Jun 05, 2018 - Sale 2480

Sale 2480 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 7,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
RICK MEYEROWITZ.
"Animal House." Original pencil sketch for iconic poster for the 1978 film. Graphite on paper. 686x533 mm; 27x21 inches, on 30 3/4x24-inch sheet. Signed twice and dated March 16, 1978 in lower right margin, with additional artist's notes in margin. Accompanied by a signed poster for the film.

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"[After the premiere screening] John [Belushi] and I stopped in the lobby in front of a huge reproduction of the poster. We were both staring holes in it. I was thinking I was a lucky guy; I'd managed, somehow, to capture the whole damn movie in one piece of art. . . John, as if reading my thoughts, said to me, 'You nailed it, man. You really fucking nailed it.' It is the best compliment I have ever received about my work on Animal House"--Rick Meyerowitz, "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" (New York: Abrams, 2010).