CHARLES BLACKMAN (1928 - 2018)

Original Ink on Artist Paper / Card

Title and Dated: Two Schoolgirls , 2011

Hand Signed: Lower Image

Embossed Seal: Lower Image (Blackman)

Sheet Size: 30cm x 21cm (Minimal roughness to some edges/corners but can be Framed Out)

Condition: Excellent - New

Unframed.

Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Charles Blackman Foundation C ertifying that the work illustrated and described above is an original and authentic drawing by Charles Blackman, recorded in the archives of the Foundation as Inv. No. 8970.

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Charles Blackman Biography Charles Blackman was quite simply one of the most highly regarded figurative artists in Australia. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Blackman has gained a local and international reputation as a mainstay in post-War Australian art. Probably best known for his Schoolgirl and Alice in Wonderland series, he was also a member of the Antipodeans group, and a contemporary of Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Albert Tucker amongst others. Born in Sydney in 1928, Blackman's career in visual art began as a young illustrator with the Sydney Sun newspaper. He developed his skills with night classes in drawing and design, and gained recognition for his art after moving to Melbourne in the late 1940s. Blackman exhibited with the revived Contemporary Art Society in 1953, and was also one of the original signatories of the Antipodean Manifesto. The Antipodeans reacted to the rise of abstract expressionism, fearing that American abstraction in particular was becoming the dominant style of international art. The group's defence of modernist and figurative art lead to major exhibitions for Blackman in London in 1960 and later in Paris. His most fa...