in ❤ with this art find

You know I am a huge fan of Venice, right?

The Venice Suite by Sir Pe­ter Blake (2009) is a port­fo­lio of 20 lim­it­ed edi­tion silkscreen prints on 400gsm Som­er­set tub sized pa­per in an edi­tion of 75. 

The Venice Suite was in­spired by Blake’s trip to Venice for the Bi­en­nale of 2007. Each piece in the port­fo­lio is a jew­el of his trade­mark col­lage style.

Blake com­bines tra­di­tion­al im­ages of the city on the la­goon with vi­su­al ex­cerpts from vin­tage chil­drens’ books, pho­tographs, post­cards, as well as de­tails from works of the old masters. 

This vi­su­al wit­ti­cism is teamed with a palette of turquoise, gold and the grey of the stones of Venice to cre­ate a sur­re­al fairy­tale vi­sion of the city. Blake jux­ta­pos­es the baroque grandeur of the ar­chi­tec­tur­al icons of Venice with gi­ant pen­guins, wartime bombers, Ed­war­dian row­ers and ice­bergs to name a few. 

The end re­sult is a port­fo­lio of works that are play­ful, imag­i­na­tive, beau­ti­ful, im­mense­ly var­ied and rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Sir Pe­ter Blake’s unique vision.

 

Born in 1932,

Sir Pe­ter Blake is well known as the God­fa­ther of British Pop Art, he pro­duces spec­tac­u­lar orig­i­nal prints, his work cross­es all gen­er­a­tional di­vides, and in­spires great re­spect through the art world.

Knight­ed in 2002, an hon­orary doc­tor of the Roy­al Col­lege of Art his work is rep­re­sent­ed in ma­jor col­lec­tions through­out the world, Sir Pe­ter Blake tru­ly is a grandee of British Art.
 

Also, did you know that Blake has de­signed the la­bels for the Tate + Mad Hat­ter Brew­ing Co col­lab­o­ra­tive bot­tles?

 

—juli­ja svetlova

Flom­mist Juli­ja Svet­lo­va is an art his­to­ri­an, free­lance re­searcher and a founder of Neja’s Art Walks, a be­spoke provider of art and his­to­ry-re­lat­ed tours and ex­pe­ri­ences in Lon­don. Juli­ja pre­vi­ous­ly worked as a col­lec­tion re­search as­sis­tant at the Tate. Copy­right © 2024 Juli­ja Svetlova.

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