Once upon a Time… Walt Disney (1937-1967)… in Paris
Disney is coming to Paris… again. This time with an art exhibition covering a period of 30 years with a collection of pieces that helped shape Disney what it is today. The Collection displayed will exist out of 300-350 pieces of Art collected by Walt Disney and Roy Disney during their trip to Europe. Many of those might be shown for the very first time. Sure something that will impress many Disney fans who not only love what is Disney today, but also want to know the history of Walt Disney and his company
The Exhibition will take place in the “Grand Palais National Gallieries” in Paris and will start from 15 September 2006 to 16 January 2007.
After sharing the magic in Paris the whole collection will be shipped to Montreal where it will find a home from 8 March 2007 up to 24 June 2007 in the “Museum of Fine Arts”
On the Montreal museum of fine arts pages you can already find some more information regarding the Once upon a Time Disney (1937-1967) collection
In 1935 Walt Disney and his brother Roy traveled to Europe for the first time, bringing back to the U.S. some 300 illustrated publications in order to build up a library of images to inspire their drawings and films. The aim of the exhibition is to present the sources that inspired the world of Disney alongside certain modern and contemporary works derived from Disney’s creations. More particularly, it will focus on the literary and iconographic sources of Disney’s most important animated feature films, from the launching of the Walt Disney Company until Disney’s death in 1967. The show will comprise some 300 to 350 pieces: original works by Disney studio artists selected from the Disney archives and from private collections together with paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, film clips and other items. By bringing Disney studio drawings together with the Western European artworks, from Middle Age to Surrealism, that inspired them, the exhibition will reveal a continuous exchange of influences and will illuminate one of the deep cultural ties that link Europe and North America through some of the most original and popular artistic products of our day.
January 18th, 2007 at 7:55 am
This Disney exhibition will only appear in Paris and Montreal, not in the United States — unless Disney fans persuade a corporation and/or a museum to bring it here. A possible start of a campaign is on the “Arts of Innovation” blog (http://artsofinnovation.wordpress.com) and on the “Disney Blog.”