Peter Max Signed Limited Edition 1976 "Geometric" Rare Lithograph #270/300 (Circle Fine Art Embossed Seal & PA LOA)

This rare  Limited edition stone lithograph is an original hand drawn work of art on a lithograph stone and printed in a very limited quantity. This is one of the first limited edition art pieces every created by Peter Max. This piece is 1 of only 300 created on archival paper in 1976. The art was purchased from Circle Fine Art Corporation.

"In the 1960's  Max rose to youthful prominence with his now-famous "Cosmic '60s" style, a bold linear type of painting which employed Fauvist use of color and depicted transcendental themes. Peter Max revolutionized art of the 60's just as the Beatles transformed the music of the decade. As his expressionistic style evolved, becoming more sensuous and painterly, Max's unique symbolism and vibrant color palette have continued to inspire new generations of Americans throughout the decades."His 1973 Geometric Man  evokes his glimpse of the future man.



Master Peter Max. paper, numbered 27 out of 500 and hand signed.



This artwork was created on one of two rare antique Marinoni Voirin lithograph presses that date back to the 1800's, and are reputed to come from the Paris print shop used by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. There are only 7 of these magnificent beasts left in the world: the smaller one (with a print bed size of 25" x 35"), weighs 9 tons, and the larger one weighs in at 11 tons (print bed size 31" x 47"). The significance of this is that the lithographs produced by this method are of the finest quality, using techniques that are so  labor and time intensive that very few master printers know how to operate and care for these presses today. Each lithograph is created with hand-mixed colors applied one at a time - a highly trained and synchronized team must hand feed each museum-quality sheet of paper through the press numerous times in order to set the colors and impressions, while the Chromist - a trained color specialist - adjusts each color by look and feel to match the original artwork, as if mixing a potion. The result is an image with maximum pigment saturation, formed through rich layers of color that imbue the artwork with a permanency of brilliance - proven over centuries to last. In contrast, today's printers use a method more akin to a dot matrix style application, with the colors all premixed and sprayed onto a sheet in a uniform layer, resulting in a much less saturated image that is susceptible to fading and imperfect color reproduction. It has the publisher’s embossed seal  on the lower left front and the identifying publisher’s code number on the back P-3400.

Lithograph includes a Pristine Auction LOA for authenticity purposes.

 

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