Peter Blake Color Screenprint 29/100 Signed 1970
ABOUT
United Kingdom, b. 1932
"And the two knights sat and looked at each other for sometime before speaking", 1970.
Printed by Kelpra Studios, London, with their ink stamp on the back. From Alice in Wonderland, plate two, from the suite of eight. Signed and numbered 29/100 in pencil lower right.
- CREATOR Peter Blake, United Kingdom.
- DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1970.
- MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Color screen print on wove paper.
- CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use.
- DIMENSIONS H 19.75 in. x W 26 in.
HISTORY
Widely regarded as the godfather of British Pop Art and the Young British Artist movement, Sir Peter Blake creates paintings, collages, and prints that blend modernity and nostalgia. Though best known for designing the album cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, he considers painting to be central to his oeuvre. While celebrity figures inform his work, folk art, fairground signs, and an overall sense of nostalgia also influence his style. In 1997, at the age of 65, Blake emotionally retired from painting, he said, and entered what he calls his late period. He continues to work but is no longer interested in the art world’s opinion of his art, instead creating what he wants regardless of its relation to his previous paintings.
