Gahan Wilson
The Worlds Most Miserable Man Gets Bad News, 2013
Pen and Ink and Wash on Paper
7 × 8 in / 17.8 × 20.3 cm
$ 12,000.00
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The world’s most miserable man is served up bad news. Depressed and down on his luck, he receives news of only a brief respite to crawl out of his inky...
The world’s most miserable man is served up bad news. Depressed and down on his luck, he receives news of only a brief respite to crawl out of his inky black abyss of misery. The caption reads, " Please understand I can offer you only the fleeting illusion of happiness. In just a few lines, Gahan Wilson captures the essence of living in a state of suffering, a testament to his brilliant technical artistry. Paired with Wilson's gift of draftsmanship is the fact that he is a thinking artist. Gahan Wilson is a conceptual artist, first and foremost, and then a cartoonist. Along with Charles Addams, his deep body of work puts him at the very top of the world's premier thinkers in fine art. br Signed lower left - Published: The New Yorker Magazine, October 14, 2013. br unframed. Sheet 9.75 x 8.5