Peter Blake, Marcel Duchamp World Tour: Ballroom Set, 2015

'Marcel Duchamp At The Tower Ball Room - Set' - A set of 3 signed, limited edition silkscreen prints on paper with lithographic collage by Sir Peter Blake. Produced at Coriander Studio and The Curwen Studio, published by CCA Galleries. Prints available individually or as a set.

The 'Marcel Duchamp at the Tower Ballroom' set includes 'The Animals’ Fancy Dress Ball', 'New Year’s Eve Parade' and 'DC Thomson Reunion at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool'. Each edition is made using a combination of silkscreen and lithography; the first time Blake has combined these two mediums.

In the early 2000's Blake made a series of paintings under the title 'Marcel Duchamp's World Tour'. These large works centred on the idea of Marcel Duchamp finding himself in unexpected situations: playing chess with Tracey Emin, or on a tour bus with the Spice Girls. The Tower Ballroom prints are an extension of this playful concept; a further incident on Duchamps’s tour of the world and each of the three works in the set imagine three different, fantastical events that Duchamp attends during his stay in Blackpool. Blake includes the figure of Duchamp in each edition, but it is for the viewer to seek him out.

Blake's homage to Duchamp is not surprising; he paved the way for many modern and contemporary art movements including pop art, installation art and conceptual art, as well as influencing many of the YBAs (Hirst, Emin, Quinn, Turk - all of whom are friends of Blake). Duchamp's mission statement that anything an artist did could be art, has certainly been central to Blake's work and his philosophy of fine art.

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