MIDNIGHT!

(Ah, Sunday is my Friday this week. And goodnight!)

I’m not really too horrified by this famous tale of Théophile Gautier’s, but, uh, I guess you can’t get goatier than Gautier? Oh, that was awful, awful.

Théophile Gautier

THE MUMMY’S FOOT

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22662/22662-h/22662-h.htm

Karoly Grosz

The Mummy

The most expensive US film poster is… Universal Pictures’ The Mummy from 1932! I think. It sold for $435,500 in 1997, the highest price ever paid for a poster. Until… I THINK it sold again last year for a million bucks more? Not that art should be judged on the basis of MONEY, of course… Grosz was Universal’s art director at the time and gets the credit for the poster. I hear this particular design was very influential in poster-making circles, so, uh, check your attics…