Sports

Year: 1976

Size: 24 x 33 inches

"One might expect this to pop up as an example of controversial work: the image, meant to appeal to the nation’s youth, zooms in on a jean jacket pinned with a number of buttons, including one bearing a marijuana leaf icon. But in Canada’s original Trudeau epoch, no one batted an eye, says Bellmare." Azure Magazine

Year: 1970

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Produced by the Container Corps of America, this poster is part of a series dedicated to the Great Ideas of Western/Eastern Man. In this particular image, the Surrealist artist Magritte illustrates George Santayana's great truth in The Life of Reason: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Year: 1976

Size: 24 x 30 inches

Year: 1978

Size: 26 x 19 1/2 inches

Printed for the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, it is a fabulous addition to any Olympics collection. It features a bobsled speeding down the track. The camera doesn't really pick this up, but it is printed on a thick metallic paper–so it really captures the light beautifully in person.

Year: 1896

Size: 11 1/2 x 16 3/8

Condition: Watercolor and ink maquette. FRAMED

The Palais d’Eté was Brussels' answer to Paris' Palais de Glace—a large-scale indoor ice rink with various performances and attractions. “Burned in 1891, rebuilt in 1894, it could hold 500 people—and was later enlarged. The first floor gallery was decorated by Crespin. The celebrated Loïe Fuller performed there in 1894, and in 1897 a ‘Bioscope’ cinema sequence was the finale of the evening’s performance” (Belle Epoque 1970, p. 39). In this inviting maquette by Crespin and Duyck, there is less text than in the finalized version, allowing us to appreciate the whorls and subdued tones of the composition.

Year: 1948

Size: 24 3/4 x 40 1/2 in./62.6 x 102.8 cm

Condition: A

Originally designed for the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, this joyous image resounds just as well in a more generalized invitation to enjoy Switzerland's winter sports. The skier, rendered in bold crayon strokes, invokes victory beneath the Swiss flag from atop a mountain in the Alps.

Year: 1976

Size: 23 x 33 1/4 inches

This image was used to promote the 1976 Summer Olympics in Kingston. Shown are a fleet of boats riding waves the colors of the Olympic rings.

Year: 1998

Size: 23 3/4 x 17 in./60.3 x 43.2 cm

This is a silkscreen poster by Michel Quarez. Printed in 1998, it was created to advertise the 1998 World Cup.

Year: 1976

Size: 24 x 33 inches

Used to promote the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the poster shows a  classical Greek woman holding a candle, with a modern-day runner speeding by with the torch in front of her.