Harry the Hammer artwork for sale

Sadly, she'd pocket a lot less than £280k once Christie's and the taxman have their cut. ~20% in seller's fees and 24% in capital gains tax.

It would be very interesting to know what BA paid for it back in the day. Also the situation vis-à-vis the reproduction rights.
 
90% sure Citadel/Games Workshop have the Reproduction rights. If it was a commission by them (as in they got him to paint the work FOR them), they would have it.
IF it was a piece of work done which they then BROUGH for use (like buying the rights to use it) then they would probably be for a limited time.
IF they were a smaller company or more modern, then the Artist would have rights.

In fact, these artist rights issues were one of the reasons that we lost the rest of Kaleb Daark (boy, I would love to know if the next part had atleast the story brief made... mostly likely it did) GW people were used to them having ownership, Wagner and Grant were big enough comic people to have 'we keep the rights' (in British comics, this is still rare with big companies. Even if you create something new for say the Beano, you don't get the rights.. or even really re-print fees. But if you are a big 'star' creator, you can keep rights and some smaller companies and stuff will do stuff that allows you to own the rights.)
 
The issue of artist (and even ownership) rights for early GW artwork is somewhat confused and a bit nebulous in general.

GW/Citadel/Bryan were three different entities and effectively working in the same way as half a dozen squirrels in a trenchcoat do, so Bryan could have commissioned it from John in a personal capacity, but then used it for GW etc.

Having said that, the fact it was on a piece of GW product almost certainly gives them the reproduction rights, but obviously I’m not a copyright lawyer, or I’d have held my nose and bought the fucking thing.
 
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