For Your Eyes Only

Artist: Brian Bysouth
Format: UK Quad (30"x 40")
Condition: Excellent
Year: 1981

Description
The global advertising campaign for "For Your Eyes Only" revolved around the iconic imagery devised by Bill Gold showing Bond framed between a pair of particularly attractive legs (unsurprisingly, this came to be known as the "Legs Campaign"). In the more conservative parts of N.America the sexual imagery of the US 1-Sheet poster proved to be too provocative & an alternate design was published with the lady wearing a pair of shorts! In the UK, the Quad design was passed to Brian Bysouth who provided a painted version of the "legs" pose but further provided a montage of action shots in the background. The provision of a more graphic illustration of the essential ingredients of a Bond film (action, explosions, speed, gadgets & gizmos) proved successful & most international posters for the film incorporated & adapted Bysouth's work alongside Gold's "Legs" imagery. This example has been cleaned, de-acidified & linen-backed.