Pulp International - Seven Italian posters for Casablanca

Nov 21 2020

Two Italian artists created some of the coveted posters for the classic drama Casablanca.

All of these posters are Italian promos for the classic war drama Casablanca, which premiered in Italy today in 1946, four years after it opened in the U.S. An original example of the top poster, which was painted by Luigi Martinati, sold at auction in 2017 for $478,000. The following three posters are also by Martinati. The bottom three efforts, meanwhile, are by Silvano Campeggi (who sometimes signed his work as "Nano"), and were painted for the movie's re-release in 1962. Top notch efforts all of them, for a top notch movie. See more Casablanca promos here and here.

Italy World War II Casablanca Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Luigi Martinati Silvano Campeggi Nano poster art cinema

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