LEDROIT - Lot 112

LEDROIT SHA Soul Vengeance (T.3), Soleil 1998 Original double plate #40-41. India ink and colored inks on paper 100 × 65 cm (39.37 × 25.59 in.) Olivier Ledroit is without doubt one of the leading figures on the French medieval fantasy scene. Born in 1969, he is truly the child of an era in which card games and role-playing games flourished thanks to Hollywood fantasy films, as well as video games, which took off in a big way in the 1980s. We owe him Les Chroniques de la Lune noire, which he designed with Froideval (1989), Xoco (with Mosdi, 1994), Sha (script by Pat Mills, 1996), Requiem (again with Pat Mills, 2000) and Wika (with Thomas Day, 2014). Here we find his grandiose universe, worthy of his predecessor Philippe Druillet, in a scene where his heroine Lara, a witch burned by the Inquisition in the Middle Ages, returns for revenge.