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Butterflies 1

Peter Blake

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Artwork details

Artist: Peter Blake
Title: Butterflies 1
Description: ‘Butterflies I’ by Sir Peter Blake from the Paris Suite. Blake returns here to the subject of Eiffel Tower (Paris Quartet) with this romantic image. Butterflies have a recurring presence in Blake’s work, inspired equally by his admiration for the work of Damien Hirst (as seen in his solo show ‘Homage 10 x 5’ at Waddington Galleries 2010) and the beauty of the antique butterfly illustrations he finds in his huge collection of printed material.
Date: 2011
Medium: Screenprint
Edition: 100
Signature: Signed
Image: 38 x 21.5 cm
Sheet: 54.5 x 37 cm
Status: Available
Price: Price on request

The Artist

Peter Blake

Peter Blake was born Peter Thomas Blake in England. He is a famous English pop artist. Blake was personally educated at the Gravesend Technical College School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Peter Blake is known mainly for both painting and printmaking. Without a doubt, one of the most renowned of all his works, is no other than for the co-creating of the sleeve design that went along with the Beatles album called Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was during the late 1950s, that Peter did become one of the very best known, amid all of the British pop artists.