Blake, Peter | Readheads (Great North Run), 2010 — available on Composition Gallery

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Giclee print with silkscreen varnish. Hand signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, recto.

From a 1949 Fairplay magazine page — John Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields shipbuilders advertising over four generations of merchant vessels — Blake builds his border of national flags around the original cursive 'Readheads' heading, two black-and-white photographs of cranes and a steamer, and the gentlemanly typographic columns. Giclée print with silkscreen varnish, hand-signed and numbered in pencil recto. A characteristic Blake collage: archive, flag, nostalgia, civic pride. The Great North Run dedication anchors it in his beloved North-East roots — a confident piece to acquire from the godfather of British Pop.

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

Readheads (Great North Run), 2010

Name: Readheads (Great North Run), 2010
SKU: 17531
Price: 1700.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Form

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.

Medium

Giclée printing

Giclée printingGiclée printing is a digital technique for reproducing artwork using a high-resolution digital file and an inkjet printer with archival-quality inks. This process produces prints with exceptional color accuracy and detail, closely matching the original artwork.

Edition

Edition of 75

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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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Peter Blake

Readheads (Great North Run), 2010

42 x 34 cm

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