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Michael Godard

Michael Godard, The #1 Selling Artist in the World!

Michael Godard martini art features olives, grapes and other frisky characters busily expressing Godard's slightly off-kilter point of view. With plenty of talent to challenge the 'serious' artists, Michael Godard took his own path instead, and chose to "learn all the rules, and then break them".

Born in Southern California, Godard was a precocious kid with a multitude of talents and a dark home life filled with hidden abuse. He excelled in math, music and art—quite an achievement, considering that his family moved around so much that he attended a total of sixteen different schools. Humor was always his defense and his weapon. As a young man he attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and studied fine art at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

The decision to become a full-time painter came later in his life, after stints as a mechanical engineer, commercial illustrator, caricature artist and successful entrepreneur. Nothing came easy—-he fought his way into an art career, inventing his own one-of-a-kind style.

Olives entered the picture when Godard was struggling through his daughter Paige’s illness, spending long hours in the hospital when she was in a coma. Desperate for some cheerful element to keep him afloat emotionally, he started a new series of paintings--bringing olives to life in humorous scenarios, rendering them in bright colors against a dramatic black background.

“Three Amigos”, “Olive Party” and “Seven Deadly Zins” were all breakthrough pieces for the young artist, launching him to national recognition. His wild marketing stunts brought more notoriety. “I don’t mind criticism from the art world or the public,” says the artist. “Without it, I’d know I’m playing it way too safe.”

Now the country’s biggest selling artist, the “Rock Star of the Art World” creates his famous martini-themed artwork for a huge collector base of celebrities, musicians and regular folks who love his irreverent subjects and vibrant style. There’s a long waiting list for Godard original paintings and his sold-out giclees bring big bucks on the resale market.

You might spot Godard on television on HBO’s “Cat House”, A&E’s “Mind Freak”, “American Casino” and “Inked”, among other places. A documentary on his life won awards when it was shown on the independent film festival circuit and his recent book “Don’t Drink and Draw” won the Art Book of the Year award.

He looks like a tattooed outlaw and runs with the bad boys, but Godard has a soft streak a mile wide. He’s a great dad, contributes to many charitable causes, (including the Paige Godard Foundation, established to help fund research to cure the illness that ultimately took his daughter’s life in 2006) and has learned in the school of experience to value the things that really matter in life. “Put good in, get good out,” is one of the artist’s favorite sayings.

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New Releases

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Vineyard of Eden
New Release
$ Multiple Options
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Like a G
New Release
$ Multiple Options
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Bat-Tini
New Release
$ Multiple Options
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Original Art

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Original Sketch You Pick the Subject $ 2500.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Bubbly Bath II (Original) $ 45000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Coastal Cruzin by Michael Godard $ 2500.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Coffee Lovers (Original) $ 45000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Coffee Shop (Original) $ 24995.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Cowboys (Original) $ 45000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Disco Fever (Original) $ 45000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Gangster Chopper II (Original) $ 45000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Goldfish (Original) $ 45000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Knievel Caesars Palace (Original) $ 65000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Knievel Wembley (Original) $ 65000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Moonlight Golf (Original) $ 45000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Mud Wrestling (Original) $ 19995.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	We Olive Skating (Original) $ 24995.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	We Olive Surfing by Michael Godard $ 2500.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)

Limited Editions

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Rare Pieces Available

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Black Jack & Spritzer (Godard) $ 995.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Champagne Tango by Michael Godard $ 3500.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Cherry Cosmo 2 by Michael Godard $ Multiple Options (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Knuckles-Michelangelo Only 1 Available $ 3000.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Lounge Lizard $ Multiple Options (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Money to Burn $ Multiple Options (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Nasbar 500 (Artist Proof) $ 2195.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	No Lifeguard on Duty $ 2995.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Olive Party by Michael Godard $ 2395.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Party Like a Rock Star (Rock Star) $ 1895.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Poker Pimps (Artist Proof) $ 1395.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)

Books

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Dont Drink and Draw
$ 79.95

Dont Drink and Draw (Leather Bound)
$ 249.95

You Are In My World Now
$ 29.95

Rare Pieces

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Bad Grapes by Michael Godard $ Call	Bottoms Up by Michael Godard $ Call	Burning Black Jack by Michael Godard $ Call
Butterfly Wine by Michael Godard $ Multiple Options	Case of the Bad Apple $ Call	Caught the Cork by Michael Godard $ Call
Cherry Cosmo by Michael Godard $ Call	Classic Martini by Michael Godard $ Call	Custom Martini by Michael Godard $ Call
Dali $ Call	DaVinci by Michael Godard $ Call	Dirty Martini 2 Even Dirtier by Michael Godard $ Call
Dragonfly by Michael Godard $ Call	Elvitini (Heist Edition) $ Call	Emotional Rollercoaster $ Call
Flower Series $ Call	Flower, Blue $ Call	Flower, Green $ Call
Flower, Red $ Call	Flower, Yellow $ Call	Gangster Martini (2 Shots and a Splash) $ Call (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Golf Martini (Heist Edition) $ Call	Gondola Grapes $ Call	He Devil Martini $ Call
He Devil She Devil Martini $ Call	He Devil She Devil Red Wine $ Call	Heres To You $ Call
Historic Route 66 $ Call	I Smell A Rat $ Call	Key to Wine $ Call
Last Martini $ Call	Loaded Dice (AP) $ Call	Lost in Paradise $ Call
Lovers Moon $ Call	Martini Club $ Call	Martini Time $ Multiple Options
Money Laundering $ Call (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Nice Rack $ Multiple Options	Olives Gone Wild $ Call
Picasso by Michael Godard $ Call	Plop $ Call	Pool Shark $ Multiple Options
Real Estate Sold $ Call	Rehab $ Call	Scotch and Black Jack $ Call
Sexy Strawberry (Heist Edition) $ Call	Shattered Roll $ Call	Strike It Rich $ Call
Swinging Martini $ Call	Three Amigos $ Call	Times Square $ Call
Van Gogh $ Call	Warhol by Michael Godard $ Call	Watch Dog by Michael Godard $ Call
We Olive 2 Gamble $ Call

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