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Auction History Result 5r0008 SALLE DE L'ETOILE linen French 1p 1902 Coulet art of audience, girl & early movie projector! Date Sold 9/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 45 1/4" x 61 1/4" [115 x 156 cm]) (Learn More) Salle de L'Etoile (literally translates to "Star Room"), the circa 1902 French stock poster used to promote attractions, concerts and movies shown at the theater at Place Badouilliere in St. Etienne, France, and featuring Leon Gabriel Louis Coulet art of a gorgeous angelic showgirl holding a staff with a star on top of it next to a running vintage film projector while a smiling audience sits below (most surviving posters from this very beginning of motion pictures merely advertised that they are showing motion pictures, and not WHAT they were showing, because movies were so new that simply going to one was an event in itself!). Certainly, in the case of this poster, the theater would either overprint the large right area with a list of what the current attractions were, or possibly attach a paper snipe to that area if they wanted to use it again for different movies. This poster is especially fascinating because it likely contains one of the first artwork depictions of a very early movie projector! If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Artist: Leon Gabriel Louis Coulet Important Added Info: Note that this poster has been trimmed and now measures 45 1/4" x 61 1/4" [115 x 156 cm].
UPDATED 08/21/2020: Note that we have updated the Condition information. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had a thin white border around the edges (at most half an inch), and someone trimmed that off, but left the blue border. It also had a few creases, smudges, and scuffs scattered in the image, with pinholes in the corners and a few in the background areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays pretty well, but the restorer did not replace the missing thin blank borders. Learn More about condition grades 
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