BROMLEYS "LIFE TIME OF ART" AUCTION - SUNDAY 23RD JUNE - Video

"PHASES OF THE NUDE 2"-1974
Signed lower left in the painting" Blackman"1974.

Charles Blackman is one of the most celebrated Australian figurative artists of the 20th century. An excellent draughts man as well as a painter, he created imagery – often in series – based on personal, literary and musical themes.

From David Bromley:

I first met Charles some decades ago when I painted him for the Archibald Prize (which was a finalist that year) and despite him sadly being overcome by korsekovs syndrome he often made statements with extreme vigour and determined almost menacing authority.
This of course didn’t bother me as I was pleased to see the artist in full flight by pure coincidence I spent some time in his studios after that initial meeting as my friend purchased his house and studio in woolhara where I did photo shoots and painted for some time.
The interactions with his life and his person again crossed my paths when the powers that be that were looking at keeping Charles out of hospital approached me via his daughter Bertie Blackman to see if I would play a part in assisting him in some bodies of work including larger colourful paying fields of more recent single colour works. We also made a small collection of bronze series Alice in Wonderland sculptures for Charles. So much of the above, a dream come true when a young naive artist forms a passion for someone’s work and in a later part of their life gets to spend time with them and in my case actually work with him.
Our vast collecting passions obviously led to our greatest interests which of course Blackman was one of the greatest so we hunted far and wide and have in our collection some remarkable Blackman works.
The large grouping of the Blackman nudes in exceptional scale is possibly one of our favorite pieces of our collection for over 10 years now.

485CM X 151CM

SIGNED BLACKMAN AND DATED 1974


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