Peter Max"Liberty Red"2000s
2000s
About the Item
- Creator:Peter Max (1937, American, German)
- Creation Year:2000s
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Warren, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2336211757362
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 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 an explosively vibrant collection of Peter Max paintings, prints and other works on 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Warren, NJ
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 7 days of delivery.
- "God Bless America II"By Peter MaxLocated in Warren, NJMeasures 37x31 Photo is 23x17 Condition good Comes with Park West original frame and sticker on the backCategory
Early 2000s Mixed Media
MaterialsAcrylic
- "Colorful Rainy Day"By Slava IlyayevLocated in Warren, NJEmbellished on Board in excellent condition measures 28x24x2Category
2010s Prints and Multiples
MaterialsAcrylic
- "Flower on Aluminum"Located in Warren, NJThis is an Rare Alexandre Renoir original flower aluminum painting. In great condition. Measures 24x24Category
Early 2000s Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic
- "Yellow Flowers"Located in Warren, NJThis is an Le Quang Ha (Vietnam 1963) yellow flowers gouache on paper. Measures 27x26 International buyers must cover all shipping expensesCategory
2010s Paintings
MaterialsGouache
- "Canyon"Located in Warren, NJOriginal Oil on canvas In excellent condition Frame measures 44x33x1 Painting itself 36x24Category
1980s Paintings
MaterialsOil
- UntitledLocated in Warren, NJNeil McAuliffe realistic oil on canvas, signed and framed. Image size: 35in x 23inCategory
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Framed Original Thangka Painting on canvas With 24 Karat Real GoldLocated in TRUMBULL, CTThis mandala thangka is hand painted on canvas with 24k gold. Different hues of gray,green and peach colors blend seamlessly with the shimmering of real gold.0 The measurement of the...Category
Late 20th Century Mixed Media
MaterialsAcrylic
- Large White American Contemporary Floral Ceramic Sculptural Work on BoardLocated in Fort Worth, TXCollateral Beauty; The Apart by Allie Regan Dickerson. Clay sculpture on board. 30" x 40." $7,000. This is a large white American Contemporary floral ceramic sculptural work onboard....Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
MaterialsCeramic, Adhesive, Acrylic, Board
- Mete Caña , ca. 2020 Mixed media on canvas , 23k Gold leaf edition number: 1/7Located in San Juan, PRIn this new series Mercado utilizes canvas in big format as a medium to intervene Jack Delano's photographs of Puerto Rican agriculture workers he documented for the FSA in the 1940...Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsMetal, Gold Leaf
- Copacabana, ca. 2017 Mixed media on canvas , metal leaf, acrylic crystals, 2/7Located in San Juan, PRCARLOS MERCADO TROPICALIA TROPICALIA...Inspired in Nostalgia of the Caribbean Puerto Rico and Cuban images from the Golden era of the 50's recollects th...Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsMetal
- Golden Dream diptych ca.2019 Mixed media on canvas , 23k Gold leaf, edition 3/7Located in San Juan, PRCARLOS MERCADO Echoes A mirror image (in a plane mirror) is a reflected duplication of an object that appears almost identical, but is reversed in the di...Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsMetal, Gold Leaf
- Rumba, ca. 2017 Mixed media on canvas , metal leaf, acrylicLocated in San Juan, PRCARLOS MERCADO TROPICALIA TROPICALIA...Inspired in Nostalgia of the Caribbean Puerto Rico and Cuban images from the Golden era of the 50's recollects th...Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsMetal