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Preliminary Paintings by Carl Barks
Zur Auswahl : Acht farbige Drucke
von Watercolor-Studien zu seinen Ölgemälde Motiven
Bildgrößen zwischen 18 x 22 cm und 27 x 34 cm.
Jeder einzelne Druck ist von Barks mit seinen Initialen " C.B. " signiert.
Jeder Druck ist nummeriert und auf je 500 Exemplare limitiert.
8 prints of watercolored preliminaries to Barks oils.
Print sizes are between 8 ¾" x 7" and 10"x 12 ½".
Each individual print is signed by Barks in initials.
Each print is numbered and limited to 500 copies.

Return to Plain Awful
# 394/500

oil on Masonite, 11 ¾" x 14 ¾":
The first concept of "this seemingly simple composition"
worked out the more difficult aspects of setting up Scrooge's return
to the famous square-egg site of the Donald Duck adventure,
"Lost in the Andes."

"Weihnachtspreis":
80 € (div. kleine Knicke)
+ Versand

Makings of a Fish Story
# 394/500

oil on Masonite, 13 3/8" x 10 ½":
Barks says of this enormously popular effort,
that "most of the subject's problems
were worked out in this preliminary.
The mermaid, however, is more fish-faced
than in the final large painting."

"Weihnachtspreis":
120 €
+ Versand

Trespassers will be ventilated
# 394/500

oil on Masonite, 9 5/8" x 12":
A. preliminary that "fell together" on his first try,
this composition possibly follows the final oil more closely
than any other that Barks has attempted.

"Weihnachtspreis":
110 €
+ Versand

In Uncle Walt’s Collectery
# 394/500

Opaque watercolors on paper, 9"x 9":
Barks describes this as an "early concept of the 'collectery' subject,
which was first conceived as a cover for a Disneyana book."

"Weihnachtspreis":
100 €
+ Versand

First National Bank of Cibola
# 394/500

oil on Masonite, 13"x 10 ½":
Finally released in 1987, Barks speaks of this preliminary study.
"The lower third seemed a little overloaded.
I adjusted the final version to let a bit of background blue
show through below Uncle Scrooge's right arm."

"Weihnachtspreis":
100 €
+ Versand

Trail of the forty Thieves
# 394/500

canvas glued to Masonite, 12 ½" x 10":
Second of two variations, in Barks' words,
"begun in an effort to put the ducks in the mysterious Arabian desert.
Somehow the mirage of ancient Baghdad never quite became the diaphanous, shimmering illusion I wanted to portray."

"Weihnachtspreis":
150 €
+ Versand

Money Lake
# 394/500

oil on watercolor board, 7" x 8 ¾":
Inspired by the cover to Uncle Scrooge Comics FC 386 (#1),
this variation to a theme that Barks painted many times
was never done for a lithograph.

"Weihnachtspreis":
140 €
+ Versand

Among his Souvenirs
# 394/500

oil on watercolor board, 10" x 8":
First of two similar idea sketches,
reworked because Scrooge did not figure prominently enough,
and eventually abandoned
because of the pose's similarity to the previously released lithograph,
An Embarrassment of Riches.

"Weihnachtspreis":
100 €
+ Versand