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The History of the Screenprints
(06 Jun 2009) |
Sir Peter Blake describes the genesis of the Alice prints;
Originally there were to be a pair of books, Graham [Ovenden] was going to do Alice in Wonderland and I was going to do Through the Looking-Glass. However around this time (1969-70) there was a print crisis and the cost of printing the books became too expensive, so the book project was abandoned. What we did instead was to make the illustrations into two sets of silkscreen prints and that was their final form.
Graham Ovenden produced 8 screenprints for his Alice in Wonderland portfolio which were printed by the renowned Kelpra Studio and published in 1970 in a limited edition of 75 copies signed by the artist. In addition there were a few artist’s proofs.
In 1970 Blake and Ovenden held a joint exhibition at the Waddington Gallery, London on the theme of Alice. The Tate Gallery holds a complete set of Ovenden’s Alice in Wonderland screenprints. |
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