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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  24 Aug 2021 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  76
• Lot Description:
  Charles Blackman
  (1928-2018)
  Girl in Landscape, c.1962
  oil on canvas
  95.5 x 65.0cm (37 5/8 x 25 9/16in).
  signed lower left: 'CHARLES BLACKMAN'
• Provenance:
  Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane; Private collection; Art Galleries Schubert, Queensland; Private collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  'A younger contemporary of Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Joy Hester and the late Sir Sidney Nolan, Blackman emerged during the fifties as an artist whose pictures achieved a rare and extraordinary degree of poetic reality. In London, where he lived from 1961-66, his paintings were described as 'big, tough and tender', an epithet that stuck for some years for Australian art in general. Blackman's work attracted to his side some of the most distinguished figures in the art world including Sir Kenneth Clark. In 1966 Blackman decided to forego the attention of British critics, poets and intellectuals and return to his own country and to draw from the Australian environment the essential character of his art – its strong contrasts of dark and light, hard-felt emotions and genuinely large size. The combination of these qualities with his intimate human imagery underlines the urgent and haunting effect of his pictures.'1. 1 James Mollison, 'Charles Blackman, Director's Foreward', Charles Blackman, Schoolgirls and Angels, National Gallery of Victora, Melbourne, 1993
• Estimate:
  A$50,000 - 70,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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