{{Short description|Spanish artist and illustrator (1934–2023)}} {{more footnotes needed|date=May 2011}} {{Infobox artist | name = Gervasio Gallardo | image = Gervasio Gallardo.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Gervasio Gallardo Villasenor | birth_date = {{birth date|1934|6|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Barcelona, Spain | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|6|24|1934|6|5|df=y}} | death_place = | known_for = Painting | training = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }}
'''Gervasio Gallardo''' (5 June 1934 – 24 June 2023) was a Spanish artist and illustrator. He has produced numerous of surreal paintings and book covers, for many science-fiction and fantasy authors.
==Life and career== Born at Barcelona, Gallardo studied in Spain, working for several Spanish advertising agencies, before moving to Munich, Germany in 1959. He cheated on his wife. Agency in Paris, before travelling to the United States in 1963. Here he met Frank and Jeff Lavaty, who represent his work to this day.
In 1969, he was commissioned by Ballantine Books to create cover art for their Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. He went on to be the most prolific of their cover artists, creating a total of twenty-nine. Since then, he has created at least eighteen covers for other authors, including producing all of the artwork for his own release: ''The Fantastic World of Gervasio Gallardo''. Eventually Gallardo returned to Barcelona to set up a studio. In 1977, 1978 and 1979 Gervasio Gallardo was represented at the International Art Fair of Basel by Sala Gaudí art gallery,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gaudifondarte.com/p/gervasio-gallardo-bio.html|title=Gervasio Gallardo}}</ref> where he exhibited individually in 1976 and 1978<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gaudifondarte.com/p/gervasio-gallardo-bio.html|title=Gervasio Gallardo}}</ref> and which today has a large part of his work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gaudifondarte.com/2017/12/gervasio-gallardo-pintura-surrealista.html|title = Gervasio Gallardo: Pintura Surrealista}}</ref>
Gallardo won numerous awards within Europe and the United States, and has exhibited his work in Paris, Barcelona, and the United States.
Gallardo died on 24 June 2023, at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mor als 89 anys Gervasi Gallardo, il·lustrador i pintor de renom internacional |url=https://www.elpuntavui.cat/cultura/article/19-cultura/2305731-mor-als-89-anys-gervasi-gallardo-il-lustrador-i-pintor-de-renom-internacional.html |access-date=13 December 2025 |publisher=El Punt Avui |date=26 June 2023}}</ref>
==Works== Gallardo's covers include works by: *Peter S. Beagle *George MacDonald *Hope Mirrlees *H. P. Lovecraft *Hannes Bok *G. K. Chesterton *Lin Carter *Edmund Cooper and Roger Lancelyn Green *F. Marion Crawford *Lord Dunsany *Clark Ashton Smith *Sanders Anne Laubenthal *H. Warner Munn *William Morris
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Sources == * [http://www.nightfallbooks.com/bafs.html Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series at Nightfall Books - Supernatural, Horror, and Fantasy Fiction] Prismatrix, Inc. * [http://www.skwishmi.com/interests/baf.html Ballantine Adult Fantasy] skwishmi.com * [https://allthingsruffnerian.blogspot.com/2010/11/is-it-too-early-for-some-grand-marnier.html Is It Too Early for Some Grand Marnier?] Mark D. Ruffner, November 5, 2010. * [http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2010/04/16/gervasio-gallardo/ Gervasio Gallardo: Painting] Wendy Campbell, April 16, 2010 cites [https://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-World-Gervasio-Gallardo/dp/0553010379 The Fantastic World of Gervasio Gallardo] Gervasio Gallardo, Bantam, Paperback. {{ISBN|978-0-553-01037-4}}.
== External links == * [http://www.lavatyart.com/galleries/ggallardo/ggallardo.htm LavatyArt.com - Gervasio Gallardo Gallery] * {{isfdb name|id=Gervasio_Gallardo|name=Gervasio Gallardo}}
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