Some time back I spent quite a few hours hunting for the highest resolution files (and broadest view) I could find, as I wanted to make a print for my office (I'm not a painter). Hunted high and low, and was even able to get in touch with Andy Probert, one of the artists himself! Although he told me he doesn't offer prints anymore, he was good enough to send me a digital image. That, combined with what I was able to find online, are attached below, some at astronomically high resolution.
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The Bussard collectors in some versions of the painting are white-ish in color with "sparkles" in them:
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...and in other versions (like the original 1987 Cheerios promotion) they're more pinkish, with the "sparkles" dulled:
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Notice above the first version of each image is more "age faded", and the second has more vivid color. The printing process can suck some of the brightness out of it, so I ended up printing mine from the vivid color versions.
For anyone who's interested, I also have a lossless 1.7G Photoshop file (with many of the photo elements in layers, which I modified some) that is too big to attach here. DM me if you'd like it!
I'm guessing these are probably the same files that
Snow Builder found. Apologies for not crediting the original folks, but thanks to those who went before, as I no longer remember where I found all these in my online search. Hope someone finds these helpful! I was able to cobble together a very nice 36" x 12" print for myself!
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There are many different ways to crop it to your situation!
Bill