The cinema of Renato Casaro: Posters and Sketches
Thursday 26 February 2026, 05:00 PM • Milan
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With more than 20 original sketches and over 50 posters and playbills signed by the artist himself, you can retrace the incredible career of one of the world's most important, influential and innovative cinema poster artists.
The auction will be preceded by an exhibition in Milan, offering collectors the opportunity to examine all the lots in detail, presented and enhanced by the splendid setting of our exhibition venue.
ADDRESS
Milan/ Via dei Bossi, 2
SESSION
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Exhibition
26 February 2026from 10:00 a.m.
(The lots will also be on display during the auction)
Milan/ Via dei Bossi, 2
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Auction commissions calculated on the hammer price of each lot will be 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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