BABE RAINBOW 1968
Sir Peter Blake (1932 – )
Details
- Dimension
- 69.8 X 47.6 CM
- Media
- SCREENPRINT ON TIN
- Accession number
- P7767
Summary
Blake was commissioned by Dodo Designs to produce an enamel plaque that was issued in an edition of 10,000 and sold for £1. Due to a fault in the enamelling process the work was eventually screenprinted onto tin. Babe Rainbow was a fictional lady wrestler, the daughter of Doktor K Tortur (another member of the Blake wresting team). On the reverse of the work is printed her biography
Glossary
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Edition
All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.