Iconic Olympic poster featuring a stylised diver reflected in rippling blue water, rendered in David Hockney’s bright graphic style and Californian palette
Original official Olympic poster
Offset lithograph, printed by Matthieu AG, Zürich
Signed in the Plate ‘David Hockney 70’
White frame with UV70 Glass
Size 84cm x 123cm (Framed)
Designed by David Hockney for the Munich 1972 Olympic Games, Swimming / Diving translates the artist’s iconic exploration of pools, light, and the human body into a striking graphic format. The undulating water patterns, flattened perspective, and vivid colour echo the visual language of Hockney’s most celebrated pool paintings, created just a few years earlier in California. Printed in Switzerland by Matthieu AG to exceptional standards, this original period poster stands at the intersection of fine art, modernist design, and international sporting culture, and is regarded as one of the defining images of the Munich 1972 Games.
$4,400
