What Do You See? The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Part II

Sir Peter Blake’s eclectic oeuvre has long been associated with Pop art in Britain. His work incorporates a myriad of interests and influences, including Victoriana. He is well-known for his pioneering use of collage as a preferred medium, as in the present lot, which was executed in 1977 – a decade after he designed the collage-inspired cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.The present work has a quintessentially English feel to it, with Blake imaginatively incorporating a Victorian photograph in chromolithography with pencil and watercolor. It features a head and shoulders portrait of a young girl inset – possibly one of the artist’s daughters – flanked by two birds, a nest, and flowers. March is from the Calendar (In Progress) series depicting the twelve months, with each work reflecting that month’s mood, and it was exhibited in 1983 at the Tate Gallery.