Athena Tennis Girl makes cheeky comeback in the name of art | Art and design
Art and design This article is more than 12 years oldAthena Tennis Girl makes cheeky comeback – in the name of artThis article is more than 12 years oldClassic poster will feature in Birmingham exhibition exploring lawn tennis as fine artAs an 18-year-old girl in the long hot summer of 1976 Fiona Walker, then Butler, cheerfully allowed her boyfriend, Martin Elliott, to photograph her knickerless, walking towards a tennis net. Elliott sold the image to Athena, and up it speedily went on the bedroom walls of boys everywhere, becoming one of the world's biggest-selling posters.
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