Charles Blackman born 1928

• Lot Sold $700,000 (Hammer Price)
• $840,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

THERE WAS 1953
enamel paint on composition board
signed and dated ‘BLACKMAN 53’ lower right
76.5 X 102CM 

PROVENANCE

Mr A. Bruce Wenzel, Melbourne
By descent
Private Collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED

Paintings and Drawings: Charles Blackman, Mirka’s Studio, Melbourne,
1 September 1953
Collector’s Collections, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne, 9-17 August 1969, no. 134, ‘Girl in Pink Hat’
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, no. 53, illustrated

LITERATURE

Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and Angels: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p. 43 (illustrated)
Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p. 9 (illustrated)