Annnnnd…it’s too late
There was an art auction this morning in California of sketches and animation cels from a lot of cartoon greats. So we’ve missed it. Sorry. BUT the catalogue is online and if you like that sort of thing, it’s just the sort of thing you’ll like.
I like that sort of thing very much, so let me direct your attention to some specifics.
■Page 4. My hero, Winsor McKay, and a frame from his 1914 cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur. Expected to fetch $3,000-5,000.
■Beginning page 5. Betty Boop sketches in pencil ($400-$600) and other Fleischer Studios.
■Popeye, beginning page 8.
■Beginning page 9, ladies and gentlemen, the Sixties: Mister Magoo, Beany and Cecil, Chilly Willy, Tom Slick, Super Chicken, Pink Panther. A cel from Yellow Submarine and one from Fritz the Cat.
■Beginning page 17: Peanuts. (Not a fan, me).
■Warner Brothers, Loony Tunes, starting page 22.
■Page 37. Production stills from The Grinch ($1,000-$1,500).
■Hanna-Barbera’s crap starts page 40.
■Page 95 is interesting. Artist Bill Mack bought the “Hollywood” sign in 2007 (the original was taken down and put into storage in 1978) and did paint upon it a very good homage to Steamboat Willy, Disney’s landmark Mickey Mouse cartoon. He managed to keep much of the grunge from the original weathered sign material. $20,000 – $40,000.
And from there on, it’s Disney, in more or less chronological order, to the end (total of over 250 pages and almost a thousand objects). The drawing at the top of the post (p. 136 $400-$600) was by Disney’s best caricature artist (no points for guessing the subject). His name was Thornton Hee, so of course he signed himself T. Hee.
Of course he did.
July 31, 2013 — 10:31 pm
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