About Boris Vallejo & Some Of His Great Fantasy Art

All of the artwork on the following pages has been scanned to retain their original color depth.

Boris Vallejo was born in Lima Peru, , the son of a solicitor, where he started his artistic odyssey at the age of 14 he studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, an art college, where he received a five year scholarship. Unable to speak English Boris left Lima in 1964, with only a few dollars in his pocket and a portfolio of his work, to go to New York. Here he worked as an illustrator in the advertising department of a chain store, but after eight years he decided to go it alone. During this time he did a variety of work from book covers to fashion designs.	A Self Portrait
	He has since done a great volume of work for the Fantasy field, having worked for virtually every major publishing house with a science fiction/fantasy line. Boris has also illustrated for album covers, video box art and motion picture advertising. Then he "discovered" fantasy art, that combined with his love of the human form and his brilliant imagination merged to produce one of the world's greatest fantasy illustrators today.
His mastery of oil painting is immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who looks at his work, and his classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to anyone contemporaneously working in the Fantasy genre. For sheer dauntless bravura, few have ever pushed the limits as does Boris with his beautiful maidens and fearsome monsters.
	He has gained worldwide attention for his stunning illustrations of science fiction and fantasy; his works appear on the covers of books by such writers as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice Chetwynd Ley, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, and Lin Carter, as well as in such well-known series as Doc Savage, Tarzan, and Conan. Much of his art was published in The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo. He also created the illustrations for Mirage.