Bob Peak , Sports Portrait of Athletic Partially Nude Boy with Rapid Brushstrokes, 1970's

Figuration and abstraction meet in this energized quick portrait of an athletic boy with headband and resting on a bench, Most likely done for a magazine like Sports Illustrated - Signed lower left. Unframed.
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Masonite
20 - 24 inches
US$15,000 Plus Shipping

Bob Peak is as massively overlooked as he is talented. In today's art world there is no one who can paint a portrait as good as Bob Peak. He merges a deep understanding of academic art with his own unique creative styles. In fact, if you pooled all of the artists in any major contemporary art show into one super-artist they could not rival the drawing and portrait paintings skills as Bob Peak. That is why most contemporary art looks like scribbles or child art. Sadly, contemporary artists do not have the training to do anything more complex than that. In the 1960s to 1980s Peak was a legend and the absolute gold standard for post-WW11 American Illustration. Provenance - The Estate of the Artist
Some of the movie posters Peak has worked on. West Side Story, Rollerball, Star Trek, Superman, Excalibur, Apocalypse Now, The Spy Who Loved Me. My Fair Lady, Camelot and Enter the Dragon. Additionally, Peak illustrated 45 covers of Time Magazine and many covers for Sports Illustrated, TV Guide. He is best known for his many movie posters including Apocalypse Now.