 26, 1973 Sunday Page
Artist:	Harold Rudolf - "Hal" Foster (All)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Prelim
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	511
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	4/28/2022
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Description

Some folks may not be aware that after Foster retired from drawing PRINCE VALIANT and handed the reins over to John Cullen Murphy, he continued to draw layouts for the strip which he gave to Murphy to use.

At the end of March 2022, Nate D, Sanders auctioned off a lot of John Cullen Murphy's originals and Hal Foster preliminaries for PRINCE VALIANT. Murphy's daughter decided to sell these pieces of art and auction had a great many featured.

I bid on this Foster prelim which I felt showcased his drawing ability better than most of the rest and was happy to win the auction.

I had about seven of the prelims on my watch list, but only bid on the one I wanted most.
There were a few others that were interesting because Foster had done some ink sketching which I also found quite interesting, but I ended up only bidding on one prelim, as I figured one representative was enough in my collection.

If I had lost on the one I wanted most, I would have bid on others, but fortunately I got the one I wanted most - which coincidentally was for one day prior to my 18th Birthday.

One of the things I love about these Foster Valiant prelims is that although many of the prelims were very rough, many others showed that Foster was still an artist at heart.

Included in the auction lot were also the two typewritten pages of instructional text. These are also somewhat interesting as one page gives the dialogue for the strip and the other suggests staging for the drawings in the Sunday. These are also shown here in the additional images along with the Sunday page as completed by Murphy and printed.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 4/28/2022

The grid lines inform us on where he places single and double characters in focus. Very cool pencil work that has a fine polish showing that he still had talent to spare.

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

Posted on 4/28/2022

What a find! Beautiful page and so much to learn from here. Thanks for posting!

Mark Levy
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/2/2022

Nice pickup - I managed to miss this auction despite having signed up just prior...ah well, happy we didn't get into a bidding war on this one!

Thomas Ward
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/3/2022

Beautiful page, Congrats!!!

Jeff Singh
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/3/2022

Great choice. Getting to peek behind the curtains and Foster's process is a real treat.

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