Gallego, Blas - Original Drawing Art - Pin Up - "Dolly" - 1995

Original pencil and graphite illustration "Dolly" (1995), by the master Blas Gallego!

The drawing, originally on white paper, has been mounted onto black cardstock.

A unique, original piece! Signed at the bottom.

Pencil and graphite on cardstock; sheet size 40x30 cm, drawing size 25x18 cm.

Excellent condition.

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Blas Gallego (born 1941 in Barcelona) is a Spanish artist, painter and illustrator with a career 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. Gallego is internationally known for his specialization in erotic art.

Blas Gallego’s art captivates you intensely at just a quick glance. His illustrations are epic, sensual, and overflow with fantasy. Any drawing or sketch of his, no matter how small, exudes charisma and instantly tells you that that you’re in the presence of one of the last great classic illustrators.

Is an illustrator, painter, and comic artist. He is one of the great authors who created illustrations for book covers in a style of bygone days. One only needs to look at magazines like Tótem el Comix and Zona 84 from Toutain Editor, or La Espada Salvaje de Conan para for Marvel. In the United States, compilations of his works can be found in books such as Flesh & Fire, and many of his illustrations grace the covers of novels in various countries like the United States, England, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Japan, or Czechoslovakia, marking him as a widely recognized artist. Blas Gallego has drawn hundreds of science fiction and fantasy illustrations, blending the past and the future, monsters, and spectacular, unusual women. He masterfully understands female anatomy; his women are voluptuous, and he has expertly mixed eroticism and humor. Some of his more erotic works include Orgías históricas, Historia de los pechos, Love Kings Affair, and Dolly, his naive yet very sexy character with a humorous twist.

Gallego is also masterful in youth drawing and comics, having illustrated stories such as Animal Rescue Unit or Horse Angel among many children’s illustrations, and even religious ones! He continued the erotic strips of Ben and Katie for the British newspaper, The Daily Star. He has also delved into painting, with artworks featuring children, flowers, seascapes, and, of course, the female nude. His work has been showcased in art galleries in New York, Barcelona, and Stockholm.

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 and for the German magazine Roman Woche. In 1978 he drew for Woman's Weekly. He also did the illustrations for the series Grandes Amantes ("Great Lovers"), commissioned for Neue Revue (Germany) and published in Norway, Sweden and in the Spanish weekly news magazine Interviú, images for the British magazine Men Only 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. 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, Ben & Katie in the British Daily Star newspaper in 1998–99.