Pelé: Art Life Football

DICO/EDSON/Pelé

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Edson Arantes do Nascimento

Três Corações

ART LIFE FOOTBALL

PELÉ, the PELÉ Signature and the Bicycle Kick Design are [the trademarks of PELÉ IP Ownership LLC]

“Eu nasci em Três Corações, eu sou um homem de três corações”

“I was born in Três Corações, I am a man of three hearts.” Pelé

“My joy, throughout my life, has been football.” Pelé Edson Arantes do Nascimento—better known as Pelé—is the most celebrated football player in history and perhaps the most popular, exciting athlete the world has ever known. A native of Brazil, Pelé enjoyed a professional career during which he scored 1,283 goals in 1,366 matches.

Pelé was born on Oct. 23, 1940 to Dondinho and Dona Celeste in Três Corações (in the state of Minas Gerais). Pelé’s father was a local professional football player who held the distinction of scoring five goals with his head in one game. As a kid, Pelé created his own reputation as a player in the city of Bauru. Former Brazilian World Cup player, Waldemar de Brito, noticed his skills and took him to Santos, a club team on the coast of Brazil. Pelé started his professional career at the age of 16 for Santos Futebol Clube scoring one goal in his first official game. It was not long after that, when he joined the Brazilian national team.

In 1958, the 17-year-old was selected to play for the Seleção at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.

Pelé missed the first two games of the tournament with a knee injury. He made up for lost time by scoring the game-winning goal in the quarterfinals and a hat trick in the semifinals. After Pelé’s two goals against Sweden in the final, his teammates lifted the child prodigy onto their shoulders and hoisted their country’s first Jules Rimet Trophy.

The 1958 World Cup revealed to the public the greatness of Pelé, in which this triumph was only the beginning. He became the youngest

ever winner of a World Cup tournament and the youngest scorer in a World Cup Final. He later led Brazil to two more World Cup titles, in 1962 (Chile) and 1970 (Mexico). As of today, Pelé is the only football player to have won three World Cup tournaments and he remains the top scorer in the history of the Brazil National team with 77 goals.

In 1975, after 18 years with Santos FC where he won multiple international and national trophies, he joined the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL). During his three years in New York, Pelé led the Cosmos to the 1977 NASL title and brought great excitement to football and inspiration to young players in the United States. He capped off his career with an emotional farewell game on October 1, 1977, in a sold-out Giants Stadium, playing the first half with the Cosmos and the second half for Santos.

Since his retirement from football, Pelé continues to make positive contributions to the game and travels the world to interact with his fans. Named one of the “Top 20 Most Important People of the 20th Century” (Time Magazine) and “Football Player of the Century” (FIFA), Pelé today maintains his commitment to the sport and to society by fulfilling various roles as spokesperson, ambassador and philanthropist. In 2014, he was awarded the first ever FIFA Ballon d’Or Prix d’Honneur in recognition of his dazzling career and achievements.

ABOUT THIS ARTWORK Each giclĂŠe and silver gelatin print within this captivating collection has been hand signed by PelĂŠ, giving it the ultimate seal of approval.

The Heart Of The King | World Cup Final 1970

The Heart of the King: a personal favourite of Pelé’s, this image captures the exact moment when the sweat on his shirt shaped a heart on his chest – ‘perfectly depicting my love for the Beautiful Game’, as he said in an interview for Gulf News in March 2014. Taken during a friendly match in 1976, the photograph has twice been misdated; only recently has some clever detective work uncovered its true provenance. Photograph Photo: Luiz Paulo Machado

The Heart Of The King Signed Limited Edition Giclée 295 Image Size: 14½” x 22” | Framed £495

Santos Football Club

Signed Limited Edition Giclée 295 Image Size: 22” x 14½” | Framed £495

Unstoppable!

Signed Limited Edition Giclée 295 Image Size: 14½” x 22” | Framed £495

Pelé at Downing Stadium in New York City for his first game for the Cosmos against the Dallas Tornado on 15 June 1975. Officially retired since his last game with Santos in 1974, he was coaxed by the North American team to the pitch once again. ‘I would go to New York, and bring a little samba to the Big Apple’, he recalls in his 2006 autobiography. Photograph

New York Cosmos

Signed Limited Edition Giclée 295 Image Size: 22” x 14½” | Framed £495

The Heart of The King Portfolio of 4 Set of 4 Signed Limited Edition Prints in Presentation Portfolio | ÂŁ695

My father always used to say, “It’s not enough just to know how to play, you also have to follow the right path, and you need luck.” Pelé

Italy and Brazil in the pre-game line-up at the 1970 World Cup Final at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

Alongside Pelé were his teammates Félix, Carlos Alberto, Brito, Piazza, Everaldo, Clodoaldo, Gérson, Jairzinho, Tostão and Rivelino – known forever as the ‘beautiful team’ – the best ever to play the game. Photograph

Team Line-Up - World Cup Final, 1970 Signed Limited Edition Giclée 295 Image Size: 14½” x 22” | Framed £495

Attack!

Signed Limited Edition Giclée 295 Image Size: 14½” x 22” | Framed £495

One On One Signed Limited Edition Giclée 295 Image Size: 14½” x 22” | Framed £495

Pelé Scores! World Cup Final, 1970 Signed Limited Edition Giclée 295 Image Size: 14½” x 22” | Framed £495

PelĂŠ celebrating after scoring the first goal of the game at the World Cup Final in Mexico City on 21 June 1970. Photograph

World Cup Final 1970 Portfolio of 4 Set of 4 Signed Limited Edition Prints in Presentation Portfolio | ÂŁ695

World Cup Final + Heart of the King Portfolios

Set of 8 Signed Limited Edition Prints in Presentation Portfolios | ÂŁ1,250

ART LIFE FOOTBALL

Pelé

By Stuart McAlpine Miller Signed By Stuart McAlpine Miller & Pelé: Limited Edition Boxed Canvas of 195 Canvas Size: 24¾” x 60” | Framed £2,500 Signed By Stuart McAlpine Miller & Pelé: Limited Edition Boxed Canvas of 75 Canvas Size: 28¾” x 70” | Framed £2,950

From The Power Within

By Stuart McAlpine Miller Signed By Stuart McAlpine Miller & Pelé: Limited Edition Boxed Canvas of 195 Canvas Size: 40” x 26½” | Framed £1,495 Signed By Stuart McAlpine Miller & Pelé: Limited Edition Boxed Canvas of 75 Canvas Size: 50” x 33” | Framed £1,950

From A Jack To A King By keith Maiden Signed By Keith Maiden & Pelé: Limited Edition Boxed Canvas of 195 Canvas Size: 36” x 21.¾” | Framed £995 Signed By Keith Maiden & Pelé: Limited Edition Boxed Canvas of 75 Canvas Size: 48” x 29” | Framed £1,450

The One & Only TEN

By NIC JOLY Signed By Nic Joly & Pelé: Limited Edition Wall Sculpture of 195 Size: 24” x 24” | Framed £1,450

On The Summit

By NIC JOLY Signed By Nic Joly & Pelé: Limited Edition Wall Sculpture of 195 Size: 25” x 25” | Framed £1,450

The Greatest Gift

By Raphael Mazzucco

Signed By Raphael Mazzucco & Pelé: Limited Edition C-Type of 195 Paper Size: 30” x 40” | Retail Framed £1,250 Signed By Raphael Mazzucco & Pelé: Limited Edition C-Type of 75 Paper Size: 60” x 40” | Retail Framed £1,950

EYES Despite the fact that Pelé has suffered from slight myopia in one eye since the age of 18, his sight was thought to be one of the key factors in his success. His peripheral vision was considered to be 30 per cent greater than that of normal athletes. “Pelé has an extraordinary range of vision” said Brazilian psychiatrist Dr Jorge Carvalho in 1962. “He can see things at angles that would be out of the view of a normal human.”

TEARS Despite his toughness on the pitch, Pelé has famously always been emotional. He cries freely at every opportunity; he shed tears in front of the footballing world in 1958 when he won the World Cup at the age of 17, and he hasn’t stopped since. Throughout his career he cried when fouled, when he scored important goals, and when he lost key games. He even sobbed when watching old videotapes of his past matches.

FEET Pelé’s feet are flat and wide - the result of playing football barefoot as a child. Nevertheless, they performed football’s most virtuoso moves, from the bicycle kick through to the famous dummy on the goalkeeper during the game against Uruguay in the 1970 World Cup and to the audacious shot from the halfway line against Czechoslovakia at the same tournament. Not to mention the feet that scored over a thousand goals.

Anatomy Of A Gladiator

Pelé was regarded by sports scientists as having the perfect body for football

PELÉ PSYCHE – THE THREE FEARS Three fears have dominated Pelé’s life and footballing career - poverty, losing his athletic form, and injury prematurely ending his career like it did his father Dondinho’s.

HEART Pelé hails from the town of Três Corações, which means ‘Three Hearts’, and at times he played as if he had that many. At the height of his career medical tests revealed that his heart beat at a rate of 56 to 58 beats per minute in training. The heart of an average athlete in training beats at 90 to 95 bpm. His cardiovascular capacity was such that he could repeat a strenuous physical manoeuvre seconds after the first execution.

BODY In the 1970’s, sports scientists and commentators regarded Pelé as having the perfect body for the sport.

“Leonardo da Vinci once sketched a man with his arms stretched in a circle to show the perfect proportions of man’s body.” said Alex Yannis, in The New York Times. “Pelé seems to fit the mould.”

KNEE Amazingly, Pelé played with a right knee ligament injury throughout his career, which he sustained at the age of 16.

He refused painkilling injections and only had it operated on in 1998.

LEGS Pelé’s legs carried him through 1,377 games for his club, country, city representative teams and the Brazilian Army First XI. He was also famously good in the air, a skill he mastered during his early playing years due to the fact that he was much shorter than other players and so was forced to spring higher to reach the ball.

BiCYCLE KICK Signed Limited Edition Silver Gelatin of 195 Paper Size: 24” x 36” | Retail Framed £1,450 Paper Size: 30” x 40” | Retail Framed £2,450 Signed Limited Edition Silver Gelatin of 75 Paper Size: 60” x 40” | Retail Framed £4,950

Pelé making his iconic ‘bicycle kick’ shot in a friendly international game against Belgium at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã Stadium on 2 June 1965. Photograph

THE GREATEST SAVE GORDON

“Only a few years ago, whilst giving an after dinner speech at a function, I turned around to see the footage of that save playing on a screen behind me. It was only then that I realised Pelé was much closer than I ever realised when he headed the ball, nearly at the six yard box. I’d thought he was further out towards the penalty spot…that explains the power behind the ball when it came at me!”

Gordon Banks

BANKS

THE GREATEST SAVE Signed By Gordon Banks & Pelé : Limited Edition Giclée of 295 Paper size: 20½” x 53½” | Framed £1,250

THE HERRERA ARCHIVe

JOSE DIAS HERRERA José Dias Herrera (1920–2009) was a celebrated photojournalist who carved a specialist niche for himself in the history of sport. Born in São Paulo in 1920 to Spanish immigrant parents, he lived in Santos from the age of seven and learned the art of photography at just 14 in a studio laboratory. In 1937 he began his career as a photographer at the Gazette newspaper, moving in 1953 to the Tribuna de Santos, where he served until 1980 before transferring to the city’s Department of Communication.

For Herrera, photography was a way of life. As a photojournalist working for one of the major Brazilian media groups, he recorded the burgeoning city of Santos, political developments in Brazil and the country’s famous figures. Above all, he is known for documenting Pelé’s long and spectacular career – including the World Cups of 1958, 1962 and 1966 – as well as quieter, behind-the-scenes shots of the star at leisure. Many of Herrera’s photographs were included in the 2002 exhibition Pelé, the Art of the King at São Paulo Museum of Modern Art; this was the first show that explicitly recognised Herrera’s role in creating Pelé’s almost mythical status.

Herrera was passionate about analogue cameras, which he liked to control and adjust in his own particular way. Modern digital cameras irritated him – not due to their complexity, but because he felt that anyone could shoot fairly competently in automatic mode. He lived to be the last founding member from Santos of the São Paulo State Syndicate of Professional Journalists, created in 1942.

BRAZIL Signed Limited Edition Giclée 195 Image Size: 18” x 18” | Framed £495 Signed Limited Edition Silver Gelatin of 150 Paper Size: 30” x 30” | Framed £1,950 Paper Size: 40” x 40” | Framed £2,950 Signed Limited Edition Gicleé on Hahnemuhle Baryta Paper of 75 Paper Size: 60” x 60” | Framed £3,950

A young Pelé sporting his Brazil kit in the early 1960s. Photograph Photo: José Dias Herrera

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WARM UP Signed Limited Edition Giclée 195 Image Size: 18” x 18” | Framed £495

PelĂŠ warming up on the pitch with Santos teammates, mid-1960s. Photograph Photo: JosĂŠ Dias Herrera

Stopped only by the back of the net, 1960s. Photograph Photo: JosĂŠ Dias Herrera

“I still dream that I’m dribbling, scoring goals.” Pelé

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back of the net Signed Limited Edition Giclée 195 Image Size: 18” x 18” | Framed £495 Signed Limited Edition Silver Gelatin of 150 Paper Size: 30” x 30” | Framed £1,950 Paper Size: 40” x 40” | Framed £2,950 Signed Limited Edition Gicleé on Hahnemuhle Baryta Paper of 75 Paper Size: 60” x 60” | Framed £3,950

Training hard for Santos Football Club in the 1960s. Photograph Photo: José Dias Herrera

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“I was lucky to be blessed with a physique tailor-made for sport, especially football.” Pelé

training hard Signed Limited Edition Giclée 195 Image Size: 18” x 18” | Framed £495 Signed Limited Edition Silver Gelatin of 150 Paper Size: 30” x 30” | Framed £1,950 Paper Size: 40” x 40” | Framed £2,950 Signed Limited Edition Gicleé on Hahnemuhle Baryta Paper of 75 Paper Size: 60” x 60” | Framed £3,950

“I was always very dedicated. I never did something just to do it. I would take it seriously and practise.” Pelé

Pelé perfecting a header in the locker room during the 1960s. Photograph Photo: José Dias Herrera

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locker room skills Signed Limited Edition Giclée 195 Image Size: 18” x 18” | Framed £495

On 7 July 1957, Pelé was called up to play for Brazil’s national football team, the Seleção, and scored his first international goal against Argentina. The next year, he made his first World Cup appearance in Sweden with the Seleção. Photograph Photo: José Dias Herrera

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pelé Signed Limited Edition Giclée 195 Image Size: 18” x 18” | Framed £495 Signed Limited Edition Silver Gelatin of 150 Paper Size: 30” x 30” | Framed £1,950 Paper Size: 40” x 40” | Framed £2,950 Signed Limited Edition Gicleé on Hahnemuhle Baryta Paper of 75 Paper Size: 60” x 60” | Framed £3,950

“The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.” Pelé

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world cup winner Signed Limited Edition Giclée 195 Image Size: 18” x 18” | Framed £495

PelĂŠ in 1962 holding the Jules Rimet trophy, won by Brazil for the second consecutive time. Photograph Photo: JosĂŠ Dias Herrera

Taking a break on the pitch with Santos, early 1970s. Photograph Photo: JosĂŠ Dias Herrera

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santos fc Signed Limited Edition Giclée 195 Image Size: 18” x 18” | Framed £495

Herrera Archive Boxed Set of 8 Editions Boxed Set of 8 Limited Edition Giclée Prints in Presentation Box | Image Size 18” x 18” | £1,450 Portfolio Set of 4 Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints in Presentation Wallet | Paper Size 30” x 30” | £4,950

This beautifully curated boxed set gives an intimate insight into the man behind the legend; Pelé’s life captured through Herrera’s lens. Viewed together, these snapshots form a pictorial timeline, illustrating Pelé’s stratospheric rise from emerging star to globally recognised sporting icon.

This beautifully illustrated book showcases artworks by Halcyon Gallery and Washington Green’s internationally acclaimed artists who were specifically commissioned to create paintings and sculptures for a unique exhibition celebrating Pelé’s 75th birthday, and lifetime of sporting and humanitarian achievements.

ART LIFE FOOTBALL Hardback Book | £30

SILVER GELATIN ARCHIVAL PRINTS Black & white images are printed on an archival silver gelatin paper by merging years of experience in analogue printing with new digital technology methods. Output on a double weight fibre based paper, we have produced fully archival prints from digital files that truly represent the legacy of black & white imaging.

GICLÉE PRINTS The term “giclée print” denotes an elevation in printmaking technology, largely due to the superior colour accuracy it affords in comparison with other reproduction techniques. Images are taken from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various media including canvas, fine art, and photographic paper.

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