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Neo Head, Large Peter Max painting 1994
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max Title: Neo Head Year: 1994 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r.
Acrylic
$19,500
Peter Max Midnight Profile Large 50” Original Painting Signed Acrylic on Paper
By Peter Max
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: Midnight Profile Medium: Original acrylic painting on paper Dimensions: 50" x 38 1/8" Year: 1990 Inscription: Signed "Max" on upper right Peter Max's "Midni...
Paper, Acrylic
Peter Max Large 38x50 Original Lady with Hat Signed 1982 Ink on Paper
By Peter Max
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: Lady With Hat Medium: Original Ink on Paper Dimensions: 38" x 50" Year: 1982 Inscription: Signed and dated "Max 1982" on upper right "Lady With Hat" (1982) ...
Paper, Ink
Peter Max Statue of Liberty Signed Large 48x24 Inch Original Painting on Canvas
By Peter Max
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: Statue of Liberty Medium: Original Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 48" x 24" Frame: 64" x 40" x 2" Year: c. 2010-2017 Inscription: Signed "Max" on the upper fr...
Canvas, Acrylic
$10,500Sale Price|25% Off
Large Toulouse Lautrec by Peter Max in Peach Pink, Signed and Framed
By Peter Max
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the largest of the Toulouse Lautrec portraits by famed artist Peter Max in peach pink. Professionally framed, signed and numbered.
Paper
$44,000
Peter Max Better World Large 40x30 Inch Original Painting Signed with Studio Num
By Peter Max
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: Better World Medium: Original Acrylic on Canvas Canvas Size: 40" x 30" Frame Size: 48" x 38" Year: 2008 Inscription: Signed "Max" on the bottom front Documen...
Canvas, Acrylic
Umbrella Man With Rainbow Sky (large framed signed serigraph)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed lower right by Peter Max. Hand numbered 80/150 lower left. Published by Tsumura Art Association., Tokyo, Japan and printed by Arabesque S...
Paper, Screen
Dega & Woman, Large Hand Signed Serigraph, Pop Art, Edition of 300, 1990
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Peter Max. Edition of 300. From Images of an Era Suite. Published by Hanson Art Galleries., San Francisco, CA and printe...
Paper, Screen
Unavailable
H 38 in W 30 in
PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING Large POP ART FLOWERS Acrylic Oil Still Life
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is by far one of our personal favorites. This is a LARGE Truly Spectacular (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) PETER MAX painting titled "ORIGINAL POP ART FL...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 36 in W 24 in
PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING Large POP ART LADY with FLOWERS Acrylic Rare
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Large PETER MAX painting titled "POP ART LADY with FLOWERS" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST O...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 24 in W 36 in
PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING Large I LOVE THE WORLD Pop ART Acrylic oil
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Large PETER MAX painting titled "I LOVE THE WORLD" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPTI...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 60 in W 60 in
PETER MAX Original PAINTING on CANVAS Signed LIBERTY HEAD Statue of HUGE 60x60
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is an ALL-ORIGINAL Authentic Large Peter Max 60x60 "ORIGINAL LIBERTY HEAD 89" Acrylic Painting on CANVAS!
Canvas, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 50 in W 62 in
PETER MAX Original PAINTING on CANVAS Signed FLOWER LADY Nude Acrylic HUGE 36x48
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is an ALL-ORIGINAL Authentic Large Peter Max 36x48 "ORIGINAL FLOWER LADY in ROOM" Acrylic Painting on CANVAS!
Canvas, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 48 in W 38 in
PETER MAX Original PAINTING on CANVAS Signed BETTER WORLD Acrylic LARGE 40x30
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
The artwork listed is an All-Original Large 40x30" (48 x 38" with the custom frame) PETER MAX Acrylic Painting on CANVAS titled, "ORIGINAL Better World".
Canvas, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 36 in W 44 in
Peter Max Large Color Screenprint Flower Spectrum Beauty Hand Signed Pop Artwork
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Authentic, Hand Signed and Numbered Color Screenprint, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale h...
Screen
Unavailable
H 30 in W 40 in
Peter Max Original Color Screenprint Large Zero In Love Hand Signed Pop Artwork
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Authentic, Signed and Numbered Color Screenprint, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here w...
Screen
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H 28 in W 38 in
PETER MAX Original Color Silkscreen Large Hand Signed Lady Red Vase Flowers Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Signed & Numbered "Lady on Red With Floating Vase" Color Silkscreen, Elaborately Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up ...
Screen
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H 40 in W 30 in
Peter Max Large Original Dega Man Painting Acrylic On Canvas Signed Art 40x30
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Authentic and Large (40 x 30") Original Acrylic Painting Canvas, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: The item ...
Acrylic
Unavailable
H 34 in W 42 in
PETER MAX Acrylic Painting ORIGINAL ROCKS and SUN Signed POP ART LARGE Authentic
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: "Rocks and Sun 08 Original" Medium: One-of-a-kind Mixed Media Painting on Art Paper Year: 2008 Max Studios reference #288196 Size: 22" x 30" w Painted Borde...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 30 in W 22 in
Peter Max Large Original Acrylic Painting On Canvas Sage with Cane Signed Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: "Sage with Cane Original" Medium: Original Acrylic on Canvas Year: 1974 Size: 30" x 22" w Painted Borders: 34" x 26" Framed Size: 42" x 34" Asking: $19,995.0...
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 36 in W 46 in
Peter Max New Moon Cosmic Silkscreen Hand Signed Large Pop Art Umbrella Man SBO
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Signed and Numbered Color Silkscreen, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here we have an Ex...
Screen
Unavailable
H 37 in W 46 in
Peter Max Time Line Dega Man Large Color Screenprint Hand Signed Pop Artwork SBO
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Signed and Numbered Color Screenprint "Time Line Dega Man", Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for s...
Screen
Unavailable
H 52 in W 32 in
Large 40"H PETER MAX original signed PAINTING STATUE OF LIBERTY Head DELTA USA
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: "Statue of Liberty" Medium: Mixed Media Painting Year: 2006 Size: 40" x 20" w Painted Borders: 44" x 24" Framed Size: 52" x 32" Asking: $8895.00 OBO
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 30 in W 39 in
Peter Max In Horizon Color Lithograph Hand Signed Vintage Portrait Cosmic Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Signed and Numbered Vintage Color Lithograph, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here we ha...
Lithograph
Unavailable
H 50 in W 40 in
Peter Max Seated Man Original Color Silkscreen Vintage Hand Signed Pop Art Zero
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Large, Hand Signed and Numbered Color Silkscreen, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here we hav...
Screen
Unavailable
H 72 in W 60 in
PETER MAX Original PAINTING on CANVAS Signed DECO MAN Acrylic HUGE 60x48 Pop Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
The artwork listed is an All-Original Large 60x48 PETER MAX Acrylic Painting on CANVAS titled, "ORIGINAL DECO MAN".
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 66 in W 54 in D 2 in
Contemporary Modern Large Peter Max Acrylic on Paper Portrait Painting Signed
By Peter Max
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is an absolutely breathtaking, statement piece of an original acrylic on paper painting by Peter Max, signed and framed. In excellent condition. The dimensions...
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H 51 in W 61 in D 2 in
Peter Max Original Acrylic Painting Commissioned Large 50" x 60" 1/1 Image
By Peter Max
Located in Minneapolis, MN
It is extremely rare to find a larger Peter Max canvas painting. That is a major reason that an and all major collectors focus on the larger canvases.
Acrylic
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H 44 in W 34 in
Peter Max Original Painting HEART Signed Rare Framed Vibrant Colors Red Pink
By Peter Max
Located in Buffalo, NY
This is a one of a kind large unique painting by Peter Max the Heart. This is a fully finished composition where every inch of the canvas was addressed in detail.
Canvas, Oil
LIBERTY HEAD (LARGE PAINTING)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand-signed in acrylic on front by Peter Max. Peter Max studio catalog number and year on verso. Canvas size 60 x 60 inches. Canvas is stretch...
Canvas, Acrylic
HIS BIRTHDAY (LARGE PAINTING)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas mounted on linen. Hand signed and dated upper front by Peter Max. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Some signs of expe...
Canvas, Acrylic
Profiles (large hand signed serigraph)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed lower right by Peter Max. Hand numbered 106/300 lower left. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. ...
Paper, Screen
Zero (large hand signed serigraph)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Peter Max. Edition of 300. From Images of an Era Suite. Published by Hanson Art Galleries., San Francisco, CA and printe...
Paper, Screen
Les Mondrian Ladies (large framed original painting)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed upper right by Peter Max. Canvas size: 37.5 x 49.5 inches Frame size: 41 x 53 inches. Dedicated and remarqued on verso by Peter Ma...
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 40 in W 50 in D 1 in
Les Mondrian Ladies (large custom framed hand signed serigraph)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed lower right by Peter Max. Hand numbered PP lower left (there is also a main edition of 300). Sheet size: 30 x 40 inches. Custom framed a...
Paper, Screen
Large Original Peter Max Liberty
By Peter Max
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the largest of the Peter Max Liberty series. This professionally framed piece is from a large private collection in Beverly Hills California.
Paper
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H 33 in W 39 in
Peter Max Original Painting Signed Rare Framed Vibrant Red Pink Woman Interior
By Peter Max
Located in Buffalo, NY
This is a one of a kind large unique painting by Peter Max which depicts a woman posed by a couch.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Stormy Sail" Large original serigraph
By Peter Max
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Stormy Sail" 1993 is an original color serigraph by German/American artist Peter Max, b.1937. It is hand signed and numbered A.P. 22 in white pencil by the artis...
Screen
Umbrella Man (large hand signed serigraph)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Peter Max. Edition of 300. From Images of an Era Suite. Published by Hanson Art Galleries., San Francisco, CA and printe...
Paper, Screen
Toulouse Lautrec (large hand signed serigraph)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Peter Max. From the edition of 125 (there are also Artist Proofs). Sheet size 48 x 36 inches. Image size approx 41.5 x 3...
Paper, Screen
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H 30 in W 24 in
PETER MAX original signed PAINTING Large DELTA Statue of LIBERTY Head USA
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) LARGE Peter Max painting titled "DELTA" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPTION.
Mixed Media, Acrylic
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H 36 in W 24 in
PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING BLUSHING BEAUTY Profile Pop ART Acrylic LARGE
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Large PETER MAX painting titled "BLUSHING BEAUTY" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPTIO...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
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H 38 in W 50 in
PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING Large UMBRELLA MAN Pop ART Acrylic Oil MOON
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Large PETER MAX painting titled "UMBRELLA MAN with NEW MOON 2007" offered for sale with the SUBMIT ...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
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H 32 in W 24 in
PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING ROSEVILLE PROFILE ART Acrylic Blushing Beauty
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Large PETER MAX painting titled "ROSEVILLE PROFILE" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPT...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
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H 55 in W 42 in
Peter Max Toulouse Lautrec Large Color Screenprint Hand Signed Modern Pop Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Authentic, Signed and Numbered Color Screenprint, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here w...
Screen
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H 40 in W 30 in
Peter Max Better World Large Color Screenprint Hand Signed Pop Artwork Landscape
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Signed and Numbered, Large Color Screenprint, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here we ha...
Screen
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H 60 in W 48 in
Peter Max Original Acrylic Painting On Canvas Large Roseville Profile Signed Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Authentic and Large (60 x 48") Original Acrylic Painting Canvas, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: The item u...
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 44 in W 36 in
PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING UMBRELLA MAN LARGE Pop ART Acrylic AUTHENTIC
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Artist: Peter Max Title: "UMBRELLA MAN" Medium: Mixed Media Painting Year: 2001 Max Studio Reference #67820 Size: 32" x 24" w Painted Borders: 36" x 28" Framed Size: 44" x 36" Asking...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
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H 40 in W 32 in
Peter Max Original Color Silkscreen The Grammy Award Large Hand Signed Pop Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max "The Grammy" Hand Signed & Numbered Large Color Silkscreen, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale he...
Screen
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H 20 in W 16 in
PETER MAX Acrylic Painting ORIGINAL Signed ASIA Beauty Profile Pop ART large oil
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular Rare (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Peter Max painting titled "ASIA" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPTION. Elaborat...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
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H 20 in W 16 in
PETER MAX Acrylic Painting ORIGINAL Signed ASIA Beauty Profile Pop ART large oil
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
his is a Truly Spectacular Rare (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Peter Max painting titled "ASIA" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPTION. Elaborate...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
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H 30 in W 22 in
PETER MAX Acrylic PAINTING ORIGINAL UMBRELLA MAN Signed Pop Art ICONIC oil LARGE
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is by far one of the absolute nicest Peter Max original Paintings we have ever been able to offer for sale... PETER MAX All-Original Painting with Hand Painted Borders titled, ...
Paper, Acrylic
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H 28 in W 40 in
Peter Max Original Ink Drawing Large Friends Profile Love Signed Framed Pop Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Authentic & Large Original Ink Drawing with Pastel Hand Coloring, Professionally Custom Framed with hand painted borders and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Acc...
Ink
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H 26.5 in W 26.5 in
Peter Max Large Flag With Heart Color Serigraph Hand Signed Pop Art Iconic Rare
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Signed and Numbered Color Serigraph, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here we have a Auth...
Screen
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H 45 in W 30 in
PETER MAX Original Painting STATUE OF LIBERTY Signed Pop Art Oil USA Head LARGE
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Submit Best Offer: The item up for sale is a very Rare AUTHENTIC Original ACRYLIC PAINTING on art paper by Peter Max titled, "ORIGINAL STATUE OF LIBERTY". This is by far one of th...
Acrylic
"Aerial View" Watercolor
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Reminiscent of the whimsical art of Peter Max. Large view of surreal earth covered by puffy white clouds and land.
Masonite, Watercolor
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H 36 in W 24 in
PETER MAX Original Signed PAINTING VASE OF FLOWERS Art Acrylic Still Life LARGE
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Large PETER MAX painting titled "VASE OF FLOWERS" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPTIO...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
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H 50 in W 42 in
Peter Max Original Color Silkscreen Andy Warhol With Mustache Signed Large Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Large, Hand Signed and Numbered Color Silkscreen, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here we hav...
Screen
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H 32 in W 40 in
PETER MAX Flag With Heart Original Color Screenprint Large Hand Signed Artwork
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Authentic, Signed and Numbered Color Screenprint, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here w...
Screen
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H 28 in W 24 in
PETER MAX Acrylic Painting ORIGINAL LOVE Signed ART Heart Beauty Profile Large
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
PETER MAX Original One-of-a-kind Painting with Hand Painted Borders titled, "ORIGINAL LOVE", Custom Framed and Listed with the Submit Best Offer option Submit Best Offer: The item...
Acrylic
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H 32 in W 36 in
PETER MAX Original signed PAINTING FLAG WITH HEART Art USA America Liberty LARGE
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular Large (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Peter Max painting titled "FLAG WITH HEART" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPTIO...
Acrylic
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H 20 in W 16 in
PETER MAX Acrylic Painting ORIGINAL Signed YEAR 2250 Pop ART large retro Rare
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
This is a Truly Spectacular Rare (Both the frame, and, piece are in like NEW Condition) Peter Max painting titled "YEAR 2250" offered for sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER OPTION. Ela...
Mixed Media
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H 46 in W 36 in
Peter Max Large Color Screenprint Zero Man Portrait Signed Pop Art Painting Art
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
Peter Max Hand Authentic, Signed and Numbered Color Screenprint, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here w...
Screen
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H 13.5 in W 16 in
Peter Max Large Quiet Lake Color Serigraph Hand Signed Pop Artwork Sunset Sail
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
PPeter Max Hand Signed and Numbered Color Serigraph, Professionally Custom Framed and listed with the Submit Best Offer option Accepting Offers Now: Up for sale here we have a Aut...
Screen
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H 30 in W 22 in
This is by far one of our personal favorites. This is a LARGE Truly Spectacular
By Peter Max
Located in Bloomington, MN
PETER MAX Original Larger Painting with Hand Painted Borders titled, "ORIGINAL POP ART HEART", Custom Framed and Listed with the Submit Best Offer option Submit Best Offer: The item...
Acrylic
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.
Find original Peter Max lithographs, paintings, signed art and other works for sale on 1stDibs.
Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.
ORIGINS OF POP ART
CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART
POP ARTISTS TO KNOW
ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS
The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.
Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.
Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.
Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.
Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.
Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.
Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.