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Donald Duck goes Greek, hand painted original production cel 1959
This listing is for a 1959 Walt Disney original production cel Donald Duck. Cel is from \"Donald in Mathmagic Land\" an Oscar nominated short. Piece is a Art Corner Cel which is a Preferred cel to collect in the area of Original Production Art. Cel size is 10 x 7.5 inches, the painted character is 5x3 inches in size. Strong black ink lines are in great shape. Paint is in perfect condition. This Set-up is complete with the Art Corner Gold Label on the back.
Donald is featured over a custom made photographic background, specifically made for this piece. Donald as classic Greek features, him wearing head wreath of olive leaves and sprigs called a Kotinos. Piece has been custom framed. Solid wood frame, with a slight textured finish. Custom cut Archival Matting. New Glass and dust-paper backing. Art Corner label is showing through the backing paper. Wire hanger. This piece is ready to hang out of the box!
It\'s the ultimate center piece of any animation art collection.Donald in Mathmagic Land is a 27 minute Donald Duck featurette released on June 26, 1959. It was directed by Hamilton Luske. Contributors included Disney artists John Hench and Art Riley, voice talent Paul Frees, and scientific expert Heinz Haber, who had worked on the Disney space shows. It was released on a bill with Darby O\'Gill and the Little People. In 1959, it was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Documentary - Short Subjects).[1] In 1961, two years after its release, it had the honor of being introduced by Ludwig Von Drake and shown on the first program of Walt Disney\'s Wonderful World of Color. The film was made available to schools and became one of the most popular educational films ever made by Disney. As Walt Disney explained, \"The cartoon is a good medium to stimulate interest. We have recently explained mathematics in a film and in that way excited public interest in this very important subject.\"
Disneyland Art Corner StoreCels sold at Disneyland\'s Art Corner Shop in Tomorrowland from the mid 1950\'s to the late 1960\'s. These cels are trimmed, placed in a small matt against either a lithograph background or a sheet of coloured paper. A gold seal is attached to the back of the matt which is the authenticating sticker.
Piece is know as a ART CORNER piece that was originally Sold at Disneyland in The Art Corner Store on Main Street USA.
Brief HISTORY of the Disneyland Art Corner ShopIn 1955, the year Disneyland opened, in a section of Tomorrowland there was a area now long gone called “The Art Corner” which sold Disney animation cels from films such as Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, Mickey Mouse Club and cels from various shorts. The place was full of bins of cels that customers could paw through at will (yes, that\'s how it was described to me by someone who was there, and bought plenty of them)--everything from \"Alice In Wonderland\" to \"Peter Pan\", \"Sleeping Beauty\", numerous TV programs and shorts, etc. These cels were selected by studio artist, from the 1000’s of cels created for a production, based on attractiveness. Cels were the character (s) were Not good looking, were discarded. So only the Best ones were allowed out of the market. Every Art Corner Cel was matted and a Gold Art Corner Label attached to the backing. This label is what makes Art Corner Pieces so valuable.
