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The Cover to THE LAST CELT (Autobibliograghy of REH, the creator of Conan written by Glen Lord 1976) Art by Marcus Boas

Artist: Marcus Boas (All)

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The Cover to THE LAST CELT (Autobibliograghy of REH, the creator of Conan written by Glen Lord 1976) Art by Marcus Boas Comic Art

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Title:	The Cover to THE LAST CELT (Autobibliograghy of REH, the creator of Conan written by Glen Lord 1976) Art by Marcus Boas
Artist:	Marcus Boas (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Oil
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NOT EVER!!!!!
Views:	2,980
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	10
Added to Site:	3/18/2013
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Description

The best way to explain what this painting is and represents, is to quote from the book "CONAN THE PHENOMENOM by Paul M. Sammon" This is from page 84.
"THE FIRST BOOK-LENGTH CRITICAL STUDIES DEVOTED TO ROBERT E. HOWARD'S LIFE AND ART APPEARED IN THE 1970S AND 1980S.
Some of these books, like Robert Weinberg's The Annotated Guide to Robert E. Howard's Sword and Sorcery (1976,Starmont House), or Don Herron's The Dark Barbarian (1984 Wildside Press),are today seen as solid additions to Howardian scholarship. Others, like Darrell Schweitzer's Conan's World and Robert E. Howard (1978, The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today), have been criticized for their inaccuracy and superficiality.
However, the two best known book-length Howard studies are Glen Lord's The Last Celt: A Bio Bibliograghy of Robert Ervin Howard (1976, Donald M. Grant), and L. Sprague de Camp's Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E, Howard (1983, Blue Jay Books) The two books took dissimilar approaches to their subject and aroused wildly disparate emotions in their readers.
The Last Celt is generally concidered the finer of the two works. Lord, the premier Howard fan, chose a respectable if eclectic approach to REH by dividing The Last Celt into four main sections- "Autobiography," "Biograghy," "Bibiograghy," and "Miscellanea." The first two sections include letters and autobiograghical sketches penned by Howard himself (The Wandering Years, "An autobiography," "On Reading-And Writing"),as well as reminiscences about REH by those who corresponded with or met him (H. P. Lovecraft's Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam," E. Hoffman Price's "A Memoriam of R. E. Howard"). Lord also included an extremely comprehensive bibliograghy, which list almost every Howard-related item that had appeared by 1976-including books, stories, comics, articles, poems, and letters. The Last Celt concludes with various ephemera, including extracts from REH's correspondence, two original, unpublished Conan story fragments ("The Hand of Nergal"and The Hall of the Dead") and even Howard's obituary notice.

Dark Valley Destiny, on the other hand, is a more conventional (and more detailed) biograghy. Written by L. Sprague de Camp, his wife Catherine Crook de Camp, and Jane Whittington Griffin, Destiny is a heavily researched work that attempts to analyze Howard's fiction by examining his life. De Camp includes dozens of quotes from people who knew, read or worked with Howard, the result of many extensive interviews that de Camp conducted with citizens of Cross Plains, Texas who still remembered REH. Unfortunately, despite this plethora of information, The Dark Valley Destiny is marred by de Camp's incessant, heavy handed, and judgemental speculations on REH's character, as well as an all-pervasive sense of de Camp's own sense of moral superiority."

So, That's what the book is about and I have and had read this book many years ago trying to absorb everything I could about REH since he was the creator of Conan, Kull and all the other characters that I had come to love. Both books are great reads but being able to own one of these, and then, to own the painting from the one that Glen Lord wrote, GRAIL FOR ME!!! This also has the painting of the best known photo of REH on it too. The art itself comes in at a 16x24 oil on canvas board.

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Ed Lloyd Gragg
Member Since 2010

Posted on 3/18/2013

Congrats on this ! A very sweet piece indeed. I`m a huge REH fan as well as a portrait artist. I have Sanjulian`s portrait using the same reference photo of Howard. Probably the last piece of art I would ever part with. Nice to see this here from a fellow collector!

Alex Johnson
Member Since 2006
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Posted on 3/18/2013

What a terrific find. Congratulations!

Romain Verlier
Member Since 2009

Posted on 3/18/2013

Awesome Congrats !!! Your pleasure is well desserved by this magnificent piece of arts !!!! One gotta love REH and his creations and one gotta love this cloudy moody sky !!!

JEff G
Member Since 2006

Posted on 3/18/2013

Beauty Ken!!! Congrats on such a huge score; I love seeing good things happen to good people!

. BRAUNY
Member Since 2007

Posted on 3/18/2013

Sweet!! Congrats!!

Dave Kopecki
Member Since 2008

Posted on 3/18/2013

What an amazing painting, made all the better by what it is a cover to. Huge congrats!

Brian Jones
Member Since 2005

Posted on 3/18/2013

Congrats Ken!

Holly Burnett
Member Since 2009

Posted on 3/18/2013

Spot on description of a collector who collects from the heart. I'm so happy for you, Ken. A treasure indeed..!!!

Rubén DaCollector's Paperback Art
Member Since 2005

Posted on 3/18/2013

Ken, that is awesome! Congratulations on such a magnificent acquisition. You are the first person that comes to my mind when I think of who would be the best owner for a piece like this. I very much look forward to seeing what the frame selection will look like!

Alex K.
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/14/2013

Wow! How did I miss this?!! A piece of REH history!! Fantastic find! I suddenly have a sudden urge to buy a fedora and pretend I'm REH this Halloween! When people ask who I'm supposed to be, I'll have to point them to your painting! :)

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