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(Walt Disney Studios, 1959) Striking original panoramic concept storyboard painting by Eyvind Earle from Sleeping Beauty, depicting Maleficent in her fearsome dragon form atop the crumbling battlements of her castle during the film's climactic finale. Rendered in Earle's unmistakable decorative style, the composition centers on the towering black dragon as she advances across a series of weathered stone ramparts, gripping jagged Gothic spires while surrounded by an eerie landscape of twisted thorn-covered vines, barren trees, and swirling green mists.
The restrained palette of cool blues, grays, and greens heightens the ominous atmosphere, while Earle's masterful use of flattened forms, elegant linework, and carefully balanced design transforms the scene into a hauntingly beautiful vision of the dark fairy's domain. Accomplished in tempera on a 26.5 x 9.25 artist's board, signed in the lower right corner in pink paint by Earle. In fine condition, with tack holes to the corners. As production designer for Sleeping Beauty, Eyvind Earle established the film's groundbreaking visual style through hundreds of concept paintings, marrying medieval-inspired design with modern graphic sensibilities to create one of Disney's most artistically ambitious animated features.
