2013-04-25

Peter Meller - historician and graphic artist

"During his lifetime, Peter Meller was best known as an art historian, a highly regarded expert on the art of Renaissance Italy. Few people outside a small circle of friends and admirers knew that he was also a brilliant graphic artist. When he died in 2008, at the age of 85, he left behind thousands of drawings and prints, a body of work remarkable for its size but also for its overwhelming imaginative abundance, elegance, sophistication, and humor. His work had been exhibited only a few times in and around Santa Barbara, California, where he spent the last half of his life; he sold some prints and gave many away as gifts.  Since his death, the quality and significance of his achievement have begun to be appreciated by a larger audience."







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