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  Auction History Result f004 MUSIC IN THE AIR original movie one-sheet artwork 1934 Swanson Date Sold 2/7/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. The Original 1934 Artwork Created for the One-Sheet Movie Poster for "Music in the Air" (measures 20" x 30") (Learn More) Music in the Air, the 1934 Joe May romantic musical ("Music by Jerome Kern, Lyrics and Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd"; "From the record-breaking Broadway stage hit!") starring Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Douglass Montgomery, June Lang, Al Shean, Reginald Owen, Joseph Cawthorn, and Hobart Bosworth NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that offered here is the original artwork from the one-sheet from "Music in the Air". VERY FEW ORIGINALS FROM ANY 1930s MOVIES ARE KNOWN TO HAVE SURVIVED! Over the years, I have seen a number of pieces of original artwork that are supposedly THE original artwork from a 1930s movie poster, but most often they are exact replicas of the finished poster, and are often the same exact size as the printed poster. I highly doubt that many (if any) such pieces of artwork are genuinely the artwork created PRIOR to the poster, because movie posters in the 1930s were created in an assembly line fashion. One artist would create the central image, and other artists would later add the title and credits (of course, there are exceptions, but not many). Often the titles and credits would be created separately and glued on to the central image artwork, and (as often happens with original artwork) the glued on areas would often fall off over the years, and is lost (especially because few, if any, people valued these as works of art!). In addition, the artwork was almost always smaller than the printed size (sometimes far smaller), because it made no sense for an artist to have to create a large piece of art, when he could create a smaller one that could later on be enlarged (which is why I very much doubt those exact size "originals" that occasionally surface). In the case of the original artwork offered here, it appears likely that the original artist did draw in the lower credits (although that may have just been a guide, and the actual credits may be different, and one can only tell that by comparing this artwork to the actual printed poster, which I have never seen). The artist left a large oval area in the top right, and either credits or an image were added there by being pasted on, and at a later date that added area was removed or lost. This original was purchased decades ago by a man in the motion picture industry, and it hung on his walls for many years. Unfortunately, we do not know the name of the Fox artist who created it, but if anyone e-mails us that information, we will post it here. There may be other genuine original artworks from movie posters of Gloria Swanson movies surviving, but if there are, we are unaware of them! Condition: good. This artwork is an oil painting and was originally mounted on a stretcher. Somewhere over the years, it suffered damage in the bottom center of the art and it was removed from the stretcher. There are many cracks and scuffs in the bottom of the hat that Swanson is wearing, and extending into the top of the "MO" of "MONTGOMERY". There are some cracks and scuffs in the top right edge of the hat. There are some cracked areas in the background between the two stars' faces. There is a tiny scratch in Swanson's eyebrow and a few in Boles' hair and one in his forehead. The artwork has suffered some damage around the edges of the art. There is much glue residue in the oval area at top right and also down the straight diagonal area between the oval area and Swanson's head. I do not know how difficult it would be to perform restoration on this artwork, but surely it can be done by a talented professional, and fortunately, there is next-to-no damage in either star's face, and I can also easily imagine many collectors displaying this original artwork just as it is (after it was put back on a stretcher). Learn More about condition grades 
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