Peter Max & Ferrari...

He's still alive, you can contact him directly at his website http://www.petermax.com/

 

Don't know but he did a cover for a magazine we print a couple years ago and he was nice enough to autograph it for me. I framed it, it hangs in my office.

 

I commissioned him a couple years ago for a family portrait: If you make the right donation, he'll probably respond.

rik

 

Are you sure the artist was Peter Max and not Leroy Neiman?
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Or contact his gallery in Las Vegas.

 

Peter is in New York, and perhaps he does mean Neiman as Peter does sports posters, but not many action type shots of sporting events as Leroy does.

 

The style isn't psychedelic enough to be Peter Max and too basic-looking to be Neiman. What does the signature in the lower left corner say?

KevFla

 

yup, that's his style: You should see our family portrait: HOOT....put it right above the fireplace....love it, even though I look better in LSD painting than real life

 

ok, don't have it at work, will take a quick pick [wife looks good, me.....well, peter stuck me in LSD land ]

rik

 

This Leroy Neiman poster is one of my favorites.
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Slightly ot, but Max has 36 vettes sitting in a parking garage out here in Brooklyn - it's an interesting story:

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/11902/

 

"Told of Max’s plan for them, though, he says, “From a car enthusiast’s standpoint, they’re worth more in their deteriorated condition than if they were painted by Peter Max.”"

from an art collector's standpoint too.

 

I love Leroy...every time I go to the Hotel Del [Coronado] I make a special pilgramage to his depiction of the Hotel Del with that lovely gal on the horse running on the beach where, as a midshipman, I would have to do my 3 mile runs. One thing Leroy does is depict the flair, the exuberance, the color of the moment. It's truly the moment in a flash, that I like what he does. He is so good at making several feelings into one painting: Work of a true artist, is to have one ponder over and over again and see all that they could had they been there like a poet [just my vision only].


Here is that pic, rather badly done, of the Max portrait I took tonight....sorry for the bad pic [someday I will master the damn, digital, camera], tried, but...well I was cooking and thought of this at the last min. The pic is us helping to introducing one of Gloria Ferrar's new, wonderful cuve 'champagne'/sparkling wines here in Sonoma. Gala night, and, well, the only pic I had at the time. I donated, some dollars, to the New Orleans relief fund that was one of Max's favorites just after Katrina. He graciously gave a personal portrait of my choice. He doesn't do this often and I feel/WE feel, quite honored. IF there be a fire in the house, I'll run to that room and retrieve the pic first, let the Ferraris burn.

I am heavy into art...you should see the house. Point being. When you like someone, you know, there is no words to correctly express the passion you feel: you just gather it about you. It's the Ferrari scenario....you just know, that such is correct and you want more of it. There is no perfection, only admiration, and a charge to protect such. I feel blessed to be with what I have witnessed. The 'portrait'........even though she looks great and [cr@p] I look plastic ] and I love it is Peter's vision. Perhaps he sees something I don't....then again, I never look back, and I am quite happy with what, who I am: Done.
rik

PS: Just thought of 'stuff''. That train you see on that particular mantle is a 1930's child's toy live steam locomotive. LOVE the working gear you find in those, and the couplings, gauges, switches, etc. Even the wheels have working suspension....very nice
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SonomaRik, your portrait is great! I was expecting something more psychedelic but I like it a lot. Big Max fan here too. Have a couple of signed lithographs. Enjoy it!

here are some pictures... The JFK portrait piece is big... at about 5 feet by 4 feet.
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Yes, I have the 'celestial' lady in the bedroom also, a one-off he did on an envelope, but it's cool...very different.

JFK, is excellent. Peter was being a bit 'kind' by not swishing me, but truly was looking fwd to him dooding me up....in real life he made many swirls on our faces and a bit more color...

Going to get a better light and camera to take a true pic that can post better. The COLORS: striking.

 

My wife and I bought that print at the Del years ago and I have it hanging in the family room. It brings back great memories. I love his work too.

 

LOVE IT....put your moniker on it and PM me a price

 

Nick- very nicely done, see PM

 

I've seen him paint, and his style is interesting to say the least/most. Yup, buckets of paint with several dips of the same brush.