Art and cars #39 - Alan Aldridge's Mini

[Ray B.]

Who is he, and what car can he be connected with?

Art and cars. Painters, writers, musicians, actors, movie makers: in a nutshell, artists. Cars of special importance in their work, or in their life.

Rule is: you identify the artist, you have one week to find the rest of the answer. After that, the hunt is opened and anyone can rob you of your point.
Thanks!

[Ray B.]

Experts?

[Ray B.]

A surrealistic picture of an unknown artist for the pros!

[Allemano]

Painter?

[Ray B.]

Kind of.

[Allemano]

Comics or Cartoons again?

[Ray B.]

Graphic, but no comics or cartoons, unless some escaped my attention.

[Allemano]

Graphics = illustrator?

[Ray B.]

Yes.

[streamliner]

Is this a self-portrait?

[Ray B.]

No, but done by someone close to him.

[pnegyesi]

Was he American?

[Ray B.]

Not american.

[pnegyesi]

European?

[Ray B.]

Yes.

[pnegyesi]

French ?

[Ray B.]

No.

[pnegyesi]

British?

[Ray B.]

Yes!

[pnegyesi]

Was his heyday in the 1950s and 1960s?

[Ray B.]

He was too young for the 1950's.
Sixties and seventies.

[pnegyesi]

A painter of motorsport-related pictures?

[Ray B.]

As I replied to Allemano, illustrator. Not related to motorsport at all. Very famous.

[pnegyesi]

So someone like Quentin Blake. But it is not him

[Ray B.]

Not him, and a very different style.