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A Tom Jung original Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope concept artwork for the one sheet poster

10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
Los Angeles

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A Tom Jung original Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope concept artwork for the one sheet poster

Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Acrylic, color pencil, airbrush on illustration board, signed ("Tom Jung") to bottom. Jung's impressive career boasts movie poster illustrations and storyboard art for such films as The Towering Inferno (1974), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Raging Bull (1980), among many others. His illustrations for the Star Wars franchise, particularly this piece for the first film's Style A one sheet poster, are much sought after. After being chosen to create the artwork, Jung was given a synopsis of the plot, descriptions of the characters and their motivations, and set photographs. From there he created this spectacular piece that personifies the "good and evil" theme which permeates the film, particularly, according to Jung, the cross formed by Luke Skywalker's saber set against the ghosted background visage of Darth Vader.
Provenance: the collection of Tom Jung.
22 x 30 in.

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