Lot 75 - Cinema Poster Live Auction - Richard Edlund Collection Special One-Sheet Style Poster, 1976 | STAR WARS - ALL ITEMS

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Sold Stock #124831 | Sold Apr 24 2020

STAR WARS - ALL ITEMS

Cinema Poster Live Auction - Spring 2020

Lot #75 - Cinema Poster Live Auction - Richard Edlund Collection: Special One-Sheet Style Poster, 1976

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For many, this is the holy grail of Star Wars posters, the very FIRST poster produced for Star Wars. An incredibly rare Howard Chaykin poster printed in the summer of 1976, to be sold for $1.75 at San Diego Comic Con and Worldcon in Kansas City to promote the forthcoming movie. Chaykin, produced the artwork based on a handful of stills and paintings by concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, designer of the early Star Wars logo seen on the poster. It was labelled as 'Poster1' (in the lower left corner) as a series of different posters were intended to be printed but no other posters were ever made. Only about a thousand of the posters were ever produced, with very few appearing for sale. (Provenance: The Personal Archive of Richard Edlund)

20" x 29" (51 x 73.5 cm)

Condition: Excellent

Unrestored, rolled (as issued). Very minimal handling wear it presents and displays to excellent effect.

Artist: Howard Chaykin

£1000 - 2000

VAT Status: Ω

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