Alice Through the Looking Glass
Peter Blake
British, born 1932
(1972)
A screenprint from Peter Blake’s 1972 portfolio that reimagines a moment from Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass, using bright, flat color and Pop‑Art playfulness to make a familiar story feel new.
Set small in a vast white sheet, the image centers on a grinning, egg‑shaped Humpty Dumpty perched on a low wall before a jewel‑like, stylized medieval town while a diminutive Alice reaches up, the composition’s bold color blocks and decorative patterning insisting on both whimsy and artifice.
Blake—key to British Pop—used screenprinting to bridge popular illustration and fine art, showing how commercial techniques and nostalgic imagery could be reworked into museum-worthy prints that rethink literary and mass‑culture icons.
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Portfolio of eight screenprints
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222.1972.6
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