From the 150 sketches submitted in the poster competition of the 1924 Paris Olympics, the French Olympic Committee selected two: this one and another by Droit (see PAI-LXXXVII, 139). Orsi, a prolific poster artist—his published works number more than a thousand—symbolizes the 8th Olympics with a view of a javelin thrower about to hurl his ancient weapon out over a panorama of Paris; a globe is included to suggest the international scope of the event.
Phogor, Paris
literature: Olympics, p. 29; Kauffer/Poster Purpose, p. 156; Sport à l’Affiche, 89; PAI-LXXXVIII, 5