Description

Bronze Female ‘Alien’ Figure Signed by H.R. Giger

An absolute unique ‘one of a kind’ bronze cast figure.Signed by the master creator H.R. Giger himself.

Director Ridley Scott and artist H.R. Giger presented both male and female Alien monster to 20th Century Fox in 1978. Fox agreed on the male version but the female figure was set aside and finally rejected.

Movie producer Gordon Carroll owned this bronze female Alien all his life but after his death in 2005, the statue came into family’s hands.

In 2007, the California, Hollywood based company, Profiles in History, acquired the statue and put it for sale on April 5th. That day, the original Alien costume was going to be auctioned and the sale of the bronze Alien statue was an additional asset.

Because there is only 1 (one) piece existing, this truly unique bronze figure is a genuine ‘collector’s item’.

Specifications

✓ Size of the statue: height 30cm – width about 11cm
✓ Signed underneath by Giger

Comes with original documents from Profiles in History:

✓ Auction results of April 5th
✓ Original sales invoice 2007

NO price setting due to the uniqueness of the item.

Potential customers are invited to present their offer on a confidential basis.

Please note that this is a five up to six figure sale.

General information on Alien, The Movie

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O’Bannon. Based on a story by O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who encounter the eponymous Alien, an aggressive and deadly extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions, and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The Alien and its accompanying artifacts were designed by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger, while concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the more human settings. O’Bannon introduced Scott to the artwork of H. R. Giger; both of them felt that his painting Necronom IV was the type of representation they wanted for the film’s antagonist and began asking the studio to hire him as a designer.
20th Century Fox initially believed Giger’s work was too ghastly for audiences, but the Brandywine team were persistent and eventually won out.

According to Gordon Carroll: “The first second that Ridley saw Giger’s work, he knew that the biggest single design problem, maybe the biggest problem in the film, had been solved.” Scott flew to Zürich to meet Giger and recruited him to work on all aspects of the Alien and its environment including the surface of the planetoid, the derelict spacecraft, and all forms of the Alien from the egg to the adult.
Giger made several conceptual paintings of the adult Alien before settling on the final version. He sculpted the creature’s body using plasticine, incorporating pieces such as vertebrae from snakes and cooling tubes from a car.

H. R. Giger designed and worked on all of the alien aspects of the film, which he designed to appear organic and biomechanical in contrast to the industrial look of the Nostromo and its human elements. For the interior of the derelict spacecraft and egg chamber, he used dried bones with plaster to sculpt much of the scenery and elements. Veronica Cartwright described Giger’s sets as “so erotic…it’s big vaginas and penises…the whole thing is like you’re going inside of some sort of womb or whatever…it’s sort of visceral”.

Initially H.R. Giger presented 2 ‘adult’ Alien figures, drawings and bronze figures to the board of Directors of 20th Century Fox, a male and a female but the female shape was considered being ‘too’ female and rejected. As such, the Alien monster became a sort of hermaphrodite without any external signs of masculinity or femininity but with the capacity of laying eggs.

Critics have analyzed Alien’s sexual overtones. Following Barbara Creed’s analysis of the Alien creature as a representation of the “monstrous-feminine as archaic mother”, Ximena Gallardo C. and C. Jason Smith compared the facehugger’s attack on Kane to a male rape and the chestburster scene to a form of violent birth, noting that the Alien’s phallic head and method of killing the crew members add to the sexual imagery.

Film analyst Lina Badley has written that the Alien’s design, with strong Freudian sexual undertones, multiple phallic symbols, and overall feminine figure, provides an androgynous image conforming to archetypal mappings and imageries in horror films that often redraw gender lines.

Information on Profiles in History

Founded in 1985 by Joseph Maddalena, Profiles in History is the nation’s leading dealer in guaranteed-authentic original historical autographs, letters, documents, vintage signed photographs and manuscripts. Owning virtually every Guinness Book record prices for original screen-used memorabilia Profiles in History has also established itself as the world’s largest auctioneer of original Hollywood memorabilia.

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