Conan Saga #2 ''Devil Wings Over Shadizar'' unused cover concept
Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith (All)
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Conan Saga #1 ad for #2 cover
Another sketch for the rejected Conan Saga #2 cover
A quite differenty inked version of this piece
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DescriptionEvery once in a while, the planets line up and marvellous things happen!Case in point, this beauty. Since when I started regularly posting new art on CAF, I started getting offers for various pages, both for purchases and trade. I don't like selling because money have a way to evaporate for non-fun stuff, but I do trade. Thing is, I pruned my collection thoroughly, so pretty much everything I kept I don't want to let go of so, whenever I get a request to initiate a trade, I must be convinced with something that will most definitely keep me away from trader's remorse. Not an easy task, but it can be done, and it’s gotta be done with a superior page, not a few lesser ones. This here piece came thanks to a three-party deal and took about a month to gel, because the collector who asked me for a particular page didn’t have anything I was interested in (no, more correctly, he had several pieces I was interested in but they would’ve required me to add more trade or $$$, both things I don’t like/cannot afford to do), so we agreed that if I’d find something I’d be interested in he’d buy it for me instead. I combed dealers’ websites for a week (word of advice pt.I: keeping all that SOLD stuff on the websites may make you look like big shots, but I guarantee it pisses collectors off to no end! Get the hell rid of it!!!) finding nothing interesting, then started eyeing auction houses and classifieds (word of advice pt.II: man up and put effin' prices on the stuff you're selling on CAF!!!), but still 0 results. Then, on a fateful day, I received a CAF notification and saw this: an email left my desktop 10” later and in a few minutes, I received confirmation that the piece had been put on hold and a check was on the way to the dealer. Now, this might even be a rejected proposal for a cover but -DAMMIT!!!- this is BWS at the top of his game. It’s Conan, he’s fierce, there’s a naked damsel in distress and it’s mine. All mine. It’s my preciousss… A concept study for an unused Conan Saga #2 cover, ''Devil Wings Over Shadizar'', then later rejected after a number of reiterations. Accomplished in pencil and ink on 12 x 14.75 in. Trimmed vellum tipped to backing leaf. A very finely rendered study by master Barry Windsor-Smith, depicting Conan, sword drawn, holding the semi-nude body of ''Jenna''. Slight blue pencil visible underneath the ink. Signed in lower left of artwork, ''BWS 1987''. From https://tinyurl.com/shadizar: "So, I think I have this sequence right. At the end of Conan Saga #1, we see this rough of what the next cover will be, then a more completed picture, then a change to the cover being about 'Tower of the Elephant' instead of 'Devil Wings Over Shadizar', then THAT piece gets changed to more what the tower is described as in Robert E. Howard's story, then the published cover (phew!). While the finished cover is great, it sorta feels like we missed out on two more great covers, and Conan Sagas were all about the covers." From http://barrywindsor-smith.com/galleria/devilwingsdetail.html: "This full figure pen and ink drawing of Conan, sword drawn, cradling the sensless, semi-nude body of the beautiful Jenna, is a concept study for an unpublished Conan Saga cover painting, intended for the issue containing the story 'Devil-Wings Over Shadizar'. Signed BWS, dated 1987. Pen, ink and fine marker. 10 x 12" image on 12 x 14 3/4" heavy vellum." NOTE: This artwork is no longer subject to the TAR agreement per a letter received by Profiles in History from Barry Windsor-Smith, himself. Social/Sharing |
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Chris K. 
Member Since 2008
1 - Posted on 7/31/2020
Love the art and really appreciated the description with the piece - it certaintly deserves it. Congrats - this appears to have found the perfect home!
Mark Levy
Member Since 2004
1 - Posted on 7/31/2020
That is a beauty and a great example from a strong BWS period - I am 100% sure that what you traded was not as fine a work of art!
Enrico Salvini
Member Since 2005
Posted on 8/1/2020
Mark Levy wrote:
That is a beauty and a great example from a strong BWS period - I am 100% sure that what you traded was not as fine a work of art!
It was an old, trusty friend that moved away, but it has already found a good place to stay with someone it'll make equally happy.
Dave Kopecki
Member Since 2008
1 - Posted on 8/3/2020
Wow, this is stunning! Huge congrats! I can only imagine..... :)
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 11/7/2020
What is the TAR agreement? Sounds like a bad peace or envoronmental deal. Great artwork.
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 8/22/2021
I forgot to add that I agree its beyond annoying when you spot loads of long sold stuff still clogging up dealers sites. The bit on no prices on stuff for sale can be annoying. That can jusdt be down to the person being indecisive. Guilty as charged. Whats even more annoying, and I plead guilty to this one too, is putting a price on something many moons ago and then forgetting to change it later. Imagine if some dealers still had theri nineteen nineties prices up and had not astronomically shifted them due to inflated increases as the bubble slowly reaches bursting point? My particular bugbear is collectors who never put up a note in their collections to show that the piece is long gone or traded away. If you want to mourn stuff thats gone do what many others have done and create a dearly departed or sold section. Nuff ranting, as Stan Lee might have said.
Claudio Lampa
Member Since 2021
1 - Posted on 3/21/2022
For Sale Status: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!
you are my myth mate! you are!
lol
great artwork
Steven Dilworth
Member Since 2012
1 - Posted on 11/20/2024
Instantly my favorite BWS Conan drawing. Delicate lines, and powerful at the same time.
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