Artist: Peter Max
Title: Monk with Profile
Year created: 1990
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 40" x 30"
Dimensions including custom framing: 52" x 42"
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Signed by the artist
Edition: Original Painting
Catalogue number: #9169
This beautiful, vibrantly colored original acrylic on canvas Peter Max painting, Monk with Profile, was created by the artist in 1990. It is a very rare image. The work demonstrates Peter Max's signature use of vivid colors, bold brushstrokes, and powerful composition. This rare painting has a very low catalogue number, and was painted in 1990, one of the artist's most collectible periods.
One of the most famous of all living artist's, Peter Max is also a pop culture icon. His bold colors, uplifting images and an uncommon artistic diversity have touched almost every phase of American culture and has inspired many generations. Max has painted for six U.S. Presidents and his art is on display in Presidential Libraries and in U.S. Embassies. Max has painted our Lady Liberty annually since America's Bicentennial and in 2000 a collage of his Liberties adorned over 145 million Verizon phone books. Named an official artist of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, he has also been Official Artist of 5 Super Bowls, World Cup USA, The World Series, The U.S. Open, The Indy 500, The NYC Marathon and The Kentucky Derby. Peter Max's one-man museum exhibitions have had record-breaking attendance. His groundbreaking artistic endeavors demonstrate how fine art can extend beyond museum walls and enrich non-traditional media. His art has flown the skies on a Continental Airlines Boeing 777 Jet. In the spring of 2013, Norwegian Cruise Lines launched the Norwegian Breakaway featuring a mural of Max's graphics on the hull including a Manhattan skyline as homage to her home port. His art installations include an amazing 600-ft stage for the Woodstock Music Festival, a giant mural for the Winter Olympics and 10-ft guitars for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.