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This magical image of the adorable Pinocchio and the Russian Marionettes is an authenticated original production cel used in the 1940 Disney animation film \"Pinocchio\".
This heart warming \"Set-up\" was released by Courvoisier Galleries of San Francisco. It was then purchased by industrialist automobile mogul Ernest Kanzler at Hudson\'s Department Store in downtown Detroit Michigan in 1945. It then traveled to Ernest Kanzler\'s Jupiter Island Estate home in Florida where it remained until it was submitted to S/R Laboratories in 2008 for cleaning, care, re-framing, and appraisal.This beautiful one-of-a-kind cel is a hand-inked image on three distinct cel levels. Pinocchio, marionettes, and strings. Pinocchio and the marionettes are trimmed, as prepared by Courvoisier, and mounted on new cels. Pinocchio is shown held tightly in a circle of six Russian marionettes, rising happily with his arms upstretched. The set-up in includes wood veneer background, and Courvoisier hand-lettered mat and label reissued by S/R laboratories 2008.
The 2008 Appraisal/Authentication and items of provenance are included with the sale.
The cel is an original production art piece, with historical provenance, created by the Disney studio in the 1940. It has been cleaned, re-framed, and appraised in 2008. This is and will always be a wonderful piece of Disney animation history from the iconic film Pinocchio
