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Practice Makes Perfect ( Le Cavaleur ) unused movie poster by Cardy

Artist: Nick Cardy (All)

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Practice Makes Perfect ( Le Cavaleur ) unused movie poster by Cardy Comic Art

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Le Cavaleur top detail

Le Cavaleur left detail

Le Cavaleur bottom detail

Le Cavaleur center detail

Practice Makes Perfect by Robert Tanenbaum

Practice Makes Perfect detail by Robert Tanenbaum

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Title:	Practice Makes Perfect ( Le Cavaleur ) unused movie poster by Cardy
Artist:	Nick Cardy (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NO
Views:	3,041
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	7/8/2014
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Description

Nick did not recall the title of the movie except that it was a French film.

After winning the (rhymes with "pre-pay") auction, it took a few searches to find a website of French movie posters. The original 1979 French film (starring Jean Rochefort) is titled "Le Cavaleur", which seems to be slang. Using today's slang, the American translation would be "The Playa" ( e.g. womanizer ). However, the US release of the film was titled "Practice Makes Perfect". The published poster was executed by Robert Tanenbaum, who has produced many movie posters. The oddest thing is that Nick's and Tanenbaum's layouts are very similar. I have no idea how things work in Hollywoodland. For the record, I like Nick's better, and I'm not just saying that.

Anyway, Nick still had his original final prelim for this piece. This is a fairly large gouache painting (signed Cardi) that must have taken a lot of work. I showed him a color picture of my piece because it was too big for travel. The funniest thing is Nick did not have any recollection of working on the finished version. I'm pretty sure Nick used gouache.

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frank x townsondecker
Member Since 2006

Posted on 7/8/2014

Superb!

Will K
Member Since 2006

Posted on 7/8/2014

frank x townsondecker wrote:

Superb!

En Français, it would be... Su-pairb !!!

Jean Andre Macchini
Member Since 2006

Posted on 7/8/2014

Very nice ! Congrats !

Yoann B.
Member Since 2013

Posted on 3/9/2015

Wonderful movie posters!

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