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Design Credit: Samantha Todhunter Design Ltd., Photo Credit: Oliver Clarke. Dimensions: H 27.25 in. x W 21.25 in.
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Peter Max
ZERO'S FRIEND Signed Color Lithograph, Head Portrait, Mod Hat, Pop Art
1980

About the Item

ZERO'S FRIEND is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned American Pop artist, Peter Max, printed in 1980 in an edition of 165, using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival paper, 100% acid free. ZERO'S FRIEND is a black and white Pop Art portrait drawing set against a white background with freely drawn vertical lines in alternating colors of yellow and blue. Peter Max's adept use of rainbow colors in shades of light blue, red, magenta pink, yellow, orange, green, and purple fill in and shade the high cheek boned face and Mod style hat of ZERO'S FRIEND, whose appearance is reminiscent of DAVID BOWIE's famed, androgynous glam alter ego character, Ziggy Stardust. Print size - 27.25 x 21.25 inches, unframed, excellent condition, signed in black felt pen by Peter Max Edition size - 165 Year published - 1980 Artist Peter Max was born in 1937, Berlin Germany and spent his childhood in Shanghai. From China, the family went to Tibet for a year, and then on to Israel. Peter Max's family's odyssey continued to Paris, and finally, at the age of 16, Max arrived in the United States. Peter Max began his art studies in New York at the Art Student's League and continued at the Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts. Peter Max, who is known throughout the world and is a household name in America, is famous for his new age style, cosmic imagery and multi-colored blends. During the late 1960's and early 70's, Peter Max's colorful art reached millions of people and he won numerous major awards for his work. Peter Max's paintings, drawings, sculpture and limited edition graphics have been exhibited in major museums throughout the world.

Creator:
Peter Max (1937, American, German)
Creation Year:
1980
Dimensions:
Height: 27.25 in (69.22 cm)Width: 21.25 in (53.98 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
Pop Art
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Very good condition, unframed, never mounted, signed in black felt pen by Peter Max, dedicated (Printers proof) aside from the edition of 165, from the master printer's private collection.
Gallery Location:
Union City, NJ
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU83236107802
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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.

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