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Boris was born in
Lima, Peru as the son of a solicitor. At he age of 14 he studied art at Escuela
Nacional de Bellas Artes (I think it means National School of Fine Arts) in his
native country where he recieved a five year scholarship.
Boris left Lima unable to speak English with only a few dollars to his name and his portfolio to the United States in 1964. He worked in New York as an illustrator in the advertising department of a chain store. After eight years he left to go it alone and did a variety of work from book covers to fashion designs.
He has since done a great volume of work
for the Fantasy field, combining his love of the human form and his brilliant
imagination. He has worked for virtually every major publishing house with a science
fiction/fantasy line. Along with his numerous paintings, he has worked on over 300
book covers for writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lin Carter, and Fredrick Pohl; along
with such works as Doc Savage, Conan, and Tarazan. Boris has also illustrated for
album covers, video box art and motion picture advertising. Boris has published
several books, such as The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo and Boris Vallejo Fantasy Art
Techniques.
"His mastery of oil painting is immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who looks
at his work, and his classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to
anyone contemporaneously working in the Fantasy genre.
For sheer dauntless bravura, few have ever pushed the limits as does Boris with his
beautiful maidens and fearsome monsters." (Excerpt from the Official Site)
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