“I believe Heritage Auctions has brought front and center Animation Art as a true American art form in its own right,” Jim Lentz, Heritage Auctions’ Director of Animation Art, said in a statement.
Blair’s mischievous conceptual painting of Alice and the Cheshire Cat, done for the 1951 film Alice in Wonderland, sold for only slightly less at $60,000.
That includes her conceptual painting for 1953’s Peter Pan in which Peter and Tinker Bell lead Wendy, John and the Lost Boys through the jungles of Neverland.
Fourteen of the sale’s top 20 lots were painted by the expressionistic Blair, whose works have filled books and traveled in Disney-compiled exhibitions.