Nick Park is surely one of the very few reigning geniuses of stop-motion animation. He graciously donated a drawing of his superb Wallace and Gromit to the "Searle in America" benefit auction, and it sold quite well yesterday. Still it's a bargain compared with what these souvenir drawings fetch at high-powered auction houses like Christie's. But first things first. Here's the drawing from the benefit auction on eBay:
Sure, that's a lot of money, but it is dwarfed by activity on the London auction block. Each of the following sales results is from Christie's South Kensington:
For those who dearly love Wallace and Gromit but are a little overwhelmed by these auction prices, there is one relatively inexpensive, quick sketch still available on eBay. It's a signed drawing of just Gromit from a page in an autograph album. As you can see, it must be quite a challenge to remove these pages without tearing them.
Note: The eBay benefit auction in support of the "Searle in America" show continues. As you can see, there are some good deals to be had and they're all righthere.
The Searle in America blog is dedicated to this fall's exhibition as well as to the eBay fundraiser and it can be seen here.
Then there's Perpetua, the Ronald Searle tribute blog, recommended to everyone with an interest in Searle's art--that's you--and it's over here.
I have one previous post on Nick Park's Wallace & Gromit character models which you can see here.
And, as always, my Searle posts are right here.Don't tell me you have something better to do.
These are one spiffy pair of character models depicting Wallace and Gromit hand-made by the brilliantNick Park for a charity auction a decade ago. Who doesn't love these two? Here's the auction listing from Christie's way back when. Say, does anyone fancy a bit of Wensleydale?
Two character models, hand made from Fimo by their creator Nick Park, N.F.T.S. graduate, especially for this National Film and Television School auction
- the figure of Gromit wearing a blue collar with silver glitter buckle, the underside of Gromit's stomach signed by the artist in gold felt pen -- 4¼in. (2.5cm.) high
- the figure of Wallace grinning, carrying a bone in his right hand, wearing a white shirt, red tie, green sleeveless pullover, brown trousers and black shoes, the sole of the left shoe signed by the artist in gold felt pen -- 7in. (17.7cm.) high -- the figures on a grey circular plinth -- 9½in. (24.2cm.) diam., labelled underneath with an Aardman Animation Ltd. printed and typescript label This model of Wallace and Gromit has been hand made by Nick Park, June 2001, signed by the artist in black felt pen; accompanied by a letter of donation from Nick Park's assistant onAardman headed paper
Special Notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to
the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
I have updated the post onButternut Bread Peanuts Promotionsherewith the sad sale result and I also found a match for one printed hot dog bun package with its original Linus artwork by Charles M. Schulz. How many blogs under a month old can make a claim like that?
I have updated the post onThe Beatles Illuminatedphotos with the fab Fab Four sale resultshere.
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