Charles Blackman seated in cane chair, c.1974

Gelatin silver print photograph (copy print) on medium card stock, 375 x 295 mm (sheet); verso ‘Copyright’ stamp in purple ink, with added handwritten label that reads ‘The artist c.1974. Photograph courtesy West Australian newspapers’; unmounted; light creasing with resultant surface loss towards right edge, otherwise good condition, in fully contemporary wrap-around glassine sleeve affixed with tape verso (can easily be removed).

Literature: Felicity St. John Moore, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and angels. A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Charles Blackman, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, opposite p.1 (illustrated).

Note: It is possible that the photograph was used to illustrate a newspaper article on Blackman’s ‘Retrospective Drawing’ exhibition, Adelaide Festival, 9-30 March 1974.

Provenance:

The estate of the late Barbara Blackman

The library of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933-2025), art historian, curator and authority on the celebrated Australian artist Charles Blackman (1928-2018).