The Haystack in Moonlight 1955

CHARLES BLACKMAN born 1928

The Haystack in Moonlight 1955

enamel on paper on composition board
96.0 x 128.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: Blackman 55

Provenance:
Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 12 June 1974, lot 597
Private collection
Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 25 August 1998, lot 21
Private collection, New South Wales
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 4 March 2003, lot 125
Savill Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Sydney

Reference:
Mathew, R., Charles Blackman, Australian Art Monographs, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1965, p.13 (illus. )

'In 1955, Blackman was living in Avonsleigh, Victoria and later in Tambourine, Queensland, painting as many as two pictures a day. Mostly landscapes, many of them moonlit with empty, haunted roads, they began from the world around him but were illuminated by memories of tramping the roads in 1950' (Mathew, R., op. cit, p.5)

Estimate: $18000 - 22000

Result Hammer: $10000