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Auction History Result 4c0143 ANGELS OF THE STREETS linen Belgian 1943 Robert Bresson's Les Anges du Peche, cool art, rare! Date Sold 4/30/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 10 1/4" x 13 1/2" [26 x 34 cm]) (Learn More) Les Anges du Peche (released in the U.S. in 1950 as "Angels of the Streets"), the 1943 Robert Bresson French murder crime thriller (about a woman who is framed for murder, imprisoned, then kills the man who framed her and joins a convent) starring Renee Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie, Mila Parely, Marie-Helene Daste, Yolande Laffon, and Paula Dehelly. Note that this was director Robert Bresson's first full-length feature! If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this Belgian poster, and that was 11 years ago! This poster is printed on the back of a map or part of another poster! Why is this? During World War II, there were massive paper shortages in Belgium. Where Belgian movie posters had previously been approximately 23" x 32", there was such a shortage of paper that not only did they often have to print them on the back of other posters or maps, but during World War II, the size of the posters shrank dramatically, with some of them as small as 11" x 15". This situation continued even after World War II, until around 1946 or 1947, when they began making Belgian movie posters in a size of roughly 14" x 22", which became the standard size, and continued for decades! The posters like these that are from during World War II or immediately after, and which are printed in a small size (often on the back of other posters or maps) are INCREDIBLY rare (surely they did not print many, and surely many of them were soon recycled themselves! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was folded once in each direction, with some wear on the horizontal fold. There is a horizontal scuff mark in the lower left. The map printing on the back of the poster hardly showed through to the front, which is a big plus. 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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