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The freedom of your own wheels – for a day, for a weekend, for real. How have artists over the decades captured car life?

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Do any of these renowned paintings remind you of your own car experiences, in youth and beyond?

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Ramon Casas. Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in An Automobile. 1901

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Joan Miró. Portrait of Heriberto Casany (Le chauffeur). 1918

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Edward Hopper. Cars and Rocks. 1927

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Tamara de Lempicka. My Portrait (Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti). 1929

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Salvador Dali. The Automobile Clothed. 1941

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Jacob Lawrence. This is Harlem. 1943

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Edward Hopper. Jo in Wyoming, 1946

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William N. Copley. Place de l’Opéra. 1956

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Roy Lichtenstein. In The Car. 1963

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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. Untitled. 1967

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Andy Warhol. Mercedes-Benz Formel-Rennwagen W 125 (1937). 1986

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Jean-Michel Basquiat. Rusting Red Car In Kuau. 1984

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Julian Opie. Cars? 1998-9

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Header Art: Ed Ruscha. Standard Station. 1966