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Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · The Velocipede
Cycles Perfecta (Mucha, 1902)
Alphonse Mucha · Cycles Perfecta, 1902
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph by Alphonse Mucha for Cycles Perfecta, dated 1902 and printed by F. Champenois, Paris. Rennert and Weill catalogue it as no. 81-1.
Why it matters
Late in the bicycle boom, Mucha sold the feeling of speed rather than the machine's parts.
What to notice
Only a corner of the bicycle shows. The rider is the advertisement.
The bicycle sold itself as freedom, and the poster sold the bicycle.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Alphonse Mucha
- Printer / house
- F. Champenois, Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Cycles Perfecta, 1902
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b52525185m
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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