Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title:
Crack Up
1973
illustrated
"The Lost
Domains"
Medium:
oil on canvas
Image Size:
91 x 96cm
Price: $350,000
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title: Barbara
and Cat,
1969
Medium:
oil on canvas
Image Size:
91 x 96 cm
Price:$450,000
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title: Girl with Flowers circa 1960
Medium:
pastel on board
Image Size: 72 x 97.5cm
Price:
$33,500
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title: House
with Red Roof c.1972
Medium:
oil on canvas
Image Size: 100 x 122cm
Price:
$78,500
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title:
Girl with Flowers, circa 1985
Medium:
Charcoal
on board
Image Size: 74.5 x 98.5cm
Price:
$29,500
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title:
Dinner Party
1973
Medium:
Pen and ink on
paper
Image Size: 50 x 65 cm
Price: $8,500
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title:
Nude circa
1968
Medium:
Pen and ink on
paper
Image Size:
52.7 x 75.9 cm
Price:
$8,500
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title: Ikebana Cats
in Garden series
Medium: Silk screen-print 24/80
Image Size:
Price
framed:
3,950
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title: White Cats Garden
Cats in Garden series
Medium: Silk screen-print
24/80
Image Size:
Price framed:
$3,950
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title: Butterfly's Path
Cats in Garden series
Medium: Silk screen-print 24/80
Image Size:
Price framed:
$3,950
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title: Girl
with Plaits 8/80
Girls & Flowers
Limited edition
series
Image Size:
Price unframed: 2,950
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Quartette
Girls & Flowers
Limited edition
seriesImage
Size:
Price unframed: 2,950
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title:
Transformation
8/80
Girls & Flowers
Limited edition
series
Image Size:
Price unframed: 2,950
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title:
School Girls 8/80
Girls & Flowers
Limited edition
series
Image Size:
Price unframed: 3,950
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title: HARP SONG 45/70 Orpheus Suite
Medium: Oil Collagraph
Image
Size: 75 x 106cm
Price:
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title:
Figure Circa
1972
Medium:
silkscreen A/P
Limited edition
Image
Size: 75 x 106cm
Price:
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title: Red Garden
Medium: silkscreen
24/80
Image
Size: 75 x 106cm
Price:
SOLD
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Artist: Charles
Blackman
Title: Trees Circa
1972
Medium:
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928-)
Title:
Lovers Circa 1972
Medium:
Charcoal
Price:
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title: Girls Circa
1972
Medium: charcoal
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title: Girl
Circa 1973
Medium:
charcoal
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
School Girl Circa
1952
Medium:
Charcoal
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
Girl & Cat
Circa 1983
Medium:
charcoal
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
Two Girl with
flowers
Medium:
mixed media
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
Schoolgirls & family
Medium:
mixed media
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
Figure circa
1972
Medium:
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
Floating Figure Circa
1972
Medium:
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title: Cats and
Dogs Circa
1972
Medium:
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
Butterfly Circa
1973
Medium:
oil on board
SOLD
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Charles Blackman
born 1928 is one
of the Australia's most famous 20th century artists, along with
Arthur Boyd
,
David Boyd
,
John Perceval,
Nolan,
Drysdale,
John
Brack and Robert Dickerson
they established a substantial part of
Australia's legacy.
They dominated
Australian art scene since
the Antipodean Manifesto in 1959
and recognised as
the most
important Australian artists. View
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Charles Blackman,
a major painter
in Australian art of the post-war years,
is
one of the most important and
best loved
Australian artists of the 20
century. Blackman is
one of two living most important Australian artist whose
painting have sold over one million dollars.
Blackman
“Alice in Wonderland”
sold for
$1.2 million a record for a living
Australian artist
click:
 Charles Blackman haunting and
enchanting images of women and girls, have an enduring appeal. Two significant themes in his
work have been the Schoolgirl and Alice in Wonderland with deep
shadows and the accentuation of his figure's eyes occur
throughout Blackman's works with a pervasive sense of
melancholy
Ref:
Alice paintings
LEFT: Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
and Aniela
(2002)
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major Retrospective in
Galeria Aniela. |
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Charles
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Charles
Blackman
Biography
Charles Blackman
is only one of two living, important Australian artist whose
painting
“Alice in Wonderland" sold
for 1,2 million, a record price for a living
Australian artist.
click
ABC TV National
News
Alice paintings
The
Age |Melbourne, 21 Oct 2006
Charles Blackman
is one of only handful Australian artists whose work attracted
international recognition. Blackman work attracted international
recognition since 1961 after he won the Helena Rubenstein Art
Award in London. Blackman was living in London from 1961-66.
Even though Blackman has shown
the sustaining power to originate a wide supply of superb images
over a period of five decades but many of his early paintings were destroyed during the
Melbourne fire except for some
which live to tell the tale.
Blackman has exhibited frequently since
and is known for his facility in drawing. In 1951 Blackman
married a poet, Barbara Patterson, who was to become a lasting
presence in his work.
Blackman was a co-founder of
the Melbourne Contemporary Art Society in 1953 and was one of
seven Antipodeans responsible for the Antipodean Manifesto.
Antipodean Manifesto
was a reaction against what
they saw as the meteoric rise of abstract expressionism and
non-figurative art in Australia and its intolerance of
figurative painting.
Blackman has won many awards throughout
his career, including the Rowney prize for drawing in 1959, the
Helena Rubenstein Scholarship in 1960, the Dyeson Endowment
Award and the Crouch Prize. Blackman's work was included in the
Whitechapel Open Exhibition in 1961 and Tate Gallery exhibitions
of Australian Art 1962-63. A major retrospective, 'Schoolgirls
and Angels,' was organised in 1993 by the National Gallery of
Victoria, touring to Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
In 1997 Blackman was awarded an OBE for his services to art. His
work is held in all Australian state and most regional
galleries, institutional and private collections.
Blackman famous series of Alice paintings came
about after listening to the classic Lewis Carroll book in taped
form with his sight-impaired writer wife, Barbara. Being the
inner and romantic painter Blackman is able to translate the
inner world of childhood magic - the fairy tale, taking us to
the world of fantasy and joy. His Alice paintings have universal
appeal with her fantasy, romantic spirit, beauty and mystery.
Charles Blackman is one of those artists whose work remains
compelling for a large audience like Nolan’s Ned Kelly, a
fractured Picasso woman or a Salvatore Dali melting watch, Blackman’s
Alice's and tea party, schoolgirls and lovers have become
fixtures in the modern imagination.
Blackman's fascination, discovery and
understanding of the female charm and affection make up an
important part of his creativity. Blackman uses mystery and
magic to translate the world of emotions, a feeling of secret
atmosphere,
love, warmth and affection.
PRESS:
Awards:
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1997 OBE
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1963 Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Gallery
Melbourne (one painting and one drawing)
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1960 Helena Rubinstein
Scholarship, Melbourne
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1960 George Crouch Prize, Ballarat Fine
Art Gallery
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1960 Wins prize. A. Shore,
The Age
(February)
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1958 George Crouch Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
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1958 Rowney prize, Richmond Gallery Melbourne.
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The Age
Nov.2006
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/11/21/1163871404922.html.
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Lovers Circa 1972
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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:
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Nude Circa
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B.
1928- )
Title:
Nude Circa
1968
Medium:
Pen and ink on
paper
Image Size:
52.7 x 75.9 cm
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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
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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
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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
1972
Medium: Oil on
canvas
Image Size:
100 x 122cm
Signed:
BLACKMAN
lower left
Charles
Blackman is an 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
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ALICE TEA PARTY,
London 1962
Artist:
Charles Blackman
(B. 1928- )
Description: Figure
by the Window
(Alice Tea Party)
London
1962
include
a signed by Charles
Blackman,
Sotheby's
Certificate
Medium: charcoal and
pastel on paper on board
Image Size: 135 x 150 cm
Framed size: 170 x 185cm
Signed
Lower left:
BLACKMAN London 1962
"Figure
by the Window
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Alice
Tea party,
London
1962" is a
masterpiece,
a museum quality
painting
accompanied
by an important Certificate issued by
Sotheby's
and signed by Charles Blackman
that indeed the painting is an original Blackman painting
painted in
1962
from the period of Charles
Blackman
international acclaim.
Charles
Blackman won the
prestigious
Helena Rubenstein Art award-Scholarship
in 1961
attracting
the international recognition.
"Alice
Tea party,
London
1962"
is
one
of
only
few rare paintings which returned to Australia.
Charles Blackman
"Alice in Wonderland" sold for $1.2
million,
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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 96 cm
Framed size: 130x135 cm
Signed:
BLACKMAN top left
The Crack Up 1973
is
a museum quality painting from the period
of Charles Blackman international acclaim. It was following his victory
at the
Helena Rubenstein Art Award-Scholarship
in London
(1961)
which started Blackman international recognition.
Crack-Up is an important "Fitzgerald
painting"
illustrated in the “Blackman
Lost Domains” page 128, and it is only
one of few Australian paintings relating to
Pop-Art,
an important
international art movement.
Crack-Up
portrays
a
famous
American
writer
Scott Fitzgerald
and his wife Zelda. The black outline around two figures (Scott
Fitzgerald
and his
wife Zelda) epitomizes a rare Australian tie to the global
movement
Pop-Art.
Scott Fitzgerald regarded as one of the
twentieth century's greatest writers and his wife Zelda
were good friends with the Blackman’s. In
Crack-Up
Charles Blackman
depicts
Zelda in warm and
happy
tones yet, as she is peeled from the mind of her husband, almost
as she was Fitzgerald own creation. Blackman
portrays the troubled writer
Scott
Fitzgerald in dark chilly shades.
Crack-Up is a superb painting and indeed a brilliant work
of art.
It is a razor sharp, but tender, exciting and emotionally moving
painting opening feelings of the tormented writer, his passions
and suffering.
Australian artists, far from the rest of the world, seldom
embodied a new significant international movements except for
some internationally renowned Australian artists. Charles Blackman lived in London in the centre of international
art
1961 to 1966 and was able to recognize and embrace the important worldwide art
progress of
Andy
Warhol style
identified as
Pop-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
Girl and Cat
1969
portrays Blackman wife
Barbara Patterson,
a model and a poet
playing
with their cat.
Charles Blackman love cats and cats often found a way to a
number of series of his paintings.
Charles Blackman and
Barbara Patterson
married in 1951.
The
black outline around two figures epitomizes a rare Australian
tie to the global movement
Pop-Art.
Girl and
Cat
1969
an
important
museum quality painting from the period
of Charles Blackman artistic acclaim following his victory of
Helena Rubenstein Art
Award-Scholarship
in
London
(1961)
which started his international recognition. Barbara
and Cat
1969
is only
one of few Australian paintings relating to the important
international art movement
Pop-Art.
Australian artists, far
from the rest of the world, seldom embodied a new significant
international movements
except for some internationally renowned Australian artists.
In 1961-66
Charles Blackman lived in London in the centre of international
art, able to recognize and embrace the important worldwide art
progress of
Andy
Warhol style
identified as
Pop-Art.
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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 - 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:
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
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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
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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
NOTES:
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.
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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):
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B.
1928- )
Title:
GIRL
1971
Medium: Charcoal
on paper
Image Size:
122 x 101cm
Signed:
BLACKMAN
lower right
Price:
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B.
1928- )
Title:
SCHOOLGIRL
1952
the original Schoolgirls series
Medium: Charcoal
on paper
Image Size:
21.5 x 34.5cm
Signed:
BLACKMAN
lower right
Price (framed): SOLD
This rare painting is in pristine condition, and accompanied by Sotheby's Certificate, signed by Charles Blackman that indeed belongs
to the original "School Girls series" 1952.
Blackman
grew up
in feminine atmosphere with mother and three sisters whose
dreams, emotions and images
become part of his conscience. Women shaped his life and he is
at ease painting feminine subject's; famous Schoolgirls series,
Alice series and works of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The most
famous Schoolgirls series conveys the sense of vulnerability that
underpins much of Blackman work. Blackman friend, Joy
Hester, said "The hand and the eye of the painter is what love
is to a poet" and so Blackman's art has the infinite power and
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Artist:
Charles Blackman
Title:
RAINING DOGS AND cats
1972
Medium: Oil
on Canvas
Image Size:
50.5 x 74.5cm
Signed:
BLACKMAN
lower right
Price:
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles
Blackman
Title:
Rejoice
Medium:
oil on canvas
Image Size:
Signed:
BLACKMAN
top right
Price:
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles
Blackman
Title:
HOUSE in the Bush
Medium:
oil on canvas
Image Size:
Signed:
BLACKMAN
top left
Price:
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Artist:
Charles
Blackman
Title:
PELICAN and Butterfly
Medium:
oil on canvas
Image Size:
Signed:
BLACKMAN
top left
Price:
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles
Blackman
Title:
FLIGHT A/P
Medium:
Silk Screen Print
Image Size:
Signed:
BLACKMAN
lower right
Price:
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles
Blackman
Title:
Girls in Boat
Medium: Charcoal
on paper
Image Size:
47.5 x 38.5cm
Signed:
BLACKMAN
lower right
Price:
SOLD
NOTES:
Blackman love to paint girls and like in the Alice in Wonderland
painted in 1957, the Girls in Boat are so crammed that the boat
barley fits the girls. Blackman love painting children in a
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Artist:
Charles
Blackman
Title:
Girl in the Window
Medium:
Mix Media on
Image Size:
Signed:
BLACKMAN
lower right
Price:
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles
Blackman
Title:
Girls AND CAT
Medium: Charcoal
on canvas
Image Size:
Signed:
BLACKMAN
lower right
Price:
SOLD
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Charles
Blackman
(B.1928-) |
Arthur Boyd
(1920- 1999) |
David
Boyd
( B.
1924-) |
John
Perceval
(1923-2000) |
Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
GIRLS & PINK FLOWERS circa 1953
Medium:
Oil on
Canvas
SOLD
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Artist: Charles Blackman
Title:
Yarra Landscape
circa
1952-53
Medium:
oil on canvas
on board
SOLD
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Artist:
Charles Blackman (B. 1928-)
Title:
Nude Circa
1973
Medium:
oil on canvas
SOLD
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Artist: Charles
Blackman
Title: Colette
Medium:
oil
SOLD
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