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Carl Barks "The Goose Egg Nugget" CB-OIL #30-73 Painting Original Art (1973)....
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Carl Barks "The Goose Egg Nugget" CB-OIL #30-73 Painting Original Art (1973). Carl Barks' "The Goose Egg Nugget", a dazzling display of a giant gold nugget set in the busy Dawson City Saloon, taken from his 1953 Uncle Scrooge romp in Four Color #456. In that classic adventure, "Back to the Klondike," the escapade started when Uncle Scrooge gulped down a handful of "memory pills." After that, Scrooge remembered a sack of gold nuggets that he had cached in the Yukon 50 years earlier. When the Duck clan packs off to the Klondike to claim Scrooge's treasure, they discover that Scrooge's claim has been taken over by Glittering Goldie. Scrooge had met the former dance hall girl during his earliest Gold Rush days and she is featured in this scene just to the right of the Goose Egg Nugget. Carl Barks commented on this work in The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks:"There is a wealth of detail as well as gold in the painting. You're not looking head on into that mirror, you always see everything at a 45-degree angle from the line at which you look into it. Out there behind them is this window with snow on the sill, all in cold colors. Inside, in the warm saloon, I tried to make the bottles look like the old whiskey bottles of that era. The brass spittoon and the brass rail, the picks and the gold pans, the kerosene lamp; those are things that had to be figured out and made authentic for the period of time. The hobnail boots, for example. It's typical of the drunks of that period that they'd drink themselves into such a stupor that they'd fall on the floor. The other characters follow the standard Disney convention and are dogs or pigs rather than ducks. For one thing, there's no mistaking a duck. When he's with a dog-faced guy, there's no resemblance between him and the outsiders. So I kept the ducks pretty much straight and the outsiders were all dog faces. When you come to think of it, if you use a horse face, the guy doesn't resemble a human in any way any more. Goat faces and so on are about as far as you can go. Rat faces, too. But the dog faces and pig faces, they looked a little bit like human faces; that is, you could caricature them as human. I always liked 'The Goose Egg Nugget' very much -- it told its own story."
This lustrous oil painting has been indexed by Barks scholars as painting #68P. The image area of this treasure measures 16" x 20", and the art was signed by Carl Barks at the lower right. Created in oil on masonite and open-front framed to 22.5" x 26.5". This majestic masterwork is in Excellent condition.
More information about Carl Barks. See also: Barks, Carl Artist.
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2024 November 21 - 24 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7384 (go to Auction Home page)
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