Plus de Pneux Crevés! - after Gil Baer

Christophe Adrien (Count) Regley de Koenigsegg

A humorous advertisement for Fucosine tire adhesive, which claims: "No more punctured tires! By the use of the Fucosine automatic shutter / By continuous presence in the air chamber - Avoids disassembly - Repairs the holes without damaging the rubber". The original work was a large lithographic poster designed by Gil Baer (French: 1863 - 1931), here spelled "Gilbaer", a painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose works were popular during the Belle Epoque poster era and through the First World War.

In this image, 1/16th the size of the original, features a fashionable woman astride her bicycle, a freshly picked bunch of wildflowers secured to her lap, as she passes another cyclist who has crashed due to a flat tire. In her hand she holds up a bottle of epoxy made by the Fucosine company, alleged to prevent flats and eliminate the need for a pump and patch kit. In the background, Koenigsegg has faithfully captured the distant hills and fields of the French countryside illustrated by Baer.