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Drawing

1936 (made)
Artist/Maker
Walt Disney Studio (maker)

Rough pencil sketch of Pluto the dog on paper.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Materials and techniques
Pencil on paper
Brief description
Sketch of Pluto the dog from the Walt Disney studio, 1936.
Physical description
Rough pencil sketch of Pluto the dog on paper.
Dimensions
  • From catalogue height: 25.5cm
  • From catalogue width: 30.4cm
Gallery label
Studio of Walt Disney
Preliminary sketch of Pluto the Dog for an animated film 'The Dog Show' 1936
Pencil

Walt Disney encouraged his large team of artists to produce a huge number of ideas, usually in the form of rapid sketches, from which he would make a choice of the most promising for further development. This sheet is from a series of 172 in a folder entitled 'The Dog Show' and it shows a very stylised Pluto leaping. it did not matte how roughly these first thoughts were expressed. Disney was sufficiently confident in the drawing skills of his team to know that they would turn them into the thousands of slickly animated cartoon 'cels' which made up his animated films.
Object history
Provenance: Sotheby's Illustrated Books Sale, 17-19 June 1987 (Lot 646).
Subject depicted
Dog (Animal)
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.739:89-1987

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Record createdApril 3, 2007
Record URL
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