CHARLES ADDAMS – Signed Framed Original Drawing of Uncle Fester, W. COA/LOA
CHARLES ADDAMS.
CHARLES ADDAMS, (AMERICAN 1912-1988)
FRAMED ORIGINAL DRAWING OF UNCLE FESTER
A FANTASTIC ORIGINAL DETALED DRAWING OF UNCLE FESTER SIGNED BY CHARLES ADDAMS W. COA/LOA, RENDERED IN VIBRANT PEN AND INKWASH.
THE PIECE IS PRESENTED NEWLY FRAMED IN A TEXTURED BLACK FRAME AND WAS CUSTOM MATTED, FRAMED AND GLAZED. A VERY STUNNING PIECE!
A fantastic original signed drawing by Charles Addams of Uncle Fester standing in his classic pose. He is drawn with his large ears that stick out, sunken eyes, and collared cloak. This little jewel piece of art was rendered in pen and inkwash. Addams created the character who he described as “Uncle Fester’, for the Addams Family multimedia franchise. He is Gomez Addams brother, and the uncle of Wednesday and Pugsley. Per Charles Addams description of this character, 'Uncle Fester is incorrigible and, except for the good nature of the family and the ignorance of the police, would ordinarily be under lock and key. The complexion, like [that of] Morticia, is dead white, the eyes are pig-like and deeply imbedded, circled unhealthily in black—no teeth and absolutely hairless. He likes to fish but usually employs dynamite or any other unfair means. He keeps falcons on the roof which he uses for hunting. His one costume is a black greatcoat with an enormous collar—summer and winter. He is fat with pudgy little hands and feet'.
The art is Signed by Charles Addams “Charles Addams” to the left of the art, and dated '68" The piece is presented newly matted framed and glazed in a textured black frame, using all archival materials, and UV glass. The art will come with a Certificate of Authenticity (LOA/COA), from PSA/DNA. A premier authentication house (please see images).
***Note, original artworks by Charles Addams are coveted, expensive and scarce. The most recent sale of an original piece by Addams featuring Morticia which he created for an interior page of one of his books, recently sold at auction for $87,500.00. (Examples of his fan sketches are all small line drawings on stationary and sell for $5,000). This original is a wonderful piece for a lover of the Addams family.
FRAMED SIZE: 16.75″ X 14″
ART SHEET SIZE BY SIGHT: 7.75″ X 5″
CONDITION: The art is in fine condition.
PROVENANCE:
The art will come with a Certificate of Authenticity (LOA/COA), from PSA/DNA. A premier authentication house (please see images).
PLEASE NOTE- The listing is for Uncle Fester ONLY as described above, however as we obtained by this piece and another of Wednesday Addams at the same time and framed them in the same frame, we thought we would show them side by side in the event someone wished to buy both and hang them near each other. The two can be seen in the last photo. The listing for Wednesday can be found in our section for Charles Addams artwork.
With a proclivity to the grim, grisly and gruesome, Charles Addams walked through life illuminating its incongruous funny bones and sore spots. Addams contributed to The New Yorker for more than fifty years, and his work can be found in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library and The Library of Congress. In 1935 Addams was hired by The New Yorker as a regular cartoonist. The pay was modest—just $35 per cartoon—but the magazine allowed him to explore his voice and imagination as well as hone the dark humor that would come to define his work. His famous, “creepy and kooky” Addams Family, later adapted for television and film productions. He demonstrated an appreciation for the macabre at an early age. He had a deep fascination for coffins and skeletons, as well as a good practical joke. “We had a dumbwaiter in our house,” he later recounted, “and I’d get inside on the ground floor, and then very quietly I’d haul myself up to grandmother’s floor, and then I’d knock on the door, and when she came to open the door, I’d jump out and scare the wits out of her.”
Addams’s mind went to dark, ghoulish places few cartoonists would allow themselves to venture. His popularity extended to some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Cary Grant wanted to meet the man who called himself “A Defrocked Ghoul,” as did Alfred Hitchcock, who once showed up at Addams’s New York home unannounced to see the cartoonist in the flesh. The “Addams family” cartoons delighted in turning upside down our assumptions about normality and its relationship to good and evil. Charles Addams tapped into the vein of American gothic that has a touch of paranoia about it, seeing behind every comforting façade the uncomfortable truth about the duality of human nature. But where Gothic literature usually combined these themes with romance, Addams made the horror hilarious: disturbing, but at the same time friendly, identifiable, and acceptable.
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Price: $4,995.00