Blake, Peter | Eiffel Tower (from the Paris suite), 2010 — available on Composition Gallery

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Silkscreen on paper. Signed and numbered on the front.

Against a soft cloud-streaked Parisian sky, the Eiffel Tower rises bearing a small red-white-blue tricolour at its peak, while a kaleidoscope of butterflies — red admirals, swallowtails, monarchs, peacocks — drifts around the steel lacework. Blake's pop archive of natural history collides with civic icon to enchanting effect. Silkscreen on paper, signed and numbered on the front. From the Paris suite (2010), this is the brightest and most beloved sheet — an essential acquisition for any collection of Peter Blake's mature print practice.

Peter Blake (United Kingdom, 1932) is a celebrated British artist and a key figure in the Pop Art movement. Known for his vibrant collages and iconic album covers, including The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, his work often draws on pop culture, nostalgia, and everyday imagery, blending fine art with commercial aesthetics.

Peter Blake

Eiffel Tower (from the Paris suite), 2010

Name: Eiffel Tower (from the Paris suite), 2010
SKU: 17454
Price: 4700.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

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Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition PrintA limited edition print is one of a number of prints made at the same time from one printmaking plate. A fixed number are made and signed by the artist, indicating the printing order, using the format 1/10, meaning first of ten prints.

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Silkscreen

Silkscreen Silkscreen is a printmaking method that uses a screen made of silk or other mesh fabric. The screen is treated with a substance that blocks ink in certain areas, allowing ink to pass through only in the desired sections. Each color in the print requires a separate screen.

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Edition of 125

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I wanted to make an art that was the visual equivalent of pop music.
- Peter Blake

Widely recognised as one of the most prolific artists of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake is perhaps best known for his co-creation of the Beatles’ album cover for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club and the creation of the cover for the Band Aid single, ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’. The common factor uniting all of Blake’s artistic outputs is his long-standing love of icons and popular culture – he has stated: “All a country has is it’s culture; the rest is infrastructure”. One of Blake’s most popular works was a Through the Looking Glass-inspired painting titled ‘For instance now, now there’s the messenger’ - the depiction of a forlorn-looking Mad Hatter, shackled by the ankle and sitting on a stool, and just one of many of his works that paid tribute to classic English literature and folklore.

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Young British Artists (YBAs), also known as Britart or Brit artists, refers to a group of artists who began exhibiting together in London in 1988. Most of them graduated from the BA Fine Arts course at Goldsmiths in the late 1980s. The YBAs are known for their wild lifestyles, use of unconventional materials, and a combination of entrepreneurial and oppositional attitudes. They dominated the British art scene in the 1990s and gained significant media attention. Many of these artists were initially supported and collected by Charles Saatchi, a key figure in their rise to prominence.

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Peter Blake

Eiffel Tower (from the Paris suite), 2010

83.7 x 59 cm

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