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Auction History Result 7w200 RAGING BULL linen advance 1sh '80 Martin Scorsese, classic boxing close up of Robert De Niro! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Advance One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 1/2" x 40 3/4") (Learn More) Raging Bull, the classic 1980 Martin Scorsese (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) boxing sports biography melodrama ("Based on the book by Jake LaMotta with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; loosely based on the turbulent real life of boxing champion Jake LaMotta) starring Robert De Niro (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Jake LaMotta; De Niro literally gained 60 pounds for the scenes where he portrayed the fat and out of shape aged boxer!), Joe Pesci (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Cathy Moriarty (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Vickie La Motta), Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Mario Gallo, Frank Adonis, and Lori Anne Flax (as La Motta's first wife, Irma) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Kunio Hagio Important Added Info: Note that this is a rare advance one-sheet (note the "ADVANCE 1 SHT" at the bottom of the poster). What IS linenbacking? "Linenbacking" is a process that is used to preserve movie posters (the best restorers de-acidify the poster during the restoration process), and to make them far easier to display (it is much easier and less expensive to frame a linenbacked poster). When linenbacking is done correctly, it adds to the value of the poster, and is NOT a defect! Note that the specific poster in this auction both was NOT linenbacked very well, AND the poster had more significant defects. In general, know that we received many of the linenbacked posters we are currently selling already linenbacked, but we have examined every poster EXTREMELY carefully, and we did our best to describe what condition the poster was in PRIOR to restoration, the defects the poster had PRIOR to restoration (in the "Pre-Restoration Defects & Quality of Restoration" section), any unrestored defects, and, when it seemed worth noting, something about the quality of the restoration itself. Many other auction houses claim to match what we do in this area, but EVERY person who regularly buys movie posters from major auctions can tell you this is just not the case! We never intentionally overgrade a single item, we never "accidentally" miss defects, and we never enhance a single image! Condition: fair to good. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, likely both because the restorer did not do a good job at all, and because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had paper loss at the crossfolds and creases, scuffs, and tiny tears on parts of some foldlines, and many creases and scuffs scattered throughout the poster. The poster was not well backed at all, because you can still see some or all of the defects generally described above (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects), and if there was restoration of the above defects, it was not done very well. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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