LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, announced today that Hollywood: 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 worlds most important film memorabilia and artwork, will be available for auction for the first time in history in this spectacular never before seen event.
From a life-size Terminator 3 screen figure to the monstrous Alien Queens 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 Świerzy, 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 Osianamas historic lobby cards, purchased as part of the Leonard Schrader Collection, will join this Hollywood auction extravaganza. The late filmmaker and screenwriter Leonard Schraders astonishing collection and preservation of thousands of rare vintage lobby cards-the movie theaters film advertisement posters that revolutionized the look of graphics-and other related pieces, spanning the silent film era to Hollywoods 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 Osians, Indias 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.
Juliens 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 Juliens 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 OHara in Gone With The Wind (1939) (estimate: $15,000-$20,000); 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); a lobby card for Fritz Langs 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 Tiffanys starring 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" Campeggis 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 Keatons film The General (1926) (estimate: $5,000-$7,000); 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); 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 Hitchcocks 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.