In my humble opinion and my experience US Buyers are not big fans of foreign language posters - there are exceptions of course and I will not put forward examples but even if the art is far superior many US collector/buyers do not like to buy European language posters.
There are exceptions of course but for example say Magnum Force - the quad is far superior to the US One sheet yet the Americans will only buy the US. There is this inherent country of origin mentality.Most movies are of course US made - Seven Year Itch will always be American Paper yet the UK DC is far batter than any US paper. There are some recent discoveries in Italy of some awesome titles which when they emerge will have tongues out yet many American collectors will over look these posters - For me this is a travesty that makes people blind to the art on show. A good example is Oceans 11 - the US Insert and three sheet are the better art world wide with the rat pack walking down sunset strip - the US one sheet is quite boring - the Italian Two Foglio is superb and a great study of Sinatra and the rat pack. Hud is another the Italian 4 Foglio is one of the best study's on Newman (except his eyes have been coloured brown) - but far superior to the US paper. Empire Strikes Back - the Australian Daybill is the green Millinieum Falcon art - truly beautiful. So I think Grey is possibly correct about doing a Sunday auction of European paper - but I also feel that American buyers need to be a little less narrow minded - yes that is a sweeping statement but the majority of the end buyers are a little narrow minded on this subject. The dealers are very open to the art on show - but if it doesn't sell then a dealer ain't gonna buy it. This Never Happened to the Other Fella.... Adrian Cowdry jboh...@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Tommy Barr <tommymb...@gmail.com> To: MoPo-L <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> Sent: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:33 Subject: [MOPO] European bidders and non-us posters OK, here's the thing - Bruce is of the opinion that having special Sunday auctions of non-US posters will be a benefit to European bidders. While I do not wish to seem ungrateful, that suggests that if you are a non-US citizen then you buy non -US posters. Does Bruce base that on empirical data or simply geographical assumption? Although UK based I mainly collect US poster formats, with the occasional Daybill or Quad. I would be very interested to hear from other non-US bidders as to whether or not they agree with Bruce's view. Tommy To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
