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1984 Original advertising poster for Coca Cola and the Summer Olympic Games

1984

This striking 1979 original poster was created in anticipation of the XXII Olympic Games, held in Moscow in 1980. With bold Soviet-era graphic design, the image captures the triumpha...

This bold and dynamic 1972 original poster by Yvon Laroche was created as part of the official design campaign for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada. With its striking red...

Nestor Arenas (Cuba, 1964) 'Modern Icons No. 1', 2014 silkscreen on paper 39.8 x 26 in. (101 x 66 cm.) Edition of 50 Ref: ARN-301 Nestor Arenas, Biography Néstor Arenas (Cuba, 1964)...

The extremely rare, complete collection of 28 artists original graphics, the first signed edition before the second poster edition of 4000, with varying edition numbers including Artist’s Proofs, from the total edition of 200, each hand signed and numbered or inscribed, 1969 - 1972, printed on varying papers, published by the Organising Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad and F. Bruckmann, Germany, with 2 additional screenprints of the Emblem by Victor Vasarely, 1972, signed from the edition of 200, on wove paper, each sheet, various measurements. (30 works) The 1972 Olympic Committee commissioned 28 international artists to each produce an original print for the Munich Games that year. The artists were given unprecedented freedom to explore their personal perspectives of the Olympic spirit using their own unique styles and methods. Departing from the traditional subject matter and style of past Olympic prints, the artists produced works which ranged from abstraction to realism, and from collage to op-art. The Committee specifically commissioned world-renowned artists to produce this series in order to destigmatise the idea that fine art should be reserved for private enjoyment. Instead, these posters demonstrated that art can exist comfortably in the public sphere, serving both as art and advertisement and echoing the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin...