Tattooed Lady (1958)

Peter Blake

black gouache and collage, mounted on red paper

Victoria & Albert Museum, Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection, London

V&A Museum

Classification:

Collage

Materials:

Ink, Collage

Physical Object Description:

Half length portrait of a lady in gouache covered in a collage of tattoos from the neck down, made up of stickers of Spanish footballers and children holding bunches of flowers, animals and cars amongst other packaging ephemera from the 1950s. Signed and dated, lower right: Peter Blake 1958

Technique:

Collage

Dimensions:

68.6 x 53.4 cm

Accession Number:

P.3-1972

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1971

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Waddington Galleries by Alistair McAlpine (1942-2014) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1971; presented to Victoria & Albert Museum, Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection, 1971/2

Relationship:

(Robert) Alistair McAlpine Victoria & Albert Museum, Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection, London

Subject:

Portraits

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