Charles Blackman born 1928

THE SLEEPING CHILD 1965
oil on canvas on board
signed and dated ‘CHARLES BLACKMAN 1965’ lower left
152 X 167CM

PROVENANCE

Mrs Barbara Blackman, Sydney
Private Collection, Melbourne
Fine Australian Paintings, Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 23 August 1993, lot 194, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED

New Paintings: Charles Blackman, Zwemmer Gallery, London, 14 September - 9 October 1965, no. 12
New Paintings: Charles Blackman, Skinner Galleries, Perth, January - February 1966, no. 12, (650 gns)
New Paintings: Charles Blackman, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, 29 March - 22 April 1966, no. 6, (NFS)
Charles Blackman, Albert Hall, Canberra, 22 November - 3 December 1967, no. 18
Art from the Collections of the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 14-29 October 1981, no. 2, ‘Sleeping Child’

LITERATURE

Al Alvarez, ‘The Paintings of Charles Blackman: The Substance of Dreams’, Studio International, London, September 1965, p. 101 (illustrated)
Charles S. Spencer, ‘First Commonwealth Arts Festival: Australian Artists in London’, Art and Australia, Sydney, Vol. 3, No. 3, December 1965, p. 211 (illustrated)
Mervyn Horton (ed.), Present Day Art in Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1969 p. 25 (illustrated)
Nadine Amadio, Charles Blackman: The Lost Domains, A.H. &A.W. Reed, Sydney, 1980, plate 3.25