TITLE: “Flower Jumper Over Sunrise II”
ARTIST: Peter Max
DATE: 2001 (© Peter Max 2012)
WHY WE CHOSE IT: Happy 75th Birthday, Peter Max! The legendary pop artist was born on this day in 1937.
“I’m just wowed by the universe. I’m just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I’m adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.” —Peter Max
SOURCE: Park West Gallery
Park West Gallery has enjoyed a relationship with Peter Max since the 1970s, and is the artist’s largest and longest-running dealer in the world. Peter Max fine art is available at Park West Gallery cruise art auctions throughout the world and via our gallery in Southfield, Michigan. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery.com.
TITLE: “Woodstock Series: Profile on Blends”
ARTIST: Peter Max
DATE: 2006 (© Peter Max 2012)
WHY WE CHOSE IT: Groovy! The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened on this day in the summer of 1969. Nearly half a million people converged in upstate New York during the historic three-day festival celebrating peace, love and freedom.
SOURCE: Park West Gallery
Fine art by Peter Max is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery.com.
TITLE: “Olympic Torch (Runner on Brown)”
ARTIST: Peter Max
DATE: 1979 (© Peter Max 2012)
WHY WE CHOSE IT: The highly-anticipated opening ceremony of London’s 2012 Summer Olympics is just hours away. Gymnastics, swimming, tennis, etc… what part of the Games do you most look forward to watching?
SOURCE: Park West Gallery
Fine art by Peter Max is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery.com.
TITLE: “Flag with Heart”
ARTIST: Peter Max
DATE: 2011 (© Peter Max 2012)
WHY WE CHOSE IT: Today is Flag Day in the United States. The national holiday commemorates the adoption of the American flag by resolution of the Second Continental Congress, on June 14, 1777.
SOURCE: Park West Gallery Collection
Fine art by Peter Max is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery.com.
TITLE: “Futuristic Barbie”
ARTIST: Peter Max
DATE: 1994 (© Peter Max 2011)
WHY WE CHOSE IT: It was 53 years ago today that the Barbie doll was first introduced at the American Toy Fair in New York City. The toy’s inventor, Ruth Handler (co-founder of Mattel), named the fashionable doll after her own daughter Barbara.
Since Barbie’s debut, more than 800 million dolls in the Barbie family have been sold. Barbie has also become a muse for various artists and designers including Peter Max, Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld. “I cropped her and painted her as if she was a living character, a celebrity that would be on Oprah or the ‘Today Show,’” Max once said of his Barbie-inspired portrait.
SOURCE: Forbes
Fine art by Peter Max is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery.com.
TITLE: “Muhammad Ali I Ver. I #3”
ARTIST: Peter Max
DATE: 2007 (© Peter Max 2011)
WHY WE CHOSE IT: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee…” Athlete, legend and tireless advocate for human rights, Muhammad Ali (b. Jan. 17, 1942), celebrates his 70th birthday today. Happy Birthday to “The Champ!”
SOURCE: Park West Gallery Collection
Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea offer a wide variety of hand-signed sports collectibles showcasing the life and career of Muhammad Ali, in addition to mixed-media works by Peter Max and Simon Bull, commemorating the spirit of Ali. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery.com.
TITLE: “Joy”
ARTIST: Peter Max
DATE: 1970 (© Peter Max 2011)
WHY WE CHOSE IT: America’s “Painter Laureate” Peter Max (b. October 19, 1937) turns 74 years old today. With his artwork on exhibition in hundreds of museums and galleries worldwide, Peter Max and his vibrant colors have become part of the fabric of contemporary culture.
Having enjoyed a relationship with Max since the 70s, today Park West Gallery is the pop art icon’s largest and longest-running dealer in the world—and so on this day we would like to wish him a very Happy Birthday!
SOURCE: Park West Gallery Collection
TITLE: “Columbus”
ARTIST: Peter Max
DATE: 1992 (© Peter Max 2011)
WHY WE CHOSE IT: Columbus Day, observed on the second Monday in October, commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World on October 12, 1492. Unofficially celebrated as early as the 18th century, it eventually became a U.S. federal holiday in 1937.
By an Act of Congress, pop artist Peter Max was appointed as the Official Artist for the nation’s Quincentennial Columbus Day festivities. He hosted Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and a group of more than 50 United Nations delegates at the 1992 celebration on Governor’s Island.
SOURCE: Park West Gallery Collection
