CHARLES BLACKMAN (B. 1928)

Name: Girl with flowers seated in a window
Brand: CHARLES BLACKMAN (B. 1928)
Price: 3000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 3,750

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GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

Closed: 8 Dec 2016

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Girl with flowers seated in a window

CHARLES BLACKMAN (B. 1928)

Price Realised GBP 3,750

Closed: 8 Dec 2016

Price Realised GBP 3,750

Closed: 8 Dec 2016

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Charles Blackman (B. 1928)
Girl with flowers seated in a window
signed and dated ‘BLACKMAN 62’ (upper right)
oil on paper
9⅞ x 6¾in. (25.2 x 17.2cm.)

Provenance:
Private collection, England.

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Lot Essay

In 1961, after winning the Helena Rubinstein Travelling Scholarship the previous year, Blackman and his family sailed to London. They were to stay in Europe until 1966, befriending the leading poets, writers, actors and artists of the time.

'Blackman is a painter of women but not of flesh; a kind of belated reply to Norman Lindsay's pseudo-classical eroticism, an artist seeking to penetrate a feminine world of private sensations, hopes and fears. ... By combining tonal illusionism with forceful rudimentary images and rich, resonate colour, Blackman has created a personal art form of great beauty and poignant expressive power.' (B. Smith, , Melbourne, 1965, p.308)