HISTORIC CAR ART

The 12 Hours of Sebring 1965. This original poster is new into the gallery today...and already sold! Fantastic artwork featuring the Ford GT40 (or maybe Ford X1, it's forerunner...).

Sorry for the radio silence. July was a busy month, culminating with a successful Silverstone Classic; Thank you to all our customers who visited. We were closed for the first two weeks of August, now back to catch up and prepare for Goodwood Revival on 16-18th September... What's new? Well quite a lot. We'll kick off with this great AEROSHELL poster from the earlier 1930's celebrating Alfa Romeo's Grand Prix victory at Picardie, France in 1933. No graphics, just wonderful period typesetting and of course the very recognisable AeroShell logo. Held on 21 May 1933 this was the 9th running of the event. Phillippe Etancelin won from pole position by 3 minutes from Raymond Sommer (also Alfa Romeo) and Marcel Lehoux driving a Bugatti T51. This original poster measuring 58.5 x 79.5 cm is in excellent condition and is linen mounted.

#motoring The 21st Grand Prix of Endurance took place on 13 and 14th June 1953. Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton winning for Jaguar by 4 laps from Stirling Moss and Peter Walker. Original banner poster for the 1953 Le Mans Race. We have one of the very rare race advertising banners, surviving it's 58 years very well indeed! The No.18 winning Jaguar in this Gouache painting by Brian James. Original and Limited Edition Prints available from our gallery.

#art #motoring #Le Mans #Porsche #Poster Le Mans . The 1971 film directed by Lee H. Katzin, and starring Steve McQueen featured footage from the actual 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans race won by Richard Attwood and Hans Hermann in the mighty Porsche 917K. A highly collectable original poster measuring 80 x 60cm and in excellent condition. "Storm Fast" by John Ketchell. The Attwood / Hermann winning Porsche 917K. Acrylics on Canvas. Both available from our gallery .

Ninian Sanderson and Ron Flockhart drive the Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-type to victory by one lap from the Aston Martin DB3S of Stirling Moss and Peter Collins. This lithographic poster was commissioned by Dunlop France to celebrate the victory. It is on much higher quality, heavier paper than was traditionally used for advertising and race posters and the colours were (and remain so) absolutely fantastic. It measures 80 x 40cm and is now a rare item, especially in this mint condition. It is, of course, available to purchase at Historic Car Art .

#Ferrari 312PB. #motoring #art The 1971 1000kms of Nurburgring and the Ferrari 312PB driven by Jacky Ickx and Clay Regazzoni. "Out of the Red" by John Ketchell The pair put the car on pole with a time of 7:36.1 but unfortunately did not finish due to overheating problems. The race was won by Vic Elford and Gérard Larrousse driving the Porsche 908/03. Original Poster for the event Both the original poster and painting by John Ketchell are available from Historic Car Art .

#motoring #art These are worth a look... As you know we specialize in original vintage posters and don't much care for reproductions. But...these are not reproductions of old posters, they are new contemporary artistic creations with style cues taken from the poster artists and art of the 1920's and 30's. They work very well.  After leaving school Bill Philpot pursued a long and highly successful career as a commercial artist working in London on many of the British advertising industry’s major award winning campaigns. But now he has turned his attention back to subjects which he finds more challenging. Bill has long been an admirer of the graphics and typography of that wonderfully creative period of the nineteen twenties and thirties, particularly the work of the great poster designers like A. M. Cassandre, Charles Loupot and George Hamel (Geo Ham) in Europe, Frank Newbould and Tom Purvis in England. In the late nineteen eighties Bill was commissioned by Christi...

Mark Donohue was already the Can-Am drivers champion by the time he won this race at Leguna Seca, his 5th of the 1973 season. Driving the Penske run Porsche 917/30, one of the most powerful racing cars ever produced. The 917/30 had up to 1580bhp and could do 0-200mph in 10.9 seconds! Porsche always celebrated their victories with wonderful graphic posters. Here's the one for this race: Original Porsche Factory Poster - October 1973 Original Poster Size: 30 x 40 inches Condition: A and available from our gallery .

This day 38 years ago (1972) Crystal Palace held it's last race meeting: Original Poster for the 1957 Whit Monday meeting featuring great Lotus XI artwork by Raymond Groves. Limited Edition Print by Graham Bosworth " Romulus " shows Prince Bira driving his ERA R2B 'Romulus' to victory in heat 1 of the R.R.C. Crystal Palace Cup - July 1939.

Today I have this great original poster for the 1969 race at Montjuïc. It seems that, like yesterdays race, it was another dull Spanish Grand Prix. Jackie Stewart won, finishing two laps ahead of second placed Bruce McLaren! The race was held here again in 1971 - Jackie Stewart took his third straight victory. This time by only 3 seconds from Jackie Ickx Ferrari. This race was the first Formula One race to use slick tyres (Firestones). In this painting by Tony Simmonds the No. 4 Ferrari of Belgian Jacky Ickx chases the winning No.11 Tyrell-Ford of Jackie Stewart...

Wow! What a way to advertise your brand of headlights. They certainly knew how to get your attention in those days. Ummm... I know let's stick a huge headlight on top of the Arch de Triomphe and having it glaring out across Paris! Fantastic. This poster dates from sometime in the late 20's to early 30's and is in perfect condition, the colours are fabulous. It's a good size too at 120 x 80cm. If you want some great Art Deco advertising art for your wall then look no further!

DDR Meisterschaftsendlauf: German Democratic Republic Championship Finals. The 1951 meeting was held at the Sachsenring for motorcycles, sports and racing cars. The Sachsenring racing circuit is located in Hohenstein-Ernstthal near Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany. The F3 500cc race was won by Adolf Lang driving a Cooper, the sportscar race by Eberhard de Bary driving a Simca Gordini. A very rare poster in excellent condition with wonderful post-war graphics still showing it's original fold lines.

A large Graham Hill Lotus 49 STP Race Fuel Poster. Original promotional poster for STP race fuel featuring wonderful Graham Hill Lotus 49 artwork by Yves Thos. Printer: Chabrillac SA, Toulouse, France.

 Size: 156 x 114cm (45 x 61.5 inches) Large single sheet. Conservation linen mounted.

We have half of the entire "Artist's Area" at Race Retro (Historic Motorsport Show) this year. It will be an exclusive open plan gallery for the best invited motoring artists. We will also exhibit a fine selection of our Vintage Poster collection. Be sure to pay us a visit! Some of the pieces will be previewed here over the coming weeks...

Welcome to our new blog - another way to stay up to date with the latest paintings, drawings, sculpture and vintage posters we have. This is a fantastic poster to start things off. A fantastic and very rare poster for the 1952 International Automobile and Motorcycle race meeting. What lovely artwork... although the artist is not known. Printer: Chibrillac, Toulouse. Size: 118cm x 74cm