Carl Barks - "The Goose Egg Nugget" Oil Painting Original Art (circa 1973). . ...

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Carl Barks - "The Goose Egg Nugget" Oil Painting Original Art (circa 1973).
Carl Barks based "The Goose Egg Nugget" on the dazzling display of a giant gold nugget set in the Dawson City Saloon, and 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 fifty 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, one of his favorites, 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 is in Excellent condition. This majestic masterwork was signed by Carl Barks at the lower right.

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2008 February Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction #827 (go to Auction Home page)

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February, 2008

28th-29th Thursday-Friday

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Sold on Feb 29, 2008 for: $119,500.00

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