Peter Phillips

Acquired by the present owner circa 1988

Marco Livingstone, 'Peter Phillips', Peter Phillips: Retrovision, exhibition catalogue, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1982, illustrated p.54.

The canvas is in good original condition. There are some small spots of craquelure in the upper and lower right quadrants. There is what appears to be some cracking and a repaired tear, approximately 3cm. in length in the collage in the upper right quadrant. There are traces of dirt across the paint surface. Examination under ultra-violet light reveals scattered areas of fluorescence which may be retouching or perhaps the artist's reworking of the painting. Held in a simple black rectilinear frame. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 5381 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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Peter Phillips studied at the Royal College of Art between 1959-62 where his contemporaries included artists such as David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, R.B. Kitaj and Allen Jones. Awarded the Harkness Fellowship in 1964, Phillips moved to New York where he began to exhibit alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. 

After returning to London in 1966, Phillips left England to teach at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Hamburg between 1968-69 and then travelled to Africa, the Far East and the United States throughout the 1970s. His reputation became truly cemented in the early 1970s with a retrospective exhibition at the Westfalischer Kunstverein in Munster in 1972 and a one-man show at the Waddington Galleries in London in 1976.