THE
GERALD SCARFE COLLECTION
Masterworks
Created for Pink Floyd The
Wall
Album Sleeve, Live Concert
Performances, and Film |
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Gerald
Scarfe spent several years working
closely with Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
on the various components of The
Wall. From the creation of the
album sleeve (1979), to the live concert
tour (1980-81), through the making of
the film (1982), the Art of Gerald
Scarfe is inextricably woven through the
entire multimedia production and is an
integral part of the project’s
resounding cultural impact.
During the process, Scarfe amassed a
treasure-trove of artworks and artifacts
from the process of working on such a
long-term and multifaceted project that
his studio was quite literally teeming
with iconic and important Pink Floyd
imagery (shown above, click to see the
full version). Over the years, many of
these artworks have been recognized for
their significance and have been
included in museum exhibitions including
most recently Pink Floyd: Their
Mortal Remains produced for
the Victoria & Albert Museum in
London in 2017, which broke all previous
attendance records for the
world-renowned museum and is currently
touring the world.
In late 2016, Scarfe selected SFAE, the
premier purveyor of Rock & Roll and
pop culture original artworks in the
world, to represent for sale a
staggering array of works from his
archive for the first time ever. In 2017
we launched a blockbuster exhibition for
collectors and sold a number of his
pieces, including the iconic painting
titled The Scream, which was
created for the film and used as the key
image in the global advertising
campaign, for $1.85 million!
This sale
remains the world’s highest price ever
to be paid for an individual original
Rock & Roll related artwork!
SFAE has continued to exhibit and sell
these incomparable artworks over the
last two years, and now we have been
asked to find a collector or investment
group who will acquire his entire
archive.
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“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.” -- Gerald Scarfe
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THE
COLLECTION
In all there are some 3,000 individual artworks and artifacts that are being made available for sale. The Gerald Scarfe Collection is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual to own historic and important music and film collectibles in an exclusively private capacity. It is also tailor-made for an institutional or commercial presentation and/or touring exhibition.
A comprehensive digital catalog will be made available on request and we have compiled a preview below.
The
collection includes original sketches
for iconic characters, early album
sleeve designs, sketches for stage props
and memorabilia from the live concerts,
and a massive amount of conceptual
designs, storyboards, animation cels,
film props, annotated scripts and more.
Or call us at the gallery at (415)
441-8840
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organizations.
Click on the images below to see
representative images from the
category.
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Animation
Cels
These cels were used in the process of
making the animated shorts that appeared
during live concerts and/or in the film
itself. Representative images are shown,
in some cases there are multiples from a
sequence available.
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Character
Sketches & Early Designs
The early sketches and layouts provide
a stunning first hand view of the
evolution of both individual characters
(the Teacher, the Mother, Pink, etc.) as
well as the album sleeve and later the
film narrative itself.
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Live
Concert Projection Artworks
One of the most iconic features of
Pink Floyd's performances was the huge
circular screen that added a multimedia
aspect to their concerts and allowed
them to illustrate some of the concepts
in the music. This was never more
prevalent than during The Wall tour,
when three projectors worked
simultaneously against the massive
cardboard wall that was erected
throughout the show.
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Film
Scene Concept Designs &
Storyboards
Scarfe played a vital role in
transforming Water's music and lyrics
into visual representations not only in
terms of his own animation, but even
more so in the live-action narrative. He
meticulously illustrated countless
scenes, often setting both the look and
feel that we see in the final results.
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Memorabilia
Included in the collection are several
vintage posters and other publicity
materials, annotated scripts, backstage
passes, gold records, annotated scripts,
and original copies of the legendary
"Black Book" that was used to sell the
film to the studios in order to get it
made.
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Objects:
Film & Stage Props, Sculptures
Many of the characters were turned
into sculptures as they were developed
into huge inflatables that lurked over
the audience during concerts. Several
film props survived as well, including
the iconic masks worn by the children in
the "Education" sequence, the Crossed
Hammers banners, flags and signs, and
the stuffed Pink doll.
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Epic in scale and steeped in Rock
history, these original works of art are
marquis collectibles 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 being offered is
among the most instantly recognizable
and significant in pop culture.
The Wall album 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 major
publications like 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.
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Also
Available: Our Exclusive Limited
Edition!
Gerald Scarfe created The Wall
Commemorative Edition on the special
occasion of our exhibition and sale of
his incomparable artworks at our gallery
in 2017.
This
limited edition of 100 archival pigment
prints measures an impressive 30" x 40"
and is signed and numbered by the
artist. It features two of the most
iconic visual elements from The Wall:
Pink and the Marching Hammers.
Click the image to see and purchase on
our site.
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Known
worldwide for record-breaking sales of
album cover related artwork, SFAE has
previously successfully represented for
sale such revered artworks as the
originals for Abbey Road, Meet The
Beatles, Rubber Soul, Imagine, 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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