Pink Floyd
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Pink Floyd

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Pink Floyd
Gerald Scarfe (b.1936)
Marching Hammers, gouache on dual cel set-up applied to a printed background, with corresponding animation drawing, graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Image, largest: 11¼x7½in. (28.6x19.1cm.)
Sight, overall measurements: 36½x41½in. (92.7x105.4cm.) framed
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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

The marching hammers are seen towards the end of the film when the protagonist of the film Pink [Bob Geldof] morphs into his Neo-Nazi alter-ego. Pink, hallucinating that the concert at which he is performing is a Neo-Nazi rally, invisages himself as the dictator, and the crowd an angry hate mob who later become a vigilante army. As the army marches down a street the song Waiting For The Worms plays in the background. The scene cuts from the marching army to an army of goose-stepping hammers. The scene ends when Pink screams out STOP.

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