Peter Blake

Blake developed an early taste for many kinds of popular entertainments including cinema, the circus, wrestling matches, jazz, and popular music.
Blake’s early work was an unpretentious and a sincere response to his emersion in popular culture. Some of his earliest work ‘Children Reading Comics’(1954), and his celebrated ‘Self Portrait with Badges’ (1961), in which he is festooned with metal badges, holding an Elvis Presley fan club magazine, were autobiographical.

The directness with which Blake expressed his enthusiasms for mass culture during the 1950’s, bought him to the forefront of the Pop Art movement before it had ever been named. In the book ‘one man show’ by Marco Livingstone, he states that Blake firmly made a break through before Warhol as regards Pop Art.

His roots have grown out of brilliant collages, everyday objects, and brought a joy and magic to them, as seen in his stunning Tate Gallery retrospective in 1983, and again at the Tate / Liverpool retrospective a few years ago, who used phrase ‘godfather of Pop Art’.

He is held with great affection and respect by his admirers and the collectors of his work have been very pleased with the way it has gained in value in such a short period of time.Blake’s work is such a legacy to pass on to our families and children.