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Watercolours by William Blake that were sold by a Glasgow bookshop for £50 each and subsequently dispersed by Sotheby’s for a total of over $6m will be shown in a Tate exhibition this autumn.
A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English poet-painter in all his radical frenzy, and foretells the limits of political art.
Blake’s works are very, very delicate — many are watercolors — and to expose them to light at all is a risky business. The staging of William Blake’s Universe in other respects is very good.
Newly discovered watercolour by William Blake will be on show at at Frieze Masters in London next month.
A major exhibition on William Blake's work, titled "William Blake: Visionary," is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles through Jan. 14, 2024.
In 1795, William Blake (1757-1827) was given a commission to illustrate the poems of Edward Young (1681-1765). He produced 537 watercolors from which 43 were selected for engraving.
A set of 19 William Blake watercolours is to be sold in New York after a bid to keep them in the UK failed.
The gallery holds 36 of the 102 watercolours Blake painted to illustrate Dante Alighieri's poem. They were bought in 1918.
This post was updated Oct. 19 at 9:26 p.m. Visionary tales and texts are lighting up the Getty Center. On Monday night, the Getty Center unveiled the “William Blake: Visionary” exhibition to ...
The 1794 copy of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, illustrated and printed by Blake and his wife Catherine, is one of only six copies printed during Blake's lifetime that remained in private ...