DETAILS
- Artist
- Peter Blake
- Date
- 1956
- Location
- Tate
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THE ARTIST
Peter Blake
Sir Peter Blake, an English pop artist, famously co-created the iconic sleeve design for The Beatles' 1967 album, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
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Pierre Alechinsky · 1950
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Essai
Sam Francis · 1963 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Alka Seltzer
Roy Lichtenstein · 1966 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Portrait of Mary Block
Ivan Puni · 1955 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Woman at the Piano
Philip Evergood · 1955 · Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Nighthawks
Okada Saburosuke · 1942 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Figure with Meat
Francis Bacon · 1954 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Flag
Jasper Johns · 1958
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Portrait of Sylvette David
Pablo Picasso · 1954 · Art Institute of Chicago
