Peter Max Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas "Delta" Statue of Liberty

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Peter Max
Peter Max Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas "Delta" Statue of Liberty

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Artist: Peter Max Title: Delta Medium: Original on Canvas Size: 15 1/4 " x 15 1/4 Framed: 24 1/2 x 24 1/2 One of the most productive Pop Artists of our time, Peter Max has gained his popularity by painting captivating versions of different American icons. One of his most celebrated series is Lady Liberty, in which he presented the world-renowned statue in as an impersonation of the effervescent, but stoic American spirit. Whether representing it as an imposing statue or as a blown-up portrait, Max always instills a dose of both patriotism and universal spirit into the work. His Lady Liberty series on paper and in mixed media are highly sought after among collectors of American art, while paintings on canvas representing this theme are the rarest and the most coveted pieces from this body of work. Delta Statue of Liberty we present is an extremely rare painting from the famed series executed in acrylic paint on canvas. An authentic piece, it is completely unique in rendering of the palette, but also the figure. Lady Liberty’s uncompromising gaze is described in a sequence of bold, dark strokes, emphasized with nuances of blue, yellow and green. The background is bathed in fiery tones of red, fuschia and sun yellow, while only a thin portion of the blue sky is visible behind. Every stroke of the artist’s brush infuses this seemingly static painting with energy, providing it an unexpected dynamics. The thick impasto dominates the work contrasting the few deliberately washed portions, as it builds the atmosphere around the Statue’s face. The central area is left without color, piercing into the observer’s eyes, while the work positions Max not only as a supreme portraitist of icons, but as a masterful painter as well. The piece comes in professional, safe packaging. Certificate of Authenticity included. Collect art in a smart way! Select our Best Offer option to propose a price. The first bidder to meet the bottom line price wins. About Peter Max A painter of celebrities and icons Peter Max is world-renowned for his signature visual language featuring bright nuances of the rainbow spectrum. His colorful body of work embodies the spirit of the psychedelic 60s and transmits its optimism throughout all the prolific decades of the artist’s activity. The practice of Peter Max transcends all media, from drawing and painting to sculpture, print and graphic design, while the iconography he employs is highly recognizable and relatable to the broad public. Sometimes described as a neo-expressionist, Max is actually considered one of the most productive and commercially successful pop artists to date. Throughout his career, he collaborated with numerous companies, events and organizations, designing lines for General Electric, and serving as the official artist of the Grammy Awards and the Rock and Roll Hall of fame, but also for five Super Bowls, the World Cup, the World Series, and the US Open among others. He is also the author of one of the better known US postage stamps and he had the opportunity to place his artwork on a Continental Airlines Boeing 777. Six American presidents have been among commissioners of Peter Max’s art, while his works were exhibited in over 100 museums and galleries across the planet. Synesthetic Art of Peter Max is eclectic and figurative, always clad in a kaleidoscopic palette. From his memorable Lady Liberty series, over the famous people and imagery inspired by music, to the more recent Obama series and the Masters Series in which he reinterpreted some of the most famous works from art history, we can follow Max’s oeuvre that has given him the status of a true American cultural icon. Born in 1937 in Berlin as Peter Max Finkelstein, the artist had an exciting and nomadic upbringing in China, Israel, and France, following the final settlement of his family in the United States. Today, Peter Max lives and works in New York City, NY.

Creator:
Peter Max (1937, American, German)
Dimensions:
Height: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Width: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
uniquePrice: $49,400
Medium:
Acrylic
Movement & Style:
Surrealist
Period:
Late 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU109813720612

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Peter Max

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.

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