May 08, 2006 - Sale 2079

Sale 2079 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
JEAN CARLU (1900-1997) PEUGEOT. 1925.
61 1/4x45 1/2 inches. Draeger, Paris.
Condition B+: restoration and minor restored losses along vertical and horizontal folds; restoration in image.
Another early, unreferenced image in which Carlu turns his young, yet talented abilities towards a bicycle ad. Although the concept of a woman atop the globe holding a bicycle aloft is certainly not a new idea, Carlu delivers a brightly-colored, well-executed image that perfectly serves a poster's primary purpose, to stop a person on the street and deliver a message.