MATADOR
FERDINAND THE BULL
(1938)
Animation drawing of the Matador, said to be modeled after Walt Disney himself from this classic Academy Award-winning cartoon short. He is full figure, self-satisfied as he walks away with a determined pose. Nicely done in black, blue and green, his complicated sleeve area has been colored in colored pencils to show the demarcations. On a full sheet of animation paper 10 x 12”, whose edge away from the character to the right had been folded some 60 years ago or so, it is initialed by the artist. There is a notation: SC 39B and was originally sold by Courvoisier galleries in the late 1930s bearing their number 1322 and the Disney stamp in the bottom left corner. The drawing itself is numbered 472.