1972 Olympische Spiele Munchen
Artist: Pierre Soulages
Comes with Certificate of Authenticity
(Edition One/First Edition) 1 of the 4000 original lithographs on standard paper 102 x 64 cm,
with the printer mentioned in the imprint.
Olympische Speile Munchen 1972 collection
Olympics Munich 1972. Signed in the plate.
This classic Pierre Soulages image was produced for the 1972 Olympics held in Munich from 26 August to 10 September. The XX Olympiad had 195 sporting events and over 7000 athletes attending from 121 nations - it was the largest games yet.
Planning was underway from the late 1960's to produce a series of art posters using some of the most famous and emerging artists of the day. In 1968 a partnership was formed with F. Bruckmann KG Munich, setting up a company called Edition Olympia 1972 GmbH.
Otl Aicher was appointed to head the committee's visual design group. The art series was produced in five sets, each made up of seven posters. This poster is from the third set issued in 1971, which also included work by Josef Albers, Otmar Alt, Max Bill, Allan D'Arcangelo, R.B. Kitaj and Tom Wesselmann.
David Hockney (born 1937) is now one of the world's most famous living artists.
Some posters were produced on higher quality paper and signed in person by the artist.
This silkscreen poster is from the limited edition of 4000 and signed in the plate.
It is unframed and will be sent rolled in a strong tube.
Rare original 1972 Olympic Games Poster.
Edition: Paper
Size: 25.2 x 39.77 inches
Subject: Modern Art
Guaranteed original.
Condition is very good considering its age, no pin holes or folds.
I suggest to have it framed.
This is a collectors item sold in 'as is' condition, no returns please, thank you.
Pierre Soulages was born on December 24, 1919, in Rodez, in the south of France. As a child, he was fascinated by the Celtic carvings in the local museum and the architecture of the abbey of Sainte-Foy in nearby Conques, and these early impressions would continue to surface throughout his career. In 1938, inspired by the works of Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso, he enrolled in the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, but he was disappointed by the traditional instruction and soon moved back to Rodez.
In 1946, having served in the military during World War II, Soulages returned to Paris and set up a small studio in Courbevoie. He began to paint in a wholly abstract style, producing canvases with overlapping black, barlike strokes on a glowing white, or sometimes colored, ground, which he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1947. Though his rejection of bright color in favor of black set him in opposition to the major trends in French abstract painting of the time, Soulages was nevertheless a prominent exemplar of the Jeune École de Paris (Young School of Paris), an umbrella term for the gestural or post-Cubist abstraction produced by artists like Hans Hartung and Soulages. Though superficially similar to the work of Abstract Expressionist artists such as Franz Kline, Soulages’s paintings are very different in execution: in contrast to the gestural approach of his American counterparts, Soulages deliberately constructed his compositions to create a formal balance.
Soulages generally titles each of his works Painting. He has exhibited widely since his first solo show at the Galerie Lydia Conti, Paris, in 1949. His first retrospective was presented at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, West Germany; Gemeente Museum, The Hague; and Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (1960–61), and his most recent took place at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009–10). In 2001 Soulages was the first living artist to exhibit at the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. He lives and works in Paris.