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Born in Birmingham in 1939, Peter Phillips is an English artist associated with Pop Art, whose practice extends from oil painting to collage, sculpture and architecture, as well as multimedia compositions. Galerie Champetier describes his paintings as drawing on commercial imagery and using dynamic montages, in an advertising style it characterises as “aggressive and tense”. The diversity of his techniques is also evident in Gefährliches Spiel, a work from 1982 described in an auction catalogue as an oil-and-wood collage on paper, signed and dated by the artist.
From 1959 to 1962, he studied at the Royal College of Art in London, alongside Peter Blake, David Hockney and Allen Jones. His work was presented at the Paris Biennale in 1963, and the following year was included in a touring exhibition devoted to Pop Art, shown in The Hague, Vienna and Berlin. After receiving the Harkness Fellowship in 1964, Phillips moved to New York, where his first solo exhibition was organised in 1965 at Galerie Kornblee. In 1968 and 1969, he was a visiting professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg.
His work was the subject of a retrospective at the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster in 1972, followed by one at the Tate Gallery in London in 1976. In 2002, an exhibition was devoted to him at the Galleria Civica di Modena, in Italy. Peter Phillips died in 2025.
This profile brings together identity references for Peter Phillips and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Composition abstraite
Huile sur papier monté sur toile
Catalogue period : 2019-06-28
Published result : 1000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–2000
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Collage, oil and wood on paper
Gefährliches Spiel, 1982
Collage, Öl und Holz auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2019-06-19
Published result : 1292 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Composition abstraite
Huile sur papier monté sur toile
Catalogue period : 2019-03-22
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 2000–4000
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Je Acryl und Collage über Farbserigrafie auf Leinwand, montiert auf Hartfaserplatte
Date to be documented
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Acryl und Collage auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
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Farbstift, Öl, Gouache und Collage auf Papier.
Ohne Titel, 1985
Farbstift, Öl, Gouache und Collage auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Öl und Collage auf Leinwand, auf Pavatex, in Künstlerrahmen.
Date to be documented
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Farbstift, Öl und Gouache auf Papier.
Ohne Titel, 1985
Farbstift, Öl und Gouache auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Carnival, 1977
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
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Oil on canvas
Broadcast, 1991/92
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on paper
Sentinel II, 1981-82
Öl auf Papier.
Date to be documented
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Öl auf Papier mit Collage aus bemaltem Holz und Papier.
Date to be documented
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Öl auf Papier, mit Collage aus bemaltem Holz und bedrucktem Papier.
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Öl auf Papier, mit Collage aus bemaltem Holz und Papier.
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Oil on canvas
Small Composition 9, 1973
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
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Oil on canvas
Small Composition (Selection I), 1972
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Öl und Collage auf Leinwand, auf Pavatex, in Künstlerrahmen.
Date to be documented
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Mixed media on paper
Untitled (Study), 1984
Mischtechnik auf Papier.
Date to be documented
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Mixed media on paper
Untitled (Study), 1983/4
Mischtechnik auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Bleistift, Farbstift und Acryl auf Papier.
Date to be documented
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Bleistift, Farbstift und Acryl auf Papier.
Date to be documented
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