Boba Fett Watches Twin Ships Cross a Cloudy Sky — Print & Oil Painting

An unusually bright canvas for this character. The sky takes four-fifths of the frame and is painted in pale blue and cream, sunlit from behind the cloud, with the horizon dissolving into a low band of hills at the right. Nothing here is dark except the man.

Boba Fett stands at the left, cut off at the knee, turned away from us and looking out to the right. We get the back and shoulder of the armour: the jetpack with its orange-capped rocket, the antenna standing up beside the helmet, the green dome with its maroon brow markings, a rifle held across the body in both gloved hands, a satchel and pouches at the hip, and the braided cord over the right shoulder.

Two Imperial Star Destroyers cross the upper right, wedge-shaped and small, painted in the same soft grey as the cloud so that they sit inside the weather rather than in front of it. They are flying in atmosphere, low enough to be seen whole, and the artist has kept them almost weightless.

The whole picture is a sightline. He is at one corner, they are at the other, and the enormous empty diagonal of sky between them is the subject. A bounty hunter who works for the Empire without belonging to it, watching it go past.

From our Star Wars collection, beside the sunset march of an Imperial army and a destroyer emerging from golden cloud.