




Adrian “Tod” Ramos British, b. 1956
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Provenance
Collection of General Accident Insurers (Perth, Scotland)Christie’s London, Sale 10504, Lot 75, 10th Dec 2014
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Tod Ramos has a worldwide reputation described as the “foremost painter of the horse.” He has taught and lectured in drawing and painting in all mediums at all levels for over 30 years.
Revered for his mastery of all techniques in fine art, Ramos’s The winner’s enclosure belongs to Sporting and wildlife art which has been around since the 18th century.
The winner’s enclosure is an intense, exhaustive painting, interpreter of a lived experience, that of its author, completely respecting all those components, such as horses, jockeys, public, landscape.
It is a painting rich in suggestion, thought and complexity. The exposed picture immortalizes the final moment of a horse race just ended. The eye is immediately captured by the jockey and his horse, which constitute the focal point of the painting: the red and white uniform stands out in the middle of the large brown spot that makes up the crowd.