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La Navaja
A Spanish blade, a French film, and the last posters Faria would draw.
What
A Pathé Frères / SCAGL affiche of 1911 for Michel Carré's La Navaja, from Cândido Aragonez de Faria, who died in Paris that December.
Why
SCAGL was Pathé's prestige arm, founded to bring literary authors and stage actors into film and answer the charge that cinema was a fairground amusement. Faria's late posters for it show the affiche growing up alongside the product — less fairground banner, more dramatic illustration.
Notice
The knife is the compositional hinge; everything in the drawing angles toward it, which is how a silent poster produces suspense.
“The end of a career that had drawn cinema's face for its entire first decade.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- La Navaja (1911), dir. Michel Carré
- Country / studio
- France · Pathé Frères — SCAGL
- Designer
- Cândido Aragonez de Faria
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1911
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
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