Study for a Glamour Calendar

Details

Sir Peter Blake, R.A. (b. 1932)
Study for a Glamour Calendar
signed, inscribed and dated 'Study for a glamour calendar./Peter Blake.1968.' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on brown paper
17¼ x 15 in. (43.8 x 38.1 cm.)

Provenance

with Achim Moeller Ltd, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 November 1991, lot 266.
with Julian Hartnoll, London.
with Alma Gallery, London.

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Peter Blake Retrospective Exhibition, February - March 1983, no. 206.
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Naked, 2005, catalogue not traced.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present work was inspired from a glamour calendar or girlie magazine and is quite free from comment. The work is intended to serve as a pin-up and one can be certain that the artist has been faithful to the spirit of the reproduction.
'He finds human warmth where others find only cliché and exploitation' (see exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake, London, Robert Fraser Gallery, October - November 1965, p. 10).

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