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Rare Vintage Mickey Mouse Illustration Dates to the Late 1930s

Rare Vintage Mickey Mouse Illustration Dates to the Late 1930s Image: Animazing Gallery, Las Vegas

The work is described as made in India ink and watercolor on paper, with a hand signature and inscription in the lower right.

Walter Elias Disney is described as an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur; he is also characterized as a pioneer of the American animation industry who introduced several developments in the production of cartoons.

The Disney material includes ‘Mickey’s Gala Premier,’ identified as an original production/layout drawing from around 1933, made with graphite and color-pencil accents on animation paper. It also includes ‘Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid,’ described as an original vintage production layout animation drawing from circa 1929 and made with graphite on animation paper.

Another listed work is ‘Dance of the Hours Sequence - The Ostrich Ballet Sequence - Fantasia,’ identified as an original conceptual painting from circa 1940, made with gouache on board.

The material further includes ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ described as an original vintage hand painted production cel on a courvisier studio background, featuring Doc, Bashful, and Sneezy and dated circa 1937.

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