1972 Munich - Peter Phillips

1972

Peter Phillips 

640 x 1010mm

Unbacked

Some edge wear

Fourth series, issued in 1972, unlimited edition

Peter Phillips is an originator of Pop Art and trained at the Royal College at the same time as David Hockney, RB Kitaj and Allen Jones.

The graphic imagery of the 1972 Games is well regarded. Posters were high on the agenda for the Olympic Committee and planning was underway as early as 1967 to produce an art series using the best artists of the day. In 1968 a partnership was formed with the publishing house F. Bruckmann KG, Munich, setting up the company Edition Olympia 1972, GmbH. The project ran to five series, each made up of seven posters. Three grades of poster were produced in a hierarchy of values and the majority of the surviving posters are from the unlimited edition printed on poster paper.