$1,536
A charcoal drawing, with original matte, of the set "Jungle Devil's Island" from the 1944 film "Passage To Marseille" directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart. The drawing is by artist Lucien Denman, who studied at The Art Students League of New York City and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and the Julian Academie of Paris. He exhibited his fine art internationally and became a renowned commercial artist. Early in his career he worked, uncredited, for some Hollywood studio art departments in the 1930s and 1940s. Together with 22 scene drawings, ten of these small-scale drawings are signed by Denman and 12 are unsigned. They depict scenes from various films, including many with military subject matter. Also included is a complete set of 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inch storyboard sketches all mounted in sequence to a board. The title sketch reads "The Red Window Shade," a charcoal and watercolor portrait of a man, a charcoal and carbon pencil drawing of a church with steeple. 20 by 25 inches Categories:
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2010-06-26
