Peter Blake Bobbie Rainbow Lithograph
- Edition number: Only A/Ps still available.
£750.00
Add to basketPeter Blake Bobbie Rainbow Lithograph
Original Peter Blake Lithograph on tin (66cm x 44cm) (Only artist proofs now available)
Signed and dated artist proof from an edition of 2000.
Bobbie Rainbow is the ficticious child of Babe Rainbow, the famous woman wrestler created by Peter Blake for the BIBA store in 1968.
Pallant House Gallery collaborated with the artist Peter Blake to create this multiple. The edition was part of the Art For All ethos inspired by the 'Sickert to the Sixties' exhibition of prints and multiples at the Gallery in 2001. Bobbie Rainbow was the first in the series of artists multiples that have been commissioned by the gallery. Recently released, these are the signed and dated artist’s proofs of this sold out edition.
Due to the fragile nature of this multiple we are unable to offer a delivery service. This item must be collected from the Bookshop in person.
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Artists Biography
Sir Peter Blake was born in 1932 in Dartford, Kent. He studied at the Royal College of Art (1953-56), where his contemporaries included Frank Auerbach and Bridget Riley. He taught at the Royal College from 1964 to 1976, and has also taught at St Martin’s School of Art.
During the 1960s Blake became well known as a British pop artists, famous for his 1967 album cover for the Beatles’ 'Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'. His paintings, which frequently used collage, included imagery from music posters and advertisements and often had a nostalgic element. He has also produced sculpture, engraving and prints, as well as commercial art including graphics and album covers.
In the early 1970s Blake used watercolour to illustrate Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and in 1975 was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists alongside artists such as Graham Ovendon. He was made a Royal Academician in 1981. He had a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1983 and was also made a CBE the same year. He was knighted in 2002. More recently, Tate Liverpool put on another up to date restrospective of Blakes painting and 2D work in 2007.
