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Auction History Result

2h181 LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON linen 1sh 1957 Billy Wilder, great Saul Bass window shade art!

Date Sold 12/9/2018
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

Love in the Afternoon (released in some countries as "Ariane"), the 1957 Billy Wilder romantic playboy mistress much-older-man-with-much-younger-woman comedy melodrama ("1. 'How many men in my life before you, Mr. Millionaire? I will itemize them...'"; "2. 'Item 1: a red-headed algebra teacher - who first called me Miss X...'"; "3. A very sweet boy who is now a missionary in French Equatorial Africa...'"; "4. 'Item 3: a riding instructor - formerly a Cossack. Item 4: an English duke ...'"; "'5. Items 5 through 9 inclusive cover a bicycle tour I took with a group of exchange students...'"; "6. Item 10: a businessman from Brussels... Item 11: the chauffeur of the businessman...'"; "Love is a game any number can play... especially in the afternoon..."; "In any other city...at any other time...the American millionaire would have known she was only pretending to be as experienced as he was... this was Paris...in April...in the afternoon!"; "based on a novel by Claude Anet") starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, and Van Doude
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Artist: Saul Bass
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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some creases, tiny tears, and tiny bits of paper loss along parts of the folds, with some creases and scuffs in the solid black areas. It had pinholes around the edges, with a thin strip of paper loss in the top of the left blank border. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects.
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