{"product_id":"semper-bicycles-kssamie-1920s-cycling","title":"Semper Bicycles 1920s | French Cycling Advertising Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eSix acrobatic figures in close-fitting vermilion-red suits surround a silver road bicycle floating against a saturated cobalt blue ground. One grips the handlebars, another reaches toward the front fork, two orbit the wheels, and a pair soars upward toward the brand's heraldic double-headed eagle in the upper corner. Below, the word 'SEMPER' rises in bold three-dimensional block letters across a pale convex globe, the cast shadow anchoring the typography to the earth that the figures above have cheerfully abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by the French illustrator known as Kssamie and produced in France around the early-to-mid 1920s, this is a vintage advertising poster for Semper, a French bicycle marque whose double-headed eagle crest signalled continental ambition. The flat palette, high-contrast colour field, and three-dimensional display lettering sit comfortably within the French commercial graphic tradition of the interwar period, when bicycle manufacturers competed for the cycling public's attention through large-format poster advertising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition draws on a convention common to French cycling poster art of the era: the liberation motif, in which cyclists or acrobatic stand-ins are freed from gravity to communicate the effortless pleasure of the machine. Kssamie's version replaces the single soaring figure with a full troupe, giving the poster an energy closer to a circus bill than a transport advertisement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper, the cobalt blue and vermilion-red palette translates with full saturation and depth. A natural choice for anyone drawn to early French commercial illustration, interwar graphic design, or the history of cycling advertising.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":63909623234937,"sku":"VPA-12251-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":63909623267705,"sku":"VPA-12251-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":63909623300473,"sku":"VPA-12251-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70cm","offer_id":63909623333241,"sku":"VPA-12251-50x70cm","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":63909623366009,"sku":"VPA-12251-A1","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100cm","offer_id":63909623398777,"sku":"VPA-12251-70x100cm","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0","offer_id":63909623431545,"sku":"VPA-12251-A0","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Sport-Cycling-Semper-FlyingFigures-1920s.jpg?v=1783449324","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/semper-bicycles-kssamie-1920s-cycling","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}