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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 28, 2023 | Bonhams | Sydney | Important Australian Art | 30 | $****** - ****** | Mother and Child |
Works on Paper
63.5 x 75 cm (25 x 29.53 in)
oil on paper on board
signed lower right: "BLACKMAN"
Possibly Blue Boy Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
The 1950s was a tremendously creative period in Charles Blackman"s oeuvre, that forms one of the most pivotal times in Australian Art history. Beginning with his time in Queensland, he was drawn to Melbourne encouraged by the artistic milieu of the city. He moved with Barbara Paterson whom he would marry in 1951, their unity becoming a constant source of nourishment and mutual development.
Throughout the 1950s, and the decades that followed, the three strongest forces in the genre of Charles Blackman were the world of literature, the lost domain of childhood, and women. He is pursued by images that have constantly arisen from these sources. Of these most powerful invocations, the image of women is perhaps the strongest - he has painted them in a fashion rarely captured by other painters and was able to reach the emotions, the dreams and the inner world of women.
The present work was painted circa 1958 the year following the birth of their first son, Auguste in April 1957. It followed his highly successful Alice in Wonderland Series of 1956-57 and was painted just prior to being awarded the Helena Rubenstein travelling award in 1959, which launched his career on the world stage. Charles captures Barbara in a moment of vulnerability and isolation as a young mother. An endearing evocation of their mutual connection, further cementing Blackman"s reputation and profound ability to paint the unpaintable.
Charles Blackman (1928-2018)
Mother and Child, c.1958
signed lower right: "BLACKMAN"
oil on paper on board
63.5 x 75.0cm (25 x 29 1/2in).
