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Bob Peak
Sports Portrait of Athletic Partially Nude Boy with Rapid Brushstrokes

1960's- 1970's

About the Item

Figuration and abstraction meet in this energized quick portrait of an athletic boy with headband and resting on a bench, Most likely done for a magazine like Sports Illustrated - Signed lower left. Unframed. Color will vary from monitor to monitor. Best view with top key light. - Mixed media on Masonite Bob Peak is as massively overlooked as he is talented. In the 1960s- 1980s, he took on the role of shaping American illustration history. It's my belief that illustrators from this period were much more skilled artists than their counterparts in the so-called fine art world then and certainly today. In today's art world there is no one who can paint a portrait as good as Bob Peak. He merges a deep understanding of academic art with his own unique creative styles. In fact, if you pooled all of the artists in any major contemporary art show into one super-artist they could not rival the drawing and portrait paintings skills as Bob Peak. Most contemporary art looks like scribbles or child art. Sadly, contemporary artists do not have the training to do anything more complex than that. In the 1960s to 1980s Peak was a legend and the absolute gold standard for post-WW11 American Illustration. Provenance - The Estate of the Artist Bob Peak, in my opinion, was the Norman Rockwell of post-war American Illustration, this is one of the 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. Some of the movie posters Peak has worked on. West Side Story, Rollerball, Star Trek, Superman, Excalibur, Apocalypse Now, The Spy Who Loved Me. My Fair Lady, Camelot and Enter the Dragon. Additionally, Peak illustrated 45 covers of Time Magazine and many covers for Sports Illustrated, TV Guide. He is best known for his many movie posters including Apocalypse Now.