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Auction History Result 6a0043 DOUBLE INDEMNITY signed printer's test 26x40 art print 2014 by Villegas, Zoetrope, #3! Date Sold 2/18/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Art Print (signed by artist Henry Villegas; #3; measures 26" x 40" [66 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Double Indemnity, the classic 1944 Billy Wilder (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) insurance fraud murder romantic crime film noir ("Paramount's terrific drama of an unholy love and an almost perfect crime!"; "From the Moment they met it was Murder!": "Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the novel by James M. Cain; about a man who works for an insurance company who meets the wife of a rich man who seduces him into helping her kill her husband, but they have to make it look like an accident so that they can collect double on his life insurance policy!) starring Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson (as Barton Keyes), Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, John Philliber, and Fortunio Bonanova NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Henry Villegas Important Added Info: Note that this art print has been personally autographed (signed) by artist Henry Villegas! This art print has also been hand-numbered #AP3 and includes a special "Remarque" (a small hand-drawing by the artist) at lower left (on Stanwyck's wrist) of her sunglasses! This is also a very rare uncut printer's test art print (often referred to as a "printer's proof")! Before an art print or poster was printed in large quantities, the printer would print a limited number of posters as "test" posters. Because they needed to be shown to people at the studio, people in the art department, the stars, etc, they would print a number of test posters and distribute them to these people. Some of them would be fully trimmed, but often they would leave the color chart on an edge of many of the posters, which added an extra inch to the width of the poster (which explains why the poster measures 26" x 40" [66 x 102 cm]). Once these printer's test posters were shown to the various people in a position to "OK" them, the printer would print the full print run of the posters. Condition: good to very good. The printer's test art print has a few creases, faint smudges and light scuffs. It is otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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