How much is a Peter Max painting worth?

How much a Peter Max painting is worth will be determined by its condition, the presence of a signature, size and other factors. 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 a deep interest in American pop culture — namely comic books, jazz and cinema — that would inform his bold and graphic paintings. His prints can be found for less than approximately $1,000 but his paintings have sold for between $10,000 and $20,000 over the years. Find original Peter Max paintings on 1stDibs.

Peter Max Vintage

Peter MaxProfile Series II, Peter Max, 1998

$955Sale Price|20% Off

Profile Series II, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Notes: Published by Via Max. PETER MAX (1937- ) Peter Max has achieved huge success and world-wide recognition for his artistic accomplishments as a multi-dimensional artist.

Category

1990s Pop Art Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Lithograph

Peter MaxHeart Series I, Peter Max, 1998

$763Sale Price|20% Off

Heart Series I, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Notes: Published by Via Max. PETER MAX (1937- ) Peter Max has achieved huge success and world-wide recognition for his artistic accomplishments as a multi-dimensional artist.

Category

1990s Pop Art Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Screen

Peter MaxDream IV: Solar Surprise, Peter Max, 1998

$1,008Sale Price|20% Off

Dream IV: Solar Surprise, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Notes: Published by Via Max. PETER MAX (1937- ) Peter Max has achieved huge success and world-wide recognition for his artistic accomplishments as a multi-dimensional artist.

Category

1990s Pop Art Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Lithograph

Peter MaxDream I: The Blossoming, Peter Max, 1998

$1,008Sale Price|20% Off

Dream I: The Blossoming, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Notes: Published by Via Max. PETER MAX (1937- ) Peter Max has achieved huge success and world-wide recognition for his artistic accomplishments as a multi-dimensional artist.

Category

1990s Pop Art Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Lithograph

Rare "Peter Max" Polished Silver Hardware "Love" Belt

$32,885

Rare "Peter Max" Polished Silver Hardware "Love" Belt

By Peter Max

Located in New York, NY

This rare Peter Max designed for Canterburg belt, displays in whimsical lettering "Love" on polished silver hardware with Peter Max's name below the "V".

Materials

Paper

Peter MaxLavender, Pop Art Etching by Peter Max, circa 1981

$2,500

Lavender, Pop Art Etching by Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Long Island City, NY

Peter Max, German/American (1937 - ) - Lavender, Year: circa 1981, Medium: Etching, signed in pencil, Edition: PP 1, Frame Size: 19 x 22.5 inches

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1980s Pop Art Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Etching

Recent Sales

Signed Peter Max Glass Plate

Unavailable

H 0.25 in Dm 8.25 in

Signed Peter Max Glass Plate

By Peter Max

Located in Pittsburgh, PA

A wonderful Peter Max signed glass plate featuring Mid-Century Modern colorful floral graphic design on painted glass surface.

Peter Max “The World of Peter Max” Museum Exhibition Serigraph Poster ‘B', 1969

Unavailable

H 36 in W 24 in D 0.13 in

Peter Max “The World of Peter Max” Museum Exhibition Serigraph Poster ‘B', 1969

By Peter Max

Located in San Francisco, CA

A rare original 1969 serigraph poster by Peter Max (American, b. 1937 Germany) for his 1970 “The World of Peter Max” museum exhibition tour.

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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Paint, Paper

Peter Max Acrylic, Zero in Green

Unavailable

H 29.375 in W 25.5 in D 1.5 in

Peter Max Acrylic, Zero in Green

By Peter Max

Located in Milton, DE

This is the quintessential Peter Max Acrylic Zero in Green. Pure in execution and bold in presentation.

Category

1980s American Modern Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Acrylic

Materials

Lithograph

Rare Peter Max Silk Scarf - 1960's - Zodiac

Unavailable

W 27 in L 27 in

Rare Peter Max Silk Scarf - 1960's - Zodiac

By Peter Max

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Throughout the years, Peter Max has continued to grow in popularity with his career and original articles of Max's merchandise continue to become highly collectible and valuable.

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

1960s Vintage Peter Max Floral Print Tights Hosiery

Unavailable

1960s Vintage Peter Max Floral Print Tights Hosiery

By Peter Max

Located in Long Island City, NY

Peter Max is an American style icon. His brightly colored, psychedelic prints have adorned everything from advertisements to airplanes to clothing and art prints.

Henry Brown 'Daniel Webster' Offset Print, 1965, Unframed, 20x16 in, 1965

$36Sale Price|20% Off

H 20 in W 16 in

Henry Brown 'Daniel Webster' Offset Print, 1965, Unframed, 20x16 in

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Paper Size: 20 x 16 inches ( 50.8 x 40.64 cm ) Image Size: 13.25 x 9.75 inches ( 33.655 x 24.765 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Addition...

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1960s Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Offset

Peter MaxLiberty Head III, Peter Max, 2001

Sold|~~$571~~

H 3.5 in W 3 in

Liberty Head III, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Liberty Head III Year: 2001 Edition: 485/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 3.5 x 3 inches Condition: Excellent Inscript...

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Early 2000s Pop Art Peter Max Vintage

Materials

Lithograph

Grégoire MathiasModern Cubist Still Life with Natural Palette, Oil and Acrylic Painting, 60x49cm, Unknown

$5,365

H 23.63 in W 19.3 in

Modern Cubist Still Life with Natural Palette, Oil and Acrylic Painting, 60x49cm

By Grégoire Mathias

Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR

Nature Morte aux Fruits (Still Life with Fruit) Oil and acrylic on canvas 60 × 49 cm Nature Morte aux Fruits revisits the traditional still life through a structured, cubist constru...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Peter Max Vintage

Canvas, Acrylic

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Peter Max Vintage For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the peter max vintage you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. Making the right choice when shopping for a peter max vintage may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right peter max vintage is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes beige, gray, blue and orange. A peter max vintage from Peter Max — each of whom created distinctive versions of this kind of work — is worth considering. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in lithograph, offset print and screen print.

How Much is a Peter Max Vintage?

A peter max vintage can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $2,495, while the lowest priced sells for $125 and the highest can go for as much as $9,500.

Peter Max for sale on 1stDibs

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.

Questions About Peter Max

How much is a Peter Max painting worth?
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1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021
How much a Peter Max painting is worth will be determined by its condition, the presence of a signature, size and other factors. 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 a deep interest in American pop culture — namely comic books, jazz and cinema — that would inform his bold and graphic paintings. His prints can be found for less than approximately $1,000 but his paintings have sold for between $10,000 and $20,000 over the years. Find original Peter Max paintings on 1stDibs.