#the garthim-master

Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction: Los Angeles Spring 2025

Lot # 86. Hand-Painted Brian Froud skekUng the Garthim-Master Artwork - Sold on Propstore.com, April 29, 2025

"SkekUng the Garthim-Master artwork hand-painted by conceptual and creature designer Brian Froud for the production of Frank Oz's and Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal.

skekUng is hand-painted onto a card panel with Froud's name hand-signed and the date "1981" inscribed within the artwork in the bottom right corner. Additional annotations of "20.5%" is handwritten inside the bottom border of the piece, while "104.7%", "13 3/8" and "76%" are handwritten inside the right border, with all these inscriptions rendered in pencil.

This artwork appears on page 91 of The World of the Dark Crystal book, which describes it as "a vivid portrait of skekUng the Garthim-Master clutching his staff of power. Much of skekUng's power must have come from his ability to assume positions of geometric harmony, unusual for a Skeksis; the overlay in the portrait clearly reveals this." Dimensions: 22.75" x 17.25" (57.75 cm x 44 cm)"

DARK CRYSTAL, THE (1982)

Lot #718 - SkekUng the Garthim-Master's Necklace Prototype - Sold by Propstore.com

"SkekUng the Garthim-Master's necklace prototype from Jim Henson's and Frank Oz's fantasy adventure The Dark Crystal. SkekUng vied to fill the power-vacuum after Emperor skekSo's death.

This necklace features fiberglass and yellow foam, painted gray with a beak-like center element with yellow talons and a faux purple crystal, two attached bone-like pieces and two unattached bone-like pieces with talons. Part of the back side is unfinished and shows exposed yellow foam.The lot exhibits surface cracking and a broken piece of an unattached bone element. Dimensions: (largest) 11.5" x 14" x 3" (29.25 cm x 35.75 cm x 7.75 cm); (smallest): 2" x 1" x 0.5" (5.25 cm x 2.75 cm x 1.5 cm)"

Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction - London - 2019

Garthim Master Skeksis Head Cast - Sold on Propstore.com, Oct 14, 2019

"A head cast of the Skeksis Garthim Master from Jim Henson and Frank Oz's fantasy film The Dark Crystal. The Garthim Master was the successor to the Emperor of the Skeksis clan, winning the title over the Chamberlain.

Head casts were used as tests for the actual pieces used on screen. This head cast is made of fiberglass with a layer of grey paint lacquer, and comes with a seperate lower jaw piece. Mounted on a custom-made display, the lot shows wear from production use and aging, including chips and small holes throughout. Dimensions (display): 36 cm x 29 cm x 16 cm (14" x 11 1/4" 6 1/4")"