1967 PORSCHE 911 TARGA ART
Luxury sports car, rear engined and air cooled. The car was designed to full fill a desire to offer an opened top version of the original 911.
This design was built to full fill the potential of the US market and therefore had to adhere to the restriction of the US safety legislation to provide a roof with ” roll over” protection.
In 1967 Porsche produced the Targa, with a full rollover loop with a removable panel. On the early short wheel based versions, there was also a soft unzip-able rear window.
The name Targa quite interestingly took it’s name from the famously dangerous road race, The Sicilian Targa Florio.
Perspex face mounting provides a brilliance, intensity and saturation of image that has to be seen to be believed. Each framed artwork is supplied with painted split-battens for hanging.
Framed prints dimensions: 1400mm by 570mm
Limited edition of 10
About the Artist
Ella Freire is a London based screen printing artist, who has been working out of her Wimbledon studio for the last 14 years. She has been inspired by classic cars, vintage cameras and a huge collection of 60's and 70's bus and airplane luggage tags, train and bus tickets, and matchbox labels.
A few years ago she had the time to delve back in to her large collection of vintage luggage tags with their wonderful graphics and iconic designs from the Golden Age of travel. She had always wanted to do really large prints of these, which have always appealed to her because of their simplicity and bold colours.
Ella has replicated the tags as closely as possible to the originals with their bright colour palette. The artwork is printed on 100% cotton archival paper, then mounted onto card and cut out to shape, including the perforated edges, punched hole through a reinforced tab overlaid on the print. The labels are printed in a very limited editions and are available, framed, in large and small sizes.
Ella has been licensed by Pan Am Brands, American Airlines (TWA) and Braniff International to create these limited edition prints. Her highly sought after artwork is currently displayed in the Pan Am Museum Gallery in New York.
Ella is represented, exclusively, by Air Contemporary Gallery in London, UK and by J. Nunez Galleries in New Jersey and AZart Gallery in Woodstock, USA.
Ella’s luggage label prints were accepted and displayed at the 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.