Charles Blackman (B.1928- )
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Girl with Flowers
 Circa 1985  - Enlarge

Charcoal on board

Price:$28,500 - BUY


Dinner Party
 Circa 1973 - Enlarge

Pen and ink on paper

Price:$9,500 -  BUY 


Lovers Circa 1972 -  Enlarge
Charcoal on paper 
Price:$5,500 - BUY

Nude Circa 1968  - Enlarge

Pen & ink on paper

Price:$7,500 - BUY

       

Alice Party 1962 - Enlarge
charcoal on board

$250,000-$285,000 - email offer


Girl with Flowers  Circa 1960 - Enlarge
pastel on board

price: $32,500  - BUY


Red Roof C.1972 - Enlarge
oil on canvas

price: $75,500 - BUY


Always Tea Time - Enlarge
Alice in Wonderland10/75
price: $5,800
- BUY

45/70  HARP SONG
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The Orpheus Suite

price: 7,500
 - BUY

Girl & Cat 1969 - Enlarge
oil on canvas

$350,000-385,000 - email offer


Figure Circa 1973 - Enlarge
oil on canvas

$250,000-285,000 - email offer


School Girls 8/80
 Girls and Flowers suite
price: 3,800 - unframed - BUY
       

Girl listening to music 8/80
(Girls and Flowers suite)
price: 3,800 - unframed - BUY

Title: Girl with Plaits 8/80
(Girls and Flowers suite)
price: 3,800 - unframed
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Quartette 8/80 
Girls and Flowers suite
price: $3,800 unframed - BUY

Transformation 8/80
 Girls and Flowers suite

price: $3,500
unframed - BUY
       

Cat an the Garden 24/80
 Garden suite
price: 4,800  - BUY

Garden 24/80
 Garden suite
price: 4,800  - BUY

Trees Circa 1972
oil on canvas

SOLD


Butterfly Circa 1973

oil on board

SOLD


Yarra Landscape
Circa 1952

oil on board

SOLD


Floating Figure Circa 1972
oil on canvas

SOLD


Figure Circa 1972
charcoal

SOLD


Nude Circa 1973
oil on canvas

SOLD


School Girl Circa 1952

Charcoal

SOLD


Cats and Dogs Circa 1972
oil on canvas

SOLD


Girl   Circa 1973
charcoal

SOLD


Figure Circa 1972
oil on canvas

SOLD


Girl & Cat
 Circa 1983
charcoal

SOLD


GIRLS WITH PINK FLOWERS circa 1953

 Oil on Canvas

SOLD


Girl  by the Window
mixed media

SOLD


Figure Circa 1972
silkscreen A/P

SOLD
       

Charles Blackman is one of two living most important Australian artist whose painting have sold over one million dollars. Blackman “Alice in Wonderland” Sotheby's have sold for $1.2 million, a record price for a living Australian artist (fetched more than twice the previous record for the artist's work in October 2006). To view the entire article click  The Age 21 Oct, 2006 (Melbourne) and ABC TV National News. Charles Blackman is a major figure in Australian art of the post-war years. His haunting and enchanting images of women and girls, absorbed in daydreams or games have an enduring appeal. Two significant themes in his work have been the Schoolgirl and Alice in Wonderland. Deep shadows and the accentuation of his figure's eyes occur throughout Blackman's works with a pervasive sense of melancholy Ref: Alice paintings  

 

 Lovers Circa 1972

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      Lovers Circa 1972
Medium: Charcoal on paper 

Image Size:  27.9 x 49.8 cm
Signed lower right

Price:$5,500

 

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Nude Circa 1968

 

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      Nude Circa 1968
Medium: Pen and ink on paper

Image Size:  52.7 x 75.9 cm
Signed lower right

Price:$7,500

 

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Dinner Party circa 1973

 

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      Dinner Party circa 1973
Medium: pastel on paper

Image Size:  50 x 65cm
Signed and dated top right: BLACKMAN 73

Price: $9,500

 

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   Girl by the window with flowers circa 1960

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      Girl by the window with flowers circa 1960
Medium: pastel on paper

Image Size:  72 x 97.5cm
Signed: BLACKMAN
lower left

 

 

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Girl with Flowers circa 1985

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      Girl with Flowers circa 1985
Medium: Charcoal on paper

Image Size:  74.5 x 98.5cm
Framed size: 116.5 x 140cm
Signed: BLACKMAN
lower left

 

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House with RED Roof in the Woods circa 1973

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      House with RED Roof in the Woods circa 1973

Medium: Oil on canvas

Image Size:  100 x 122cm

Signed: BLACKMAN lower left

 

 

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NOTES
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Charles Blackman is enormously resonant painter of his own outer as well as inner landscape that has symbols of the deeply felt privacy. The forest offers privacy and seclusion but also peace, consolation and reassurance.
The strong contrast and the bite of black, green leafed trees, a touch of blue and a red-roofed house with a surrounding garden betokens a family life, warmth, permanence and sense of belonging. Blackman understands the vital issues of love.

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ALICE TEA PARTY, London 1962

Artist:     Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:       Alice Tea party, London 1962

Medium:  charcoal and mix media on paper on board

Image Size:      135 x 150 cm
Framed size:     170 x 185cm

Signed Lower left:  BLACKMAN London 1962
Description: Alice Figure by the Window.

Certificate signed Charles Blackman from Sotheby's.

 

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Ref: Alice paintings. Charles Blackman Alice in Wonderland sold for $1.2 million sold by Sotheby's, to view the entire article click The Age, 21 Oct.2006 Melbourne, the ABC TV National News, Alice Paintings. Charles Blackman holds the record of the highest paid living Australian artists. "Alice Tea Party" is a masterpiece is from the period of Charles Blackman artistic acclaim. This painting is only one of few rare artworks returning to Australia from London after Charles Blackman won in London 1961, the Helena Rubenstein Art Award-Scholarship attracting international recognition.

 

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The Crack Up 1973

 

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      The Crack Up 1973

Medium: Oil on canvas

Image Size:  91 x 96cm
Framed size: 130 x 135 cm

Signed: BLACKMAN top left

 

 

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Crack-Up, a museum quality work of art from the era of Charles Blackman artistic acclaim, portrays a famous American writer, Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. It is an exciting and emotionally moving painting, a razor sharp, but tender, opening feelings of the tormented writer, passions and suffering. Crack-Up is only one of four of the Fitzgerald series of paintings. All four paintings are illustrated in Blackman the Lost Domains; Crack-Up is illustrated and  documented on page 128. 

Crack-Up is an important work of art being one of only few Australian works relating to the important international Pop-Art movement, the black outline around two figures epitomizes this rare tie. Australian artists far from the rest of the world seldom embodied the significant global Pop-Art Andy Warhol style movement in the 60's and the early 70’s except few works by Australian international artists who recognized the worldwide art progress. A portrait of Charles Blackman by Jon Molvig won the Archibald Prize in 1966. However 1961-66 Charles Blackman lived in the centre of international art in London able to recognize and embrace the important art movement. In 1961 in London Blackman won Helena Rubenstein Art Award-Scholarship which started his period of the artistic acclaim and Blackman work attracted the international recognition. 

Scott Fitzgerald regarded as one of the twentieth century's great writers and his wife Zelda  were good friends with the Blackman’s and in Crack-Up painting Charles Blackman shows Zelda in warm tones yet, as she is peeled from mind of her husband, almost as she was Fitzgerald own creation. Crack-Up is a superb painting and indeed a brilliant work of art.

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Girl and Cat 1969

 

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      Girl and Cat 1969

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 91 x 96cm
Signed:  BLACKMAN 1969
lower left

 

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Barbara and Cat 1969, is a museum quality work of art from the era of Charles Blackman artistic acclaim. The painting portrays Barbara Blackman playing with their cat. Charles Blackman married Barbara Patterson in 1951, a model and a poet.

Barbara and Cat 1969 is an important work of art being one of only few Australian works relating to the important international Pop-Art movement, the black outline around two figures epitomizes this rare tie. Australian artists far from the rest of the world seldom embodied the significant global Pop-Art Andy Warhol style movement in the 60's and the early 70’s except few works by Australian international artists who recognized the worldwide art progress. A portrait of Charles Blackman by Jon Molvig won the Archibald Prize in 1966. However 1961-66 Charles Blackman lived in the centre of international art in London able to recognize and embrace the important art movement. In 1961 in London Blackman won Helena Rubenstein Art Award-Scholarship which started his period of the artistic acclaim and Blackman work attracted the international recognition. 

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Always Tea Time 10/75

 

Artist: Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )
Title: 
Always Tea Time 10/75, Charles Blackman: Alice in Wonderland series
Medium: Silk screen print 
Edition 10 of 75 only
Image Size: 65 cm x 90 cm  
Signed: BLACKMAN Lower right
Price (framed):   $5,800 - including frame

 

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HARP SONG 45/70

Artist: Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )
Title:  HARP SONG 45/70
  [The Orpheus Suite]
Medium: Collagraph 45
Edition of 70
Image Size: 60 cm x 90 cm  
Paper size: TBA 
106 x 74 cm
Signed: BLACKMAN Lower right
Price:   $7,500 - framed in gold leaf

 

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Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      NUDE circa 1973

Medium: Charcoal on paper

Image Size:  77.5 x 53.5cm

Signed: BLACKMAN lower right
Price (framed):    
SOLD

 

NOTES:
 "When I was young I thought there was a dream in the in between of finding and knowing, but the dream was eternity of torment of unknowing" says Blackman.
As women shaped Blackman life: he is at ease painting feminine subject's; his famous works of Zelda Fitzgerald, Schoolgirls series and Alice series. Joy Hester, said "The hand and the eye of the painter is what love is to a poet" thus Blackman's art has the infinite power and universal appeal, he is loved by all.

   

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:      GIRLS WITH PINK FLOWERS circa 1953

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Image Size:  77.5 x 99.5cm

Signed: BLACKMAN top right
Price:    
SOLD
Provenance: The Blackman Trust; the Artist collection

 

 

NOTES:
Girls with Flowers originated 1950s the most completely realized series that were to take him to London in 1961 were he won the Helena Rubinstein Award bringing him the International recognition. Blackman created mysterious images of meditative girls, detached from their surroundings, absorbed in daydreams or games and oblivious to reality. Girls with flowers reply to a female soul, the part of the woman, the music of her psyche. The flowers are in no sense a decoration making a bridge of her emotion and bring to light radiant femininity.

 

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )
Title:
     LANDSCAPE 1951 Yarra River

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Image Size:  62.5 x 74.5cm

Signed: BLACKMAN lower right
Price:    
SOLD

 


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During the 1950's Blackman art was vigorous and astonishing outpouring a defined and major talent. Blackman capitalized on his personal vision of the poetic grace that can illuminate even transitory moments of his livelihood in the Yarra area of Melbourne.
Even though Blackman has shown the sustaining power to originate a wide supply of superb images many of his early paintings were destroyed during the Melbourne fire except some exceptional paintings below which live to tell the tale.
 

 

Artist:      Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:        GIRL Flying in Seascape 1972

Medium:  Oil on Canvas on Board

Image Size:  50.5 x 74.5cm

Signed:    BLACKMAN lower right
Price:     
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Artist: Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )
Title:  LOVE SONG 45/70
1998-200  [The Orpheus Suite]
Medium: Collagraph 65/70
Edition: 70
Image Size: 60 cm x 90 cm  
Paper size: TBA 
106 x 74 cm
Signed: BLACKMAN Lower right
Price (framed):  
SOLD

 

Artist:    Charles Blackman (B. 1928- )

Title:     GIRL 1971

Medium: Charcoal on paper

Image Size:  122 x 101cm

Signed: BLACKMAN lower