Having commissioned the first two instalments of its burgeoning Art Car theme in time for the 1975 and ‘76 Le Mans 24 Hour races, BMW went on to order a third machine that would appear at the…
Read MoreAfter the success of BMW’s first Art Car, an E9 CSL painted by Alexander Calder which garnered a huge amount of publicity at the 1975 Le Mans 24 Hours, the Munich firm commissioned a second…
Read MoreChassis 4301021 was the M1 Procar supplied to professional Austrian racing driver, Dieter Quester. Having started his career with an Alfa Romeo Giulietta in 1961, Quester raced a variety of Porsches…
Read MoreThree years since BMW had last commissioned an Art Car, executives at the company ordered two new creations from a pair of Australian painters: Michael Jagamara Nelson and Ken Done.
Read MoreAfter three consecutive years of BMW Art Car appearances at the Le Mans 24 Hours (1975, ‘76 and ‘77), a two year gap followed prior to the arrival of a fourth instalment of the theme. Despite the…
Read MoreBetween 1989 and 1991, BMW commissioned six brand new art cars (two every year). Prior to this flurry of activity, just six works had been created since 1975. The ninth art car came along in 1990…
Read MoreChassis 4301036 was one of the M1 Procars reserved for use by the official BMW Motorsport team in 1979. It first appeared at Hockenheim (round five) in the hands of promising German, Hans-Georg…
Read MoreAfter BMW commissioned just two Art Cars between 1980 and 1988, a glut of seven arrived between 1989 and 1992. The last of these seven cars and the only example produced in 1992 was the work of…
Read MoreBMW’s first Art Car came about in 1975 as a result of a suggestion from French fine art auctioneer and amateur racing driver, Herve Poulain. That first collaboration, an E9 CSL painted by Alexander…
Read MoreThe idea for BMW’s now legendary line of Art Cars originally came from outside the company; it was young French auctioneer, Herve Poulain, that suggested the concept as a means of combining his…
Read MoreBMW’s fifth Art Car was the first to be based on a production model and also the first to be painted by a European artist. The blank canvas supplied to Austrian painter and sculptor, Ernst Fuchs, was a…
Read MoreBMW’s 14th Art Car was the work of David Hockney. Considered among the most influential artists of the 20th century, Hockney was an important contributor to the expressionist and pop art…
Read MoreThe eleventh creation in BMW’s Art Car series was the work of Ralf Winkler who was better known under the pseudonym, A. R. Penck. BMW commissioned a flurry of Art Cars in the late 1980s and…
Read MoreFew cars have such poignant origins as BMW M1 Procar chassis 4301053. In 1976, American painter, sculptor and printmaker, Frank Stella, had been commissioned to create BMW’s second Art Car.
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