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Auction History Result 6s146 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA linen pre-Awards 1sh '62 David Lean, Kerfyser silhouette art of O'Toole! Date Sold 5/1/2016 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) Lawrence of Arabia, the classic 1962 (wide release in the U.S. in 1963) David Lean (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) English/U.S. World War I (WWI) desert adventure thriller ("Stands Alone!"; "Unanimously acclaimed as 'One of the all time greatest films!'"; "Best Picture of the Year!"; "Winner of 7 Academy Awards!"; "The motion picture that made great international stars of Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif"; "After five years... The first motion picture from the creators of 'The Bridge On The River Kwai.'"; "A mighty spectacle of action and adventure!"; produced by Sam Spiegel and David Lean; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; "as 'Ali'"), Peter O'Toole (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as T.E. Lawrence; billed as "introducing Peter O'Toole as Lawrence"; which is odd, because he had small parts in several movies prior to this one!), and Zia Mohyeddin NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Georges Kerfyser Important Added Info: Note that for this classic English/U.S. co-production, the producers knew that it would surely win multiple Academy Awards, and so it was given a very limited pre-Academy Award release at the end of 1962, so that it would qualify for the Academy Awards given the following year. There were two different pre-Academy Awards one-sheets created, one of which has this classic silhouette art of Peter O'Toole, and the other of which has art of Peter O'Toole riding on a camel, and both of these posters are many times more rare than the one-sheets which credit this classic movie as an Academy Award Winner, because those one-sheets were solely used for the very limited 1962 release, and would not have been used at any point after that, because of course, the studio very much wanted to make those viewing the posters aware of the Academy Awards the movie had won! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the top and bottom crossfolds and minor wear on the folds. It had paper loss near the center of the bottom blank border and small paper loss and a stain in the right of the bottom blank border, with tiny tears in the right of the top blank border (in all three cases, only blank white paper was affected). Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, but the background colors faded when it was displayed. Why? Because the poster was framed and displayed in an office where it was affected by light (either sunlight or fluorescent light), and it caused the colors in the poster to fade. The top of the background was originally a bright yellow, and the area below it was a yellowish orange mixture, and the colors are not the same anymore. Certainly, one could display this poster exactly as it is (it is still pleasant to look at!), or one could have a restorer adjust the colors to match how they originally were, but whatever the new owner chooses to do, they need to carefully read the above and look closely at our super-sized image before placing a bid on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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