$8,960
One of eight pieces of original pre-production art created by Colin Cantwell for George Lucas in imagining the spaceships that might populate the Star Wars (20th Century, 1977) universe, circa 1974/1975. This full-color mixed media (predominantly colored pencil) illustration features a single small, fixed-wing flight craft with what appears to be two rows of two seats. The front is occupied by two pilots, dressed in orange (much like Luke Skywalker and the other X-Wing fighter pilots throughout the original trilogy). It appears flying over what might be a swampy planet, like Dagobah as seen in The Empire Strikes Back . The flat pyramidal shape of the ship with the centered cockpit in some ways resembles the snow speeder seen in the 1980 film. From the collection of Cantwell, who was among the first approached by Lucas to work on the original Star Wars film back in 1974. Cantwell was asked to head up ILM, but he did not want to be tied down to a long-term obligation at that time. Cantwell's most notable contribution was working closely with Lucas on the spaceship designs for Star Wars : A New Hope (now known as Episode IV). Cantwell was provided with “Copy #4” of the screenplay, then titled “Adventures of The Starkiller (episode one); The Star Wars.” Cantwell is known as the creator of the first and original prototype models and designs of the X-Wing, Y-Wing, Tie Fighter, Star Destroyer, Death Star, Landspeeder, Sandcrawler, and Millennium Falcon as well as the T-16 S
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2014-12-05
