Rouxel & Dubois Paris
Poster
1895 (made)
1895 (made)
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Colour lithograph poster depicting two men riding a tandem bicycle into space, with Earth receding behind them and ringed planets and a starry night sky in the background.
Object details
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| Title | Rouxel & Dubois Paris (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster by Ferdinand Lunel advertising bicycles : 'Rouxel & Dubois Paris'. France, 1895. |
| Physical description | Colour lithograph poster depicting two men riding a tandem bicycle into space, with Earth receding behind them and ringed planets and a starry night sky in the background. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs J.T. Clarke |
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| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is from Barnicoat, John. Posters: A Concise History. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985:
'Popular art, including posters, for example the one by Lunel for Rouxel and Dubois in the 1890s - provided source material for the Surrealists of 1924. Many of the cycling posters and advertisements, such as Tamango's Terrot (1898) or the anonymous poster for Dangerfield & Co., reveal some of the tensions that existed between man and machine in the new age of technology. It was one of the achievements of the avant garde to exploit the element of fantasy in naive art, the poster of popular inspiration being a principal source of raw material - for example, Alfred Jarry and the celestial cyclists of his saga, The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race. In fact, in 1924, the designer D'Ylen was using imagery closely related to that of Surrealism in his posters for the Shell Company'. |
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| Accession number | E.242-1921 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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