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(Walt Disney Studios, 1951) Sought-after original concept painting by Mary Blair for Alice in Wonderland, which depicts an oversized Alice fleeing from the Queen of Hearts’ sentry of playing cards. Composed from a low-angle perspective, the artwork shows Alice in a desperate running pose, her left leg raised high to reveal four pursuing guards as she races through the high-walled hedge maze to freedom, all the while shrinking from the fading effects of her recently consumed magic mushroom. Blair’s mastery of color and composition is in full effect, with blue skies, green walls, and purple undergrowth corralling attention to the central chase scene. Her placement of clouds, shadows, and vegetation fills the painting to create a truly vivid and mysterious world. Accomplished in tempera on 9 x 9 artist's board. In fine condition, with tack holes at corners.
Blair was a concept artist for Disney during the 1940s and early 1950s, working on designs for such films as Peter Pan, Cinderella, and Alice in Wonderland. She also created designs for several Disney attractions (including It's a Small World) and, her largest work ever, the multi-story mosaic in Disney World's Contemporary Hotel concourse.
