Important Collection of Cinema at Auction Sunday, February 14th -- 2PM (EST) 179 Temple Hill Road (Route 300), New Windsor, NY 12553
CINEMA - THE AUCTION The Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema -- Part II "Love Is In The Air..." Iconic Hollywood Couples and Love Stories in movie posters, lobby cards, window cards, inserts, celebrity photographs by the famed photographers, movie stills, autographs, contracts & negatives! In November, 2009, Joanne Grant, principal auctioneer at Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries, announced the acquisition of THE GENE ANDREWSKI COLLECTION OF CINEMA for several auctions. The first auction took place on Dec. 5th 2009.The second and third auctions have now been scheduled and will take place on Sunday, February 14th at 2 PM EST and on Saturday, March 6th at 2 PM EST. The entire collection will be sold without reserve or minimum bids making this series of sales almost unprecedented in the industry. The February 14th auction, “Love Is In The Air” has been themed to Valentine’s Day and will include iconic Hollywood couples as well as classic love stories in addition to many surprises outside the theme. The March 6th auction, the day before the Academy Awards this year, will be a tribute to the Oscars and to those names which have followed “And The Winner Is”……! The Andrewski collection consists of more than 20,000 items. Included are movie posters, lobby cards and window cards as well as jumbo, mini and midget cards. Gene Andrewski was largely responsible for introducing midget-window card collecting to the field. Also included are press books, promotional items and 30,000 photographs and negatives. In the cache of studio negatives are Marilyn Monroe rarities. Among the portraits of Hollywood Glamour Era actresses are several by Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Elmer Fryer, Ernest Bachrach, Ray Jones, Willinger and other noted photographers. A substantial autograph collection is to be presented including inscribed photos, double stock and single weight as well as signed letters, contracts, scripts and other movie memorabilia. The 20’s, 30’s and 40’s of Hollywood cinema are strongly represented in the Andrewski auctions. Gene Andrewski, who was born in Oklahoma, died in 2005 at the age of 77, after a highly successful career in the theatre including the May 15, 1962 revival of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City as well as the presentation of Sandy Wilson’s Valmouth at the York Playhouse in New York in 1960. He knew the stars of Hollywood and Broadway and moved among them. Those things that he loved in the field of movie collecting were, as a result, more accessible to him than to most. He was a former managing editor of The Paris Review. He wrote, and contributed photographs to, many books including The MGM Stock Company-The Golden Era; The Rise of the Crooners and Mae West (A Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies). An aficionado of Hollywood glamour and everything cinema related, Mr. Andrewski’s collection “speaks” to that era of advertising .The collection is historical in that it “tells” the story of how dreams were marketed in early Hollywood. The posters had to attract the glimpse of the passer-by and capture the attention of the stroller in a moment. The lithography of the early posters is intense and spellbinding. Their message is difficult to capture in today’s digital images and the posters become, indeed, vanishing works of art. In association with live auctioneers, Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries will offer live online bidding @ www.liveauctioneers.com. Prospective bidders must register in advance in order to participate. Bidders may also bid by telephone or by absentee bidding. There will be a 20% buyer’s premium. The catalogue for the Feb. 14th auction can be accessed at www.midhudsongalleries.com. The catalogue for the March 6th auction will be available online on or about Feb. 10th. Inquiries may be directed to Joanne Grant, principal auctioneer at [email protected] or 914-882-7356. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
