WHITEMAN: R. CRUMB

Artist: Robert Crumb (All)

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Artwork Details

Title:	WHITEMAN: R. CRUMB
Artist:	Robert Crumb (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	Please Inquire
Views:	50,705
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	7/20/2006
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Description

Robert Crumb executed this piece for the purpose of obtaining financing for a Proposed Script (originally titled: "Whiteman") by friend Terry Zweigoff.
Later, the movie title was changed to "Crumb". Directed by David Lynch.

Awards:
* 1995 - Crumb - Broadcast Film Critics Association - Best Documentary
* 1994 - Crumb - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Documentary
* 1995 - Crumb - National Board of Review - Best Documentary
* 1995 - Crumb - National Society of Film Critics - Best Picture (Runner-up)
* 1995 - Crumb - National Society of Film Critics - Best Documentary
* 1995 - Crumb - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Documentary

Provenance: This piece was on display and published by The Alexander Galleries (Alexander Acevedo). Great example of R. Crumb Self Portrait and depiction of his fetish for thick women (1988) and satirizes all that is wrong with 80's fashion.

While at the time this movie was produced Crumb was very well known, this is the vehicle which propelled him (once again) to mainstream consciousness and cemented him without question as one of the great artists of our generation.
Charles Crumb and his artwork received wide public attention as a result of the success of the 1994 feature-length documentary film Crumb, in which Charles and his work are featured prominently. Charles Crumb died by suicide before that film was released, and his artwork, including notebooks filled with tiny gestural marks that suggest handwriting, has since been published and exhibited, sometimes in the context of outsider art.
To this day Robert Crumb will not discuss this movie and is still devastated about it's impact on his brother Charles (depiction) and his family.

This is easily in the top five most important pieces which Crumb has produced, behind the cover to ZAP #1 and the album cover to "Cheap Thrills", permanently on display at (Paul Allen's) Experience Music Project in Seattle featuring Jimi Hendrix.
Each of these pieces are rumored to have traded at $1,000,000.

After years of representation by the Paul Morris Gallery; R. Crumb is now represented by the DAVID ZWIRNER Gallery of NYC.

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	Doug Edelman
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Last Login:	September 2025
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Danny Tran
Member Since 2006

Posted on 12/27/2006

You're killing me!...Yet another stunning piece.

Detroit Mike
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/23/2010

I really enjoyed seeing this piece in person and chatting with you at Wizard Chicago. Good luck on the hunt!

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