Renato Casaro

RENATO CASARO (Italy, 1935)
"Once Upon a Time in America", 1984
Mixed media on thick paper.
Signed.
Measurements: 43 x 29,5 cm; 57 x 44 cm (frame).

Preliminary work by Casaro for the poster of the film "Once Upon a Time in America", directed by Sergio Leone with Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern in 1984.

Renato Casaro is an Italian artist known for his movie posters, which include films such as "My Name is Nobody", "Quadrophenia", "Conan the Barbarian", "Tenebrae", "Octopussy", "Never Say Never Again", "Rambo: First Blood Part II" (Int'l Version), "Red Sonja" and "Flesh and Blood". He is considered one of the most important, influential and innovative Italian film poster designers. He has realized hundreds of works dedicated to cinema, becoming very popular abroad. He has also painted calendars, collectibles, book and record covers. Dino De Laurentiis hired Casaro in 1965 to design the images for the posters of the film The Bible: In the Beginning..... After that, Casaro worked on many films with De Laurentiis, such as Flash Gordon, Dune and Conan the Barbarian. At the same time, Casaro continued his business, producing posters for different directors such as Sergio Leone, Claude Lelouch, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luc Besson, Franco Zeffirelli and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In 2019, Casaro was called by Quentin Tarantino to make some "illustrated old-school Western posters" ("Uccidimi Subito Ringo, disse il Gringo" aka "Kill Me Now Ringo, Said The Gringo" and "Nebraska Jim") for Italian films starring Rick Dalton, the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.