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Animation Art Sets Records at Heritage Auctions Event

DALLAS, TX -
Charles Schulz, Winsor
McCay, Disney’s Mary
Blair, and Ub Iwerks
quite famously drew
comic-strip and car-
toon characters, amuse-
ments aimed at chil-
dren of all ages. But in
2020 their achieve-
ments are as revered and treasured as fine art, as evidenced by the fact bidders worldwide took part in the landmark sale that saw an almost
their original works brought chart-busting sums in Heritage Auctions’ unheard-of sell-through rate of more than 99% and resulted in the
record-setting Animation Art event held December 11-13. highest price ever paid for an original Peanuts work created by Schulz.
The auction realized more than $4.27 million – significantly more The auction featured the largest-ever sale of artwork made for the
than any previous auction of animation art. The sale included render- Fleischer Brothers’ groundbreaking Superman cartoons of the early
ings and storyboards, production cels, and master backgrounds from 1940s, a day full of Disney, and the first epic sale of Warner Bros.
myriad beloved titles shown on screens big and small. More than 4,700 Animation archives since the company stores closed almost 20 years
ago. There was something for everyone, from rough drafts of history
The Lafayette Mill Antiques Center sketched and painted by storyboard artists Peter and Harrison
Ellenshaw, whose auction debut was topped by a 20,000 Leagues Under
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the Sea painting that realized $26,400, to cels from the Super Friends to
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www.millantiques.com (973) 383-0065 Among the top sellers, a 12-cel sequence of Charlie Brown and
Snoopy frolicking, taken from CBS’s 1980s Saturday-morning The
Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, which sold for $30,000 (against a
$5,000 estimate); Ub Iwerks drawings of Minnie and Mickey Mouse
which realized $43,200 – the highest price ever paid at auction for
original Disney drawings; and a drawing from another pioneering
cartoon, 1914’s Gertie the Dinosaur, which realized $33,600 – the most
anyone has ever paid to own a piece of the cartoon named one of the
greatest-ever in a 1994 survey of animators.
For complete results from the December 11-13 Animation Art
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