Yoshitaka Amano valuation
Japanese painter and illustrator, known for his character designs for the Final Fantasy games.
Yoshitaka Amano (born 1952) was born in Shizuoka, Japan, and joined the animation studio Tatsunoko Production in 1967, working on series such as Speed Racer and creating characters for Gatchaman, Tekkaman and Casshern.
What a work by Yoshitaka Amano is worth
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Bio
Yoshitaka Amano (born 1952) was born in Shizuoka, Japan, and joined the animation studio Tatsunoko Production in 1967, working on series such as Speed Racer and creating characters for Gatchaman, Tekkaman and Casshern. He went freelance in 1982 and illustrated novels including The Guin Saga and Vampire Hunter D, and he is known worldwide for his commissioned illustrations for the Final Fantasy video games. His collaboration with Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, won a Bram Stoker Award in 1999. Since the 1990s he has exhibited paintings in galleries around the world, many in acrylic and automotive paint on aluminium box panels.
What comes to market is paintings on aluminium and on paper, drawings and illustrations, and limited edition prints. A buyer will want to know whether a work is a gallery painting or artwork made for a game, book or animation, since ownership of a drawing does not carry the right to reproduce it, and where it came from. Prints should be signed and numbered, with the edition confirmed. Painted panels should be checked for dents and for scratches to the surface, and works on paper for fading and staining.
At a glance
- Born
- 1952, Shizuoka
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