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Oliver Frey - Cover of Crash Magazine #5 Jun 1984

Artist: Oliver Frey (Painter)

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Oliver Frey - Cover of Crash Magazine #5 Jun 1984 Comic Art
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Crash Magazine #5 1984

Scifi art: a graphic history 2009

Crash Magazine #76 1990

Retrogamer Magazine #34

 

   

Artwork Details

Title: Oliver Frey - Cover of Crash Magazine #5 Jun 1984
Artist: Oliver Frey (Painter)
Media Type: Paint - Acrylic
Art Type: Cover
For Sale Status: NFS
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Added to Site: 10/11/2009
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"Spectrum Death Star Trench" was painted in 1984 for the cover of Crash Magazine Issue #5 published by Newsfield in June 1984. Approx size 24 x 18".

A reproduction of the Crash #5 cover was exhibited in the historical retrospective "Videogame Nation" at Urbis Manchester from May to Sep 2009.

Featured on the cover and interior of "Sci-fi Art: A Graphic History" by Steve Holland, published by Collins Design (Harper Collins) in 2009. Included in "The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey" by Roger Kean, published by Thalamus Publishing in 2006.

Featured on the cover of "Retrogamer" Magazine issue 34, published by Imagine in 2007. Used in a montage cover for Crash Magazine #76 May 1990 published by Newsfield.

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Paul . 
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Posted on 5/30/2011

This art is such a blast from the past. So evocative of the era. Good stuff.

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