CHRISTIAN HENRY TAVARD RENAULT FRÈRES 90CH /ELIMINATOIRES DE LA COUPE GORDON BENNETT 1905

inscription ‘‘CHRISTIAN H.G.H. TAVARD/ COPYRIGHT’ (in the middle); inscription ‘Voir “L’Automobile” N. 237.1.1966’ (on the upper edge) original drawing Indian ink on tracing paper 31 x 58 cm Provenance: collection of the Musée de l'Automobiliste in Mougins, South of France (1984 – 2008), created by Adrien Maeght, son of Aimé Maeght, famous French art dealer, collector, lithographer, and publisher; Private collection, Monaco. In order to promote their car brand, the Renault brothers, with Ferenc Szisz replacing Marcel Renault, took part in the last edition of the Gordon Bennett Car Cup on the Auvergne circuit in Clermont-Ferrand. The sixth and last edition of the Gordon Bennett Cup, created by James Gordon Benett (1841-1918), took place in Clermont-Ferrand, France in 1905. The race was won, as in the previous year, by the Frenchman Léon Théry on this Richard-Brasier. CHRISTIAN HENRY TAVARD was a specialist in technical drawing, and the editor-in-chief of the famous magazine "L'Automobiliste" created by Adrien Maeght in the 1980s.