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Auction History Result 8y037 IN HARM'S WAY limited edition 25x39 silkscreen '65 classic Saul Bass pointing hand artwork! Date Sold 12/10/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Limited Edition Silkscreen Poster (measures 25" x 39") (Learn More) In Harm's Way, the 1965 Otto Preminger World War II (WWII) military romantic melodrama ("Stripped of everything -- they lived and loved and fought as if there were no tomorrow..."; "In Harm's way, they went. The men. The women. The lovers for a night. The lovers for keeps. The strong. The weak. They went, as they were, in Harm's way..."; "Based on the novel by James Bassett") starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Brandon de Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Stanley Holloway, Burgess Meredith, Franchot Tone, Patrick O'Neal, Carroll O'Connor, Slim Pickens, James Mitchum, George Kennedy, Bruce Cabot, Barbara Bouchet (in her second credited movie role!), and Tod Andrews NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Saul Bass Important Added Info: The following information about the five limited edition Saul Bass silkscreens we are offering comes to us from longtime collector/dealer Dan Strebin, who was hired by Bass' family to evaluate Bass' posters after his passing: "Frustrated by film studio alterations to his film poster designs, graphic artist Saul Bass chose to commission silkscreen prints of the purest unadulterated form of his designs, for his own use only, not for sale, and not for the film studios. For the first 10-15 years he had just 50 printed of each (plus 5 as possible rejects from screening error or other defects) which he would submit to graphic design competitions and publications, for museums like MOMA in New York and the collection of the arts college he attended, and occasionally as gifts to people he worked for or with. In the 1970's Bass realized that he was running out of many of the earlier titles, indicating to him that 50 each was not enough of these. Though there is no evidence to believe he had the earlier titles reprinted, he then changed the quantity of all future printings, such as 'Such Good Friends' and 'The Shining' to 150 each, but still only for his own personal business use, and never to sell as a limited edition print. These are all hand-pulled serigraphs which were printed at Bass's commission by the Art Krebs Studio in Los Angeles, just around the corner from Bass's design studio. Krebs was the screen-printer of choice for a number of significant fine artists including Ed Ruscha. Especially interesting are the designs which the film studio rejected, which now exist only in the form of Bass's own silkscreens, such as that for 'Seconds', a design so brilliant that director John Frankenheimer kept one of this silkscreen on his office wall until the day he died. For anyone passionate about Saul Bass's contribution to film poster design, these silkscreens are the purest versions of his original concepts." Condition: very good to fine. There are a few minor scuffs in the solid black areas, but otherwise, the silkscreen is in wonderful condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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