Dec 18, 2012 - Sale 2299

Sale 2299 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
G. ALLARD (DATES UNKNOWN) ORFEU NEGRO. 1961.
62 1/4x45 1/2 inches, 158x115 1/2 cm. Affiche Gaillard, Paris.
Condition B+: repaired tears, abrasions and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds and at edges; creases in image.
This French re-telling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is set in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. The film won the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1959, and in 1960, won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Beauty and the Beast p. 17.