Artist in Focus - Sidney Maurer
Sidney Maurer’s long career in the world of Art and Music began at seventeen when he was hired as an assistant art director at Columbia Records in New York City. From this point until his death in 2017, Maurer created an exceptional catalogue of artworks in his own bold and personal style.
Beginning with a foothold in the music industry he designed album covers and promotional material for popular artists. His co-worker at the time: a young artist by the name of Andy Warhol. When Andy left to pursue a career in "serious" art, Maurer expanded his commercial art studio to tackle a wide range of projects for the music and film industries. His position brought him into contact with a group of artists from Pollock to Rauschenberg, who greatly influenced him as he developed his own style of painting.
Over the years, as Maurer's art exploded, so did his work with A-list clientele. Leaving him with remarkable stories from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Donovan, The Beatles and Marilyn Monroe. In the early nineties, Maurer realised that the empire of music and art that he had helped to build left him little time to pursue his true passion: painting.
He had a special talent of capturing each client's unique ambiance of emotions and passion for their respective careers. He would create collages of photographs, which he made by hand, before bombarding them with crayons, acrylics, watercolours, sumi ink and varnish. His style combined bold, dynamic colours and strokes with painstaking layouts and typographical elements. The result is the unique blend of a painter's passion tempered with the calculating compositional eye of a graphic designer.
Sidney Maurer's work is the latest addition to our 888 Collection.
Competitively priced, The 888 Collection is produced in editions of 888 copies. Each copy has a printed artist signature and is individually hand-numbered Though available in set sizes, this limited edition run can be customised. Produced on 240gsm matt fine art paper, the 888 Collection is a quality product offering the highest possible reproduction results that last.