Venice Fantasies
2009
$116.00
First edition of Venice Fantasies by Peter Blake (2009)
First impression
Large format hardback in near fine condition
Signed by Peter Blake to title page
Some very minor wear and toning to dust jacket, now in a removable protective sleeve
Some very slight toning to extremities of pages
Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm
Published by Enitharmon Press
About
Peter Blake, founding father of British Pop Art, has been producing quirky and inventive collages since the mid-1950s, when he was in his early twenties. His "Venice Fantasies", made in his mid-seventies with the same lightness of touch and fresh eye that has distinguished all his work, are marked by his characteristic wry humour and unerring sense of the absurd. Fifty years after his first trip to the most magical of Italian cities, he made his first return visit in 2007, just as he was embarking on this series of affectionate and often frankly preposterous tributes to the city as reconfigured in his imagination.
