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World Cup Poster 1982 for Gijon, Spain designed by Gerard Titus – Carmel

The Organising Committee of the 1982 Football World Cup that was held in Spain commissioned 15 posters in all: the official tournament poster entitled Espana created by Joan Miro and the 14 host city posters designed by a distinguished group of internationally acclaimed artists. Football poster collectors regard these posters as representing the best graphics when it comes to World Cup football posters.

Gérard Titus-Carmel was born in Paris on 10 October 1942, is a painter, printmaker, French poet and essayist. He illustrated many works of poets and writers, and he himself ever published thirty books, essays on art and poetry. Gérard Titus-Carmel lives and works in Oulchy-le-Château, in the Aisne. Studied at the École Boulle in Paris from 1958 to 1962. First solo exhibition in 1964. Painter, draftsman and engraver, he has participated in more than four hundred fifty exhibitions. Nearly two hundred solo exhibitions have been devoted to the world, where his work is represented in a hundred museums and public collections. He has made monumental works for the Ministry of Finance in Paris, the DRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Chalons-en-Champagne and the Palais des Congrès in Nantes.

 

61 x 95 cm