Cycling / Poster / Nantes / Paris / Velodrome / Press - Lot 40

Cycling / Poster / Nantes / Paris / Velodrome / Press "Cycles Phébus - Pneumatiques Nivet - Lisez le Vélo" (Read the bike) Original lithographed canvas advertising poster, circa 1893-1895 135.5 x 93 cm Harmonious, dynamic composition around a busy velodrome track. It's the golden age of sprinters and stayers, the aristocracy of velocipedics in silk jerseys. Road racing was in its infancy. The new life was velodromes, with orchestras, select audiences, well-constructed meetings and good-natured flirting. The yellow jersey, bib 1, doesn't give his tongue to the cats, while his comrades explain themselves on a cement, wood or clay track. Here you can read the latest newspaper, and the advertisements proclaim the superiority of Phébus cycles and Nivet tires.