Movie Poster Artworks
Thursday 26 February 2026, 03:00 PM • Milan
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Finarte, in collaboration with Urania Casa d'Aste, presents an auction entirely dedicated to film sketches.
The evocative image of a film poster has always created strong emotions, and in this auction you will find more than 100 original works that will allow you to relive those emotions, with the opportunity to take home an authentic piece of 20th-century cinema history.
The most important “cinema painters”, such as Anselmo Ballester, Bruno Napoli, Angelo Cesselon, Salvatore Spataro and many others, are the protagonists of this fantastic auction that will inspire every cinema enthusiast and beyond.
The auction will be preceded by an exhibition in Milan, offering collectors the opportunity to carefully examine all the lots, presented and enhanced by the splendid setting of our exhibition venue.
ADDRESS
Milan/ Via dei Bossi, 2
SESSION
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Exhibition
26 Februaryfrom 10:00 a.m.
(Lots will also be visible during the auction)
Milan/ Via dei Bossi, 2
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Auction commissions calculated on the hammer price of each lot will be equal to 20%.
Conditions of Sale
In the early days of cinema, parallel to the professions most closely related to film production proper, another, also fundamental, arose: the poster designer. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, advertising communication passed exclusively through posters, which therefore had to be of great communicative effectiveness and immediate visual impact. From theater to cinema, the step was a natural one for many illustrators, and alongside anonymous masters, great artists also tried their hand at this genre. The evolution was then to turn poster authors into true artists, recognized for their talent in transforming a simple promotional communication into an iconic image that could be reproduced indefinitely.
Finarte and Urania, combining their experience and visibility, organize auctions featuring works by leading “movie painters” such as Anselmo Ballester, Drew Struzan, Renato Casaro, Bruno Napoli, Angelo Cesselon and many others. Whether Italian or Hollywood, film posters are works of art in their own right, and their original sketches even more so, since they are evidence of an artistic process made up of study, rehearsals, different combinations and often dialogue with directors and production companies.
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