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“Next came the picadors.”
Hand-painted animation cel for the short Ferdinand the Bull with new painted background.
225x290 mm; 9x11
1
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2
inches. Not examined out of frame. 1938.
[800/1,200]
Ferdinand the Bull was directed by Dick Rickard, and both Hamilton “Ham” Luske andWard
Kimball worked on animating the picadors. The cartoon won the Academy Award for Best
Animated Short of 1938. Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Disney's cartoon was a surpris-
ingly accurate dramatization of the Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson bestselling pacifist
children's book The Story of Ferdinand (1936). In the film, the picadors are seen entering the
bullring. The desert background was added when this cel was offered for sale by the Disney
Studio through an art gallery in the 1940s.
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Donald jumps the hurdles.
Watercolor, pencil and ink. 280x215mm; 11x8
1
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2
inches. Signed “Rod Johnson” lower left.
Matted.A finished concept sketch in watercolor, probably for a Donald Duck cartoon.
[800/1,200]
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SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs.
Color pencil on paper. 330x395 mm; 13x15
3
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4
inches. Disney rubberstamp lower center.
Most of the dwarfs with their respective names indicated in illustrator’s hand. Later short
presentation inscription in lower right corner. Circa 1937. Matted and framed.
[2,000/3,000]
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