Artwork details

Artist

Title

Liberty Blake in a Kimono

Description

In 1971 Terence Conran and Bernard Jacobson were commissioned by Habitat to produce the eminent artists series. All the selected artists were at the Royal College of Art during the late fifties. Those artists were David Hockney, Robyn Denny, Peter Blake and Richard Smith.

This image is of Peter Blake’s daughter Liberty. The work is signed and numbered from an edition of 1000.

This limited edition poster was for a 1971 exhibition . The original painting was completed by Blake in Painted in 1971. Subsequently, the 1000 posters were printed, but most were then overprinted with the gallery details.

It's estimated only 200 of these prints survived without the overprinting of the gallery details. This is one of those 200. Signed in the plate. The picture is illustrated in a monograph about Peter Blake.

It is in perfect condition . Inscribed and signed in the plate by the artist.

Note that the original Peter Blake watercolour, on which this print is based, sold at Christies for £280k + in 2012!

Date

1971

Medium

Screenprint

Edition

1000

Signature

Signed

Image

50 x 30 cm

Sheet

61 x 46 cm

Status

Available

Price

£325.00

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.