Calendar: April

Details

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.

Provenance

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.

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Peter Blake, February - March 1983, no. 179: this exhibition travelled to Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, April - June 1983.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

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.

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