Judo/ Wrestling/ Motorcycles/ Police/ Versailles/ Poilvé/ Ol - Lot 329

Judo/ Wrestling/ Motorcycles/ Police/ Versailles/ Poilvé/ Olympic Games Berlin. A rare and curious canvas poster, in which the Association Sportive de la Police brings judo, wrestling (with Poilvé) and motorcycling together in Versailles (the next Olympic theater). "Association Sportive et Musicale de la Police d'Etat, Stade Montbauron, Versaille, May 31, 1947, Grande Fête Sportive Omnisport, with local teams in soccer, basketball, wrestling with Poilvé, ex-world champion, boxing, and a judo exhibition by our qualified instructors, Paul Poitte will perform acrobatics on a motorcycle...". Canvas poster, 60x40...A fine typographic exercise to announce a busy and varied program...While a judo demonstration was highly original for the time, the presence of Poilvé, who was a policeman, was less so. He was Olympic freestyle wrestling champion in the middleweight category at the 1936 Berlin Games, not a weightlifter.