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SIR PETER BLAKE, R.A. (B. 1932)
Lot 163

SIR PETER BLAKE, R.A. (B. 1932)

After Velázquez

Fermé23 March 2022

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GBP 10,080

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SIR PETER BLAKE, R.A. (B. 1932)
After Velázquez
signed and dated 'Peter Blake. 95' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again ''After Velazquez'/Peter Blake 1995./Painted during my time/as artist-in-residence at/the National Gallery London' (on the backboard)
oil and pencil on canvas laid on board
8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm.)
Painted in 1995.

with W.H. Patterson, London, where purchased by the present owner on 11 June 2002.

Note du spécialiste

In 1993, Peter Blake was invited to become artist in residence at the National Gallery, London. There, he studied the Old Master paintings and produced new works based on the Gallery’s collection. During a temporary exhibition, he had the chance to admire and reproduce the portrait of María Ana de Austria, sister of Philip IV King of Spain, that Velázquez had painted circa 1630 (now in the Prado Museum, Madrid). The present work is, therefore, a homage to the Spanish painter he greatly admired, and to Baroque art.