American artist Elizabeth Peyton is one of the outstanding painters of her generation, a painter known for her intimate figurative portraits of youthful, romantic people, ranging from friends, to historical figures, to music world celebrities. Her work is intensely personal, but the subject becomes an intimate of both audience and artist. Peyton's ability to draw the viewer in is a result of her own fascination and curiosity about the figures she chooses. They are stylish in a timeless way and are at moments in their lives when they stand for their own ideals of independence, beauty, and artistry. Her manner is to paint small, devotional images in an "awkward, self-effacing way with an offhand intensity." Compiled by Peyton herself, the book chronicles ten years of inspiration, her works in many media, and her exhibitions, revealing the evolution of this exceptional artist who has been highly influential, in the words of the New York Times, in bringing "a return to beauty in art, a resurgence of figurative work, and a revival of painting."

Elizabeth Peyton

Arts & Photography

Peyton, Elizabeth

Individual Artists

Rizzoli

Obsessed by the life of Napoleon, Elizabeth Peyton met a man who bore a striking resemblance to the emperor, and began this series of striking paintings and photographs depicting her obsession with him.

Prince Eagle: An Artist's Book

History & Criticism

powerHouse Books

Limited Editionn of thirty includes a signed and numbered goldleaf artwork by the artist inside a specially constructed clamshell box wrapped with silk.

Prince Eagle (Collector's Edition)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Power House Books

Elizabeth Peyton: Angel

Zwirner, Lucas

David Zwirner Books

New volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on an exquisite Renaissance portrait, pairing an essay by Frick curator Giulio Dalvit with a rich contribution from contemporary artist Elizabeth Peyton. Various identities for the richly dressed, contemplative young man in this portrait have been proposed but none with any certainty. The mood of the subject and the diffused, gentle play of light over the broadly painted surfaces are strongly reminiscent of Titian's Venetian contemporary Giorgione. In many ways, the Frick portrait epitomizes a new tendency in Italian Renaissance portraiture in which the depiction is intended less as a description of the sitter than as an encounter with them. A rich contribution by artist Elizabeth Peyton accompanies an illuminating essay by Giulio Dalvit which addresses the many questions of provenance, chronology, attribution and of who this mysterious young man might be.

Titian’s Man in a Red Hat (Frick Diptych, 10)

Dalvit, Giulio

GILES

“I read the Melody Maker like Marcel Proust,” says Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965 in Danbury, CT, USA; lives and works in New York and Berlin). She first attracted attention in the mid-1990s with stylized and idealized portraits of her friends, pop stars, and members of European royal houses. These characters, androgynous figures rife with sexual ambivalence, appear in small-format pictures executed in various techniques: oil on canvas, watercolor or pencil drawing on paper, etching.

Elizabeth Peyton (German and English Edition)

DISTANZ

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarter-bound with photographically illustrated paper-covered spine, with title printed in raised letters on front board; no dust jacket as issued. Paintings by Elizabeth Peyton. Text by David Rimanelli and Meicost Ettal. Includes a list of plates, exhibition history and bibliography. Designed by Hideki Nakajima. 112 pp., with 76 four-color plates and additional illustrations. 8-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches.

Elizabeth Peyton: Live Forever

Rimanelli, David

Synergy

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