Allegro vintage poster
Caption Brief: Founded in Neuchâtel by the racing Grandjean brothers, who launched a bicycle works in 1914 before adding motorcycles in 1923 with partner Marcel Bourquin, Allegro became one of interwar Switzerland's dominant marques, dominating the national 175cc championship from 1925 to 1929 with over sixty course records to its name. This Art Deco poster channels that racing pedigree: a lone rider centered against a rising sun, the road ahead rendered as a jagged yellow bolt, casting the machine as a streak of speed and modernity on the open Swiss road.
c. 1930
37⅞ h × 26⅝ w in (96 × 68 cm)
Creation Publivox, Geneva
Provenance: Collection of William Crouse
Condition: Cond A-/A: with faint rubbing to surface. Sheet is laid to board.
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Caption Brief: Founded in Neuchâtel by the racing Grandjean brothers, who launched a bicycle works in 1914 before adding motorcycles in 1923 with partner Marcel Bourquin, Allegro became one of interwar Switzerland's dominant marques, dominating the national 175cc championship from 1925 to 1929 with over sixty course records to its name. This Art Deco poster channels that racing pedigree: a lone rider centered against a rising sun, the road ahead rendered as a jagged yellow bolt, casting the machine as a streak of speed and modernity on the open Swiss road.
c. 1930
37⅞ h × 26⅝ w in (96 × 68 cm)
Creation Publivox, Geneva
Provenance: Collection of William Crouse
Condition: Cond A-/A: with faint rubbing to surface. Sheet is laid to board.
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