Storied Art Collection by Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” Artist Gerald Scarfe Goes On Sale
Storied Art Collection by Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” Artist Gerald Scarfe Goes On Sale
Over 3,000 Original Paintings, Storyboards, Concept Drawings, Painted Movie Cel Sequences, Scripts & Artifactsfrom the Private Collection of Gerald Scarfe
Available Now From San Francisco Art Exchange
San Francisco, CA, November 6, 2019: San Francisco Art Exchange LLC (SFAE) has been selected to exclusively represent one of the most valuable collections of rock and roll artwork to ever be offered for sale: Gerald Scarfe’s personal archive of thousands of pieces of memorabilia from The Wall, Pink Floyd’s 1982 masterpiece.
Following record-breaking Pink Floyd related sales and museum exhibitions such as the 2017 Pink Floyd exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum Their Mortal Remains which broke the V&A’s previous attendance records for related exhibits with over 400,000 attendees, Scarfe, 83, has agreed to make his entire collection – more than 3,000 items – available for sale. Read Rolling Stone’s story here
Original paintings, including iconic images from The Wall such as The Marching Hammers, The Teacher, The Flowers, The Giant Judge, Prosecuting Attorney, the Final Story Board for the film and a comprehensive array of all the imagery that appeared in the film.
Also in the collection is the entirety of the preliminary conceptual drawings and storyboards for major characters and scene sequences. Hundreds of collectible artifacts and documents from the film including such iconic items as the Pink masks worn by the children, the eagle airplane model the animators worked from in putting together the related sequences, the original Teacher, Mother, and Wife maquette models sculpted and painted, dozens each of painted movie cels created in developing the animated sequences and scripts.“The impact and variety is breathtaking,” says Jim Hartley, Executor Director at SFAE. “The sale of Gerald’s original for The Scream recently brought the highest price ever paid for the art of rock and roll worldwide. Now he wishes for it all to go into the deserving hands of those that love it.”The collection can be acquired in a number of ways:• As a full complete collection of all remaining artworks and artifacts• As a curated collection chosen for purposes of institutional or commercial presentation and/or touring•
By individual collectors keen to own one or a few images or artifacts representative of their favorite characters or scenes.
Gerald Scarfe says, “This is my personal collection. It is a time capsule; a treasure trove which tells the history of the making of Pink Floyd The Wall from start to finish – from album to film. I kept notes, preliminary drawings, backstage passes, props, awards, photographs and cels. Also, original first drawings by Roger and me of the iconic album cover, annotated scripts, storyboards and so on, together with my unpublished written notes about the band itself and many large watercolour and oil paintings I made for the animated sequences and design of the live action film sets.”Epic in scale and steeped in rock history, these original works of art are marquis collectables for major individual, corporate, and institutional collectors. Due to the extensive distribution of the imagery via album, live-performances, music-videos, and the film (along with the accompanying publicity), the artwork offered is among the most instantly recognizable and significant in pop culture.
The Wall album, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, topped Billboard charts for 15 weeks, and in 1999 was certified 23x Platinum. It remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, selling over 19 million copies between 1979 and 1990 in the US alone. The film was critically acclaimed when it was released in 1982 and won BAFTAs for Best Original Song and Best Sound. Scarfe developed the film’s entire visual environment before the project began and his characters became a mixture of live-action and animated imagery, all of which played an integral role in the surreal narrative.
Gerald Scarfe is one of the world’s most famous political cartoonists and caricaturists whose work has been seen in The Sunday Times and The New Yorker for decades. His artworks reside in the following permanent collections, among others: Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and The Parliamentary Art Collection in London, as well as the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. San Francisco Art Exchange LLC is the sole gallery authorized to sell these paintings. They are known worldwide for record-breaking sales of album cover related artwork, and has represented such revered artworks as the originals for Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Let It Bleed, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Ummagumma, Animals, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, The Best of The Doors, Candy-O, and many, many more.
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