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“Victorian Lady Vampire with Greyhound” specialty painting by Richard Bober (CIRCA 2010)

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“Victorian Lady Vampire with Greyhound” specialty painting by Richard Bober (CIRCA 2010) Comic Art

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Detailed close-up of Bober's methodically "Textured" skill on the skin of his "Regal Succubus" specialty painting

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"ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: Stories to Be Read With the Lights On, Vol. II" (aka "Breaking the Scream Barrier") Paperback Book cover painting by Richard Bober (APRIL 1976)

Artwork Details

Title:	“Victorian Lady Vampire with Greyhound” specialty painting by Richard Bober (CIRCA 2010)
Artist:	Richard Bober (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Other
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Views:	138
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	5/12/2023
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(Circa 2010) Richard Bober’s “Victoria Lady Vampire with Greyhound” portrait was a personal project of passion created during his retirement from his impressive commercial career. He painted this hauntingly serene portrait in oil & acrylic on canvas and it took many years to complete. Please take careful note of the Aristocratic Female Vampire’s surface texture of her skin which Bober designed to simulate decaying, flaking flesh. Looking like it literally popped-out from the pages of Anna Rice’s seminal vampire novel, “Interview with the Vampire,” this exquisite painting is truly a masterpiece to behold in-person. (40" x 30") (Richard Bober: 8/14/1943 to 12/10/2022)

Richard Bober studied at the Art Students League in the early 1970s and began a successful career in commercial art around the same time. He started as a freelance medical illustrator but soon turned to creating highly detailed, heavily embellished compositions in a romantic 19th-Century style that was superbly suited to mythological themes and literary fantasy.

Bober paints the old-fashioned way using traditional techniques: multi-layers of oil paint and alkyd or acrylic glazes on fine linen canvas or masonite for visual effect and surface texture. Prior to Bober’s passing in 2022, he had been retired for many years from his commercial projects but continued to paint for his own enjoyment.

Richard Bober’s renowned and award-winning career found him creating eye-catching, meticulous cover art for the major paperback publishers that included but were not limited to: Dell, Avon, Berkley, Bantam, Tor, and the New American Library (NAL) among others. . . including memorable early ones from the “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” series for Dell in the 1970s and mysteries & YA novels from the 1980s to 1990s.

Bober has won many awards and honors (too numerous to list here) and was featured in Patrick & Jeannie Wilshire’s "Visions of Never: The Collection of Fantastic Art" book by Vanguard Publishing (2009).

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Joined:	January 2005
Last Login:	December 2024
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Country:	UNITED STATES
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Amir E
Member Since 2020

Posted on 5/13/2023

Frighteningly good! When you get close to her face it sends a chill down the spine. Thanks for sharing!

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