# 50286
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Summer days – Colette
$440.00 AUD
Screenprint, 53 x 35 cm (image); 56.5 x 39 cm (sheet), numbered 48/75 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, titled lower centre, a couple of very small spots of foxing, unframed.
A fine Blackman screenprint inspired from his ‘Colette’ series, a series of works from the late 1970s inspired by Claudine schoolgirl novels of adolescent eroticism by the French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (known simply as ‘Colette’). The National Gallery of Australia dates this piece as being circa 1980.
The Claudine series consists of four semi-autobiographical novels written by the French author Colette, originally published under the name of her first husband, Willy, in the early 1900s. The novels follow the life of the spirited and unconventional character Claudine from her last year of school into her young adulthood and marriage.
Provenance:
The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024)
The estate of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933 – 2025), art historian, curator and authority on the celebrated Australian artist Charles Blackman (1928-2018)
by descent.
