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Auction History Result 3p075 DESIGNING WOMAN linen style B 1sh '57 art of Gregory Peck & Lauren Bacall by Jacques Kapralik! Date Sold 12/7/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Designing Woman, the 1957 Vincente Minnelli romantic musical comedy ("A de luxe doll steals a two-fisted newspaper guy from a shapely show-girl in the comedy of the year - with songs!"; "MGM presents The Comedy of The Year!"; "Written by George Wells") starring Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray (billed as "shapely show girl"), Edward Platt, Tom Helmore, and Chuck Connors NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Jacques Kapralik Important Added Info: Note that the artwork on this poster is by Jacques Kapralik. He was one of the two main caricature artists who worked for MGM from the 1930s to the 1950s (the other was of course Al Hirschfeld). His art was created in a most unusual way! He would create actual collages out of pieces of paper, and then they would be photographed (sometimes his collages were 3-dimensional!). His artwork is very distinctive and immediately recognizable. His caricature art promoted top MGM movies of the 1940s including: Silk Stockings, Designing Woman, Best Foot Forward, Presenting Lily Mars, and Two-Faced Woman, among many others! Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfold and minor wear on the foldlines. It had water stains in the left and right of the top and bottom borders, and they extended into the image background at the top, and the credits area at the bottom. There were some other lighter smudges and stains around the edges and in the right of the bottom title and credits area. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Note that the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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