Au Vélodrome [SEP] creator
Au Vélodrome
Au Vélodrome, also known as At the Cycle-Race Track and Le cycliste, is a painting by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger. The work illustrates the final meters of the Paris–Roubaix race, and portrays its 1912 winner Charles Crupelandt. Metzinger's painting is the first in Modernist art to represent a specific sporting event and its champion.
"Au Vélodrome" remained in Metzinger's atelier until it was shipped to New York, where it was shown to the public for the first time
km then stood until 1933. Egg set all three of his records at the Vélodrome Buffalo in Paris. The track was a 333m outdoor track surfaced with concrete. The sequence was as follows:
- 20 Jun 1907, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 41.520 km
- 22 Aug 1912, Oscar Egg, Paris, 42.122 km
- 7 Aug 1913, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 42.741 km
- 21 Aug 1913, Oscar Egg, Paris, 43.525 km
- 20 Sep 1913,