HISTORIC CAR ART

#motoring #antique #art Georges Boillot (1884-1916) driving his No. 22 Peugeot L76 to victory in the 1912 French Grand Prix. Depicted below in this wonderful hand-coloured pochoir lithograph by M. Campion dating from the period. Campion was one of many artists working for the great Ernest Montaut Studio in Paris. Original hand-coloured pochoir lithograph, 1912. Boillot's Peugeot was the first motorcar in the world to have an engine with two overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder. The following year he became the first driver to win the race twice. Georges Boillot (1884-1916) With the outbreak of WW1 Boillot  joined the new French Air Force. During this time he won the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'Honneur. On April 21, 1916 his plane was shot down in a dogfight over Verdun-sur-Meuse, although he survived this he was badly injured and died soon after in hospital.

Early hand coloured lithograph. #art #motoring The grand father of motoring art Ernest Montant (1879-1909) is credited with inventing many artistic techniques, including speed lines and the deliberate distortion of perspective by bending and foreshortening the image in order to create the illusion of movement and speed. In 1907 he printed a series of 31 lithographs, each hand coloured , and bound them into a portfolio book which he titled "Dix Ans de Courses". Very few copies of this rare book survive complete. Quite rare too are the lithographs that were once contained in these portfolios. We have some examples in the gallery and they are beautiful. They are over 100 years old and the colours are still wonderful. The example above shows the 60hp Lorraine-Detriech of Duray on the 1907 Moscou-Saint-Petersbourg race.