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CHARLES BLACKMAN (1928 -)
Original Ink on Paper
Title: Untitled
Signed: Lower Left
Dated: Lower Right, 2009
Image Size: 40cm x 32cm
Frame Size: 67cm x 53cm (Black Laminated Timber - Under Glass)
Art Condition: Very Good to Excellent (Small smudge on paper lower left and upper left)
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Original works are also accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Martinez Art Dealer.
Serafin Martinez
Principal, Martinez Art Dealer
Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
ABN 36 561 407 649
Charles Blackman Biography
Charles Blackman is 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 familiar work, the Alice in Wonderland series reflect his facility for dream-like imagery and a melancholy sense of foreboding. Hi...
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