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Would you like to consign with us? If you are interested in consigning your property 3. Once we mutually agree on estimates, our specialist in one of Julien’s Auctions’ high profile will send you a copy of our consignment contract for your multi-consignor auctions: review and walk you through our consignment process. 1. Submit your enquiry online with images, or email images Julien’s Auctions facilitates multi-consignor, single owner and information to [email protected]. and celebrity estate auctions. Our auctions regularly include memorabilia from Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, The Beatles, 2. Our experts will review the items you wish us to consign Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth, and other icons of Hollywood, and respond with conservative auction estimates. Rock ‘N’ Roll, and Sports. In addition to pop culture artifacts, Julien’s is also the leading auction house in the burgeoning Street Art & Contemporary Art market, selling works created by Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Invader. For more information please visit our website, or email: [email protected] or call us at 310-836-1818, and a consignment specialist can assist you. juliensauctions.com For single owner celebrity estate auctions or high profile single owner auctions, please email [email protected] or call us at 310-836-1818 and a consignment specialist can assist you. 2 THE icon Cover Image “Property from The Estate of Burt Reynolds” Lot 88: Burt Reynolds 1967 Portrait by Al Shelton (American, 1920-2016) Photography by Summer Evans • SUMMER 2019 EDITION WELCOME... ...to THE ICON Summer Edition 2019 Welcome to The Icon Summer 2019 Edition, featuring highlights of our upcoming auctions covering rock ‘n’ roll legend Slash, movie star Burt Reynolds, Hollywood, and more. In June, we will have four days of auction excitement in Beverly Hills and live online at Julien’s Live. Our Legends auction kicks off with “Property From The Collection of Slash and Perla Hudson”, featuring memorabilia directly from their personal possessions dating back to the early 1980s, when Slash was still a struggling musician on The Strip in Hollywood, to the late 1990s, when he was an established rock star living in the glitzy Hollywood Hills. Legends continues with all eras and genres of Hollywood and entertainment represented, reflecting the best in film and television, as well as other popular areas of collecting. Highlights include favorites such as Marilyn Monroe, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, and more. We then celebrate the life and career of Burt Reynolds with a two-day auction featuring an assortment of items that were near and dear to the star himself. THINKING OF And don’t forget that if you can’t attend these auctions in person, you can CONSIGNING? still take part and bid via www.juliensauctions.com contact: [email protected] or call: 310.836.1818 Darren Julien Martin J. Nolan President/CEO President/CEO THE icon 3 A LIFELONG COLLECTOR AND POP CULTURE EXPERT REALIZES NEW DREAMS WITH JULIEN’S AUCTIONS The journey into the world of pop culture began that before and there was a huge line of hundreds very early for Jason DeBord, who has joined of people waiting to get an autograph,” he says. Julien’s as Director of Marketing, New Media, and Coppola had evidently only pledged a few minutes Contemporary Pop Culture. He was only four for a signing, but by teaming up with an Australian when he became a Star Wars fan after seeing journalist and offering to be his photographer, the original movie theaters in 1977, which was a Jason got his signature – as well as his photo transformative event; ten years later, at age 14 (with taken with the star director (long before the term the permission of his parents), he began his annual “photobomb” had been invented). ritual of traveling alone to San Diego Comic Con to celebrate sci-fi, super heroes, and more. Growing up, Star Wars also led him to comic books at a very was, and I told them that they had very valuable early age, where he spent his childhood reading artifacts that should not be thrown out. I flew out The Avengers, X-Men, Spider-man, Daredevil, I was always into to Boulder, Colorado and collected it all up in a big Captain America, and every Marvel comic book rental truck, and I drove it to Julien’s. That was a lot that he could get his hands on, watching shows nerdy things. of fun. He actually came out for the auction as well like Ultraman, “an old Japanese show via a very and he loved meeting fans after all these decades. weak UHF signal on TV”, setting up his own dealer space at local comic book conventions, as well as “We offered free autographs, and set up a time collecting toys, playing Dungeons and Dragons, Back then, it wasn’t and date and let the world of fandom know that and building a collection of video games and they were welcome to come and meet this Star nearly every console released in the U.S. and Japan cool to be a geek! Wars legend. There are a lot of people who collect (he preferred the Intellivision to the much more autographs from literally every person who worked popular Atari 2600 in the early 80s). “Growing up, I Jason came into contact with Darren Julien and on Star Wars, and Colin Cantwell was the missing was always into nerdy things. Back then, it wasn’t Martin Nolan of Julien’s Auctions after beginning link.” In fact, it was such a golden opportunity for cool to be a geek!” to collect movie props and costumes in 2002. Star Wars fans that collectors coordinated with He launched the Original Prop Blog (www. those outside the U.S. to bring items for Cantwell San Diego Comic Con was in another dimension, originalprop.com) in 2007, inspired after buying a to sign. though. “It was a crazy experience to meet all of movie prop that was fake. Jason got his money these comic book creators - artists and writers - in back, but thought that perhaps others could learn Jason began doing social media for Julien’s in person. They were like Gods to me. It wasn’t so from his experience. “I was going to write a dozen 2014. He continued to help in other ways too, much about film and television back then; comic or so ‘movie prop collecting 101’ style articles and for example, “when James L. Schoppe, who was books were at the center of it all” says Jason. leave it at that, but it took on a life of its own. As Art Director on Return of the Jedi, had brought a I expanded beyond my original editorials and collection to Julien’s that included one of Han After that, he went every year, and he was just started regularly reporting on news and events in Solo’s original prop blasters, I helped conduct out of high school when Francis Ford Coppola this art market, I became interested in covering research and write descriptions for the items. That attended to give a preview of his movie Dracula in what auction houses were doing.” was a joy for me because I’m such a huge Star 1991. “Comic Con had never had a guest like Wars fan. It was cool that I had an opportunity to “After getting to know them over time, I ultimately meet and talk with Mr. Schoppe about his work on went to visit Julien’s and I did a preview of one of Return of the Jedi and go through his archive, which their auctions.” He met Darren and Martin for the was extremely comprehensive. first time in person at their Tony Curtis auction, and he published a YouTube interview with Martin “It was like taking a trip back in time. There were talking about the event. “Off camera, we talked things that we never would have seen again, but shop about the auction world, memorabilia, Mr. Schoppe had the foresight to archive material and collecting, and we found that we knew lot of that would have been viewed as inconsequential people in common. We immediately realized that we shared a passion for helping to influence the Colin Cantwell’s “Star Wars” X-Wing Fighter Concept Art art market in positive ways... that an honest marketplace was a good thing for everyone. As we kept in touch and built a friendship, eventually they began to reach out to me for my input and research into pieces that suited my own expertise.” Kurt Cobain’s MTV VMA The connection continued. “I helped Moonman them more directly with certain for Nirvana’s auctions,” says Jason. “Because of “Smells Like my work on the Original Prop Blog, I Teen Spirit” ended up crossing paths with a figure who was long lost to fans, who had worked on the original Star Wars... no one had heard from him about his work on the film since the 70s; I met him in person and conducted some interviews with him, and I also helped him consign his collection to Julien’s.” Colin Cantwell, who was one of the first people that George Lucas had hired to work on Star Wars and is famous for creating the original prototype at the time... like newspaper clippings from when models for the film, still had some concept artwork he was working on the film, because they were from 1976 as well as memorabilia from other using a fake name for the film production. It was work in the industry. “His girlfriend had found called ‘Blue Harvest’.