Hi Victor,

Thank you for contacting Mearto with your appraisal inquiry.

Disney’s 1991 Beauty and the Beast remains one of the studio’s most beloved films, combining fairy-tale romance, memorable characters, sophisticated animation, and an enduring message about looking beyond appearances. Released during Disney’s Renaissance, it became the first animated feature nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Belle’s intelligence and independence, the Beast’s transformation, spectacular sequences such as the ballroom and “Be Our Guest,” and Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s music have given the film lasting cultural and collecting appeal.

“Leo Da Mickey” is appealing because it is a particularly clever piece of 1980s Disney Pop Art: it takes Mickey Mouse and reimagines him through Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. The result turns one of Disney's most familiar commercial characters into something resembling a Renaissance study of human proportion and artistic genius.

Disney Gallery Images produced a large number of fine-art lithographs and serigraphs during the late 1980s–1990s, and some were produced in multiple proof states. The colored bars along the actual edge of the paper are a printing-control device. They allow the printer to check ink/color density, color balance, registration of the different printing plates, consistency from one sheet to another and sometimes the sequence of inks used. A normal retail/finished Disney print would ordinarily have these areas trimmed away.

In 2020, the Chicago auction house Potter & Potter sold a large Disneyana collection that included 16 lots of untrimmed posters and prints. Prices ranged from $250 to $13,000 (https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/159356_disneyana/?keyword=untrimmed&page=1&sort=-hammerPrice) with most estimated around $500.

Your Beauty and the Beast untrimmed print has a fair market value of $200-400 while your untrimmed Leo da Mickey print has a fair market value of $400-600.

Based on the photos and information provided, and subject to examination, this is:

Two untrimmed Disney untrimmed production proofs
"Beauty and the Beast" and "Leo da Mickey"
each 38 by 25 inches
CONDITION: untrimmed
PROVENANCE: Unknown
$ 600-1,000 for the pair together*
*represents a fair-market value for auction purposes; retail or asking price may vary.

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~ Delia