Cover for 'TV Guide', USA

Details

SIR PETER BLAKE (B. 1932)
Blake, Sir P.
Cover for 'TV Guide', USA
signed 'Peter Blake' (lower right)
collage on card
11 ½ x 8 in. (29.1 x 20.1 cm.)
Executed in 1995.

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake: Collagen und Arbeiten auf Papier 1956-2008, Hamburg, Levy Gallery, 2008, p. 43.
C. Preston (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake: Collage, London, Waddington Custot, 2021, p. 276, no. 19, fig. 64.

Exhibited

London, National Gallery, Peter Blake: Now we are 64, September 1996 - January 1997, exhibition not numbered, ex-cat.
Hamburg, Levy Galerie, Peter Blake, November 2008 - January 2009, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Milan, Lorenzelli Arte, January - March 2009.
London, Waddington Custot, Peter Blake: Collage, June - August 2021, no. 19.

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Lot Essay

The present work is based on Blake's own design for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club album of 1967. He made this collage for the US TV Guide, Special Collector's Edition, 'Beatles '95', which came out on 18 November 1995.

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