Peter Blake, R.A. (b.1932)

Big Do-Nut Drive-In, Los Angeles

Details

Peter Blake, R.A. (b.1932)
Big Do-Nut Drive-In, Los Angeles
signed, dated and inscribed 'Peter Blake Los Angeles NOV 1963' (lower right)
pencil, coloured crayon and gouache
12.3/8 x 9.7/8 in. (31.4 x 25.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London.
with Mayor Gallery, London, June 1984.

Exhibited

Bristol, City Art Gallery, Peter Blake, November-December 1969, no.97.
Baden-Baden, Kunsthalle, 11 English Zeichner, 1973: this exhibition travelled to Bremen and Antwerp.
Amsterdam, British Council, Stedelijk Museum, Peter Blake, September-November 1973, no.31 (illustrated): this exhibition travelled to Hamburg, Kunstverien, December 1973-January 1974; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, February-March 1974; and Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, March-May 1974.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Eduardo Paolozzi, May-July 1976, no.3.
London, Tate Gallery, Peter Blake, February-March 1983, no.223, p.50 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Peter Blake visited Los Angeles in November 1963 and produced three drawings of Hollywood and the surrounding area which were published in The Sunday Times on 15 November 1964. The present work was drawn in the San Fernando Valley, California.

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