Paintings and colour pencils

creator of Duckburg and Scrooge McDuck

Postby Daniel73 » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:47 pm

Under the topic 'So...um. Yeah. Disney Treasures Book', I accidently refered to a publication named 'Barks Treasury'.

'Barks Treasury' is a hardback book published in 1997, by Applewood Books, limited to an edition of 1000.
It contains 40 of the 75 colour pencils Barks made in reportedly a period of six months. For the public celebration of his 96th birthday.

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There should be a popular edition. Now the publication is only intended for people with money bins. And we have nothing.
Give Carl Barks back to the people!

*EDIT* boardlinking updated to McDrake
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Postby Daniel73 » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:48 pm

About the celebration of Barks 96th birthday:

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On Saturday April 12, 1997, Barks 96th birthday was celebrated with a banquet at the California Grill at Disney's Contemporary Resort. Life-sized figures of some Duck and DuckTales characters attended and there was a special Scrooge cake and lots of good stuff. There also were some special custom made Disney items on exhibition, like Donald carved in a flat piece of glass illuminated from below...

The evening included an exclusive gallery featuring a selection of works by Carl Barks and a gourmet dinner. Premiering was a collection of 75 original colored drawings created by Carl Barks especially for this event (on which he has worked non-stop for six months), a limited edition serigraph honoring 50 years of Scrooge McDuck titled, "I May Have To Spend Some of This Stuff", and a variety of other pieces by Carl Barks. The 75 pieces of new Barks drawings (colour-pencils) were exhibited, they mostly had scenes from old stories and single new jokes like in a daily cartoon, featuring all his characters.

The art was sold by Disney [not by the Barks Studio?, DvE] with a price range that included pieces in four range categories: $1500 - $3000 - $5000 - $7000. Everybody got a numbered coin he / she could put in a box besides the pictures if he / she wanted to buy it. If more than one coin was found, chance decided who got it (no bidding).

In addition, many of these works were commemorated in a hardback book called "Barks' Treasury" (price $250), limited to an edition of 1000. This book contains a high-class reproduction of 40 drawings, together with a five-language description. It was presented in a nice box resembling a safe, filled with shredded Duck-Dollars (with a Barks portrait on them).

The next day, a selection of fans, old friends and foreign visitors had brunch with Barks in his suite in the (restricted) top floor of the hotel. In the afternoon Barks was driven, escorted by a marching band, in an open cabriolet to the "Chinese Theater"-copy at the MGM-Studio. On his car it said "Carl Barks - Disney legend" an official title he is allowed to carry since 1991. Beside him sat his 50 year old son... In front of the theater he signed and put his palms into concrete to be put up there for posterity. A bunch of journalists attended, but no TV-crew... Tourists cheered, mostly not knowing who this man was. (In Europe this would have been top-news on all channels...)

Barks looked good, walked with a stick but could do without, he was well-mannered as always and chatted jokingly with everybody.

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source: Information taken from a member of DCML. Dated 19 February 1997.
copy: http://www.seriesam.com/barks/deta_text ... ation.html
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Postby Daniel73 » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:18 pm

Private email sent to "A Guidebook"-site:

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From: [EPeats]
To: [dve]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:15 PM
Subject: Christmas on Bear Mountain

Hello,

My name is Ed Peats and I am the current owner of the original watercolor
done by Carl Barks in 1997 titled "Christmas on Bear Mountain". I obtained this
art about 3 years ago from Bill Grandey and Kathy Morby who acquired it from
Mr. Barks himself. Mr. Barks had it framed and it hung in his living room. I
have kept it in his original frame. I am sending this information to you so
you can update your directory.

Please contact is you have any further questions.

Thanks,

Ed Peats

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Postby admin » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:47 pm

Question from an email, 13 February 2008:

Is there any way I could get (from you? name me the price!) high quality scans of these 3?
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