T for The Beatles (John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr)
1 portrait of John Lennon
T for The Beatles (John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr)
by Peter Blake
screenprint, 1991
40 1/4 in. x 30 1/2 in. (1024 mm x 775 mm)
Purchased, 2004
Primary Collection
NPG 6672
Sittersback to top
- George Harrison (1943-2001), Musician; member of The Beatles. Sitter in 78 portraits. Identify
- John Lennon (1940-1980), Musician; co-founder and singer for The Beatles. Sitter in 90 portraits, Artist or producer of 2 portraits. Identify
- Sir (James) Paul McCartney (1942-), Musician and member of The Beatles and Wings. Sitter in 88 portraits, Artist or producer of 1 portrait. Identify
- Sir Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) (1940-), Musician; drummer for The Beatles. Sitter associated with 71 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Sir Peter Thomas Blake (1932-), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits, Sitter in 15 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This is a reprise of the painting by Blake The 1962 Beatles (Pallant House, Chichester), based on a page of a magazine article on their return from Germany in 1962, poised for world fame. This is one of a series - T for the Beatles - from Alphabet - twenty-six screenprints in which Blake deploys images taken postcards, cigarette cards, anonymous snaps, icons - Elvis, Marilyn and James Dean - and his own imagery. The series was also issued as a pack of cards (1991).
Events of 1991back to top
Current affairs
Publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell dies after falling from his yacht in the Canary Islands. Although the verdict was 'accidental death', suspicions of suicide or murder were raised because of his alleged connections to Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, and the revelation that he had used hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies' pension funds to finance his corporate debt and lavish lifestyle.Art and science
Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the rock group Queen, dies of Aids.Marc Quinn brings a new meaning to the term 'Self-Portrait' with his work Self, a cast of the artists' head made out of his own blood.
International
Members of the USSR sign the Alma-Ata Protocol, disbanding the Union in favour of a Commonwealth of Independent States, thereby granting independence to the various republics.The Revolutionary United Front begins a civil war against the government of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Tens of thousands die in eleven years of violence.
Civil War breaks out in the former Yugoslavia as Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence.
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