Peter Max Original Umbrella Man on Blend Detail Ve

Updated September 18, 2026

A vibrant and highly distinctive unique original acrylic painting on canvas by Peter Max, featuring the artist's celebrated Umbrella Man motif and accompanied by corresponding Park West Gallery authentication and appraisal documentation.<br><br>Executed in 2018, Umbrella Man on Blend Detail ver. IV #259 presents Max's unmistakable rear-facing figure beneath an open umbrella, transformed through the artist's exuberant vocabulary of saturated color, fluid contour, graphic simplification, and expressive brushwork. Electric passages of turquoise, cobalt blue, violet, yellow, orange, red, and green animate the figure against a luminous blended ground progressing through pink, lavender, pale blue, cream, and warm sunset tones.<br><br>The unusually slender 15 x 6 inch vertical format gives this example a particularly concentrated visual presence. Rather than dispersing the imagery across a broader field, Max compresses the umbrella, figure, hat, coat, and horizon into a narrow pictorial space, heightening the composition's vertical rhythm and intensifying the contrast between the solitary figure and the atmospheric background. The bold blue "MAX" signature, painted prominently at upper right, participates directly in the composition and provides an additional graphic counterpoint to the figure below.<br><br>Max emerged as one of the most recognizable visual artists associated with the psychedelic and Pop-inflected culture of the late twentieth century. His highly individual synthesis of brilliant chromatic fields, graphic contours, cosmic imagery, idealized figures, and immediately legible symbols became an enduring component of American popular visual culture. The Umbrella Man belongs to the recurring figurative vocabulary of his mature oeuvre and is particularly recognizable for its anonymous, contemplative figure viewed from behind, typically positioned beneath an umbrella and facing toward an open or atmospheric horizon.<br><br>This example is especially significant within the broad Peter Max market because the accompanying Park West Certificate of Authenticity expressly identifies the object as a unique work, rather than a numbered print or editioned graphic. The certificate describes the work as an "Acrylic painting on canvas from the Peter Max Studio" and records that it is "Hand-signed in pigment upper right by the artist." These details correspond directly with the visible painting and are tied to Park West Registration No. 912264.0000.<br><br>The same registration number appears on the accompanying Park West Gallery appraisal dated July 12, 2022, which independently repeats the artist, title, 2018 date, 15 x 6 inch dimensions, acrylic-on-canvas medium, hand-signed status, and designation as a unique work. The appraisal records a Park West Gallery retail replacement value of $46,500 US at the time of issuance.<br><br>Beyond its documentary strength, the painting possesses exceptional decorative presence. Max's saturated palette remains visually

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