This was Heritage Auctions’ first time to offer this incredible Italian poster, boasting an excellent illustration by artist Silvano “Nano” Campeggi. The 1947 Casablanca First Post-War Release French Grande size poster soared to $239,000 to claim top-lot honors in that auction.
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In November 2017 Heritage Auctions sold a dozen original Casablanca movie posters. Heritage Auctions has sold 500 Casablanca movie posters, playbills and programs over the years, and realized prices are available on our website. The best way to value a vintage Casablanca movie poster is using actual past sales. Prices for Casablanca Movie Posters Sold at Auction
Don’t miss this auction with more than 800 lots from sleeper films of yesteryear to the most treasured classic movies of all time. The Heritage Auctions March 21-22, 2020 Movie Poster Auction has 26 lots of original Casablanca posters for sale. One of the six had previously sold at Heritage for almost $4,000, but the current example fetched $17,925, which is believed to be a new auction record for a modern movie poster produced during the last 40 years.Vintage Casablanca Movie Posters for Sale The poster was one of just six unreleased prototypes produced by Warner Bros., before they scrapped the design due to production costs. The lenticular one-sheet poster for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) featured a dissappearing image of Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, mimicking the magical wanted poster that appears in the film. The Heritage auction was also notable for the sale of a highly rare Harry Potter movie poster. The second sale equalled the record for a single movie poster at auction, achieving a price usually reserved for the rarest Universal horror posters of the 1930s. Two of those were produced for the Italian market, and both were designed by renowned artist Luigi Martineti: a poster for the Italian re-release of the film in 1953, which sold in 2016 for $203,150, and a large 4-sheet poster for the original release in 1946, which sold in 2017 for $478,000. In recent years, posters for Casablanca have become some of the most valuable and sought-after in the entire hobby, with three examples occupying spots in the Top 20 biggest movie poster sales of all-time. "The Casablanca poster is a beautiful poster that drew the attention of our most serious collectors."
"This auction contained a variety of desirable posters for collectors of all tastes," Heritage Auctions Vintage Posters Director Grey Smith said. Although Casablanca first hit theatres in the U.S in 1942, audiences across Europe were unable to see it until the end of WWII in 1945. One of just three known examples, the poster was created for the film’s original release in France in 1947. The striking poster is believed to be the work of French commercial artist Hervé Morvan, who produced more than 500 posters throughout his career including iconic advertisements for Perrier, Gitanes, Bally and Savora. The poster, featuring highly stylized illustrations of stars Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, exceeded its high estimate to sell for $143,400 during the auction on April 7-8. A remarkably rare French poster for the classic movie Casablanca topped a recent $1.9 million sale at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
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