I always love to travel and then when I bought that piece of art, the consultant that sold it to me said, "Congratulations, you're now an art collector." And I really loved the sound of that. I still have the cel hanging in my office in New Jersey, and it's Mickey Mouse and Pluto and it's from a cartoon called Mr. The Sericel is a cel printed with use of the serigraph process, which is like lithography, but on a cel versus a piece of paper. When I was at NYU, I went downtown to a gallery called Circle Fine Art, and I bought a Sericel. Goldman: Yeah, I think it is a confluence of several things. Was there one turning point that crystallized that for you? So it goes all the way back for me, I've never done anything else aside from dealing in art.īaltin: There had to be a moment where you realized this was something you wanted to take from a childhood hobby to a career. And of course, Superman in comics started back in 1939, same thing with a lot of other properties. So the venues I saw that were easy enough for me to meet collectors was to go to Comic-Cons, 'cause Comic-Cons had collectors that loved animation and there was a good crossover, like Superman was being produced as a cartoon by Max Fleischer back in the '30s. I thought it was fascinating that I could buy original drawings and original cels for what amounted to not a lot of money, and those were the actual pieces of art that we used to create the films. So how we started here was by buying original animation that was used in the process of the production of cartoons, creating the illusion of life. And specifically, when I got into the art business, it was really via animation. And I studied art at NYU, as well as political science, and then I went on to get an MBA, but I always loved art. I used to go to museums in New York City with my parents, who avidly took me, although they're not art collectors at all.
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