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[Pop Art] Blake, Peter. (b. 1932). "Babe Rainbow," 1968.
Bold color screenprint on pressed tin by the British pop artist best known for his Pop-Edwardian cover design for the Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The piece is characteristic of British pop culture aesthetics at the time, making use of bright colors and English iconography. Babe Rainbow, the fictitious female wrestler who serves as the subject of the work, is wearing a belt that reads "London" and features a buckle emblazoned with Saint George's Cross. From an edition of 1000 commissioned by Dodo Designs in 1968, with the character's fictitious biography printed to verso. Other copies of the present work are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mild tarnishing and spotting throughout, overall in fine condition. 17.25 x 26 inches (43.8 x 66 cm.).
Babe Rainbow, as described by Blake, is "a fictitious lady wrestler, is the most recent in a line of wrestlers I have painted. These include Irish Lord X, Doktor K Tortur, Kamikaze and Les Orchidées Noires. She is twenty-three years old and has broken her nose in the ring. She was born in New Cross, London and wrestles mainly in Europe and the USA as there have only been a few contests between lady wrestlers in London. She is the daughter of the notorious Doktor K Tortur."
From an early age Blake enjoyed weekly family outings to wrestling matches, memories that later inspired a protracted and diverse series of works depicting wrestlers. Predominantly imaginary, each character is invested with a personal history invented by Blake and conveyed by the use of extravagant names and symbolic paraphernalia. (Peter Blake: Pop, Tate)
Provenance: from the collection of Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman.
[Pop Art] Blake, Peter. (b. 1932). "Babe Rainbow," 1968.
Bold color screenprint on pressed tin by the British pop artist best known for his Pop-Edwardian cover design for the Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The piece is characteristic of British pop culture aesthetics at the time, making use of bright colors and English iconography. Babe Rainbow, the fictitious female wrestler who serves as the subject of the work, is wearing a belt that reads "London" and features a buckle emblazoned with Saint George's Cross. From an edition of 1000 commissioned by Dodo Designs in 1968, with the character's fictitious biography printed to verso. Other copies of the present work are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mild tarnishing and spotting throughout, overall in fine condition. 17.25 x 26 inches (43.8 x 66 cm.).
Babe Rainbow, as described by Blake, is "a fictitious lady wrestler, is the most recent in a line of wrestlers I have painted. These include Irish Lord X, Doktor K Tortur, Kamikaze and Les Orchidées Noires. She is twenty-three years old and has broken her nose in the ring. She was born in New Cross, London and wrestles mainly in Europe and the USA as there have only been a few contests between lady wrestlers in London. She is the daughter of the notorious Doktor K Tortur."
From an early age Blake enjoyed weekly family outings to wrestling matches, memories that later inspired a protracted and diverse series of works depicting wrestlers. Predominantly imaginary, each character is invested with a personal history invented by Blake and conveyed by the use of extravagant names and symbolic paraphernalia. (Peter Blake: Pop, Tate)
Provenance: from the collection of Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman.