May 25, 2017 - Sale 2449

Sale 2449 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
MONOGRAM UNKNOWN [IN THE BOG.] 1928.
41 1/2x28 1/2 inches, 105 1/2x72 1/2 cm. Editions Goskinprom, Georgia.
Condition A-: minor restoration at edges and along unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds.
Directed by Ivan Perestiani, this silent movie poster shows the film's stars Pavel Yesikovsky and Maria Tenazi (also knows as Maria Tadevosyan) caught in a metaphorical web of gambling and crime. Sadly, the starlet Tenazi died in 1930 at the age of 27.