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Sir Peter Blake was famous for his influence on the art world. He is widely regarded as the godfather of British Pop art and the Young British Artists (YBA) movement. Blake created paintings, collages and prints that blended modernity and nostalgia. Though best known for designing the album cover for the Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, he considered painting to be central to his oeuvre. While celebrity figures such as Marilyn Monroe informed Blake's work, folk art, fairground signs and an overall sense of nostalgia also influenced his style. On 1stDibs, explore an assortment of Peter Blake art.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
By Peter Blake
Located in Norwich, GB
Hand printed silkscreen print, numbered and signed by Sir Peter Blake. The original photograph for the cover was taken at Michale Cooper's Flood Street Studio in Chelsea on March 30th 1967. The copyright of the photo remains with Apple, the Beatles management company. In 2007, after 40 years of trying, Peter Blake managed to get the Beatles to agree to publish a limited edition of 500 silkscreen prints on 410gsm Somerset cotton linter archive fine art paper medium, with the sheet size being 27 inches high by 26.25 inches wide. The image size being 19.5 inches square.
Archival pigment inks were used with specialist glazing and an additional spot varnishing.
29 screens were hand applied to print the edition, being 27 colours plus 2 glazes.
Every print bears the Apple logo embossed in the bottom centre.
Published by Pete Smith of Pierre Optique, who negotiated the rights, Peter Blake was paid £10 for each signature and allowed to keep the 50 Artists Proofs.
No 499 and No 500/500 were purchased by the Saint Giles Street Gallery and No 499 was embellished on the mount with original ticket stubs, bubblegum cards, official SPLHCB stamps issued by the Royal Mail along with other sundry paper ephemera and sent to Dublin to the Leinster Gallery to form part of their Unseen Beatles Show of Frank Herrmann...
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20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Peter Blake, To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Signed/N print British Pop Artist
By Peter Blake
Located in New York, NY
Peter Blake
To Her Majesty, The Queen Elizabeth II, 2016
Color giclee print on wove paper with full margins
11 73/100 × 6 3/5 inches
Pencil signed, titled, dated and numbered 119/150...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Pencil, Giclée, Lithograph
Peter Blake 100 SOURCES OF POP Diamond Dust Screenprint, 51"H
By Peter Blake
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Peter Blake (British, b. 1932)
Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 162/175; 2014
Materials: screenprint with diamond dust, glitter and glazes
Dimensions (H,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
V is for Valentine
By Peter Blake
Located in New York, NY
Peter Blake
V is for Valentine (from the Alphabet Series), 1991
Silkscreen in colors on wove paper
40 2/5 × 30 3/5 inches
Hand signed, titled and numbered 49/95 on the front
Published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios
from the Alphabet Series
Unframed
An exquisite print with romantic imagery in a sweet, romantic pastel pink. 'V for Valentine' is from Blake's 1991 series of alphabet letters. This tender and sentimental piece comprises a collection of antique valentine...
Category
1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Costume Life Drawing 1972 Signed Limited Edition
By Peter Blake
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Sir Peter Thomas Blake
Title: Costume Life Drawing
Year: 1972
Print - Lithograph Heavy Paper
Size: 30'' x 22 5/8''
Edition: Signed and Numbered 116/125
Kelpra stamp on v...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Penny Black 1972 From the The Wrestlers Series, Signed Edition
By Peter Blake
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Sir Peter Thomas Blake
Title: Penny Black
Year: 1972
Print: Lithograph on Heavy Paper
Dimensions: Paper: 18’’ x 11 3/4’’ Image: 8 1/4’’ x 4 1/4’’
Edition: Signed and Numbere...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph