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Study for Summer with Monika
Details
Sir Peter Blake, R.A. (b. 1932)
Study for Summer with Monika
signed, inscribed and dated 'Study for "Summer with Monika" by Roger McGough. Peter Blake.78.' (lower centre)
ink
7¾ x 5½ in. (19.6 x 14 cm.)
Framed with the Roger McGough poem 'Sometime at dawn/you awake/and naked creep across/our orange room/and drawing aside/our pretty yellow curtains/gaze at the neat roofed horizon/of our little town/waiting for the sun/screaming with dull pain/to rise like a spark/from a crematorium chimney/then you pitterpad/back to bed/your head aflame with fear/you lie in my arms/and you lie:/'i'm happy here/so happy here'/Roger McGough'.
Study for Summer with Monika
signed, inscribed and dated 'Study for "Summer with Monika" by Roger McGough. Peter Blake.78.' (lower centre)
ink
7¾ x 5½ in. (19.6 x 14 cm.)
Framed with the Roger McGough poem 'Sometime at dawn/you awake/and naked creep across/our orange room/and drawing aside/our pretty yellow curtains/gaze at the neat roofed horizon/of our little town/waiting for the sun/screaming with dull pain/to rise like a spark/from a crematorium chimney/then you pitterpad/back to bed/your head aflame with fear/you lie in my arms/and you lie:/'i'm happy here/so happy here'/Roger McGough'.
Provenance
with Obelisk Gallery, London.
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