1939 Bentley 4¼ litre Vanden Plas Open Tourer

EXCLUSIVE TO LIMITED100
At Limited100 we work in partnership with a carefully selected group of the finest, most skilled automotive photographers. Our curators hand-pick every artwork we offer in order to provide you with an unmatched selection of limited edition automotive prints. We are proud to commission "1939 Bentley 4¼ litre Vanden Plas Open Tourer" by Abby Bowers, which is available exclusively at Limited100.

LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
We guarantee that we will only ever produce 100 of each image, regardless of your print size and material. To verify that your print is one of 100, we include a certificate of authenticity detailing which edition your product is, complete with our curator's and the artist's signature and details of your artwork including title and your specific print dimension and format variation.

PRODUCT OPTIONS
Your 1 of 100 print can be handmade in any of the following sizes and styles:

Sizes:

• A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in)
• A1 (594 x 841 mm / 23.4 x 33.1 in)
• A2 (420 x 594 mm / 16.5 x 23.4 in)
• A3 (297 x 420 mm / 11.7 x 16.5 in)

Styles:

• Fine Art Paper
• Print-Only
• Framed (Polcore)
• Wood Grain
• Black Wood Grain
• White Wood Grain
• Canvas Print (Mounted on Natural Wood Internal Frame)
• Aluminium Composite

Frame Mount Options:

• No Mount
• White Mount
• Cream Mount
• Black Mount

ABOUT THE ARTIST
"Photography has always been a passion, whether it’s picking my way through old family albums of saturated, grainy captures or taking terrible flash shots on a disposable camera. I’m fascinated by moments frozen in time in beautiful photographic memory. Even those gritty, dark, less aesthetically pleasing instances. The inspiration for my images doesn’t stem from other car imagery, or even the car itself. I’m inspired by TV programs like Life on Mars, vintage film photographs that were captured not as art, but as a means to tell a story and the works of artists such as Tish Martha, Berndt & Hilla Becker and Martin Parr to name a few. In my images I aim to capture the atmosphere of the moment so that when the photograph is viewed by again that person feels every ounce of emotion that I did taking the shot."

ABOUT THIS COMMISSION
Captured by Abby Bowers at The Classic Motor Hub, this is the 1939 Bentley 4¼ litre Vanden Plas Open Tourer 'Honeysuckle'. On 27th April 1939, Vanden Plas was instructed to build a four-seat tourer body for B154 MR, in the Valspar colour of Honeysuckle 5084/7 – from which the car’s famous name was taken. It was ready by June, and this would be the last of only four M-series Bentleys to fitted with that style of coachwork; it was also the final Vanden Plas tourer body fitted to any new Bentley. Red leather upholstery was specified.