CHARLES BLACKMAN
1928-2018
Girl with Flowers (1958)
$700,000–900,000
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
CHARLES BLACKMAN
1928-2018
Girl with Flowers (1958)
oil on composition board
signed and dated 'CHARLES / BLACKMAN' lower right
150 x 132 cm
- Lot Sold $1,000,000 (Hammer Price)
- $1,227,273 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Charles Blackman, Melbourne
Barbara Blackman, Canberra, acquired from the above
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Antipodeans, Victorian Artists' Society, Melbourne, 4-15 August 1959, uncatalogued
The Antipodeans: Another Chapter, Lauraine Diggins Fine Arts, Melbourne, 17 October - 4 November 1988; Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Australian Capital Territory, 12 November - 11 December 1988; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 22 December 1988 - 27 January 1989, no. 2, 'Blue Girl and Flowers', illustrated
Spring Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 25 October - 16 November 1990, no. 52, 'Blue Girl and Flowers', illustrated
19th & 20th Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1 May - 7 June 1996, no. 94, 'Blue Girl and Flowers', illustrated $85,000
Literature
Traudi Allen, The Antipodeans: Another Chapter, Lauraine Diggins Fine Arts, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 14, 20 (illustrated), 'Blue Girl and Flowers'
Thomas Shapcott, The Art of Charles Blackman, Andre Deutsch, London, 1989, plate 73, pp. 139 (illustrated), 253, 'Blue Girl and Flowers'
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