Rene Vincents Peugeot GP car poster of 1919 is one of the illustrators most famous artworks…
Born in 1879, Rene studied at the famous Ercole des Beaux Arts in Rue Bonaparte, Paris initially studying architecture but later switching to graphic art and ceramics courses. He later contributed fashion illustrations to some of the best known magazines of the day and designed a swag of advertisements and posters for Bugatti, Peugeot, Michelin and Shell. Most of his work was in the art deco style for which he was noted.
By 1919 the war was over and the achievements of Peugeot’s epochal double overhead cam cars of 1913 were well in the past, but the influence of which we still feel now. Vincent chose this series of cars to make an amazingly impactful statement about Peugeot’s future. I wrote an article about these seminal racers a while back, click here to read it;
https://primotipo.com/2015/12/11/191213-peugeot-gp-car-especially-its-engines/
Rene was a keen automobilist and said to be one of the first Parisians to have both a drivers license and a garage to house his car, clearly his graphic design endeavours were lucrative, he died in 1936.
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Rene Vincent
Tailpiece: 1913 3 Litre DOHC 4 Cylinder Peugeot Engine…
(Automobile Year #10)
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