Toulouse le Duck

The Official Chuck Jones Virtual Experience is pleased to offer CHUCK JONES fans a "Toulouse le Duck" Limited Edition work by Chuck Jones.  

The Academy Award-winning animation director-artist, Chuck Jones (1912 - 2002) has created many memorable hit TV shows, movies, and short films. He is truly a legend and icon in the art world!

This rare limited edition artwork was created by animation director-artist, Chuck Jones from his vast portfolio of original and limited edition works of art.

The inspiration for this work of art came from an original oil painting by Chuck Jones. Toulouse le Duck is based on the 19th-century Parisian painter, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (in a self-portrait).

Around 1988, the founder of Circle Galleries (which had locations around the country and more internationally), Jack Solomon, challenged Chuck Jones with a question "What would the great Masters of the past centuries paint if they could have used your Looney Tunes characters?" Thus a series of Master Works was created in the style of great masters such as Marcel Duchamp, Toulouse Lautrec, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali, and of course Marc Chagall.

This limited edition is one of the eleven lithographs from the MasterWorks series. These lithographs were printed and pulled on an antique Marinoni press at the renowned American Atelier and hand-signed by Chuck Jones in pencil. Limited editions from the Master Series exist in private collections as well as permanent museum collections, including one of Jones's ode to Edvard Munch,

Chuck Jones was commissioned in 1989 to create a series of original works celebrating his favorite artists. Adapting his hand to their style, he said, was one of the most difficult things he had done in his career. But when you see the results you realize what a genius Jones was when it came to assessing the work of some of the true masters of Western European and American art. To have slipped the Warner Bros. cartoon characters so effortlessly into the settings of Salvador Dali, for instance, as he's done in this image, or placing Bugs Bunny in a work by Marc Chagall is pure magic.

The Scweam is a limited edition given to the Munch Museum in Oslo Norway when their original was stolen in the early 2000s. Chuck Jones was not only a legendary, iconic artist/director from the Golden Age of Animation, but he was an innovator. His ability to create a relationship between reality and its abstract representation has been a centrally enduring preoccupation for modern and contemporary art that Jones beautifully captured in this Master Work series.

The Limited Edition artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.