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Remembering Peter Phillips, the pioneering British Pop artist, who has died, aged 86

The Birmingham-born artist, who drew on the city’s industrial iconography in his 1960s breakthrough work, was closest among his British contemporaries to the US Pop Art scene

Ruth Millington
7 July 2025
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Peter Phillips pictured in the late 1960s with Claude-Marion Xylander, his future second wife Courtesy of the Phillips family