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Auction History Result 2t042 LEONCE FLIRT linen French 1p 1913 great art of sleeping man with Cupid & cherub, Gaumont! Date Sold 12/12/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 44" x 58 3/4" [112 x 149 cm]) (Learn More) Leonce Flirt (literally translates to "Leonce Flirting"), the 1913 Leonce Perret French silent romantic comedy short (released by Gaumont Films) starring Leonce Perret (in the title role), and Suzanne Grandais. A print of this movie was shown at a film festival in 2015, and it described it as follows: "An episode in the ongoing saga of Leonce and Suzanne's turbulent but loving married life. Spotting him through her binoculars flirting with an elegant lady, Suzanne departs the marital home in a huff..." The only poster for this movie we have seen is the French one-panel, which has great art of a woman with a black cat at her feet separated from a sleeping man by a screen, while a cherubic winged angel tickles the man's nose with a feather, while a cherubic Cupid (with bow & arrows) watches. It appears this movie was never released in the U.S. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that apparently this poster was created and used for several different comedy shorts (likely they either were part of a series, or they had the same actors). We say this because we have seen this poster for this movie, and also from "Men Were Deceivers Ever", a movie made the same year. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that movie paper from this film is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we were consigned this poster, which is a an extremely rare pre-World War II "country of origin" French poster! Virtually no French posters survive from the 1940s or earlier, because during World War II there were many paper shortages resulting in the destruction of almost all pre-World War II posters! Also note that this French one-panel was printed in France, but was intended to be used when the movie was shown in English speaking countries. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had darkening on the folds and a few small tears, smudges, and scuffs on parts of the folds. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking (especially considering it is over a century old!). The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did little restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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