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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PAL (JEAN DE PALEOLOGUE, 1860-1942) PHEBUS. Circa 1898. 56 1/2x40 1/2 inches, 143 1/2x101 1/2 cm. Paul Dupont, Paris. Condition B: repaired tears, restored losses and restoration in margins and image; left and right margins trimmed. A tantalizing image in which a woman is left crying at the side of the road because a clown has outraced her on his motorized tricycle. Less flamboyant and overtly sexual than many of Pal's posters, this image bears a powerful allegorical meaning. It can easily be interpreted as a reaction to all of the many bicycle posters showing emancipated women, which were appearing frequently around this time. Here the road is being taken back from female cyclists by a man. But the irony should not be lost that "man" is represented by a clown. Petite Reine 28.
