Date: 1985
Size: 39.5 x 279
Artist: Geo Ham (After)
About this poster:
The race is held on a narrow course laid out in the streets of Monaco, with many elevation changes and tight corners as well as a tunnel, making it one of the most demanding tracks in Formula One. In 2018, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso criticised Monaco GP as the "most boring race" due to limited opportunities of overtaking during the Grand Prix.
This poster is a 1985 re-issue of the original 1936 design.
Poster is in good condition and ready to frame !
About the Artist :
Georges Hamel was born in Laval, France on September 18th 1900.
He was brought up in a family with great feeling for artistic & technical developments in new century that began full of promise. It was in his native town when he was 11 that he had a moment of revelation of the beauty of airplanes, when a biplane piloted by a local politician tossing out leaflets flew over Laval. Two years later, the sight and sound of racing cars driven in Laval by another Georges.
Champion race car driver Georges Boillot (Peugeot) and Ernst Friedrich (Bugatti) - to mention only the most prestigious - filled the thirteen-year-old with wonder. Straightaway, young Georges took to his paintbrushes and covered the back of postcards published by his father with fine gouache.
In 1918, he passed the entrance examination for the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and went to Paris for further study. At the age of 20, under the name Géo Ham, he drew his first cover illustration for French Car magazine, Omnia. Soon his posters advertising motor races and air shows brightened up many city walls. He began getting his illustrations and fine art published on a regular basis by 1923, and by the 1930s was already established as the finest in his field. Ham was commissioned to create the now iconic Art Deco paintings, prints and posters for the Monaco Grand Prix, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and many other prestigious European Races.
A highlight of his life was competing in the 1934 Le Mans race in a 2-liter Derby, and although fuel problems forced him to withdrawal, the experience only added to his passion for racing art.