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Female Wrestlers | B3.28
CD1 FAT 115 1986 calendar |
This was painted for National Lampoon. The image in B1says
"Happy 8th Birthday" with the 8 in bright white and a different font, while
Fantasy
Art Techniques reads "Happy 15th", and the CD says "8th" - in FAT,
though, the lettering is all the same colour, so this was presumably the
original, the others being a retreaded image.
Painted 1984. |
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Firewalker | B2.58
CD1 |
Cover art for Firedance by Scott Baker.
Painted 1986. |
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Fire Witch | ||
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First Love | B2.42
CD1 Mirage |
The titles for First Love and Alone are interchanged
on the CD.
Painted 1981. |
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5000 Volts | BJ17 | Cover for Battletech: D.R.T. (Penguin/Roc, 1994) by James Long.
The model for the main figure is Ron Coleman, once Mr Olympia, a personal trainer at Boris' gym and frequently a subject in his paintings. Painted 1996? |
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Flight | CD1
Enchantment 1986 calendar |
Painted 1984. |
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The Flight of the Horse | FABV | This is the cover of Larry Niven's book with the same title (Ballantine,
1973).
Painted 1973, oil, 16 x 26 inches. |
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Floating Island | B4.S2
BJ.84 |
Cover of William Shatner's Tekwar. The hardcover version
has the full painting, the paperback has the left half only.
Painted 1989. |
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Flowering Nest | BJ.74
August 1995 |
Painted 1994. |
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Flying Centaur | B2.07
Mirage |
This was, apparently, a controversial painting - presumably, the objectors
have a curious notion of the anatomy of horses.
Painted 1980. |
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Flying Menace | B3.39
FAT 100 February 1997 |
Book cover for The Web of Wizardry (Del Rey, 1978) by Jaunita
Coulson.
Painted 1978. |
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Flying Sorceror | B3.63
CD1 FABV FPG.28 |
Cover art for The Flying Sorceror by Larry Niven, I am told
(and I thought I had all Niven's books).
Painted 1976, oil, 16 x 26 inches. |
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Football Hero | B1.73
CD1 FAT 51 |
This was an illustration for Playboy magazine
Painted 1982. |
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Forever Moments | CD1
Mirage |
Painted 1979. |
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The Four Riders | B3.43
BJ.25 FPG.09 |
Painted 1978. |
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Frankenstein | B4.82 | Possibly the cover for Frankenstein (Tor, 1994) by Mary Shelley.
Quite obviously, this is the monster, not the surgeon. Also used
as a promotional card for the Boris 4 set.
Painted 1993. |
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Freebooter | B3.57
CD1 FAT91 WOB.8 1982 calendar |
Cover for Conan the Freebooter by Robert E Howard & L Sprague
de Camp. This is one of several Boris paintings which are (or seem to be)
Conan book cover illustrations but which do not include "Conan" in the
title, presumably for copyright reasons. See also The Magnificent,
Two-Headed Monster, The Victorious as examples. Possible the
best of these (see In Search of the Horned Beast) I have seen only
as an autographed poster, for which I am not prepared to pay $100!
Painting undated. |
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Freedom | BOB.40 | Painted as a movie poster. The movie was cancelled, and the painting
never used.
Painted 1992. |
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Freya | B4.31
BOB.01 1994 calendar |
German mythology: One of the wives of Odin, the lovely Valkyrie Freya
was the German goddess of love. With her great strength, each day she pulled
away the darkness that covered the sun and made way for the brilliance
of daylight. Her magic golden necklace, a gift that Odin had forged for
her in the sun, helped Freya subdue the darkness.
Painted ?. |
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From Infinity to Eternity | BJ.89
Centre 1996 |
This was the centrepiece for the 1996 calendar.
Painted 1995. |
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Full Moon | B3.30
CD1 Enchantment FAT 26 1986 calendar |
Story illustration for Full Moon.
Painted 1984. |
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The Furies | B3.03
BOB.33 CD1 1992 calendar |
Greek mythology: The Furies visited vengeance on mortals who
had offended the gods. Julie Bell posed for the main figure in this
painting.
Painted 1991. |
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The Future Is Here | BJ.76 | Not evident at this scale is that the Tyrannosaurus Rex is about to
gobble up a spacecraft.
Painted 1987. |
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Future Trouble | BJ.70 | Cover for one of William Shatner's Tek books, in this case Teklords
(Ace, 1991). Boris has done cover paintings for several of these
books.
Painting date not visible on the reproduction. |
