07/02/2025
Currently bidding at $250,000 and ending soon!
Without hyperbole, Bob Peak is the most significant American movie poster artist of the 20th century and his original artwork for the American one sheet poster of Apocalypse Now is the most important piece of movie poster art to ever come to auction.
A landmark in American cinema, Apocalypse Now is an unparalleled achievement, intimate and political, timely and enduring, and one of the most commercially successful experimental films of all time. Grossing $150 million on its initial release in 1979, the impact and mythology of Apocalypse Now grows generation after generation.
The power of the film comes, in large part, from the groundbreaking cinematography of Vittorio Storaro, and his peerless eye for a balance of surreal color and chiaroscuro lighting. The deep murky shadows and fiery blood oranges that define the look and feel of the film draw viewers into Coppola’s world of violence, war, and psychological torment, while scene after scene provides points of focus that keep the audience grounded in the story of Martin Sheen’s (Captain Benjamin L. Willard) quest to terminate Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz “with extreme prejudice.”
In 1993, at a speech to the Society of Illustrators shortly after Peak’s death, his longtime agent Harvey Kahn reiterated that throughout his life, Peak considered Apocalypse Now the most exciting thing he had ever worked on. Likewise, this spectacular original artwork, which measures a tremendous 40” x 31.5” and is beautifully framed to 49” x 41” with pristine colors and an overall incredible state of preservation, pinholes from Peak’s own work process, very minimal scattered scuffing and a slight wave to the paper inherent to the medium, is certainly one of the most exciting artworks Heritage has ever offered in any auction.
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