Blas Gallego

Portrait of Spanish artist Blas Gallego

Blas Gallego (born 1941 in Barcelona) is a Spanish artist, painter and illustrator with a trajectory spanning six decades. He has created and drawn comic books and strips, book covers, film posters, role-playing game cards, and portraits, among other formats, for publishers in tens of countries.[1][2] Gallego is internationally known for his specialization in erotic art.[3]

Work history

Gallego learned artistic drawing while working for the movie advertisement industry in 1955–56, for companies such as Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and RKO Pictures, among others. In 1960 he founded a publicity company. From 1962 to 1966 he worked for Creaciones Editoriales, before going in 1966 to work for Selecciones Ilustradas, where he remained until 1968. The next year he moved to England, but came back to Barcelona to get married in 1973. Around that time, he drew the comic of Twins of Evil (1974), started oil painting, lived for a few years in London and for a short while in Stockholm, and drew for publications in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Australia, Japan, among other countries. In 1977 he worked for the British magazine Woman's Realm[4] and for the German magazine Roman Woche.[5] In 1978 he drew for Woman's Weekly.[6] He also did the illustrations for the series Grandes Amantes ("Great Lovers"), commissioned for Neue Revue (Germany)[7] and published in Norway, Sweden and in the Spanish weekly news magazine Interviú,[8][9] images for the British magazine Men Only[10] and calendars. In 1983, he published erotic paintings in Japan via Tank Incorporated. After that, he worked for more than 20 years for the United States market, making illustrations for book covers, film posters and for the Tyndale House Holy Bible in 1990. He drew for Zona 84 as well.[11] During this time, SQP Productions published a collection of his cover art sketches. He drew dozens of covers for Marvel Comics' The Savage Sword of Conan (also published in Scandinavia) and covers as well as regular pages for Tom and Jerry comics (1988–96). Later, he published role-playing game cards (1996) and a daily strip in the British Daily Star newspaper in 1998–99.[12] The following are his latest publications:

Recent publications

Flesh and Fire – 1999 – SQP Productions Inc. (USA)

John Sinclair "Doctor Tod" – 2004 – Bastei Verlag (Germany)

John Sinclair "Sakuro" – 2004 – Bastei Verlag (Germany)

John Sinclair "Jason Dark" – 2004 – Bastei Verlag (Germany)

Gespenster – 2004 – Bastei Verlag (Germany)

Dolly – 2005 – SQP Productions Inc. (USA)

Animal Rescue Unit – 2007 – Stabenfeldt (Norway) (4 books)

Horse Angel – 2007 – Stabenfeldt AS (Denmark)

Exhibitions

Madrid – Gallery Expo Art – Rodríguez Sanpedro 7 – 28015 (April 1994)

Stockholm – Janes Rambod Gallery – Tegnergatan 47 •11161 (May 1995)

Stockholm – Janes Rambod Gallery – (collective) – Tegnergatan 47 (April 1998)

Madrid – Gallery ExpoArt – Rodríguez Sanpedro 7 – 28015 (November 1999)

Barcelona – Barcelona Art Fair – Madrid Gallery (May 2000)

Stockholm – Stockholm Art Fair –Gallery•Stand Louis Nitka (March 2001)

Barcelona – San Mario Gallery – C/ San Marius 49 – 08022 (December 2001)

Barcelona – San Mario Gallery – C/San Marius 49 – 08022 (February 2002)

New York – Bell Arte – 12 Harwood Ct. – Scarsdale, New York – 10583 (May 2007)

Barcelona – Cincómonos-Consell de Cent 283 – 08015 (June–July 2007)

Barcelona – Piera Galería – Pintor Fortuny, 21 – 08001 (January 2015)

References

  1. ↑ Diario de Andorra article: "És molt bonic dibuixar una dona ben maca, l'home és més brut" (in Catalan)
  2. ↑ El Periòdic d'Andorra article: "Corto Maltés ressuscitarà «ben aviat», augura l'ARCA" (in Catalan)
  3. ↑ "Seine Mädchen sind die schärfsten" (in German)
  4. ↑ "The way of an Eagle", by Ethel Dell
  5. ↑ "Den stora kärleken" (in German)
  6. ↑ "Enjoyment", by Barbara Cartland
  7. ↑ "So liebten die großen Mätressen: Lady Hamilton-Lord Nelsons ganzes Glück" (in German)
  8. ↑ Grandes Amantes: ¡Qué mal lo hacía Napoleón! (in Spanish)
  9. ↑ Grandes Amantes: A Enrique VIII le gustaban todas (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ "Sex Cymbal", by Ed Lancaster
  11. ↑ Cover of Zona 84 #49 (in Spanish)
  12. ↑ Ben and Katie, Daily Star comic strips

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