Past Catalogue | Menzies 9 August 2018 Auction | Date: 9 August, 2018

Lot 27
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

Literature:

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.)

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)

Estimate
A$120,000
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A$180,000
Hammer Price + BP A$196,363.64