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World Cup Poster 1982 Malaga, Spain designed by Roland Topor

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.

Roland Topor was born in 1938. His family will stay for a while in Savoie. Conditions are rude for Jewish family trying to escape Nazis. His father passes him on his passion for arts and the young man will join the School of Fine Arts in Paris (1955-1964).
Eclectic man, Roland Topor is illustrator, drawer, painter, writer, poet, director, singer, actor and filmmaker.
He publishes his first drawings in the review «Bizarre », his first short stories appear in the review «Fiction » in 1958. His corrosive humor leads him to collaborate with the satirical newspaper «Hari – Kiri » (1961-1965). «Masochists» his first book is edited by Losfeld in 1961. Totally tragic, absurd and grotesque , the humor he disseminates evokes more the one of Central Europe. All his creations from the beginning till the end remain provocative and bizarre.

61 x 95 cm