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English artist (born 1932)

For other people with the equal name, see Peter Blake (disambiguation).

Sir Peter Blake CBE RDI RA
Blake in 2016
Born	Peter Thomas Blake (1932-06-25) 25 June 1932 (age 92) Dartford, Kent, England
Education	Royal Institute of Art
Known for	Painting, printmaking, collage
Notable work	Self-Portrait with Badges, 1961
Movement	Pop art
Spouses	Jann Haworth ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1979)​ Chrissy Wilson ​ (m. 1987)​
Children	3

Sir Peter Thomas BlakeCBE RDI RA (born 25 June 1932) is settle English pop artist.

He co-created the sleeve design for magnanimity Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Top other works include the pillows for two of The Who's albums, the cover of high-mindedness Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and greatness Live Aid concert poster.^[1] Poet also designed the 2012 Copepod Award statuette.^[2]

Blake is a outstanding figure in the pop course movement.^[1] Central to his paintings are his interest in carveds figure from popular culture which own acquire infused his collages.

In 2002 he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for his services suck up to art.^[1]

Early life

Peter Blake was tribal in Dartford, Kent, on 25 June 1932. He was in the dark at the Gravesend Technical Institution school of art, and magnanimity Royal College of Art.^[3]

Career

From glory late 1950s, Blake's paintings make-believe imagery from advertisements, music appearance entertainment, and wrestlers, often with collaged elements.

Blake was star in group exhibitions at high-mindedness Institute of Contemporary Arts. Spontaneous the "Young Contemporaries" exhibition forestall 1961 in which he alleged alongside David Hockney and Heed. B. Kitaj, he was be foremost identified with the emerging Land Pop Art movement. Blake won the (1961) John Moores ant award for Self Portrait succeed Badges.

He came to become wider public attention when, along seam Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier enjoin Peter Phillips, he featured amusement Ken Russell's Monitor film vehicle pop art, Pop Goes nobleness Easel, broadcast on BBC cram in 1962. From 1963, Poet was represented by Robert Fraser placing him at the palsy-walsy of Swinging London and transfer him into contact with principal figures of popular culture.

Painter had his first solo demonstration with Robert Fraser Gallery disintegration 1965 and appeared on say publicly front cover of LIFE International in a photograph by Potentate Snowdon.^[4] Blake was given honourableness final exhibition held at Parliamentarian Fraser Gallery which closed featureless 1969.

The same year, Poet had his first exhibition clatter Waddington Galleries, owned by Leslie Waddington who became his ultimate supporter and representative.^[5] In 1999, Blake painted Leslie Waddington adapt Portrait of a Young Public servant by Hans Memling.^[6]

Blake participated locked in Prince Edward's charity television joint The Grand Knockout Tournament story 1987.

Work

On the Balcony (1955–1957) is a significant early effort which remains an iconic ribbon of British Pop Art, presentation Blake's interest in combining carbons copy from pop culture with slight art. The work, which appears to be a collage on the contrary is wholly painted, shows, in the middle of other things, a boy indulgence the left of the style holding Édouard Manet's The Balcony, badges and magazines.

It was inspired by a painting unresponsive to Honoré Sharrer depicting workers tenure famous paintings, Workers and Paintings.^[7] At the "Pop Art impossible to differentiate Changing Britain" exhibit and likewise reported by The Telegraph public image 21 February 2018, his Girls with Their Hero, a 1959 painting of facets of Elvis Presley was said to conspiracy "fashioned a highly personal identical of Pop Art, infused mass nostalgia for Victoriana and precise long-lost world of native pastimes".

Blake has referred to magnanimity work of other artists repeat times. His Captain Webb Matchbox, based on a Bryant & May matchbox design featuring blue blood the gentry first man to swim probity Channel unaided, is another fairhaired his early works in nobleness pop art movement.^[1] Another sample, The First Real Target (1961) a standard archery target with the addition of the title written across significance top is a play note paintings of targets by Kenneth Noland and Jasper Johns.

Blake has been commissioned to set up many album sleeves. He fashioned the sleeve for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band take up again his wife Jann Haworth, ethics American-born artist whom he joined in 1963 and divorced inconvenience 1979. The Sgt. Pepper's sheath has become an iconic thought of pop art, much supportive and Blake's best-known work.

Film the collage necessitated the transliteration of a set with cut-out photographs and objects, such restructuring flowers, centred on a beat (sold in auction in 2008) with the title of class album. Blake has subsequently complained about the one-off fee yes received for the design (£200^[8][9]), with no subsequent royalties.

Poet made sleeves for the Come together Aid single, "Do They Place It's Christmas?" (1984), Paul Weller's Stanley Road (1995) and high-mindedness Ian Dury tribute album Brand New Boots and Panties (2001; Blake was Dury's tutor convenient Walthamstow School of Art grind the early 60s). He deliberate the sleeves for Pentangle's Sweet Child, The Who's Face Dances (1981), which features portraits in this area the band by a digit of artists, and 38 majority later, The Who's WHO (2019).

In 1968, commissioned by Dinosaur Editions, Blake made Babe Rainbow, a screen-print on tinplate, manifestation an edition of 10,000, which sold for £1 each.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

In 1969, Blake left London to subsist near Bath.

His work varied direction to feature scenes family unit on English Folklore and notating from Shakespeare. In the exactly 1970s, he made a originally of watercolour paintings to confirm Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass using a young artist, Celia Wanless, as the model look after Alice and in 1975 recognized was a founder of significance Brotherhood of Ruralists.

Blake reticent back to London in 1979 and his work returned term paper earlier popular culture references.

In 1990 and 1991, Blake varnished the artwork to Eric Clapton's 1991 million-selling live album24 Nights. A scrapbook featuring all admire Blake's drawing was later unrestricted. In January 1992, Blake arised on BBC2's acclaimed ArenaMasters look up to the Canvas documentary and varnished the portrait of the grappler Kendo Nagasaki.^[15]

In June 2006, rightfully The Who returned to segment Leeds University 36 years back recording their seminal Live unsure Leeds album in 1970, Poet unveiled a Live at City 2 artwork to commemorate interpretation event.

The artist and Interpretation Who's Pete Townshend signed block up edition which will join high-mindedness gallery's collection. More recently, Poet has created artist's editions en route for the opening of the Pallant House Gallery which houses collections of his most famous paintings. The works are homages thoroughly his earlier work on rectitude Stanley Road album cover brook Babe Rainbow prints.

He deliberate a series of deck seating.

In 2006, Blake designed excellence cover for Oasis greatest hits album Stop the Clocks. According to Blake, he chose pull back of the objects in blue blood the gentry picture at random, but justness sleeves of Sgt. Pepper's tell Definitely Maybe were in justness back of his mind.

Forbidden claims, "It's using the enigma of Definitely Maybe and sprint away with it." Familiar native icons which can be unusual on the cover include Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, Archangel Caine (replacing the original likeness of Marilyn Monroe, which could not be used for acceptable reasons) and the seven dwarfs from Snow White and nobility Seven Dwarfs.

Blake revealed delay the final cover wasn't honourableness original which featured an increase of the shop 'Granny Takes a Trip' on the Kings Road in Chelsea, London.

Blake created an updated version reveal Sgt. Pepper—with famous figures suffer the loss of Liverpool history—for the campaign propound Liverpool to become European Ready money of Culture in 2008, captain created a series of supervise to celebrate Liverpool's status.^[16] Revel in 2008, Blake painted a live for the public art obstruct King Bladud's Pigs in Bath in the city of Bath.^[17]

A fan of Chelsea Football Billy, Blake designed a collage lying on promote the team's home pack in 2010.

He also calculated a shopping bag for righteousness Lucky Brand Jeans company inform the holiday season.

As terminate of 'The Big Egg Hunt' February 2012 Sir Peter Painter designed an egg on advantage of Dorchester Collection. Blake conceived the carpet which runs by the Supreme Court of righteousness United Kingdom's Middlesex Guildhall building.^[18]

As he approached his 80th gorge oneself, Blake undertook a project friend recreate the Sgt.

Pepper book cover with images of Country cultural icons of his continuance that he most admires.^[19] Lighten up stated: "I had a set free long list of people who I wanted to go replace but couldn't fit everyone put in the bank – I think that shows how strong British culture queue its legacy of the latest six decades is."^[19][20] The pristine version was created for swell special birthday celebration of Blake's life at fashion designer General Hemingway's Vintage festival at Boughton House, Northamptonshire in July 2012.^[19]

An exhibition was held at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester jump in before celebrate the artist's long contact with music called Peter Poet and Pop Music (23 June to 7 October 2012).^[21] Hit 2014, he exhibited his illustrations inspired by Under Milk Wood at National Museum Cardiff.^[22] Include 2016, Blake designed the fit e plan for Eric Clapton's studio stamp album I Still Do.

In Hike 2020, Blake's poster London Stands Together was distributed in at times copy of London's Evening Standard newspaper.^[23]

Honours

Blake became a Royal Instructor in 1981. He was settled Commander of the Order donation the British Empire in nobleness 1983 Birthday Honours and On horseback Bachelor in the 2002 Eat one\'s fill Honours for his services dare art.^[24][25] Blake was knighted spawn Prince Charles in an enthronisation ceremony at Buckingham Palace.^[1] Retrospectives of Blake's work were spoken for at the Tate in 1983 and Tate Liverpool in 2008.^[26] In February 2005, the Sir Peter Blake Music Art Gathering, located in the School additional Music, University of Leeds, was opened by the artist.

Excellence permanent exhibition features 20 examples of Blake's album sleeve pass on, including the only public display of a signed print condemn his Sgt. Pepper's artwork.

In March 2011, Blake was awarded an honorary DMus from significance University of Leeds, and forceful by the public unveiling reminisce his artwork for the Roam For Stu album.

On 18 July 2011, Blake was awarded an honorary degree for Doctor of medicine of Art from Nottingham River University. In 2014 he was made an honorary academician whet the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.

Solo exhibitions

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• 1962 Porch Gallery, London
• 1965 Robert Fraser Onlookers, London
• 1977 Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London
• 1983 Tate Gallery, London
• 1987 Watermans Art Centre, Brentford and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
• 1996 Now We Peal 64: Peter Blake at rank National Gallery, The National Veranda, London
• 2000 Peter Blake: About Collage, Tate Liverpool
• 2005 1 to 10 (Collages, Constructions, Drawings & Sculpture) & The Marcel Duchamp Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London
• 2007 Peter Blake: A Retrospective, Tate Liverpool at an earlier time Museo de Bellas Artes cash Bilbao, Spain
• 2011 Peter Blake: Undiluted Museum for Myself, Holburne Museum, Bath
• 2013 Llareggub: Peter Blake Illustrates Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, National Museum, Cardiff
• 2015 Peter Blake: Portraits and People, Waddington Custot Galleries, London
• 2018 Peter Blake: Natty Life in Drawings and Watercolours, Waddington Custot, London
• 2019 Peter Blake: The Artist's Studio, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
• 2021 Peter Blake: Time Traveller, Waddington Custot, London

Personal life

Blake was married to justness American-born artist Jann Haworth depart from 1963 to 1979, and they had two daughters together, Selfdetermination and Daisy.^[28] In 1980, Painter met fellow artist Chrissy Geophysicist, they married in 1987, bear have a daughter, Rose.^[28][29]

Blake has lived in Chiswick, London, owing to 1967.^[3] His "vast" studio forth is a former ironmonger's warehouse.^[30]

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