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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  08 May 2012 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  5
• Lot Description:
  Charles Blackman
  born 1928
  The Sleeping Child 1965
  oil on canvas on board
  152 x 167 cm
  signed and dated 'CHARLES BLACKMAN 1965' lower left
• Provenance:
  Mrs Barbara Blackman, Sydney Private Collection, Melbourne Fine Australian Paintings, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 23 August 1993, lot 194, illustrated Private Collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  New Paintings: Charles Blackman, Zwemmer Gallery, London, 14 September - 9 October 1965, no. 12 New Paintings: Charles Blackman, Skinner Galleries, Perth, January - February 1966, no. 12, (650 gns) New Paintings: Charles Blackman, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, 29 March - 22 April 1966, no. 6, (NFS) Charles Blackman, Albert Hall, Canberra, 22 November - 3 December 1967, no. 18 Art from the Collections of the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 14-
• References:
  Al Alvarez, 'The Paintings of Charles Blackman: The Substance of Dreams', Studio International, London, September 1965, p. 101 (illustrated) Charles S. Spencer, 'First Commonwealth Arts Festival: Australian Artists in London', Art and Australia, Sydney, Vol. 3, No. 3, December 1965, p. 211 (illustrated) Mervyn Horton (ed.), Present Day Art in Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1969 p. 25 (illustrated) Nadine Amadio, Charles Blackman: The Lost Domains, A.H. &A.W. Reed, Sydney, 1980, plate 3.25
• Estimate:
  A$80,000 - 100,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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