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Auction History Result 4y0002 SHEIK 1sh 1921 wonderful different Henry Clive art of Rudolph Valentino & Ayres, beyond rare! Date Sold 8/29/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Paperbacked Original Vintage Theatrical One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 25 3/4" x 39 3/4" [65 x 101 cm]) (Learn More) The Sheik, the classic 1921 George Melford Arabia silent romantic melodrama ("It's a Paramount Picture"; "Based on the novel by Edith M. Hull"; about an Arab sheik who meets a female British socialite, and he falls heavily for her, but she wants no part of him, so he kidnaps her and takes her to his palace in the desert; she rejects him, but after she is re-kidnapped by bandits does she start to realize that she has fallen in love with the sheik, who rescues her in the nick of time!) starring Rudolph Valentino (in the title role as Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan), Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner, and Adolphe Menjou. Note that Valentino had risen to stardom in the late 1910s, but this movie made him a superstar! He would complete ten more movies over the next five years, but sadly, after making a sequel to this movie, "The Son of the Sheik", in 1926, he passed away from complications after surgery. He was just 31 years of age, and the entire world mourned his passing. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Henry Clive Important Added Info: Note that this is a legendary and very mysterious poster (it measures 25 3/4" x 39 3/4" [65 x 101 cm] and has a horizontal format). Famous illustrator Henry Clive was hired by Paramount Pictures to draw two one-sheets for this most famous Rudolph Valentino movie, and he drew Agnes Ayres on one and Rudolph Valentino on the other, and both of those posters are extremely rare. But he also drew this image, which was printed by Paramount Pictures as a "horizontal one-sheet" (this measures slightly under 27" x 41", and we would assume that it might have originally had blank borders that brought it up to that size, or perhaps 28" x 42", another standard one-sheet size at this time). Since U.S. studios did not make horizontal one-sheets, we would think it was a special poster created for major theaters that showed it near to its opening, so probably few were created! One example of this poster was discovered decades ago, mounted on a heavy board and a talented restorer removed it from the board and backed it onto a paper backing with excess around the edges, and it was auctioned by Bruce Hershenson in his last Christie's auctions in 1997. The poster offered here is the very same example (with its excess paper trimmed off, no doubt when it was framed) and the person who purchased it from that auction has now consigned it to us decades later. The poster had damage and required restoration, but it is almost surely the only known example, and it is extremely likely that it will never surface again, so one has to be forgiving of its defects if one wants to own it. The new owner of this poster will truly have a museum quality poster that is a massive rarity, from one of the most famous movies of all time to display on their wall! What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster was likely removed from a board. This resulted in tiny areas of paper loss scattered throughout, but not as much in the upper bodies and faces of the stars. The person who did the restoration did not want to paint over the entire image, and you can clearly see where restoration was performed when you look close up, but only very slightly when you look from a reasonable viewing distance. After it was backed, it acquired tiny surface paper loss in the right end of the top border and a few tiny bits in other parts of the borders. Also, a previous owner rolled the poster, and in doing so caused some faint vertical creases scattered throughout, but they are almost completely only seen from the back and only in a few areas in the left 3" of the poster and in the bottom of the "S" of the title. Finally, someone put a small piece of clear tape on the back of the lower right border, but it does not affect the front. The new owner of this incredibly rare and historic poster will have three options: They can leave it as it is and accept its defects, or they can have a restorer touch up the defects on the poster while leaving it as it is, or they could hire a restorer to perform more extensive restoration. That will be the choice of the new owner. Please read all of the above and look closely at our super-sized image before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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