Auction of movie posters in the "Antiquarium" 2 Feb. A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   08 февраля 2017

Sale of film posters has brought about one million rubles with the Commission of the auction house

it's hard to say what direction poster in great demand with our collectors. Four hundred movie posters managed to sell only 65 (16 %). And this despite the fact that the hall was not one, not two, but six or seven are active, the real buyers. I.e. the demand is there, but not yet high enough to pull a special auction.

Much depends on the quality of the proposals. Collecting movie posters was born in 1960-е years in the U.S., and although so far, this direction has not received separate names (along with philocartia, or numismatics faleristics), but the principles followed by collectors of posters, of course, determined. The importance of several factors. Was this movie a hit for its time, who starred in it (preference is given to stars whose names are recognizable today)? Then, a crucial role is played by the degree of safety poster: is there loss, tears, restoration, bends from storage folded? Alas, pasted on canvas or cardboard poster is valued lower than the same poster without the substrate. Does the poster from the original first edition, and how much was this edition, or is it a later copy? In General, principles similar to the rules of collecting any other drawing works. About the quality of the auctioned poster collection to judge the experts in this field, we can only say to the Americans, we in this collecting field is still far. Rare posters for iconic films of Hollywood's Golden age, like the first versions of "Dracula" (1931), the Mummy (1932) or "king Kong" (1933) may be worth at auction hundreds of thousands of dollars. We still operate in the same numbers, but in ruble terms.

the Most expensive lot auction February 2, was the poster in three parts the galactic Western "Star wars" George Lucas, published by the all-Union advertising-информационный enterprise "Reklamfilm" in 1991. For him a bidding war, led the participants in the room, by telephone and via the Internet. In the end, with 75 thousand. a lot soared in price to 140 thousand rubles. the winner was a full-time player.

the Second value was the original-макет advertising poster for the Comedy "the Autumn marathon", performed by artist Vladimir Sachkov. In fact, it was still not the poster, and original graphic works (gouache on paper). Online-участники had a little argument with the part-time rate, but it still was higher: a total — 80 thousand rubles. in the evaluation of 70-75 thousand.

Over 40 thousand RUB, the player in the hall bought a poster of the late 1920-х years on the head of the revolutionary movement in one of the South-американских republics "a spirit that has not returned" (a score of 38 to 40 thousand rubles.).

demand movie posters of the era of the "thaw", which is considered the heyday of poster art in the Soviet Union, when young artists"Reklamfilma" experimented, invented a new graphic language, assembled into a seamless whole picture and drawing. These masterpieces of film advertising looks very bright and stylish today, and who knows, maybe soon these posters will be of interest not only to a narrow circle of collectors. See, for example, can be similar to the posters in the interior, as a decorative element. Were sold (mostly in the hall) posters for favorite movies "Beware of the car" (lot 114, 16 thousand rubles), "Operation "y"" (lot 113, 8 thousand rubles.), "Zigzag of luck" (lot 120, 15 thousand rubles), "Live till Monday" (lot 135, 15 thousand rubles.), etc.

Next auction "Russian enamel" will be classic (on the books, autographs, photographs and postcards) and will be held next Saturday, February 11.

Maria Onuchina, AI