BMW 3.0 CSL #93 24h LeMans 1975 Art Car Alexander Calder 1:43 Norev

The model was produced in the usual Norev high-quality and reflects back the original as possible.

Model features:

• With BMW works outer packaging

 BMW Art Car #01 / designed by Alexander Calder

• BMW Dealer Box Edition
• including display case

Art cars have a long tradition at BMW. For 50 years, the Munich-based company has commissioned well-known artists to design its racing cars for selected highlights.

The idea for the first BMW Art Car came from French auctioneer and racing driver Hervé Poulain. On his initiative, the American artist Alexander Calder painted a BMW 3.0 CSL in 1975. Hervé Poulain drove this car himself in the 1975 24 Hours of LeMans. The following year, the artwork with black lines created by New Yorker Frank Stella, also based on a BMW 3.0 CSL, started at LeMans in 1976. The cars later designed by Roy Lichtenstein (1977), Andy Warhol (1979) and Jenny Holzer (1999) also took part in the 24 Hours of LeMans.
A number of other renowned artists have designed BMW production and racing cars, including Ernst Fuchs (1982), Robert Rauschenberg (1986), Michael Nelson Jakamarra (1989), Ken Done (1989), Matazo Kayama (1990), César Manrique (1990), A. R. Penck (1991), Esther Mahlangu (1991), Sandro Chia (1992), David Hockney (1995), Olafur Eliasson (2007) and Jeff Koons (2010). The most recent BMW Art Car to date – a BMW M Hybrid V8 – was designed by Julie Mehretu in 2024.

 

This item is in stock in our shop in Adenau / Eifel.

This item is in stock in our shop in Frankfurt.