Kamikaze
Artist: Peter Blake (born 1932)
Location: National Museum Cardiff
Date: 1965
Materials: cryla & collage on board
Dimensions: 78.74 x 48.26 x 6.35cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £40,000 (Total: £215,000)
Vendor: Waddington Galleries
Review number: 5842 (2006)
Provenance:
Private collection; Waddington Galleries.
Description:
This painting of a wrestler is from an ongoing series by the British Pop artist. Kamikaze is a figure of fantasy, an imaginary masked Japanese-American wrestler. The work features signature elements inspired by popular culture and childhood nostalgia including collaged photographs, magazine images and collected objects such as a toy plane. It is a significant early work and was first shown in the seminal Robert Fraser Gallery exhibition of 1965.
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