Prints are created by high resolution scans of the original painting and printed on the beautiful archival fine art paper, Hahnemule Photo Rag 310gsm.
Original painting is 58×40cm oil on aluminium panel. Available direct from the studio, please get in touch if interested
Prints:
A4 -Printed area: 182mm × 267mm
Final print size: 211mm × 297mm
Overall size (incl. frame): 235mm × 321mm
A3 - Printed area: 267mm × 391mm
Final print size: 297mm × 421mm
Overall size (incl. frame): 321mm × 445mm
Tom Simpson was Britain’s first true cycling superstar, a rider whose charisma and courage helped propel British cycling into the continental mainstream. Born in 1937 in County Durham and raised in Nottinghamshire, he moved to France as a young pro in the late 1950s, racing with an audacity that made him a favourite of fans and the press alike. Simpson won the 1961 Tour of Flanders, the 1965 world road race championship in San Sebastián, and stages in both the Tour de France and Vuelta a España, becoming the first British rider to wear the Tour’s yellow jersey.
Yet his career ended in tragedy. On 13 July 1967, during a brutal stage of the Tour de France up Mont Ventoux, Simpson collapsed and died on the mountain’s baking slopes. The autopsy revealed amphetamines and alcohol in his system, highlighting the dangers of the era’s unregulated doping culture. Today, a memorial on Ventoux marks the spot where he fell, and Simpson remains a symbol of both British cycling’s breakthrough and the sport’s darker past.
Prints are created by high resolution scans of the original painting and printed on the beautiful archival fine art paper, Hahnemule Photo Rag 310gsm.
Original painting is 58×40cm oil on aluminium panel. Available direct from the studio, please get in touch if interested
Prints:
A4 -Printed area: 182mm × 267mm
Final print size: 211mm × 297mm
Overall size (incl. frame): 235mm × 321mm
A3 - Printed area: 267mm × 391mm
Final print size: 297mm × 421mm
Overall size (incl. frame): 321mm × 445mm
Tom Simpson was Britain’s first true cycling superstar, a rider whose charisma and courage helped propel British cycling into the continental mainstream. Born in 1937 in County Durham and raised in Nottinghamshire, he moved to France as a young pro in the late 1950s, racing with an audacity that made him a favourite of fans and the press alike. Simpson won the 1961 Tour of Flanders, the 1965 world road race championship in San Sebastián, and stages in both the Tour de France and Vuelta a España, becoming the first British rider to wear the Tour’s yellow jersey.
Yet his career ended in tragedy. On 13 July 1967, during a brutal stage of the Tour de France up Mont Ventoux, Simpson collapsed and died on the mountain’s baking slopes. The autopsy revealed amphetamines and alcohol in his system, highlighting the dangers of the era’s unregulated doping culture. Today, a memorial on Ventoux marks the spot where he fell, and Simpson remains a symbol of both British cycling’s breakthrough and the sport’s darker past.
Prints:
A4 -Printed area: 182mm × 267mm
Final print size: 211mm × 297mm
Overall size (incl. frame): 235mm × 321mm
A3 - Printed area: 267mm × 391mm
Final print size: 297mm × 421mm
Overall size (incl. frame): 321mm × 445mm
