Guillermo del Toro’s heart-wrenching Frankenstein earned nine nominations ahead of this month’s 98th Academy Awards. Although the film’s costume, makeup, and production teams all scored wins, the Mexican filmmaker himself went home without the night’s biggest accolade—Best Picture, for which Frankenstein was nominated. Fortunately, del Toro received a more sentimental prize amid the festivities, when a cadre of his closest collaborators presented him with a painting of Frankenstein’s Monster by the late great British artist Josh Kirby.

Kirby became one of the U.K.’s best-known commercial creatives between the 1950s and ’80s, painting book covers for Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961)—plus film posters for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Krull (both 1983).

The artist modeled his undated Frankenstein’s Monster painting after British actor Boris Karloff’s portrayal in the same seminal 1931 film that enraptured del Toro at age seven. A golden plate affixed to the frame of Kirby’s painting acknowledges this inspiration, as well as the work’s provenance, stating that American sci-fi author, magazine editor, and horror collector Forrest J. Ackerman acquired it in 1976.

Josh Kirby, Frankenstein’s Monster (undated) Courtesy of the Josh Kirby Estate

Somehow, Frankenstein’s Monster made its way into the hands of Fraser Scott, the proprietor of A Gallery Artists Limited—a formerly London-based art dealership that now focuses on connecting pop culture superstars with artists for album art and other collaborations.

Netflix executives joined forces with Frankenstein producer Miles Dale, Pinocchio producer Gary Unger, and del Toro’s agents and business manager to present the director with Frankenstein’s Monster at an Oscar’s party. While the work’s price remains confidential, A Gallery is selling another one of Kirby’s Frankenstein paintings that Ackerman also owned for $15,000.

Frankenstein’s Monster isn’t the first Kirby artwork to join the thousands of pop culture relics populating del Toro’s museum-quality L.A. hoarding haven, the Bleak House—which was, interestingly enough, inspired by Ackerman’s fabled collection. According to A Gallery, del Toro has also owned Kirby’s Abominable Dr. Phibes—Ackerman even commissioned it.

To commemorate this full-circle addition to del Toro’s recently pruned trove, the Josh Kirby Foundation is selling prints of Frankenstein’s Monster. The numbered and embossed Legacy prints, limited to an edition of 100, are on sale for $295. Open edition iterations on slightly lighter-weight paper are available for $149.