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Peter Max Flower Vase

Vase of Flowers, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers Year: 1979 Edition: 138/350, plus proofs Medium
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Vase of Flowers XI, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers XI Year: 2001 Edition: 451/500, plus proofs Medium
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Flowers In Blue Vase III, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Flowers In Blue Vase III Year: 2000 Edition: 419/500, plus proofs
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

PROFILE WITH FLOWER VASE
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Peter Max. Canvas size 24 x 30 inches
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"Vase of Flowers XI" Framed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Peter Max
Located in Chatsworth, CA
"Vase of Flowers XI" is a limited edition lithograph on paper by Peter Max, numbered and hand
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

MONK AND VASE Signed Lithograph, Pop Art Interior, Striped Robe, Floor Vase
By Peter Max
Located in Union City, NJ
MONK AND VASE is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned American Pop artist, Peter Max
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1980s Pop Art Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

VASE IN ROOM II Signed Lithograph, Pop Art Interior, Brown Vase, Yogic Flying
By Peter Max
Located in Union City, NJ
VASE IN ROOM II is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned American Pop artist, Peter
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1980s Pop Art Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

COMPOSITION RED Signed Lithograph, Abstract Floral Still Life, Round Blue Vase
By Peter Max
Located in Union City, NJ
COMPOSITION RED is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned American Pop artist, Peter Max
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1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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By Keith Haring
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By Alberto Giacometti
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Abstract Flowers II, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Abstract Flowers II Year: 2007 Edition: 500/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on archival paper Size: 8 x 6 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription:...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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FRENCH ZERO'S GIRLFRIEND Signed Lithograph Woman in Green Hat Turquoise Red Pink
By Peter Max
Located in Union City, NJ
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Liberty Head V, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Liberty Head V Year: 2001 Edition: 454/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 3.5 x 3 inches Condition: Excellent Inscriptio...
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Sailboat on Horizon, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Sailboat on Horizon Year: 2000 Edition: 442/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 3.43 x 2.62 inches Condition: Excellent I...
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Peter Max Statue of Liberty (Signed, Stamped & Numbered) - Framed Print
By Peter Max
Located in New Orleans, LA
A large, bright, powerful image of the statue of liberty by famous American artist Peter Max. I have included a photo of this same print being offered on Artsy for significantly more...
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By Keith Haring
Located in Studio City, CA
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By Robert Indiana
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PETER MAX Original PAINTING POP ART PROFILE Watercolor SIGNED VASE of FLOWERS
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Profiles with Vase of Flowers" created by Max in 1989.... The piece is an Authentic Peter Max ORIGINAL
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Peter Max Flower Abstract Color Lithograph Hand Signed Vintage Pop Artwork Vase
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Rare and Authentic Lithograph by Peter Max titled, "Abstract Flowers" from his series of iconic images
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PETER MAX Original Color Silkscreen Large Hand Signed Lady Red Vase Flowers Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Signed & Numbered "Lady on Red With Floating Vase" Color Silkscreen, Elaborately
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Peter Max Zero Man Vase Flowers Color Lithograph Hand Signed Vintage Pop Artwork
By Peter Max
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Rare and Authentic Lithograph by Peter Max titled, "Zero and Flowers" from his series of iconic images
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Peter Max Lady In Flowers Color Lithograph Hand Signed Vintage Pop Artwork Vase
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Rare and Authentic Lithograph by Peter Max titled, "Lady in Flowers" that was originally purchased from
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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FLOWER VASE
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable off...
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FLOWER VASE
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Custom framed with hand painted fillet. Canvas size 12 x 9 in. Framed size approx 21 x 18 in. Artwork is in excell...
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Vase of Flowers
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers Year: 1979 Edition: 350, plus proofs Medium
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Vase of Flowers
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
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VASE OF FLOWERS (SCULPTURE)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique hand painted acrylic sculpture. Hand signed lower front by Peter Max. Studio catalog
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Vase Of Flowers On Blends
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase Of Flowers On Blends Year: 2007 Medium: Mixed Media on
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Early 2000s Pop Art Mixed Media

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Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Suite of Two Artworks)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Two Artworks) Year: 1979 Edition
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VASE OF FLOWERS SERIES 17 VER. IV #1
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
is in excellent condition. Peter Max Studio Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable
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VASE OF FLOWERS SERIES 28 VER. II #1
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
in excellent condition. Peter Max Studio Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers
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VASE OF FLOWERS SERIES 41 VER. II #1
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
in excellent condition. Peter Max Studio Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers
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VASE OF FLOWERS SERIES 80 VER. III #1
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
is in excellent condition. Peter Max Studio Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable
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VASE OF FLOWERS SERIES 17 VER. IV #1
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
size 48 x 36 inches. Custom framed with hand painted fillet. Artwork is in excellent condition. Peter
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Vase of Flowers, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers Year: 1979 Edition: 350, plus proofs Medium
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Vase of Flowers, Peter Max
Vase of Flowers, Peter Max
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Vase of Flowers, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers Year: 1979 Edition: 350, plus proofs Medium
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Suite of Two Artworks), Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Two Artworks) Year: 1979 Edition
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Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Suite of Two Artworks), Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Two Artworks) Year: 1979 Edition
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Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Suite of Two Artworks), Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Two Artworks) Year: 1979 Edition
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Vase of Flowers, 1979 Limited Edition Lithograph, Peter Max
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Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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By Peter Max
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Vase of Flowers
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers Year: 1979 Edition: 350, plus proofs Medium
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Lithograph

Vase of Flowers
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers Year: 1979 Edition: 350, plus proofs Medium
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Vase of Flowers XI
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers XI Year: 2001 Edition: 500, plus proofs Medium
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By Peter Max
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful hand-painted still life lithograph of a vase with flowers. The work is signed by the
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Flowers in a Blue Vase II #1
By Peter Max
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
” x W 27.75”. Hand-signed Lower Right – “Max” Provenance: The Artist; Dyansen Gallery, New York City
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COMPOSITION RED Signed Lithograph, Abstract Floral Still Life, Round Blue Vase
By Peter Max
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PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING POP ART FLOWERS Acrylic Oil Iconic LOVE Vase
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: POP ART FLOWERS Medium: Acrylic Year: 2006 Reference information: Max
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PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING Abstract VASE OF FLOWERS Pop ART Acrylic Oil
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
, piece are in like NEW Condition) PETER MAX painting titled "POP ART FLOWERS" offered for sale with the
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PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING Abstract VASE OF FLOWERS Pop ART Acrylic Oil
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
, piece are in like NEW Condition) PETER MAX painting titled "POP ART FLOWERS 98" offered for sale with
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PETER MAX Acrylic Painting ORIGINAL VASE OF FLOWERS Signed Art Still Life oil
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max titled, "ORIGINAL POP ART FLOWERS 1993". This is by far one of the nicest Peter Max Original
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1990s Pop Art Still-life Paintings

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PETER MAX Acrylic PAINTING on CANVAS All ORIGINAL Signed VASE OF FLOWERS Art oil
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Been able to Offer For Sale... This is an ALL-ORIGINAL Authentic Peter Max "ORIGINAL POP ART FLOWERS
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1980s Still-life Paintings

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PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING VASE OF FLOWERS Art Acrylic Still Life LARGE
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
, piece are in like NEW Condition) Large PETER MAX painting titled "VASE OF FLOWERS" offered for sale with
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Early 2000s Pop Art Still-life Paintings

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Peter Max Flower Vase For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate peter max flower vase for your needs in our varied inventory. In our selection of items, you can find Pop Art examples as well as a Abstract version. If you’re looking for a peter max flower vase from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. If you’re looking to add a peter max flower vase to create new energy in an otherwise neutral space in your home, you can find a work on 1stDibs that features elements of gray, black, beige, purple and more. Frequently made by artists working in paint, lithograph and acrylic paint, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years. If space is limited, you can find a small peter max flower vase measuring 6 high and 7 wide, while our inventory also includes works up to 48 across to better suit those in the market for a large peter max flower vase.

How Much is a Peter Max Flower Vase?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a peter max flower vase in our inventory may begin at $425 and can go as high as $45,000, while the average can fetch as much as $2,595.

Peter Max for sale on 1stDibs

Born Peter Max Finkelstein in Berlin in 1937, psychedelic Pop art icon Peter Max spent the first part of his childhood in Shanghai after his parents emigrated from Germany to flee the Nazis. While there, Max developed his deep interest in American pop culture — namely comic books, jazz and cinema. Max’s paintings, graphic design, prints and illustrations, which were inspired by these interests, were also informed by his experience with synesthesia, a sensory condition that causes him to see music and hear color.

After relocating to Haifa, Israel, then Paris, where he spent a significant amount of time in sketching classes at the Louvre, a teenage Max and his family finally moved to the United States, settling in Brooklyn. Max enrolled in the Art Students League of New York in 1956, training under Frank J. Reilly, and then the School of Visual Arts. Throughout art school, Max focused on photorealism, but he found the style too restrictive. When he graduated and opened his graphic design studio with friends in 1962, he began experimenting with abstraction and color — just in time for the psychedelic era.

The technicolor works for which Max would become known are characterized by big and bold graphic qualities — not dissimilar to what you’d find in his beloved comic books. Some deeper themes emerged across his work too: Max spent a good portion of the 1960s and 1970s creating his signature cosmic style, inspired by his fascination with astronomy and Eastern philosophies.

For Max and his partners, the graphic design business was highly successful, with commissions rolling in from advertising agencies, magazines and even Hollywood in the form of movie posters. The artist was featured on the cover of Life in 1969, and by the 1970s, he was practically a household name.

Max's body of work extended into product design, including a line of clocks for General Electric, while his domination of the commercial art scene continued for decades. He was commissioned to paint a postage stamp honoring the World’s Fair of 1974 (Expo ‘74); a Statue of Liberty series in which some proceeds went on to fund the statue’s restoration; posters and other advertising materials for major events like the Super Bowl, the U.S. Open and the Grammys; a Dale Earnhardt race car; and even the hull of the Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship.

Commercial activities aside, Max has long been the subject of many museum exhibitions, from his first solo show in 1970, “The World of Peter Max,” at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco to 2016's “Peter Max: 50 Years of Cosmic Dreaming” at the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida. Today, his work belongs to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and other institutions.

Find original Peter Max lithographs, paintings, signed art and other works for sale on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Pop Art Art

Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.

ORIGINS OF POP ART

CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART 

  • Bold imagery
  • Bright, vivid colors
  • Straightforward concepts
  • Engagement with popular culture 
  • Incorporation of everyday objects from advertisements, cartoons, comic books and other popular mass media

POP ARTISTS TO KNOW

ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS

The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.

Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.

Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.

Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.

Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.

Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.

Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.

Questions About Peter Max
  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021
    How much a Peter Max painting is worth will be determined by its condition, the presence of a signature, size and other factors. Born Peter Max Finkelstein in Berlin in 1937, psychedelic Pop art icon Peter Max spent the first part of his childhood in Shanghai after his parents emigrated from Germany to flee the Nazis. While there, Max developed a deep interest in American pop culture — namely comic books, jazz and cinema — that would inform his bold and graphic paintings. His prints can be found for less than approximately $1,000 but his paintings have sold for between $10,000 and $20,000 over the years. Find original Peter Max paintings on 1stDibs.