Looney Tunes — Two Signed Production Cels

This lot comprises two original Warner Bros. production cels from the Looney Tunes universe, both signed by Darrell Van Citters, one of the studio's key animators, and both accompanied by the official Warner Bros. certificate of authenticity. The first shows Bugs Bunny in one of his most recognisable poses, smiling as he holds Tweety; the second comes from The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and shows Sylvester in motion, carrying Tweety's cage as he runs.

Both pieces belong to the hand-drawn era of American animation: each frame was inked and painted by hand onto celluloid, then photographed over a painted background, a process whose visible variations make every cel a single, unrepeatable object. The difference between one cel and the next is not a defect but the physical trace of the animator's hand.

The pairing is significant beyond the individual images: Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester are among the most widely recognised characters in animation, and cels bearing the signature of an animator of Van Citters's standing, with studio certification, are the form in which this material is most consistently sought by collectors.