‘A Rose is a Rose is a Rose’ consists of three stunning
silkscreen prints with glazes; each print takes on the subject of a rose in a
different direction exerting Blake's signature watercolour, collage, and pop
art styles. All three prints are beautifully presented together in a rich
petrol blue archival box with title page and colophon.



The sentence 'Rose is a rose is a rose' was written by Gertrude Stein
as part of the 1913 poem 'Sacred Emily', which appeared in the 1922
book 'Geography and Plays'. In the poem, it references that the first
'Rose' is the name of a person. As one of her most famous quotations,
Stein later used variations of the quote in her other writing and it is
often interpreted as a means to say 'things are what they are'.



Having always liked the quote and having named his own daughter Rose, Blake
took joy in developing these prints in an instinctive direction, evolving the
meaning of the quote from a statement of the law of identity to an artistic
translation using print media to create three exquisite silkscreens.