Jennifer Bartlett, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, 1982 (w/COA from Olympic Committee)

Jennifer Losch Bartlett

Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games 1984, 1982

Offset Lithograph on wove paper

Pencil signed on the front

Limited Edition of 750 (though fewer than 200-250 said to remain)

Unframed.

Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher on official Olympic Committee letterhead. This is one of 750 hand signed lithographic posters, published in 1982 to celebrate the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics . The Olympic Committee commissioned 15 nationally known artists, including Jennifer Bartlett to create unique designs to promote the event.  The complete list of artists is: Sam Francis, David Hockney, Richard Diebenkorn, Carlos Almaraz, Robert Rauschenberg, Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Roy LIchtenstein, April Gornik, Raymond Saunders, Martin Puryear, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Billy Al Bengston and Garry Winogrand. This was Bartlett's contribution to the portfolio.  In 2017, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne Switzerland featured all 15 lithographs from this portfolio: “The 1980s were marked by non-conformism, eccentricity, audacity and joie de vivre,” say the exhibition organizers, “All these elements are clearly expressed in the stylistic vocabulary chosen by the organizers of the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, with its fun approach and acid colors.” This work is unframed and in fine condition; excellent provenance as it was acquired as part of the complete portfolio of limited edition hand signed Olympic prints, all held in the original box with colophon and authenticity documentation. All of the works in this rare portfolio, including the present work, are unnumbered, but published in a limited edition of 750 hand signed in pencil. Copyright 1982 Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee, Published by Knapp Communications Corporation

EXHIBITION HISTORY

Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017 (a different example)