Alfredo De la María (b. 1945)
Signed on the lower centre
Watercolour and pencil on paper
43 × 56 cm; 17 × 22 in. (framed)
Monaco 2016
Monaco Grand Prix, 1957 by Alfredo De la María
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€3,744 EUR | Sold
| Monte Carlo, Monaco
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Alfredo De la María depicts legendary racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio racing to the finish of the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix in his Maserati 250F. Knowing that his less experienced and significantly younger rivals would drive recklessly on the tight Monaco track, Fangio kept back as the others fought for position. Only four laps into the race, an accident took four of the top drivers out of contention. Fangio cautiously drove past the carnage and led the remaining 101 laps until the finish.
That year, Juan Manuel Fangio celebrated his fifth and final Formula One World Championship, winning four of the seven races.
