(Hanna-Barbera, circa 1980s) Collection of 15 production cels from The Smurfs, which also includes a total of 16 matching production drawings and two original hand-painted production backgrounds from the same television series. The cels include a variety of Smurf characters, with the majority (9) picturing Papa Smurf, with character images measuring between 1.25 x 1.5 and 4.5 x 4.5. The backgrounds are mostly color copies, with the two original production backgrounds depicting an open forest floor with surrounding grass, shrubs, and trees (marked “Vic: 199-304, BG: 291”), and a pair of large orange mushroom houses settled on a bright green grassy hill (“104”). Each production drawing is accomplished in graphite and colored pencil on individual sheets of animation paper, each approximately measuring 12.5 x 10.5. In overall fine condition, with creasing to drawings.
