To fully prepare the canvas for the final portrait, McQueen and Kalish spent hours laying down fresh layers of paint. Confident in his skills from years of riding and racing, Chase agreed to ride the Bonneville on his most difficult surface yet, a giant canvas covered in wet paint. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather Steve, and father Chad McQueen, who enjoyed a long career racing cars, Chase has been racing on both four and two wheels since his childhood. The result is a truly distinct one of one Michael Kalish painted Triumph modern classic with bright splashes of white, light blue and yellow starkly contrasting the original jet-black scheme.Ĭhase McQueen has racing in his veins. Following the completion of painting Kalish adorned the motorcycle with the same colors laid down on the canvas using a splatter technique. The latter was the inspiration for the bike used by Kalish, which was a 2022 Triumph Bonneville T100 in Jet Black. Steve's garage included many Triumph motorcycles such as the '62 TR6 Trophy used in the film of The Great Escape, a '66 Bonneville 650 ridden in San Francisco while filming the movie Bullitt, and a '63 Bonneville which McQueen converted into a Desert Sled. Steve McQueen had an intense passion for riding motorcycles, as exemplified many times on screen and in his personal life where he competed in a variety of desert races and endurance races such as the 1964 International Six Day Trial event. Fittingly, for his portrait celebrating the legacy of Steve McQueen, Kalish used a Triumph motorcycle ridden by Chase McQueen, grandson of Steve, to apply the paint to the canvas. Kalish is known for his creative use of mixed mediums, regularly taking inspiration from his subjects to use relevant elements from their personal life for the creation of larger-than-life tribute art pieces. In 2022, acclaimed artist Michael Kalish created a 25' x 25' original portrait of Steve McQueen.
ORIGINAL MICHAEL KALISH PORTRAIT OF STEVE MCQUEEN The collection has been created by Verified Labs and Immersive Enterprise Laboratories, and releases Friday, July 14(th) at 12pm ET | 9am PT at Atlanta, GA, J(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Inspired by a real-life, large format portrait of Steve McQueen by acclaimed artist Michael Kalish, the "King of Cool Racing Team" drop, is a limited collection of 1000 Triumph Motorcycles / Steve McQueen unique digital art collectibles.
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