Nude and Flowers is an incarnation of the new and unfettered attitude that Charles Blackman brought to his art after his return to Sydney from London in 1966.

The Chess Garden 1984-5 is a significant work from Blackman’s years at Buderim.

Charles Blackman came to prominence as a major modernist artist when his now iconic series of schoolgirl paintings was exhibited at the Peter Bray Gallery in Melbourne in May 1953.

This intriguing precursor to the Alice in Wonderland series has recently emerged from a private collection...