Peter Blake: Dancing Over Pallant I Print
Dancing over Pallant I, a specially-commissioned signed print from the iconic British artist, Sir Peter Blake to follow the phenomenally successful 'Bobbie Rainbow' and 'Pop Art Badges'.
The four figures dancing are from a ballet company image Peter found in an old National Geographic magazine. They are a recurring theme in other prints Peter has done, for example dancing over Venice and dancing over Paris (the book ‘Venice Fantasies’ by Peter Blake contains this information and also specifically mentions our ‘Dancing over Pallant’ print on p18).
Limited edition of 175. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Paper size: 40cm x 32cm. Image size: 27cm x 19cm
High quality giclee print
This product will be posted using Royal Mail Special Delivery service.
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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.
