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CYCLES GEORGES RICHARD

‘Marque George Richard Cycles & Automobiles’

Lithographic poster printed by: De Vaugirard, G. de Malherbe et Cie. Paris

Artist: Eugene Grasset (1841-1917)

[Bears initials in image]

Dated: 1899

Size: 44 x 60.5 cm.

Materials/Media: Original lithographic poster, linen backed (Front plasticized)

Provenance: The Boskovštejn Bike Museum, Czech Republic.

Ref: DFP-II, 415; Bicycle Posters, 21; Berthon & Grasset, p. 34; Weill, 41; Timeless Images, 28; Dodge, p. 132; Ailes, p. 119; Gold, 78; Encyclopédie/Weill p. 41; Posters of Paris, 54; PAI-LXVI, 7

Note: Georges Richard was one of quite a number of bicycle manufacturers who were hurriedly adding automobiles as a sideline around the turn of the century; within a few years, the sideline would become the main, or as here, the only product of the company” (Gold, p. 56).

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