Aug 07, 2002 - Sale 1941

Sale 1941 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CLEVELAND. Circa 1901.
49x35 inches. Louis Galice, Paris.
Condition A-: minor restoration and creasing in image.
The great bicyclist Lucien Lesna, in blue and white, is pedalling through the green, brown, blue and tan countryside, in a recreation of his victory in the Paris-Bordeaux race of 1901, which the poster proudly proclaims he won on a Cleveland bicycle. Lesna also won the race in 1894. Lettering in red, white and blue.