For $75,000
19” X 82” watercolor and pencil on paper
“At Jennie Ritchie, Not Liking Wind They Hasten Nudely to Find Shelter Before the Storm Comes on Again”
For $85,000:
23” X 108”, watercolor and pencil on paper
“They are Recognized by Long Horned Blengian Who Once Saw Them in the Hated Glandelinian Uniforms & Who is Still Suspicious”
Artists: Some all-time favorites, (of author Scott Heim):
Vincent Van Gogh,
Egon Schiele,
Caravaggio,
Francis Bacon
Cindy Sherman,
Henry Darger,
Alberto Giacometti,
Diane Arbus,
Oskar Kokoschka,
Andres Serrano,
Larry Clark,
Sally Mann,
Gilbert & George,
Edward Steichen,
Bernd & Hilla Becher,
Andy Warhol,
Jules Bastien-LePage,
Andrew Wyeth,
Frank Hurley,
Jean Debuffet,
James McNeill Whistler,
Julia Margaret Cameron,
James Ensor,
Max Beckmann,
Gerrit van Honthorst.
"The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion."
It's a 15,145 page multi volume work with water colors. We've covered him before. He's the old guy who had arguements with himself who lived on Webster Ave. in Chicago, and when he died, they found these pictures no one could make heads or tails out of.
"Readers will find here many stirring scenes that are not recorded in any true history, great disasters that are awful in magnitude: enormous battles, big fires, awful tragedies, adventures of heroes and heroines, many of them fatal, great war and storm disasters, and readers will be taken through accounts whcih they will never, never, never forget," is one of his intros.
Henry Darger was his name. He grew up in a Catholic Boys school, left there by his father when he was 8 years old.
When they finally moved old man Henry Darger from his one room apartment on Webster St. in Chicago to a nursing home around 20 years ago, the landlords cleaning out his space found out the hard way, what an “outsider artist” is. Everyone in the neighborhood thought that Darger was just a cranky old coot, but it turns out, he was an accomplished, self taught artist.
Amid boxes of newspaper, carefully stored Virgin Mary statues, and Pepto-Bismol bottles, were piles of original artwork, watercolors Darger painted to illustrate his on-going novel, Realms of the Unreal. It’s about 7 little girls who save the world and manage to escape the torture from their home planet. The watercolors look like 30’s comic strips on acid.
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