ANDY WARHOL ~ 1984 Sarajevo Olympics ~ vintage original offset lithograph 24x36"

Description: ANDY WARHOL ~ 1984 Sarajevo Olympics ~ vintage original offset lithograph 24x36" Combined shipping available on select posters. Please ask any questions before buying. Thanks! Theme: Speed Skater -- Official Commemorative Poster for the Sarajevo XIV Winter Olympic Games 1984 Size: 24" x 36" / 61cm x 91cmStock: Medium weight Artist: Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)Variant: BlackPublisher: T.M. Designates a trademark of OCOG Sarajevo '84 used under license from trademark ownerPrinted In: Not statedCopyright: stated as 1982, but the image is stated as copyright 1983 Origin: Private collection Status: Out-of-print (OOP)Mounting: NOT mounted / loose posterShipping: Ships rolled in a rigid tube. Questions: Please ask any questions before bidding or buying. Notes: Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, producer, and leading figure in the pop art movement. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture Lazar 'Lazo' Vujic, a gallerist originally from Sarajevo and working in Vienna, invited 16 artists to produce a portfolio of artworks in honor of 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics. Vujic's Visconti Fine Art gallery served as an official publisher. Each of the 16 artists produced one work associated with winter Olympics. Over the 1983/84 winter before the Olympics, the exhibit 'Art and Sport Edition' was shown by Vujic's Visconti Art Gallery in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Vail, Aspen, Lake Tahoe, Denver, Indianapolis, Madison, and Minneapolis. Background: The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Sarajevo '84, was a winter multi-sport event held between 8 and 19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. It was the first Winter Olympic Games held in a Slavic language-speaking country, as well as the only Winter Olympics held in a communist country before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. It was the second consecutive Olympic Games to be so held, after the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. The Games were held in Sarajevo and at neighbor resorts in the Dinaric Alps located less than 25 kilometers from the city. At the first days of the Games, the sports program was disrupted by extreme weather conditions and the alpine ski events started four days later than planned. The Games brought together 1272 athletes from 49 countries, which represents a significant increase compared to 1980. Athletes participated in six sports and ten disciplines in a total of thirty-nine official events, one more than the Games four years earlier. Seven National Olympic Committees sent athletes for the first time: Egypt, British Virgin Islands, Monaco, Puerto Rico and Senegal participated for the first time in the Olympic Winter Games. The host country Yugoslavia won the first medal in its history at the Winter Games after skier Jure Franko came second in the giant slalom. Also East Germany, which won all gold and silver medals in women's speed skating and bobsleigh, finished first for the first time on the medal table with twenty-four medals, nine of which were gold. The 1984 Winter Olympics, considered a success, made it possible to modernize all of Bosnia and Herzegovina and started to develop winter sports in Yugoslavia, but the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which broke out in 1992, heavily damaged the city and the Olympic facilities. Thanks for looking!

Price: 319.2 USD

Location: Colchester, Vermont

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