JULIEN’S AUCTIONS ANNOUNCES
HOLLYWOOD: PROPERTY FROM THE OSIANAMA ARCHIVES
Over 400 Pieces of Original Artwork from the Top 100 Films of All Time
and Outstanding Hollywood Memorabilia
Props, Posters, Lobby Cards and Life Size Figures from
“King Kong”, “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”, “Aliens”,
“Gone with the Wind”, “Jurassic Park”, “Batman Returns”,
“Metropolis” “Dracula”, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, “Vertigo”
and More Coming Soon to Blockbuster Film Auction Event
Thursday, March 8, 2018
A full color special brochure designed by Osian’s showcasing
many of these fine auction highlights can be found online here:
Los Angeles, California – (February 6th, 2018) – Julien’s Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, announced today that PROPERTY FROM THE OSIANAMA ARCHIVES will be heading to the auction block March 8, 2018 in Los Angeles and live online. A significant part of the Hollywood category of the Osianama Archives, an outstanding, award-winning collection of some of the world’s most important film memorabilia and artwork, will be available for auction for the first time in history in this spectacular never before seen event. (center photo first page: King Kong poster)
From a life-size Terminator 3 screen figure to the monstrous Alien Queen’s maquette from Aliens to a gigantic T-rex dinosaur figure from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the Osianama Archives features iconic production pieces, props and posters from the greatest and most influential films of all time. Some of the most prestigious original artwork representing nearly 100 years of classic Hollywood films by poster design masters Al Hirschfeld, Saul Bass, Alberto Vargas, Jean Mascii, Boris Grinsson, Reynold Brown, Albert Kallis, Tom Jung, Waldemar Swierzy, Andy Warhol and many more will be offered. From the legendary silent films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to the German Expressionism
of Fritz Lang, Erich von Stroheim, F.W. Murnau, Josef von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch to the glorious horror of Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff to the screen goddesses Greta Garbo, Carole Lombard, Vivien Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn to icons and legends, Clark Gable, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Stanley Kubrick, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood and more, these masterpieces offer the finest in film poster history. In addition, some of Osianama’s historic lobby cards, purchased as part of the Leonard Schrader Collection, will join this Hollywood auction extravaganza. The late filmmaker and screenwriter Leonard Schrader’s astonishing collection and preservation of thousands of rare vintage lobby cards—the movie theater’s film advertisement posters that revolutionized the look of graphics—and other related pieces, spanning the silent film era to Hollywood’s Golden Age, are considered the sole surviving remnants of many long-lost films.
The Osianama Archives is the renowned archive-library-collection of world cinema built and housed by Osian’s, India’s pioneering arts and cultural institution and auction house, founded in 2000 by eminent arts and culture scholar-entrepreneur Neville Tuli. The vast collection curated by Tuli consists of more than 200,000 original objects of production items, film publicity material and memorabilia and serves as an unrivalled center of knowledge, learning, education and cultural history.
“Julien’s Auctions is thrilled to offer the Osianama Archives, the finest and most comprehensive collection of film memorabilia and artwork of the last century,” said Martin Nolan, Executive Director of Julien’s Auctions. “These rare and highly valued objects have served as a landmark for cinema as an art form and cultural reference and is certain to dazzle and delight any serious film memorabilia collector keen to own these pieces of Hollywood movie making history.”
Over 400 pieces will be offered including: a full-size screen used figure of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) (estimate: $50,000-$80,000); an original French Grande (style A) poster for King Kong (1933) (estimate: $30,000-$40,000); a cast resin maquette of the Queen from Aliens (1986) (estimate: $20,000-$30,000); a Walter Plunkett costume sketch for the famous
green dressing gown worn by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in
Gone With The Wind (1939) (estimate: $15,000-$20,000) (shown top photo left); a large Tyrannosaurus rex display figure from
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (estimate: $15,000-$25,000); American six-sheet film posters for
Jezebel (1938) (estimate: $10,000-$20,000),
Flying Deuces (1939) (estimate: $10,000-$20,000) and
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) (estimate: $15,000-$25,000); a life-size figure of Danny DeVito in character as The Penguin, from
Batman Returns(1992) (estimate: $15,000-$25,000) (shown photo left); a lobby card for Fritz Lang’s film
Metropolis (1927) (estimate: $8,000-$12,000) among six other rare artworks; an animatronic penguin soldier from
Batman Returns (1992) (estimate: $8,000-$10,000); an American 40x60 poster for
Breakfast at Tiffany’sstarring Audrey Hepburn (1961) (estimate: $8,000-$12,000); a study model of the Brachiosuarus produced for
Jurassic Park (1993) (estimate: $6,000-$8,000); an Italian four-sheet poster for the Humphrey Bogart film classic
Il Mistero del Falco (The Maltese Falcon) (1941) (estimate: $6,000-$8,000) and Silvano "Nano" Campeggi’s famously designed 1961 insert release of the classic
Casablanca (1942) (estimate $4,000-6,000); two very rare lobby cards from Tod Browning and Lon Chaney Sr.’s lost
classic
London After Midnight (1927) (estimate: $4,000-$6,000); nine lobby cards (title card included) for Buster Keaton’s film
The General (1926) (estimate: $5,000-$7,000) (shown photo right); six lobby cards (title card included) and one 8x10 photograph for the silent film
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) winner at the first Academy Awards for Unique and Artistic Picture (estimate: $6,000-$8,000); an animatronic alien bust from
Alien 3 (1992) (estimate: $4,000-$6,000) (shown top photo right); an original treatment script by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick for 2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968) (estimate: $3,000-$5,000); the iconic Saul Bass designed poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s
Vertigo(1958) (estimate: $3,000-$5,000);
The Lost World window card (1925) and a
The War of the Worlds (1953) poster (both estimated: $3,000-$5,000) and more.
A full color special brochure designed by Osian’s showcasing many of these fine auction highlights can be found online here:
PUBLIC EXHIBITION &
LIVE AUCTION LOCATION
The Hollywood Museum
in the Historic Max Factor Building
1660 N. Highland Ave (at Hollywood Blvd)
Hollywood, CA 90028
PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Wednesday, February 28, – Thursday, March 8, 2018
Daily: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. PST
Closed Monday’s and Tuesdays
LIVE AND ONLINE AUCTION
Thursday, March 8, 2018
HOLLYWOOD: PROPERTY FROM THE OSIANAMA ARCHIVES
Session I: 11:00 a.m. PST
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