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| 'Conan' Painting by Late Artist Frank Frazetta Goes for $1.5 Million |
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In this undated photo provided by Frazetta Properties LLC, the painting "Conan the Destroyer" by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta is shown. The 1971 painting by Frazetta has sold for $1.5 million, two months after the Pennsylvania artist's death. AP Photo/Frazetta Properties LLC.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A 1971 painting by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta has sold for $1.5 million, two months after the Pennsylvania artist's death.
Frazetta's managers said this week that a private collector bought "Conan the Destroyer" from a family trust. Managers Robert Pistella and Stephen Ferzoco call it the price the highest ever for a work by Frazetta.
The illustrator died in Florida in May at age 82. His iconic illustrations of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan and other characters often graced comic books, album covers and movie posters.
In recent years, his children have fought over an estate estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
The feud boiled over in December when Frank Frazetta Jr. used a backhoe to try to break into the artist's museum in the Pocono Mountains.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
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