Lot 730: HENRY DARGER (1892-1973)

Vivian Girls with Storm Gathering
graphite, ink, watercolor and collage on paper
24 x 107 in. (61 x 271.8 cm.)

Nathan Lerner, Chicago
Stephen Prokopoff

The present lot is part of his fifteen-thousand page written and illustrated story entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls in what is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. He also wrote an eight-volume autobiography consisting of 5,084 hand-written pages as well as a nine-year-long study of the weather.

The present lot is part of his fifteen-thousand page written and illustrated story entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls in what is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. He also wrote an eight-volume autobiography consisting of 5,084 hand-written pages as well as a nine-year-long study of the weather.