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Auction History Result 8z089 WOMAN WHO DARED Italian 4p 1914 art of Francesca Berti & man with show horses, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/12/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian Four-Panel Movie Poster (4p; measures approximately 94" x 126" [239 x 320 cm]) (Learn More) L'Amazzone Mascherata (released in the U.S. in 1915 as "The Woman Who Dared"), the 1914 Baldassarre Negroni Italian silent crime circus melodrama (about a man who is charged with espionage by a spy who frames him, and the man is found guilty, but his wife figures out who the spy was, and she sets out to clear her husband; she is an incredible equestrian [with what is described as Amazonian riding abilities], and that allows her to join a circus as "The Masked Amazon", and she engineers a meeting with the spy, and forces him to give her the evidence that clears her husband!) starring Francesca Bertini (in the title role), Alberto Collo, Emilio Ghione, Leda Gys, and Teresa Martini. Note that this movie was made just prior to World War I, and the impending war was already on everyone's mind, so movies about enemy agents stealing secrets were very popular. But this movie was a feature length film made a year before "The Birth of a Nation", and its heroic central character is a woman, and she is not rescued by a man, but instead does the rescuing! In the early 1910s, the Italians were way ahead of the rest of the world in making feature films, but sadly, they lost that advantage during World War I and never returned to their former glory. But movies like this are a testament to how important Italy was to the birth of the cinema. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: AT Important Added Info: Note that we previously auctioned an Italian two-panel poster that measured 39 1/4" x 82 1/2", and that poster had a completely different image, and it auctioned for $1,550. We have never before auctioned this four-panel poster, which is also a "country of origin" poster for this Italian movie! Also note that this Italian four-panel was printed in 4 sections designed to overlap. Condition: good. The poster has much darkening and staining on the back of the part of the poster that was on the outside when the poster was fully folded. That falls in the lower center of the horse's body. The poster is fragile and there are small tears, darkening, and small areas of paper loss on parts of many folds, more so in the areas that were on the outside when the poster was fully folded. The poster certainly needs to be professionally backed, but after a relatively simple backing by a talented professional, it will look fantastic, but bear in mind its defects before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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