Sale 5595
London
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22 May 1996
Price realised
GBP 6,325
Estimate
Peter Blake, R.A. (b. 1932) Academy signed and dated 'Peter Blake 1975' (lower right) watercolour and collage 18 x 18in. (45.7 x 45.7cm.) Executed in 1975
Provenance
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt. Waddington Galleries, London.
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Literature
M. Vaizey, Peter Blake London, 1986, pp.18, 19.
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Peter Blake, Feb.-March 1983, no.229b. Bregenz, Künstlerhaus, Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, July-August 1977.
The present work is the artwork for a poster commissioned for the 207th Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1975. The composition includes several of Blake's own works, for example 'Liberty in a Kimono' and a section from 'Got a Girl' - both of which were included in the 1983 Tate Gallery exhibition.
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