LOT 109

A large and early 'La "Comète" guérit les Pneus' lithographic advertising poster for Michelin, French, 1906,

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Lot 109

A large and early 'La "Comète" guérit les Pneus' lithographic advertising poster for Michelin, French, 1906,

The Robert Lusk Collection Part III - Automobilia & Posters|28 May 2026, 13:48 BST|Online, Guildford

A large and early 'La "Comète" guérit les Pneus' lithographic advertising poster for Michelin, French, 1906,

one of only 150 examples printed by Paul Dupont, Paris, and with artwork after Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, depicting a coastal scene with a heavenly female nymph magically 're-animating' the punctured inner tube of an early French motorcar as the chauffeur and well-to-do passengers and their dog look on, with Mr Bibendum cycling off in the distance, 109 x 148cm, within a wooden frame and Perspex glazed, (paper discoloured, horizontal and vertical creases and fold marks, wrinkling, old tape marks to corners).

Footnotes

See Bonhams 2 November 2012, sale number 20146 lot 75 and Bonhams 31 October 2025, sale number 30972, lot 122 for similar posters.

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