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walt ' s donald ' s lucky day comic booka drawing of donald duck and daisy duck on a walla painting of a cat that is on the side of a buildingpainting of a street sign with a bunch of cartoon characters on ita painting of a cat wearing a hat with a sign on itan image of a picture of a piece of paper with writing on ita picture of a picture of someone writing on the wall
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200 - PAINTING “DONALD’S LUCKY DAY” by Benjamin SPARK (1969)
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Estimate €600 - €800
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PAINTING “DONALD’S LUCKY DAY” by Benjamin SPARK (1969) Mixed media on canvas, signed and titled on the reverse. Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm Good condition In the beginning, then, was Benjamin Spark, the hidden son who suddenly appears, already an adult, his mind and brush in turmoil, a complete stranger yet strangely familiar. “The great artist is the one who wasn’t on the programme,” as the critic and novelist Guy Scarpetta likes to point out. As the son of Pop Art and Street Art, he embodies an unprecedented reconciliation between them – that of two cultures born of the street, one from the ‘high’, the other from the ‘low’; an improbable yet inevitable encounter between two movements driven by opposing forces. He is undeniably a genre painter, focusing on the picturesque aspects of everyday life, but seen through the eyes of a very specific category of individuals: superheroes, of whom he adopts a thoroughly Warholian conception, regarding their supreme power as the ability to make a lasting impression and penetrate every layer of consciousness; Consequently, Superman is every bit as significant as Mao, the Chanel logo or John Lennon, and Spark adds to this list the idols of his own generation: Basquiat, Daft Punk and SpongeBob. Spark admits: “Batman moves me deeply. He’s the only one without superpowers. To make up for that, he has worked on his body and mind in a spirit of unity and harmony. And what’s more, he’s humble.” One can see the influence of Gudmundur ERRÓ, whom he met in 2011 at his Paris studio. Erro emphasises: “Benjamin Spark is someone who really knows how to draw and who has also evolved considerably. I’ve only known him for three years, but in my entire career — and I’m eighty-three! — he’s the only artist who’s come to my studio to explain to me how he works. Normally, painters keep their little secrets to themselves. He, however, explained everything to me, absolutely everything. The way he creates enlargements, the way he projects them like slides onto a screen, without hiding anything from me. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve, in a way, gained such insight into an artist’s mind. He came with his computer and I had a feeling he’d be showing me a bit more the following day! We artists are always preoccupied with the future, with what comes next, but also with the idea that everything has already been done, that nothing more is possible, and so that future is uncertain."
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About the sale Treasures of the Past, Perspectives of Today
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Auction time 10/03/2026 at 2:00 PM
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