Bombshells to Blasters, An Auction You Can't Refuse Pt. 1

Lot #135:

Rick Carter Jurassic Park Visitor Center Sketches

First Time To Auction

Universal, 1993. Production Designer Rick Carter's original (4) first concept sketches of the Visitor's Center from Jurassic Park. Includes 1-initial sketch on a cocktail napkin depicting the first inspiration for the center and a self-portrait of the artist dated 9/7/90, 1-overhead view of the Visitor's Center facility with peripheral detail sketches of layout, 1-vellum sketch of the façade of the Visitor's Center and an inset detail of the overhead layout, and 1-detail sketch of the museum display with central dinosaur bones display. Papers range in size from approx. 12.5 x 6 in. to 15 x 11 in. Displayed by the artist in a shallow, blonde wood and acrylic glassed 31.5 x 23.25 in. shadow box frame. Visible minor age, production handling, and folds and edge tears not affecting the subjects. Unexamined out of frame. In very good condition. Rick Carter on his napkin sketch, "The left brain working out the set design on the napkin but within the same time period the right brain sketching how I was feeling, which was overwhelmed which is typical at that stage. Most of these types of sketches are not kept, they are process, that leads to a final result, but as an Artist, I value them because they represent the first images that are almost magically appearing out of our minds to make the movies."