HENRY DARGER | Young Tuskahorian with Front View of Head, Non Poisonous, All Countries, Blengiglomenean Is.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of wear to the edges including light creasing along the edges, most noticeably in the bottom left corner, consistent with the artist's working method and the environment in which the work was discovered. The colors are bright and fresh. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat in the corners. Framed under Plexiglas.
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The vast majority of Darger’s works incorporate images rendered by scaled tracing.  This is a very rare image for Darger, as it is entirely hand drawn.  The beast depicted is a young Tuskorhorian Blengin based upon its unique horns, which emerge from the side of the head in a spiral.  Darger says that they are “the most poisonous of all the Blengiglomenean creatures” and have “with short tails. Their Tuskorhorian horns are long, and the points have a shape like a spear...They are, however, exceedingly docile, and never have harmed a Glandelinian, except to protect its young, or help children enslaved by the Glandelinians” (Henry Darger, The Realms, Vol. 1, Chapter 4, p. 32).