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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 May 05 @ 08:00UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
<b>P. MARC</b> <p> <b>173. BÈbÈli/Cycles et Automobiles.</b>
41 3/8 x 55 1/2 in./105.2 x 141 cm
Cond B+/Recreated border.
Ref: PAI-XXX, 269
Although an open-air coupe and accompanying bicycle are heavily featured in the fore of this wonderfully active design, it appears as if it is, in fact, an advertisement for the BÈbÈli brand of tires that place these vehicles firmly on the road. Composed magnificently and alive with a spectacular interplay of light and shadow, this quiet country lane teems with a series of fantastic vignettes that elevate the design beyond your typical marketing ploy: a scene of a fragile globe being splintered by the animal cruelty of equine transport, the might of BÈbÈli squeezing out the life’s blood of other makes of tires, the passenger held product medallion serving as the sun, an inferior tire spent and discarded by the roadside. It seems rather unlikely that the poor cock meeting his untimely end at the hands of BÈbÈli would be simply an innocent victim tread upon by the wheels of progress; rather, it would appear to be a direct attack on a rival manufacturer, in all likelihood the ClÈment firm whose symbol was the rooster.
<b>Est: $4,000-$5,000.</b>
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