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Peter Blake b.1932
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Late Period - Study for 'Party' 6

2018
watercolor on paper 10¼ h × 7 w in (26 × 18 cm)

estimate: $20,000–30,000

result: $27,500

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Signed and titled to lower edge ‘Late Period - Study for 'Party' Peter Blake 2018’. Sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
provenance: The Artist | Waddington Custot, London | Private Collection, California
exhibited: Peter Blake: A Life in Drawings and Watercolours, 5 July - 8 September 2018, Waddington Custot, London | Joseph Cornell's Holiday, 3 October - 2 November 2019, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm

This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

Peter Blake Makes Magic

Celebrated for his work on iconic album covers including Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Peter Blake (b. 1932) is one of the first and most widely known British Pop artists. Beginning in the 1950s, he rose to prominence with his hybridized approach to collage and painting that intermingles fine art, art historical references, and pop culture in both content and form. Blake’s early On the Balcony (1955-1957) appears to be a collage but is entirely painted, with twenty-seven different references to “on the balcony,” from Edouard Manet’s painting The Balcony (1868) to imagery gleaned from mass media. Blake has continued to fuse high and low influences throughout his decades-long career and was knighted for his contribution to art in 2002.