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Born in the fifties in Le Mans from a family settled in the city for generations, I watched all the 24 hours races from 1957 to now as a passionate spectator, and as a pit Marshall from 1989 to 2009.

As a kid, I used to go around all the spots of the circuit - which was open to the public in its enterity at that time- with my bicycle and visit the garages where the competitors were preparing their racing cars. The access to the race actors was easy and we, Le Mans schoolboys, were deeply immersed in the race at a point where our memories have been definitely engraved with racing oil and fuel. Later, McQueen and the Solar came to le Mans and I had the opportunity to be employed as a static to play a member of the crowd. What a souvenir for a young guy ! I started then to lay down some of them on paper and never stopped since.

Trained as an engineer, I left Le Mans in the seventies to work all over the world in the energy business, but still painting during these years ; now back home, I opened a workshop in the medieval city and get paintings out of the cupboard to show them to the public. I have so many pictures in my memory that I am trying to share in painting ; my hope is that my paintings reflect the fact that they were seen by real eyes in the real time and that it can be felt.

 Previous work:

 1990's,

A series of Formula 1 historic cars illustrations for  the weekly magazine Auto-Hebdo and for the monthly magazines Course-Auto and F1 the Mag

2000’s

Illustrations  for the GP Data Book #2 and #3 by D.Hayhoe and D.Holland (Haynes publishing)

2011,

Illustration for  the weekly magazine Auto-Hebdo (All F1 Champion Helmets) - OPENING MY FIRST STUDIO & GALLERY in Le MANS medieval city, 1, rue de la Truie qui File

2012

Illustrations  for the book “ Formula 1, All the races ” by Roger Smith (Haynes publishing) march 2012 - The book has been sold out in few months - Nominated for the British awards of the best Motorsport book of the year

MOVING MY STUDIO & GALLERY in Le MANS medieval city, 2, rue Dorée

2013 & 2015

Illustrations  for the 2nd and 3rd editions of the book “ Formula 1, All the races ” by Roger Smith (Haynes publishing-2013 and Evro publishing-2015)

2013 to 2019,

Various illustrations for  the weekly magazine Auto-Hebdo (Ayrton Senna F1 cars, All McLaren  F1 winners, All F1 french drivers Helmets, ......) 

Appointed  Official Painter of the 24 Hours of Le Mans by the A.C.O. (Automobile Club de l'Ouest, creator and organizer of the “24 Heures du Mans” race) from June 2013 to December 2018.


Preparing an exhibition in Santa Fe  (New Mexico – USA)

 

Regular exhibitions at Galerie Vitesse, 48 rue de Berri, 75008 Paris

 

 Contact

  

Alain Baudouin

Studio open on saturdays and on appointment
2 rue Dorée
72000 Le Mans, France

Telephone:   (33) 06 33 84 25 59
Email:    al7pb  @  wanadoo.fr