^#678 ^Lot 707 Walt Disney

Original hand-painted animation cel from Disney’s production of 101 Dalmatians, showing Pongo outdoors, and set against a specially prepared color background. The untrimmed visible image of the cel measures 9.75 x 8, and is housed in its original 13.5 x 11.5 mat. Signed and inscribed on the mat in blue ballpoint, “To Hugh Jr., Walt Disney.” Framed to an overall size of 15 x 13. In very good condition, with light rippling to cel, cracking and crazing to the paint, and a small spot to lower left corner of mat. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the daughter-in-law of the original recipient, political cartoonist Hugh Haynie. In full: “This cel was signed by Walt Disney in my father-in-laws presence during an editorial cartoonist convention in Disneyland. May father-in-law, Hugh Haynie, was a very well known political cartoonist. During the convention, Hugh asked Walt Disney to sign a cel to as a gift to his son, Hugh Smith Haynie, Jr. He did sign the cel but misspelled Haynie. Therefore, he signed another cel simply addressed to Hugh Jr.” Disney cels are highly desirable particularly with such provenance.