Peter Max | Estate Litigation Battles for Art Riches
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024
- Peter Max is a countercultural icon, a painter whose art defined an era of rebellion, freedom, youth, and nonconformity. Because his psychedelic style was so recognizable, he became a wealthy celebrity artist in the 1980s who earned the right to be compared to other pop cultural artists of our time including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Damien Hirst. His work appeared on cereal boxes, airplanes, postage stamps, and cruise ships.
Even though Peter Max became an extremely successful and wealthy artist, in the late 1990's he ran into financial troubles and pled guilty to tax evasion. Those troubles ultimately led Max to partner with a company called Park West Gallery which sells art at auctions held on cruise ships including Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian. Nostalgic baby boomers are the primary buyers of the art, where some of Max's paintings have sold for as much as $30,000. Through the Park West Gallery, Max resurrected his career and earned millions of dollars.
In the process of rebuilding his fortunes, Max also rebuilt his life. He counted Ringo Starr as one of his friends, and when he married his second wife, Mary Balkin, 30 years his junior, their wedding was officiated by then-Mayor Rudy Guiliani.
As the demand for his work increased, Max painted feverishly to keep up and was so prolific that he filled a warehouse in New Jersey with art. But at the age of 75, in 2012, at a time when he should have been enjoying the fruits of his labor, Max began to experience progressively worse signs of Alzheimer's Disease and dementia. That's when his troubles began anew...
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I was very fortunate to meet him at a auction by park west in Inndiannapolis. I admire his painting, bought several of his painting loved thiam
I met Peter on several occasions from 2004 through 2015, and posed with him and my two PM works, commissioned in 2014...
He was fine...very lucid...I saw nothing wrong...
So I know he was still painting past 2012...
Thank you for sharing this info on his story!
I was Peter’s Love of his life who Lived w him 10 years and I know a lot about this issue.
Thank you for sharing, Rosie, we appreciate your insight!
Excellent information on this complicated case. Also very interesting how Park West Gallery is involved in this. Thank you.
Thank you for your comment.
Yes I purchased a New beginning. From this video I can see the meaning maybe. It does speak to me in that way. Amazing his legacy lives on through his work. I believe his children love and miss thier father. Very interesting. A movie would be great about this.
I would like this book. How do I get one? I am a collector.
They were so unbelievably abusive to Peter Max and I saw what they did.
Park West was criminally Abusive
Im so sad...I had always dreamed of meeting Peter Max...His art saved my life...thts why I created a biographical art which hopefully still hangs on the wall of his studio. I pray for his family!!!
Thank you I do too ❤