Bicyclette Liberator. ca. 1900.
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Bicyclette Liberator. ca. 1900.
“The social and political overseers of the 19th and 20th centuries all had to discuss the mobilizing topic of weekly rest... [In] 1841, weekly rest becomes obligatory for children; 1842, it becomes the same way for women and in 1906, the law applies itself to all commercial and industrial workers. After the Second World War, everyone who collects a salary benefits from the law. Humorists, always at the ready to taunt political decisions, push logic to the extremes. And that’s how we find ourselves at this comical Sunday scene. Economic activity is totally paralyzed. A panel on a railroad crossing gate indicates: ‘Closed for Weekly Rest;’ a result, all the same, of the possible risks of relaxation in the working population. Bicycles then become unanimously adopted salutary machines. Groups of people form; proletarians and tourists find themselves rubbing elbows, a gendarme and an old maid with a cat, a chimney sweep and a cook, an enterprising and elegant businessman, a soldier and a domestic, a middle-class man in a top hat and a facetious civil servant. This poster that evokes the beginning of a social right goes on to insist on an economic phenomenon: the increased demands and consumption of the masses. The manufacturers of Liberator bicycles couldn’t be anything but delighted” (Collectionneur, p. 216).
Size: 61 3/4 x 45 1/2 in./157 x 115.7 cm
Condition: A.
Printer: Imp. B. Chapellier Jeune, Paris
Reference: Collectionneur, p. 216; PAI-XLIV, 223
Key Words: Art Nouveau; Bicycles
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Price: $1680 (starting bid + 20% buyer’s premium)
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Bicyclette Liberator. ca. 1900.
“The social and political overseers of the 19th and 20th centuries all had to discuss the mobilizing topic of weekly rest... [In] 1841, weekly rest becomes obligatory for children; 1842, it becomes the same way for women and in 1906, the law applies itself to all commercial and industrial workers. After the Second World War, everyone who collects a salary benefits from the law. Humorists, always at the ready to taunt political decisions, push logic to the extremes. And that’s how we find ourselves at this comical Sunday scene. Economic activity is totally paralyzed. A panel on a railroad crossing gate indicates: ‘Closed for Weekly Rest;’ a result, all the same, of the possible risks of relaxation in the working population. Bicycles then become unanimously adopted salutary machines. Groups of people form; proletarians and tourists find themselves rubbing elbows, a gendarme and an old maid with a cat, a chimney sweep and a cook, an enterprising and elegant businessman, a soldier and a domestic, a middle-class man in a top hat and a facetious civil servant. This poster that evokes the beginning of a social right goes on to insist on an economic phenomenon: the increased demands and consumption of the masses. The manufacturers of Liberator bicycles couldn’t be anything but delighted” (Collectionneur, p. 216).
Size: 61 3/4 x 45 1/2 in./157 x 115.7 cm
Condition: A.
Printer: Imp. B. Chapellier Jeune, Paris
Reference: Collectionneur, p. 216; PAI-XLIV, 223
Key Words: Art Nouveau; Bicycles
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