Vintage Disney Pinocchio Art Print - All Together Now 1940 Courvoisier Galleries

Description

Vintage Disney Pinocchio Art Print "All Together Now" 1940 by Courvoisier Galleries
Image Size 8"x10"
Print Size 13" x 15"
Frame Size 13-1/2" x 15-1/2"
In Original Frame. The glass has been replaced by Eureka Art and Frame in Eureka, CA to Tru Vue UV glass.
Courvoisier Gallery Print (1940). With the tremendous box office success in 1938 of "Snow White," Walt Disney Studios decided to try and market their animation art. Disney felt that since so much talent, time, and effort went into the creation of each illustration, they should be marketed as true works of art and not just trivial movie memorabilia. So Disney's marketing department made arrangements to sell its art through the Courvoisier Gallery, located in San Francisco. Disney's animation masterpiece, "Pinocchio," represented the highest achievement that had ever been accomplished in the animated arts. It is believed that this rare set of prints was sent from the Courvoisier Gallery to select theaters to correspond with the initial release of the film. Measures 13" X 15".
FROM ORIGINAL PRINT LABEL
"All Together Now"
Pinocchio, newly created and just brought to life by the Blue Fairy, is getting acquainted with his new friends - Figaro, the kitten, Cleo, the goldfish, and Jiminy Cricket.  Pinocchio and Jiminy have plenty to talk about, as Jiminy has been appointed Lord High Keeper of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong.  In plain words, Jiminy is Pinocchio's conscience, and he is determined to stick right by Pinocchio, come what may.  But right now, neither has the slightest idea of the adventures and hazards in store for them.
This is a reproduction of one of the famous Disney originals which have created so much interest in art circles here and abroad.  The originals are water color paintings on celluoid actually used in the prodfuction of a Walt Disney animated picture.  They are limited in number and have been acquired by art collectors and museums because of their artistic and historical importance.
Notable among the twenty-two museums possessing Disney originals are" The Metropolitan Museum of Art, of New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; The San Francisco Museum of Art; Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Both the originals and the prints are distributed by the
COURVOISIER GALLERIES
133 GEARY STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
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