Conan Painting Goes For $1.5 Million

Article first published as Conan the Destroyer Painting Goes for $1.5 Million on Technorati. The 1971 painting by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta sold just  two months after the Pennsylvania artist’s death.  Frank Frazetta was a favorite artist of my youth for his fantastical depictions of mostly nude women, such as Vampirella and his mostly nude men such as Conan. There were a number of paintings of nudes. As time went by I came to appreciated more than the artful rendering of the human form and found that I liked his animals and skies and weapons as well.  He was also…

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