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 Carlo
Demand, In Motion and Color
Carlo Demand, In Motion and Color
is a new book by Gary Doyle and is
published by Racemaker Press©. It outlines Carlo Demand’s work for 11 books he
illustrated on transportation related topics; race cars,
motorcycles, tanks, trucks, paddle wheel steamers, air ships and
airplanes are some of the diverse subject matter. Carlo was one
of the most prolific transportation artists in the history of
the genre.
The book starts with a review of his life, a discussion of his
various publications followed by 59 gouache paintings on automobile
racing subject matter. These
works depict American and European car racing from 1898 to
the middle 1950s, the same period of his most famous book, The
Big Race which he illustrated with 128 charcoal drawings. Most
of the gouache work is from private commissions and two of his
works published in Germany and not widely distributed in the
United States. As a result, most of these paintings have not
been commonly seen. Accompanying the images are 59 stories about time, place, people and
events depicted.
Mr. Doyle represents the estate of Carlo Demand and offers some
of the remaining paintings for sale at the Amelia Island and
Pebble Beach Concours. As such, he has unique access to the
scope of Carlo’s production. The book will be similar in quality
to Ralph De Palma, Gentleman Champion, 143 pages in length
with a slightly horizontal format.
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