Gazette Drouot logo print
Lot n° 80

Olympic Games/ summer, 1932/ Los Angeles/ Cycling/...

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Olympic Games/ summer, 1932/ Los Angeles/ Cycling/ Swimming/ Athletics. A unique item: THE Special Menu for the Olympic Games team on July 10, 1932, aboard the Paquebot Lafayette...Under a beautiful color cover by George Barbier (Voyageurs d'Autrefois, aboard CGT liners), the menu with whiting, lamb chop, apples in dresses, butter sphaghetti, cardinal apples, etc.) in 4th, around the CGT logo, a firework display of signatures from French team champions (over 30), We recognized the signatures of cyclists Le Greves, Chaillot, Rampelberg, Chocque, M Fournier, Perrin, swimmers Taris, Yvonne Godard (the only woman in the delegation), athletes Sera Martin, Duhour, Keller, Begeot, Adelheim, or managers Jean-Michel Renaitour, Lesur, Campbell-Wood, etc....Many will go on to become Olympic medallists or champions! 20x13,5, open : 20x27. TBE. Museum piece