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Animation Art Sale Tops $2.9 Million, Becomes Largest of All

Time at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, Texas (January 3, 2019) – A painting from elevator/stretching rooms for a period of
the halls of the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans and six months, and then replaced. This
a trove of work by iconic Disney artist Mary Blair painting, depicting the Elderly Widow
helped make Heritage Auctions’ Animation Art sitting across her husband’s tombstone,
Auction the largest such auction of all time, with sales is one of the rarest original hand-
totaling $2,965,596 Dec. 13-15 in Beverly Hills, CA. painted stretching room paintings ever
The total smashed the previous record of brought to market and is considered
$2,068,451, achieved by Heritage Auctions in June one of the most identifiable pieces of
2019. The result of this sale, Heritage’s June Animation Disneyland Park original art.
Art Auction that sold a total of $2,068,451, the Mickey The auction included 40 lots from Mary Blair, who is identified regularly
Mouse and Friends – the Animation Art Internet as Walt Disney's favorite artist, including the largest “It's A Small World”
Auction that brought $144,095, as well as the anima- art collection ever brought to auction. Among the top lots by Blair were:
tion art lots that sold in the weekly comics online auctions led to the best Mary Blair Alice in Wonderland Tulgey Wood Signpost Concept Painting
year ever in animation art sales, with totals exceeding $6 million. (Walt Disney, 1951): $42,000
Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Disneyland Painting (Walt Disney, Mary Blair Cinderella Concept Painting (Walt Disney, 1950): $36,000
1969) prompted bids from 16 collectors before more than doubling its Mary Blair Peter Pan Wendy and the Mermaids Concept/Color Key
pre-auction estimate when it finished at $57,600. The lot is one of four Painting (Walt Disney, 1953): $33,600
historic paintings for the mansion designed by Disney Legend Inductee and Mary Blair It’sa Small World Concept Painting (Walt Disney,
one of Disney’s original Nine Old Men, Marc Davis, hand-painted between 1964/66): $33,600
1969 and 1972. The paintings were designed to be used in the For complete auction results, visit ha.com

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