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THE NINTH GATE (1999) Nine Pairs of Hand-drawn Francisco Sole The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows Engraving Illustrations

Artist: Francisco Sole (Penciller)

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Title:	THE NINTH GATE (1999) Nine Pairs of Hand-drawn Francisco Sole The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows Engraving Illustrations
Artist:	Francisco Sole (Penciller)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	For Auction Here: Propstore.com
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Added to Site:	11/20/2025
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Nine pairs of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows engraving illustrations hand-drawn by producer engraver Francisco Sole for Roman Polanski's horror thriller film The Ninth Gate. Rare book dealer Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) came upon The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, a book written by 17th-century author Aristide de Torchia whilst the author was in possession of the Delomelanicon, an apocryphal book purportedly written by Lucifer himself.

Torchia's book - the film's eponymous MacGuffin - contained nine woodcut engravings, allegedly direct copies of those done by Lucifer in the Delomelanicon, each of which was created for the film by Sole. For each engraving seen onscreen, Sole produced two illustrations: one preliminary concept sketch, and one final sketch.

This lot consists of all 18 total sketches, two for each of the nine engravings in Torchia's book. Each is rendered in graphite on card-backed paper and signed by Sole. The pairs come within brown card folders hand-numbered 1 to 9 in Roman numerals. Also included is a black plastic folder from production labelled "Sketches." Dimensions (each): 21 cm x 30 cm (8.5" x 11.75")

Sold without copyright; see copyright notice in the Terms and Conditions.

Estimate: �3,000 - 6,000 Ω

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