Souvenir for Gordon House

Details

Sir Peter Blake, R.A. (b. 1932)
Souvenir for Gordon House
signed 'For Gordon.from Peter Blake.1974' (lower right)
collage
10¾ x 11¾ in. (27.3 x 29.9 cm.)

Provenance

Collection of Gordon House.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake: Souvenirs and Samples, London, Waddington and Tooth Galleries, 1977, illustrated, backcover.

Exhibited

London, Waddington and Tooth Galleries, Peter Blake: Souvenirs and Samples, April-May 1977, not numbered.
London, Tate Gallery, Peter Blake, February-March 1983, no. 121.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

"The first two souvenirs were made in 1968 as my contribution to Aspen 7 'British Box'. Souvenir No.3 was given to David Hockney, and then the series continued spasmodically ... They were made to be given to the person to whom each is dedicated. " (see Exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake: Souvenirs and Samples, London, Waddington and Tooth Galleries, 1977)

Gordon House was an artist and graphic designer who was instrumental in creating an in-house style for art galleries and museums in the 1960s. House designed the Beatles White album and the back of the Sergeant Pepper album, for which his longtime friend Peter Blake designed the front.

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