Reflections 1958

Charles Blackman born 1928

Reflections 1958

oil on board
122.5 x 90.0 cm

signed and dated upper left: BLACKMAN 58

Provenance:

The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, 1958

Mr & Mrs Russell and Judy Cuppaidge, Brisbane

Geoff K. Gray, Sydney, 24 September 1975, lot 63

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:

Charles Blackman: Faces and Flowers, The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, 17 November - 5 December 1958, cat.22 (as Reflection)

Recent Australian Painting, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 3 June - 23 July 1961, cat.2

Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, September 1961 (label attached verso)

Reference:

Langer, G., 'Art from the Heart ...,' Courier-Mail, Brisbane, 18 November 1958 (as Reflection)

Stead, C., For Love Alone, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1966 (illus. cover)

Shapcott, T., Focus on Charles Blackman, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1967, pp.37, 38 (illus. n.p., as Reflection)

Shapcott, T., The Art of Charles Blackman, André Deutsch Limited, London, 1989, p.29 (as Reflection)

Moore, F. St J., Schoolgirls and Angels, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p.21

Pierse, S., 'Australian Artists in London: The Early 1960s', in Australians in Britain: The Twentieth-Century Experience, edited by Bridge, C., Crawford, R., & Dunstan, D., Monash University ePress, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 13.1-13.17 (illus.)

Estimate: $120000 - 180000

Result Hammer: $160000