A racing spirit forms a figurehead for the speeding automobile as it kicks dust into the starry midnight sky. Simultaneously poetic and dramatic, it is one of the most spectacular automotive posters ever created. Several versions of the image are known; this particular variant comes to us before the addition of lettering in the top text panel. Possibly the firm did not yet know that their car won the prestigious Gordon Bennett race in 1904 - something heralded in the version with top text. Bellery-Desfontaines had a short but successful career as a painter, decorator and designer of furniture, books and typefaces. Two of his color lithographs were included in the prestigious L Estampe moderne.
Giclee Prints are printed on heavy matte finish 180gsm German art paper using the finest Canon archival inks. Entry Level Art Prints are printed on 250Gsm satin paper. Quality Frame with a single white matboard and Acrylic glazing.
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Stretched Canvas is stretched by hand over 1.5" thick pine bars and printed on cotton poly matte finish canvas. Each is canvas hand coated with Hahnemuhle UV/Archive coating, these are Swiss quality best in industry canvases.
All our images are digitized from the original negative , printed and assembled in Switzerland to museum standards by our master printer.
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Artwork in this collection is from our own archives or licensed archives. Reproduction rights are reserved by the copyright owner. All of our prints' sizes refers to paper size. Our image sizes vary from image to image and respect the original ratio of the original poster. This means that there is a varying white border on all sides to keep the original ratio true to the original.
