Sale 2480 - Illustration Art, June 5, 2018

172 c RICK MEYEROWITZ. “Animal House.” Original pencil sketch for the iconic poster for the 1978 film. Graphite on paper. 686x533 mm; 27x21 inches, on 30 3 / 4 x24-inch sheet. Signed twice and dated March 16, 1978 in lower right margin, with additional artist’s notes in margin. Accompanied by a signed single sheet poster for the film. [3,000/4,000] “[After the premiere screening] John [Belushi] and I stopped in the lobby in front of a huge reproduction of the poster. We were both staring holes in it. I was thinking I was a lucky guy; I’d managed, somehow, to capture the whole damn movie in one piece of art. . . John, as if reading my thoughts, said to me, ‘You nailed it, man. You really fucking nailed it.’ It is the best compliment I have ever received about my work on Animal House.” – Rick Meyerowitz “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead” (New York: Abrams, 2010).