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Description
Sporting British fine art painting of Automobile Formula One Racing Car 1955 Monaco Grand Prix Driver Alberto Ascari Driving Lancia D50 By Nicholas Watts. Also mounted alongside is a scarce original autograph signed signature by Alberto Ascari himself, which is signed in pencil to an album page attached inside.
Subject racing sporting portrait of the known Alberto Ascari driving in the red Lancia D50 No 26 in side profile at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1955.
Medium acrylic on board set in a racing red frame & mounted with a front protective cover, with hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
You can feel the thrill of this exciting race, the artist Nicholas Watts has captured the spinning motion of the tyre wheels with his brushstrokes which is breathtaking, showing the known much loved & admired Italian racing driver, with the racing track below.
Title “Alberto Ascari's Lancia D50 at the Monaco Grand Prix, 1955” By Nicholas Watts.
Formula One Nicholas Watts (British b.1947) a known British sporting artist, his works have been exhibited & sold at galleries & auction houses around the world, the highest sold price was for $7,584 Us Dollars. Nicholas Watts was brought up in Kent close to the racing circuit Brands Hatch located in West Kingsdown, Kent, England, United Kingdom. Originally used as a grasstrack motorcycle circuit on farmland, it held 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently hosts many British and International racing events. He merged his natural art talent with his admiration of motorsport. He created his own style. His paintings with racing drivers signatures are among the most sought after.
Biography of Alberto Ascari (13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1955. Ascari won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1952 and 1953 with Ferrari. In endurance racing, Ascari won the Mille Miglia in 1954 with Lancia. Noted for careful precision and finely-judged accuracy, Ascari was a multitalented racer who competed in motorcycle racing before switching to cars. He won consecutive Formula One world titles in 1952 and 1953 for Scuderia Ferrari, becoming the first Ferrari-powered World Champion and breaking several records across both seasons. He remains the last Italian to win the World Drivers' Championship, as of 2024. This was sandwiched by an appearance in the 1952 Indianapolis 500, and winning the 1954 Mille Miglia.
As of 2024, Ascari and Michael Schumacher are Ferrari's only back-to-back World Champions, and Ascari remains Ferrari's sole Italian champion. As the first driver to win multiple World Championship titles, he held the record for most World Championship titles from 1952 to 1954, becoming one of four drivers to have held the record for most World Championship titles. Juan Manuel Fangio held the record from 1954 to 2002 (jointly with Ascari in 1954) and Schumacher has held the record since 2002, although Schumacher also shares that record with Lewis Hamilton since 2020. When Ascari was a young child, his father Antonio Ascari, also a famous racing driver, died in an accident at the 1925 French Grand Prix. Ascari himself was later killed during a test session for Ferrari at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in 1955 Monte Carlo, Monaco.
The 1955 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on 22 May 1955. It was race 2 of 7 in the 1955 World Championship of Drivers and was given an honorary name, Grand Prix d'Europe. 19-22 May 1955. Alberto Ascari leads Louis Chiron (both Lancia D50). Chiron finished in 6th position but Ascari crashed into the harbour water. The 100-lap race was won by Ferrari driver Maurice Trintignant after he started from ninth position. Eugenio Castellotti finished second for the Lancia team and Maserati drivers Jean Behra and Cesare Perdisa came in third.
Provenance Julian Chritchlow Gcf Leighton Buzzard & Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd.
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measurements
Height:
54 cm
Width:
80 cm
Depth:
1.2 cm
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declaration
Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD has clarified that the Painting Formula One Racing 1955 Monaco Grand Prix Alberto Ascari Red Lancia D50 (LA509013) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 20th Century
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condition
condition
Offered in fine used condition. The front painting surface is in very good order, the frame has general wear scuffs, scratches & minor losses and recent paint touch ups to the corners commensurate with usage and age, with a protective glass front which has scuffs, scratches and stains.