Twelve large-scale drawings for Disney’s much-loved 1997 animated feature, Hercules, will be offered in Sotheby’s London saleroom next month for the very first time. Featuring all of the film’s favourite characters - Meg, Hades, Zeus, Phil, and of course Hercules himself – the drawings will come to auction on 5 April directly from the personal collection of artist Gerald Scarfe, the film’s production designer. In a career spanning five decades, Scarfe has established himself as one of the foremost caricaturists of our times. Best known as a political cartoonist, and named as one of the most 40 important newspaper journalists of the modern era, he has also received critical acclaim as the illustrator for Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and as a stage and set designer for The Nutcracker and Fantastic Mr Fox. All these facets of his career will be represented in the “Scarfe at Sotheby’s” sale. Gerald
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