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Auction History Result 7p088 SIDNEY BECHET linen 30x48 French music poster 1955 Merlin art, jazz musician, Olympia, rare! Date Sold 6/20/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked French Music Poster (measures 30 1/4" x 47 1/2" [77 x 121 cm]) (Learn More) Sidney Bechet was a black African American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer from the 1910s to the 1950s. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist. His erratic temperament hampered his career, however, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet passed away in 1959 at the age of 62. Artist: Pierre Merlin Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster! We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning.
UPDATED 06/19/2017: Note that we have received further information about this poster from a knowledgeable collector. The poster is from 1955 and not 1959 as we originally mentioned, and the stamp on the poster is from the Olympia, which was one of the most popular concert halls in France. To commemorate a million records sold, Bechet received a Gold Record from the record company Disques Vogue, and a free concert at the Olympia was planned. Bechet performed along with Claude Luter, Andre Reweliotty and their orchestras, and the crowd loved it. However, because of his popularity, the crowd far exceeded the maximum capacity of the venue, and eventually a riot broke out! During the riot, memorabilia was stolen, damage of 2 millions francs was caused to the location, and it became known as "the night the Olympia was broken". What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had creases, small tears, and some small areas of paper loss scattered on all the folds, with many pinholes and some small paper loss around the edges, with some stains by some of the pinholes, and a few tears. The poster has a paper snipe glued to the middle right that was a card advertising a French music hall. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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