Charles Lemmel

Back during my August road trip, there was one more thing I saw in an antique store that I meant to post here but forgot about. It was this poster:

This was the signature in the upper left corner:

A little searching showed me that the illustrator is Charles Lemmel, 1899–1976. He was French, of course, and there's a good sampling of his work online.

Personally, I like his non-athletically oriented works best:

(Get your DDT here!)

Strangest of all is this one for some kind of liqueur, featuring Prometheus bound and winking at the viewer as the eagle eats his liver:

I don't know what that's about, though I might be able to hazard a guess, given all the buff young men in some of the images.

Archival pages of some of his work can be bought here.