Yvon Laroche

1972 original poster for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada

1972

A magnificent poster designed by Machatschek and Alain Perceval to promote the 1968 Olympic Games, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, which took place from February 6 to...

The 1968 original poster "Grenoble Ville Olympique", printed by Georges Lang in Paris, is a significant piece of cultural history that captures the excitement and global attention su...

In the late 1980s, Paris launched a compelling bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics, a vision encapsulated in a striking poster designed by the talented duo Page & Mercier. This 1992...

The XI Olympic Winter Games, held in Sapporo, Japan in 1972, marked a significant moment in Olympic history as the first Winter Games hosted in Asia. To commemorate this historic event, the renowned Japanese graphic designer Takashi Kono...

English-American painter Colleen Browning was one of several artist commissioned to create fine art posters in promotion of the 1976 Montreal Summer O...

Swiss artist & graphic designer Max Bill was one of 29 artists commissioned to produce posters for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. In the run-up to...

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...

Original vintage sports poster promoting the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich Germany featuring a great minimalist design by the Swiss architect, artist, painter and graphic desig...