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Property from the Collection of the Late Bryan Morrison

SIR PETER BLAKE, R.A. | GRAUMAN’S CHINESE THEATER

Auction Closed

November 20, 12:36 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

SIR PETER BLAKE, R.A.

b.1932

GRAUMAN’S CHINESE THEATER


signed, titled, dated Nov 1963 and inscribed

pencil, watercolour, ink, gouache, acrylic and collage on paper

33 by 25.5cm.; 13 by 10in.

Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by the late owner by the early 1980s

Anon., Sunday Times Colour Magazine, 15th November 1964, illustrated.

Bristol, City Art Gallery, Peter Blake, 17th November – 13th December 1969, cat. no.96, p.36 (where lent by the Artist);

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Peter Blake, 28th September – 18th November 1973, cat. no.30, with British Council tour to Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem; and Baden-Baden (details untraced);

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Peter Blake, 8th December 1973 - 27th January 1974, cat. no.29, illustrated;

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Eduardo Paolozzi, 20th May - 4th July 1976, cat. no.2 (where lent by the Artist);

London, Waddington and Tooth Galleries, Peter Blake: Souvenirs and Samples, 26th April - 21st May 1977, cat. no.49;

London, Tate, Peter Blake, 9th February – 20th March 1983, cat. no.221, illustrated p.124;

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Peter Blake: Retrospektive, 22nd April - 12th June 1983, cat. no.169, p.140 (where lent by Waddington Galleries). 

We are grateful to the Artist for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.