Olivier Ledroit – Fées & Amazones Double-Page Splash Original Art, 2015
Artist: Olivier Ledroit
Title: Fées & Amazones
Year: 2015
Publication: Fées & Amazones, pages 78–79
Publisher: Glénat
Medium: Mixed media
Size: 47.2 × 31.5 inches (120 × 80 cm)
A spectacular large-format original by Olivier Ledroit, published across pages 78–79 of his 2015 artbook Fées & Amazones. The work combines Ledroit's elaborate fantasy imagery with a strong steampunk aesthetic, depicting a winged female figure accompanied by a cat amid intricate mechanical wings, handwritten documents, lace and collaged ephemera.
At 120 cm wide, this is a particularly imposing Ledroit original. Fées & Amazones was published by Glénat on 3 June 2015 as a 128-page collection devoted to Ledroit's fantastical women, including fairies, witches, geishas and other inhabitants of his imagined Faërie. Glénat simultaneously staged an exhibition-sale of the original illustrations from the book at Galerie Glénat in Paris, 3–30 June 2015.
Artist: Olivier Ledroit
Olivier Ledroit (b. 1969) is one of the leading artists of modern French fantasy comics, renowned for the extraordinarily detailed painted artwork of Requiem Vampire Knight, Wika, Chroniques de la Lune Noire, Xoco, Sha, Les Arcanes de la Lune Noire and Le Troisième Œil. His illustration work also includes L'Univers féerique d'Olivier Ledroit, L'Univers des Dragons, Belles de Nuit, Fées & Amazones, Edo and Mélancolie.