A cyclist bursts out of a golden star and drags a comet behind him, and the comet's tail is a list of races. Michel Liebeaux (1881 to 1923), who signed as Mich, was born in Périgueux and trained in Nantes. He designed the poster in 1907 for Les Fils de Peugeot Frères Constructeurs of Valentigney, in the Doubs. That year Lucien Petit-Breton won the Tour de France for Peugeot-Wolber.
On the poster
A caricatured racing cyclist erupts from a golden eight-pointed star, trailing a comet of yellow and purple bands across a deep violet sky. Each arc of the tail carries a race name in arching script: "Tour de France", "Paris-Roubaix", "Grand Prix de Paris", "Championnat du Monde", "Paris-Bruxelles" and four more. On the right, a rotund caricature figure with an oversized globe-like head stands beside his bicycle, visibly stunned.
The text says that in 1907 a glorious comet made the universe go cross-eyed, and that it belonged to Cycles Peugeot.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.
