Live Auction 5930Modern British and Irish Art
Sir Peter Blake, R.A. (b. 1932)
Lot 100

Sir Peter Blake, R.A. (b. 1932)

Calendar: April

Closed12 December 2014

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GBP 3,750

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Sir Peter Blake, R.A. (b. 1932)
Calendar: April
inscribed 'APRIL' (on the frame)
pencil, ink, watercolour, gouache and lithographic border
11½ x 8½ in. (29.2 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1977.

The artist, at the time of the 1983 exhibition.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 November 1986, lot 186A, where purchased by the present owner's mother.

Specialist note

In the 1983 Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue, the series of Calendar illustrations are discussed: 'The twelve mounts incorporated into this work are the pages of a Victorian photograph album decorated in chromolithography with birds and flowers representing the months. Blake has inserted drawings of fairies suiting the mood of the month' (exhibition catalogue, Peter Blake, London, Tate Gallery, 1986, p. 117).

The sitter is Liberty Blake, the artist's eldest daughter.