Original paintings by Gerald Scarfe used for the 1982 film “Pink Floyd The Wall” are on sale.
San Francisco Art Exchange (SFAE) is selling several items from Scarfe’s private collection.
Standouts include “The Scream,” used on the film poster and billboards; and a massive 8-foot storyboard from the film.
Have we piqued your interest? Good. Now here’s a reality check: Prices in the collection range from $46,500 to $1.85 million US, with an average price of $769,000. Those prices don’t include copyright or reproduction rights.
Well, we can dream.
Regardless of the prices, SFAE reports interest in the sale is huge, with, at one point, 100 requests for the catalog pouring in each hour.
Scarfe joined us on “Floydian Slip” in November 2010. He was one of the friendliest and most engaging guests we’ve had on the show. You can hear and read that interview on our website.
SFAE will host a major exhibit featuring the works in July.
SORRY! You would be UNABLE to GIVE or PRESENT me with ANY of these works! Although I REALLY LIKE “The Wall” musical presentation (I SAW IT in BOTH Sydney and Dublin) and play it at will at home, forget about Gerald Scarfe!!
Gerald Scarfe’s “artistry” BOTH affronts and confronts me! I could not even bring myself to ENDORSE his works! Thank goodness the music transports itself!!
I wish that Gerald Scarfe’s “contribution” to ‘The Wall’ project would just simply DISAPPEAR! We all make mistakes and I reckon that Roger made a grave mistake by engaging this bloke in the first place!
However, that’s history!
Please DO NOT attempt to engage me about my opinions via this forum as this will be my FIRST and LAST opinion and ‘notion’ upon this subject and I CANNOT be ‘provoked’ into further discussion!!
I would love one of these original wall paintings. Gerald Scarfe’s work is Graphic Fine Art; he expresses human grotesques and characatures with visceral detail. I own several of his plate image; folio catalogue books. I’m 51 now; and his surrealistic representations in scratch and splatter pen and ink with watercolor and colored pencil have , and continue to be an artistic inspiration to me; ever since I was 15 years old. I’d love one of these originals :but I’d could never afford one. I own the original movie poster ; rolled, not folded and framed in a distressed wood border.To me; what H.R. Giger did for the airbrush; Scarfe effectively modernized and turned crow quill and india ink; into abstract expressive, aggressive portraits, and appraisals of the dark ,piebald ;under-belly of existential human angst. His work was the counterpoint; the yang to the yin of Roger Waters vision for the The Wall.