Description:
Mummified Mickey Mouse Sculpture
United States, 1977
Stuffed doll wrapped in fiberglass cloth in two-piece laminated and shaped sarcophagus with Plexiglas top, signed NIL 77 on right side, lg. 27 1/2, wd. 14 in.
Note: Created when artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamen were on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Estimate $400-600
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