he 22 inch by 46 inch door was painted in Mr. Levesque’s inimitable Russian Constructivist style and took over two weeks to complete. The difference between it and regular bodywork is the difference between the frescoes at the Sistine Chapel and slapping a coat of Tremclad on your pitted rims.

Mr. Levesque’s personal choice was the driver’s door. “We were given carte blanche to do something related to Porsche. I chose the driver’s door and my idea was to give an exterior rendition of the interior shot as seen by the driver looking at the dash. I used an air brush with acrylic paint to replicate the way a car is shot in the paint booth. I prefer the dash of the 356 so painted it rather than the 911.”

Mr. Levesque is the only Canadian among eight internationally-recognized artists to be chosen by Turnwald Automotive Creations in Cruetzwald, France to turn a carbon fibre body panel into a work of art. All parts are currently back in Europe and the car is being reassembled and it will then be put on display in Stuttgart, Germany as part of the 50th anniversary of Porsche. Subsequently, a die-cast 1:18 scale model will be created of the car with the eight different artists’ renditions. The car will then be disassembled and the parts hung in an art gallery in Stuttgart.