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Josh Kirby “Frankenstein’s Monster”

Guillermo Del Toro was a great film maker before he went woke. I’m not going to watch his Frankenstein film, which apparently makes Frankenstein’s wife the girl who is the key to everything, a really exhausted trope of Postmodern Hollywood.

Del Toro didn’t win the best picture Oscar, but he was gifted with a significant painting.

Guillermo del Toro’s heart-wrenching Frankenstein earned nine nominations ahead of this month’s 98th Academy Awards. Although the film’s costume, makeup, and production teams all scored wins, the Mexican filmmaker himself went home without the night’s biggest accolade—Best Picture, for which Frankenstein was nominated. Fortunately, del Toro received a more sentimental prize amid the festivities, when a cadre of his closest collaborators presented him with a painting of Frankenstein’s Monster by the late great British artist Josh Kirby.

Kirby became one of the U.K.’s best-known commercial creatives between the 1950s and ’80s, painting book covers for Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961)—plus film posters for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Krull (both 1983).

The artist modeled his undated Frankenstein’s Monster painting after British actor Boris Karloff’s portrayal in the same seminal 1931 film that enraptured del Toro at age seven. A golden plate affixed to the frame of Kirby’s painting acknowledges this inspiration, as well as the work’s provenance, stating that American sci-fi author, magazine editor, and horror collector Forrest J. Ackerman acquired it in 1976.

Read the full article here: ARTNET – Guillermo Del Toro Scored a Different Prize at the Oscars: A Rare Frankenstein Painting

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