Kamikaze

Peter Blake (born 1932)

National Museum Cardiff

1965

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.

• Medium: cryla & collage on board
• Dimensions: 78.74 x 48.26 x 6.35cm
• Art Fund Grant: £40000 ( Total: £215,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2006
• Vendor: Waddington Galleries

Provenance

Private collection; Waddington Galleries.

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