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Bob PeakPregame Football Players Lined Up Abstraction of Blue Jersey and Orange Numbers1964
1964
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£12,111.32
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NOK 162,228.96
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About the Item
It's 1964, and the brilliantly inventive artist/illustrator Bob Peak is turning the world of commercial art upside down. In "Pregame Football Players" for Sports Illustrated, Peak puts the viewer on the field behind the knees of the football players. He depicts them in a pregame pep talk as more of an abstraction than a representation. Notice the Army marching colors seen through the legs of the center player. Peak ties an extremely wide-angle close-up with figurative elements in the distance. His radical cropping with broad areas of bold blue accented by strokes of calligraphic orange makes this work more of the domain of abstract painting than an expected magazine illustration. Congratulations to the Art Director and Editors at Time/Life for being brave enough to run such a stylized look for their football story. Bob Peak, in my opinion, was the Norman Rockwell of post-war American Illustration, with this work being one of his seminal works that paved the way for a new way of seeing. It's more fine art than commercial art. For Apocalypse Now, in 1979, Francis Ford Coppola could have hired any artist in the world to create the movie poster and image for his film. He hired Bob Peak.
Signed lower right. Unframed -Condition: Some creases, mostly visible with raking light. Tape remnants on the perimeter look very artsy and add to the overall quick and bold look of the work. Colors are bold, saturated and punchy.
- Creator:Bob Peak (1927 - 1992, American)
- Creation Year:1964
- Dimensions:Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:Some creases, mostly visible with raking light. Tape remnants on the perimeter look very artsy and add to the overall quick and bold look of the work. Colors are bold, saturated and punchy.
- Gallery Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU385312993952
Bob Peak
Bob Peak - Robert M. Peak (May 30, 1927 – August 1, 1992) was an American llustrator. Known for his developments in the design of the modern film poster His artwork has been on the cover of Time magazine, TV Guide, and Sports Illustrated. He also illustrated advertisements Bob Peak was born in Denver, and grew up in Wichita. From an early age that he wanted to be a commercial illustrator. After serving in the military during the Korean War, Peak transferred to the Art Center College of Design. In 1953, Peak moved to NYC and went on to appear in major advertising and national magazines.
Peak in 1961 to design the poster images for the film West Side Story. My Fair Lady and Camelot. Peak's style would become familiar to fans of science fiction films when he created the poster art for the futuristic film Rollerball (1975), which was followed by the first five Star Trek films, Superman (1978), Excalibur (1981), Derek Flint films, Apocalypse Now (1979), The Spy Who Loved Me and other James Bond concepts.[3] By the 1980s, only the film poster artist Drew Struzan was in as much demand by film directors
In 2011, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the "Bob Peak: Creating the Modern Movie Poster" Peak taught in his own college and later at Art Students League of New York, Pratt Institute and Famous Artists School.
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