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Auction History Result 7p264 RUY BLAS linen French 24x32 1954 Marais, Darrieux, Jean Cocteau, Victor Hugo, Peron art, rare! Date Sold 6/20/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French "Affiche" Movie Poster (23x32; measures 23 3/4" x 31 1/2" [60 x 80 cm]) (Learn More) Ruy Blas, the 1948 Pierre Billon French/Italian historical royalty mistaken identity romantic melodrama (based on a novel by Victor Hugo; screenplay by Jean Cocteau; about the Chief of Police in Spain who was exiled from the royal court and seeks vengeance on the queen, and he sees his opportunity when he discovers that a student is an exact lookalike for his nephew, and he gets the student presented to the court as a nobleman, and the queen falls in love with him, and he is happy to leave things as they are, but the Chief of Police wants his revenge) starring Danielle Darrieux (as the Queen of Spain), Jean Marais (in a dual role, both as the nobleman-turned-thief Ruy Blas and as a student who is mistaken for Blas), Marcel Herrand, Gabrielle Dorziat, and Alexandre Rignault NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Rene Peron Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster! We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning. Also note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this partially French movie! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and a tiny bit of paper loss in the vertical fold 4" above the top crossfold, with some minor wear on the rest of the folds. It had pinholes and some tiny paper loss in the border, and the entire poster had darkened somewhat. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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