Description Peter Blake The Beatles Love Me Do Signed Print Sir Peter Blake is one of the UK’s premier artists. His most famous artwork was created for the Beatles Sergeant Pepper album cover. The Beatles Sergeant Pepper print along with other Sir Peter Blake editions are available on the site. From 1946 to 1951 the British painter and illustrator Peter Thomas Blake attended Gravesend Technical College and School of Art and then transfered to the Royal College of Art in London, which he left in 1956. Blake’s early work is dominated by two major subjects: fantastic scenes from the world of the circus and naturalistic paintings with autobiographic elements. The imitation of the popular image world of event posters, which Blake combined with portraits, was typical of his work. Circus characters and children reading comic books are among the artist’s typical motifs. In style and content both types of pictures paved the way for English Pop Art. Thanks to a Leverhulme scholarship, Blake had the opportunity to travel through Europe from 1956 to 1957, where he acquainted himself with the artistic trends of the time. In 1959, inspired by reproductions by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Blake began to paint collage-like pictures of pop musicians and filmstars and to produce assemblages made of recycled material, postcards and other items. Alongside his collages Date: 2005 Signed By: Sir Peter Blake. Numbered and titled Edition: 75 World Wide Dimensions: 750 mm x 578mm Condition: Mint / Framed Medium: Silkscreen on colorplan with diamond dust Year: 2005 EXHIBITIONS Peter Blake and Gavin Turk, BI-Z Gallery, Norway Sept 2007 Peter Blake and Gavin Turk, Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall 17 May – 5 June 2007 Peter Blake and Gavin Turk, Gallerie Trafo, Norway June 2007 Love by Peter Blake, The White Room, Bath Dec 2006
