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Preliminary Paintings by Carl
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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": |
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."
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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.
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Among his Souvenirs "Weihnachtspreis":
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