CHARLES BLACKMAN
1928-2018
Figure from a Drama (Dramatis Personae) (1963)
$140,000–180,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
CHARLES BLACKMAN
1928-2018
Figure from a Drama (Dramatis Personae) (1963)
oil on composition board
signed 'BLACKMAN' upper left
121.5 x 91.5 cm
Provenance
Charles Blackman, London
Charles Blackman Trust, Melbourne
Fine Australian and European Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 16 August 1999, lot 90, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Three Australian Painters Exhibition, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 2 January 1965
Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and Angels: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 18 May - 22 August 1993; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 September - 21 November 1993; City Hall Art Gallery, Brisbane, 7 December 1993 - 27 January 1994; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 5 March - 17 April 1994, illustrated (label verso)
Literature
Ray Mathew, Charles Blackman, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1965, plate 31, pp. 17, 59 (illustrated)
Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and Angels: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p. 84 (illustrated)
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