Feb 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2695 -

Sale 2695 - Lot 99

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

BEAU GESTE. 1939.


41x27 inches, 104x68½ cm. Morgan Litho. Corp., Cleveland.
Condition B-: loss in upper left corner; tears, repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins and image and along sharp vertical and horizontal folds; some water staining and erased pencil notations in image; small pin holes in corners. Paper.

This Gary Cooper-led version of "Beau Geste" is the second of three screen adaptations of P.C. Wren's 1924 novel. The story follows the adventures of English brothers Beau, John and Digby, who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from a relative's country house.