Lautenschlager

614

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acrylic on paper 8x12" sold

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1908

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Christian Lautenschlager

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Mercedes

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First 500

500

acrylic on paper 8x11" sold

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a race of many first...

in 1911, Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis 500

in the first single seater racing car the Marmon Wasp,

equipped with the first rear view mirror,

and i notched up my first 500th post/painting!

Renault 1906

400

winners of the first Grand Prix,Szisz and Renault,1906

oil on panel 16x24" sold

Fiat doodle

364


Fiat doodle

pioneer sketches

341

a few sketches,to practice drivers and their co-drivers...

Renault 1908

338

acrylic on paper 5x6" sold

Dimitri Renault 1908

Louis Wagner

303


runner up in the French Grand Prix of 1912,Louis Wagner on his FIAT S-47

acrylic on paper 9x12" sold

Georges Boillot

271

Hartbreak for local hero George Boillot ,Peugeot,during the 1914 French Grand Prix,he brakes down on the last lap,catching the leader Christian Lautenschlager on Mercedes.Here Boillot climbes from his car while being passed by another Mercedes of Wagner.

This was all on the eve of the Great War...

acrylic on paper 18x24" sold

Bexhill on Sea

238



Bexhill on Sea, this closed track was basicly a time trial up and down the sea front,a huge event for those days' ,thousends of people came to watch this novelty.
Can't imagine that now,bexhill is full of pensioners and the traffic is anoyingly slow,
must be the same folks as all those years ago!

Bexhill 1905

237

The first race in England on closed tracks was held at Bexhill on Sea 1905.

Today there are still little reminders and even a yearly festival...

acrylic on paper 6x12" sold

Wolsely

236
30 hp Wolseley 1904

Christian Lautenschlager

235

oil on panel 9x12" sold

Christian Lautenschlager,Mercedes,winner of the 1914 french Grand Prix.

study,copied from plein air landscape

Itala

234

Alessandro Lagno,Italia,winning the 1907 Targa Florio
acrylic on paper 8x12" sold

Premier Grand Prix

332

Francoise Szisz winning the first ever Grand Prix at Le Mans 1906 on his Renault.
oil on panel 22x 28" alla Monet.

Dave Bruce Brown

230



Dave Bruce Brown,Fiat s74,oil on canvas sold

FIAT S47

229

painted this car a lot...love the brutality and romance of it

oil on canvas 9x11"

Mors 1903

211


1903 Paris-Madrid,F Gabriel,Mors

This is my last post before we are off on our little roadtrip through the South-East of England...

Our camper will be slower than this 1903 Mors