Aug 08, 2024 - Sale 2676

Sale 2676 - Lot 342

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

CAFE NOIR / AGATHA CHRISTIE. 1938.


33½x24¼ inches, 85x61½ cm. J. Fuytynck, Brussels.
Condition A-: minor repaired tears in margins; minor creases in image.

Black Coffee was author Agatha Christie's first piece written for the stage, in 1930. The successful play was adapted as a film in 1931, and eventually novelized in 1998. This poster advertises the Belgian adaptation of the play in 3 acts - dated by a printed French edition adapted by Blanchart, Duchatto, and Renaux, "Cafe Noir," Les Éditions Théâtrales Quand Même No. 15, Janvier 1938.