Mickey Mouse And Minnie Mouse (1941)

An original couvoisier cel from Walt Disney’s cartoon ‘The Nifty Nineties’, 1941.

Set in the 1890s, Walt Disney’s 1941 cartoon ‘The Nifty Nineties’ sees Mickey and Minnie Mouse meet in a public park, attend a Vaudeville show and go for a drive in a Brass Era car.

This cel or celluloid would have been used in the original production process after an animators’ original drawing was traced onto a sheet of transparent plastic and hand-painted in colour. It would have then been projected in front of a hand-painted background via a multiplane camera to create a minute yet crucial movement in the final film.

What’s more, as a ‘Courvoisier cel’ this piece is mounted and framed with a certificate of authenticity and comes from the exclusive archives of Guthrie Courvoisier; a revered art dealer who worked with the Disney brothers back in the 1930s. 

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