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Peter Blake

(British, born 1932)

Peter Blake

A is for Alphabet, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,250 GBP

Peter Blake

B is for Boxer, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,500 GBP

Peter Blake

C is for Clown, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,250 GBP

Peter Blake

D is for Dwarfs and Midgets, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,250 GBP

Peter Blake

E is for Everly Brothers, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,250 GBP

Peter Blake

F is for Football, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,500 GBP

Peter Blake

G is for Girl, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,500 GBP

Peter Blake

K is for King, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,500 GBP

Peter Blake

L is for Love, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,250 GBP

Peter Blake

M is for Marilyn, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,500 GBP

Peter Blake

N is for Nude, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,250 GBP

Peter Blake

S is for Sumo, from Alphabet Series, 1991

1,250 GBP

Timeline

1932: Born on June 25 in Dartford, Kent, England
1946 - 1951: Studied at Gravesend Technical College & School of Art, London, England
1953 - 1956: Studied at Royal College of Art, London, England
1964 - 1967: Taught at Royal College of Art, London, England
1967: Made cover design for Beatles’ "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
1970: Used watercolour to illustrate Lewis Carroll’s "Through the Looking-Glass"
1975: Founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists
1981: Becomes a Royal Academician
1983: Major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery
1994: Third Associate of the National Gallery
1998: Honorary Doctor, Royal College of Art, London
2002: Received knighthood
: Currently lives and works in London, England

Exhibitions

2013: The House of Fairy Tales Cartographic Portfolio, London Original Print Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2012: Peter Blake and Pop Music, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
: Sir Peter Blake, CCA at the Mall Galleries, London (solo)
: Sir Peter Blake at 80, CCA at the Royal Albert Hall, London (solo)
: Sir Peter Blake – new and vintage works, Railings Gallery, London
: Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2010: 25th London Original Print Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Royal Academy, London, England
: AAFNYC, TAG Fine Arts, New York City, NY
2007: Peter Blake: A Retrospective, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
: Peter Blake Prints and Sculpture, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck
2006: Peter Blake: 1975-2005, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2005: Peter Blake: 1-10 (Collages, Constructions, Drawings & Sculpture) & The Marcel Duchamp Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London, England
: New Prints by Peter Blake, The Charing X Gallery, London, England
2003: Peter Blake: Commercial Art, The London Institute Gallery, London, England (graphic design)
: Peter Blake: Sculpture, The London Institute Gallery, London, England (sculpture)
: Peter Blake, Artiscope (Zaira Mis), Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2002: Over the Rainbow, Harley Gallery, Welbeck (solo)
: Sir Peter Blake/And Now We Are 70, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001 - 2006: Alphabet, York College of Further and Higher Education; touring to University College, Northampton; Michael Tippett Centre, Bath; Library Gallery, Kidderminster; Kirkby Gallery; Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Bersham Heritage Centre, Museum of Cannock Chase, Hednesford; Pittencrieff House Museum, Dunfermline; Wakefield Art Gallery, Bedales Gallery, Petersfield; Ashfield School, Kirkby in Ashfield; Central Library, Gateshead; The Babylon Gallery, Ely; Mill Green Museum and Mill, Hatfield; Bellshill Cultural Centre; Whitstable Museum and Art Gallery; The London Road Gallery, Northwich; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley; Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead; St Paul’s School, Barnes; Arts Complex, Solihull; Wingfield Arts, Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery; The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent; Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk; Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington; St Davids Hall, Cardiff – tour continues, further venues to be confirmed (solo)
2000: Peter Blake: About Collage, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom (solo)
1999: A Cabinet of Curiosities from the Collections of Peter Blake, Morley Gallery, London, England (solo)
1996 - 1997: Now We Are 64: Peter Blake at the National Gallery, National Gallery, London, England ; touring to Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom (solo)
1995: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris , France (solo)
1993: The Tabernacle Cultural Centre, Machynlleth (silk-screen prints) (solo)
1992: Govinda Gallery, Washington D.C. (Eric Clapton sketches) (solo)
1990: Wetterling Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
: Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
: Govinda Gallery, Washington DC (Eric Clapton sketches)
1988: Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1986 - 1987: Watermans Art Centre, Brentford, Middlesex; touring to Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (solo)
1984: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
1983: Tate Gallery, London (retrospective); touring to Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
1980: Galleria Documenta, Turin, Italy (drawings and prints) (solo)
1979: Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom (drawings and prints) (solo)
1978: Waddington Graphics, London, England (solo)
1977: Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London, England (solo)
1974: Natalie Stern Gallery, London, England (print retrospective) (solo)
1973 - 1974: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; touring to Kunstverein Hamburg; Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (solo)
1972: Waddington Galleries, London, England (watercolours and drawings (solo)
1970: Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, united Kingdom (solo)
1969: Robert Fraser Gallery, London , England(solo)
: City Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom(solo)
: Leslie Waddington Prints, London, England (solo)
1965: Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England (solo)
1962: Portal Gallery, London, England (solo)

Literature

2006: ‘September’, DACS 2006 calender
2005: Grimwood, Brian: ‘Waxworks to Cossacks’, The Journal of the Associations of Illustrators, February/March, pp. 14-21
2004: Bennett, Oliver: ‘Post-war excitement: the attraction of collecting Pop Art’, The Independent, 20 March, pp. 10-11
2003: Harrison, David: ‘Getting back to nature’, Bristol Evening Post, 11 February,
2002: Roberts, Eric: ‘An old master’s pick of the pops’, Yorkshire Post, 28 August, p.13
2001: Lacey, Hester (interview): 'How we met: Peter Blake & Rick Stein', The Independent on Sunday, 4 March, p.62
2000: Johnson, Holly: 'Meeting the Magician', Modern Painters, Spring, pp.90-94
1999: Dutt, Robin: 'Custodian of curiosities', Evening Standard, 8 October, p.33
1998: Lyttelton, Celia: 'My greatest work of art', High Life (British Airways), May
1997: The 20th-Century Art Book, Phaidon Press, London
1996: Hyatt, Derek: 'What is Real?', Modern Painters, Spring, pp.106–107
1995: Lambirth, Andrew: 'Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings from the 60's and 70's', What's On in London, 15–22 March
1994: Barnes, Rachel: 'Have a nice day, Mr Blake', The Guardian, 18 March, pp.6
1993: Bernard, Kate: 'Tempera fugit', Harpers & Queen, March, pp.150–53,154
1992: Davies, Hunter: 'Portrait of the artist (a work in progress)', The Independent, 19 May
1991: McHugh, Fionnuala: 'Blake's Progress', The Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 5 January
1990: 'Film Star Marilyn is just Peter's palette', Western Daily Press (Bristol), 21 February
1989: Brown, Jane: 'The Brotherhood of Ruralists and their friends in the Secret Garden', Hortus, Spring, no.9
1988: 'Art' Column, Asahi Journal (Japan), 17 June, p.44
1987: Kemp, John: 'Peter Blake talks to John Kemp', Artseen, no.15, pp.8–10
1986: Brown, John: 'Blake's Heaven', London Gentleman, March, p.27
1985: 'Peter the Painter', (Peter Blake talking to David Litchfield and Celia Lyttelton), Ritz, March
1984: D.M.Z: 'Queer Goings on at Sadlers Wells', Artline, April, vol.II, no.1
1983: 'Rocking at the Tate', The Standard, 6 January
1982: von Joel, Mike (interview): 'Peter Blake: In Retrospect', Art Line Newspaper, no.2, November, pp.5–7
1981: Vaizey, Marina: 'Elegy for a country garden' (review), The Sunday Times, 19 April, p.41
1980: Dury, Ian (interviewed on Peter Blake): New Musical Express, 19 July, pp.27–28
1979: Fuller, Peter: 'Peter Blake meets Peter Fuller', Aspects, Spring, no.6
1978: Blake, Peter: 'Contrariwise', Aspects, no.3, pp.1–2
1977: Vaizey, Marina: 'Jim Dine and Peter Blake' (review), Arts Review, 15 April, vol.29, no.8, pp.253–254
1976: Overy, Paul: 'Superstars for a day: the rise of Pop art in England' (review), The Times, 2 June, p.12
1975: Greenwood, Michael: 'British Painting '74' (review), Artscanada, March, no.196/7, pp.29–34
1974: Metken, Sigrid: 'Facteur Chevals Posttasche: die Bildpostkarte in der Kunst', Das Kunstwerk, January, vol.27, no.1, p.7
1973: Von Graevenitz, Antje: 'Museen und Galerien: Niederlande' (review), Pantheon, January/February/March, vol.32, no.1, p.98
1972: Russell, John: 'Best of Boys' (review), The Sunday Times, 10 December, p.37
1971: Denvir, Bernard: 'London Letter' (review), Art International, February, vol.15, no.2, pp.42–45
1970: Coleman, Roger: 'Peter Blake's Nostalgia' (review), Art and Artists, January, vol.4, no.10, pp.30–32
1969: Field, Simon: 'The pleasure principle' (review), Art and Artists, May, vol.4, no.2, pp.56–57
1968: Roberts, Keith: 'Blake, Dine, Hamilton/Arts Council Gallery' (review), Varsity, 20 January, p.17
1967: Overy, Paul: 'On the streets' (review), The Listener, 13 July, vol.78, no.1998, p.45
1966: Baro, Gene: 'London: a busy, vigorous season' (review), Arts Magazine, January, vol.40, no.3, pp.45–49
1965: Russell, John: 'London/NYC: the two-way traffic', Art in America, April, vol.53, no.2, pp.134,136
1964: Roberts, Keith: The Burlington Magazine (review), March, vol.106, no.732, pp.137–142
1963: Nordland, Gerald: 'Europe in California' (review), Arts Magazine, vol.37, no.9,
1962: Farr, Dennis: 'The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition', The Burlington Magazine, January, vol.104, no.706, pp.30–31
1961: Ironside, Robin: 'The Prize Paintings' (review), The Sunday Times, 19 November, p.38
1960: 'Is it art?' (review of I.C.A. exhibition), Daily Sketch, 20 January
1959: Blake, Peter: 'Supermidget with Mini-man' (cartoon strip), Ark, no.24, Winter, p.44
1958: Melville, Robert: Architectural Review (review), April, vol.123, no.735, pp.278–279
1956: Wallis, Neville: 'Designs for tomorrow', The Observer, 12 August, p.10

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Shapero Modern

Peter Blake

(British, born 1932)

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

Peter Blake

(British, born 1932)

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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