Weightlifting/ Dopinge/ Chicago/ Guillaume.... - Lot 203 - Vermot et Associés

Weightlifting/ Dopinge/ Chicago/ Guillaume. Original giant poster, unsigned, but certainly by Albert Guillaume (1873-1942), as it is a repeat on a yellow background, and in large format of an earlier work on a blue background: "ARMOUR and Co, Chicago, USA, meat extract, the only one that preserves the saver of fresh meat...Superior to all....On sale at grocers, and now the turn of EXTRAIT ARMOUR, agency 37 rue Lafayette. Lithograph, canvas, with chopsticks. Imp.Camis, bd Richard Lenoir. 2,40x1,10. Circa 1896-1900. The fairground weightlifter, debonair but powerful with his dazzling decorated chest and tattooed biceps, handles his round or square weights of 100 kg or less after religiously absorbing a cup of this extract... for ogres. Museum piece. ABE.