Clive Barker: “This is a design for a Beast. There are lots of Beast designs from The Beauty and The Beast, yes? Obviously there’s Marais’ heroic Beast but there’s another one which was done in the nineteenth century which had the Beast as a hog: Walter Crane illustrated that edition and it was gloriously strange. He had a single glass to his eye like a monocle. There’s a magnificent image, it’s a double page and he’s wearing this red outfit which you would recognise as being a foxhunting outfit and he’s sort of immense and he’s a boar in both senses of the word and because he fills the double page almost to the limits of the page he seems overwhelming in the illustration. He’s just a magnificent thing. Crane was a genius and what’s interesting about that is how decorative the picture is, it’s full of pattern, but it’s deeply intimidating to my eye.” Link to Clive’s thoughts on each piece in current release.

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