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Auction History Result 6y0309 WAGS TO RICHES linen 1sh 1948 Tex Avery, art of Spike offering Droopy a cigar, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/22/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Wags to Riches, the 1949 Tex Avery animated animation cartoon inheritance comedy short (produced by Fred Quimby; about a millionaire who leaves his fortune to one of his two dogs, Droopy, with the provision that if Droopy dies, the fortune reverts to his other dog, Spike, and that gives Spike great incentive to "do Droopy in"!) featuring the voice of Don Messick (as Droopy), Tex Avery, William Hanna, and Pat McGeehan. Note that Fred "Tex" Avery was one of the greatest legends of Hollywood animation. He started working for Walter Lantz on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in the early 1930s. He moved to Warner Bros. in 1935, where he became a legend, working on the Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes series, creating or developing the best remembered Warner Bros. cartoon characters, including Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, and others. In 1941, after a disagreement, he briefly worked on a series called "Speaking of Animals", where real animals "talked" with animated lips, but he soon signed a contract with MGM, where he did even more wonderful work than before. He developed an entirely new type of cartoon (his MGMs are instantly recognizable as being "Tex Averys"), and they include characters such as Droopy, The Wolf, Red Hot Riding Hood, and many others. He is one of the greatest animators ever, and posters from his cartoons are difficult to obtain, and are highly sought after by collectors! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we received this one-sheet! This is especially unusual, because we have auctioned most of the Tex Avery one-sheets at least one time, and of course, this is one of the ones with his great character Droopy! In fact, when Bruce Hershenson was publishing his first movie poster book, Cartoon Movie Posters, he wanted to include all the Tex Avery posters, and he couldn't find anyone with an image of this poster. Finally, he located a collector who had it, and kindly lent it to Bruce to picture in the book. Now, 25 years later, that collector has passed away, and he left instructions for Bruce Hershenson to auction this poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the bottom two crossfolds and small paper loss at the top crossfold. It had some small tears and tiny paper loss on small parts of the folds. It had a stamp on the back of the top center that bled through to the front in the "T" of "CARTOON". It had a few pinholes around the edges. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did little restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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