PETER MAX - "PORTRAIT OF THEODORE HERZL VER.II" OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS SIGNED #5 - HFSID 350503
Price: $9,500.00
PETER MAX
Original Max portrait of Theodor Herzl #5
Original Art Signed: "Max". Mixed medium on canvas, 1997, catalogue #35961. Signed at
center left. 20x16 visible. Titled "Portrait of Theodore Herzl Ver.II #5". Fine condition. Peter
Max, born in Berlin in 1937, spent most of his first ten years in Shanghai, and then traveled
the world with his parents before immigrating to the US in 1953. Already an award-winning
graphic artist and designer, Max burst on the cultural scene in the 1960s, first with his
"psychedelic art" and then with a new concept, "cosmic art." Max, who works in many
mediums, has been the official artist for the Grammy Awards, the New Orleans Jazz
Festival, the Woodstock Music Festival and 5 Super Bowls. He has decorated a Boeing
747, a Dale Earnhardt racecar, and 265 murals on the US border. He has designed popular US
and UN stamps, painted five US Presidents, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Mikhail
Gorbachev, and the Dalai Lama. He painted individual portraits of 356 firefighters who lost their
lives heroically on 9/11, presenting these portraits to the families, and then at President Bush's
request designed 356 more for the firefighters' memorial. In 1896. In 1896, Hungarian-born
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) wrote Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), which advocated
the founding of a Jewish State in Palestine. He organized the Zionist World Congress in Basel,
Switzerland in 1897, and Herzl was President of the Zionist Organization from 1897 to his
death in 1904. In Europe, Herzl kept in contact with many leaders. In 1901, England offered
the Jewish people land in British East Africa. This divided many Zionists who wanted a
home in Palestine. Extreme worry over the dispute affected the health of the founder of modern
Zionism and hastened his death in 1904 at the age of 44. Framed by unknown individual to
an overall size of 18¾ x 22¾. Accompanied by Peter Max certificate of authenticity.
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