Homage to Rauschenberg III Fashion

This piece is from a series of five silkscreen prints that Sir Peter Blake created in tribute to Robert Rauschenberg an American painter and graphic artist whose early work inspired the Pop Art movement.

Blake cites Rauschenberg as one of his earliest influences, and stated, My Rauschenbergs are a very formalised version of his work. I made no attempt to assimilate his beautiful, almost Abstract Expressionistic use of paint.

In Homage to Rauschenberg III, Blake uses bright blocks of colour to accentuate his found items, which include a car number plate, rulers, a puzzle and a rusty old can of lager.