LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and collage on panel; shaped

Measurements:

30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (height) by 10.75 in. (27.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with carved initials 'PB' (lower right), signed again, incribed and dated 'PAINTED AT R.C.A. by PETER BLAKE. 1955.' (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Five Painters: John Barnicoat, Peter Blake, Peter Corviello, William Green, Richard Smith, January - February 1958, no. 11. London, Portal Gallery, Works by Peter Blake and Roddy Maude-Roxby and Objects by Ivor Abrahams, March - April 1960, no. 20. Bristol, City Art Gallery, Peter Blake Retrospective, November - December 1969, no. 18. Edinburgh, Richard Demarco Gallery, 1971, catalogue not traced. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, British Council, Peter Blake, September - November 1973, no. 5: this exhibition travelled to Hamburg, Kunstverein, December 1973 - January 1974; Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, March - May 1974; and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts. Hamburg, Kunstverein, Pop Art in England: Beginnings of a New Configuration 1947-63, February - March 1976: this exhibition travelled to Munich, Stadt Galerie im Lenbachhaus, April - May; and York, City Art Gallery, May - July. London, Tate Gallery, Peter Blake, February - March 1983, no. 21: this exhibition travelled to Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, April - June 1983. Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Pop Art, October 1992 - January 1993, no. 121. Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Peter Blake: A Retrospective, June - September 2007, not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes, March - June 2008.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1973, pp. 10-11, no. 5, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake, Hamburg, Kunstverein, 1973, p. 27, no. 5, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake, London, Tate Gallery, 1983, pp. 80-81, no. 21, illustrated. M. Livingstone, Pop Art A Continuing History, London, 1990, pp. 41, 265, no. 50, illustrated. M. Livingstone, exhibition catalogue, Pop Art, Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, 1992, p. 173, no. 121, illustrated. N. Rudd, Peter Blake, London, Tate Publishing, 2003, pp. 15-17, 23, 88, no. 10, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Tate Gallery, 2007, pp. 27, 201, illustrated. M. Livingstone, Peter Blake one man show, Farnham, 2009, pp. 31, 230, no. 21, illustrated.

Provenance:

Purchased by Fleur Cowles in the 1950s.