Hi Gang,
Just home from NAHMBS. It was a blast!!!
I have one tiny Rebour original hanging in my shop. It showed up in the mail about a year ago. It was a gift from a former customer who moved away years ago. He had purchased an original paste-up from one of those montage pages from Le Cycle magazine. He purchased the page on eBay and separated each of the original drawings; framed them, and gave them away. The one that I received is a lower head lug and it has the word RADAR written on it in blue ink.
I was thrilled to have a Rebour original, but my euphoria was outweighed by my outrage that he had dismantled the original paste-up. I offered to send the piece back and urged him to put the page back together. He thought I was over reacting and so did a few other knowledgeable listees. So I hung the thing on the wall and there it is.
Only the original page carried Rebour's signature. So you guys are going to have to take my word for it when I put my piece up on eBay. : )
Regards, Jamie Swan
Jamie Swan Centerport Cycles Inc. 245 Main St. Northport, N.Y. 11768 631-262-0909 http://www.centerportcycles.com (mapped) http://www.cabinfeverliquidations.com http://www.limws.org http://www.liatca.org
On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:53 AM, Brett Horton wrote:
> I have a small stash of Rebour's original drawings and original
> printing plates in my collection. I obtained them in a deal with a
> collector in France a few years back. He had acquired the bulk of what
> was theoretically left of the family archives years ago. I ended up
> with about 30%, another collector has about the same, and the original
> collector now has about 40% of what he started with. I've been meaning
> to put the ones I have up on my web site for the past 2-3 years but
> have just never quite got around to it.
>
> For all of Rebour's prolific output, there does not appear to be
> that many pieces of available original art out there. In any given 5
> year period I see perhaps 4-5 of his drawings surface at auction and
> virtually nothing appearing on the private market. (ie about one
> drawing per year) My understanding is most of what comes up for sale
> goes to Japan.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, three other collectors and I have the
> majority of the known drawings. All told, I'm guessing between the
> four of us there are 300-400 drawings. Figure another 200 or so are
> out there scattered to the winds. And who knows? There might be
> hundreds more that are for now just sitting in boxes tucked away in
> some printers storage basement in France. Still, as a percent of
> original output, only a relatively small percentage of Rebour's
> drawings seem to survive.
>
> Don't interpret this to mean the drawings are priceless. Far from
> it. While a nice Tour de France bike drawing will cost you $1000+,
> smaller drawings can be had for less than $200. Basically, expect to
> pay from $90-175 for most of the more common or simple drawings.
> Bigger drawings, or those of particularly trick or otherwise unusual
> items will bring more. And drawings of things like Campy and Herse
> components fetch even more. Of course, this is all on the premise you
> can find them. I have been passively looking, with no success, for
> Rebour's drawing of a Campy track cog drawing for 10+ years. If I ever
> find it, it will be purely by luck.
>
> Rebour's actual artwork is really impressive. The magazines they
> were printed in don't do the original art justice. The second and
> third generation reprints, like the series of books from Japan, pretty
> much crucify the beauty of the originals.
>
> Best of luck on the Rebour art quest.
>
> Brett Horton
> San Francisco, CA
>
>
>
> Brandon"monkeyman"Ives wrote:
> <snip> Of course in all the years I've been into this stuff I've
> never seen, or heard, of an original drawing being sold. Rebour made
> thousands of drawings over his career and was popular during the time
> so I don't see his originals just being destroyed after use in a ad or
> magazine. Does anyone have any ideas on the availability of original
> Rebour work?
>
>
> .