Lot 36
Night's Dream Celestial Mirror c.1984
oil on canvas
signed lower right: BLACKMAN
titled on gallery label verso
122 x 183cm
Estimate $30,000 - $50,000
Art Galleries Schubert, Queensland (label verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
RELATED WORK:
Charles Blackman, Celestial Figure 1984, oil on canvas (diptych),183 x 243cm, Private collection
OTHER NOTES:
Charles Blackman's Celestial series of the mid-1980s reflects his long fascination with the night sky and star-gazing with is children. Works such as 'Night's Dream Celestial Mirror' and 'Celestial Figure' 1984 combine jewel-like blue grounds with floating constellations, flowers, and his familiar motifs of the female form and the cat. Inspired by moon-watching in Japan and Barbara Warren Kenton's 'Astrology: A Celestial Mirror' 1974, Blackman projected his own imaginative symbols into the zodiac. These dreamlike paintings resonate with lyrical Surrealism, recalling Miró, while offering a poetic interpretation of life where fact and imagination are inseparable.
© Charles Blackman/Copyright Agency, 2025
Fine Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8795
6:00pm - 21 October 2025
Hawthorn
VIEWING
SYD: Highlight lot 13
Fri 10 - Sun 12 Oct, 10am - 4pm, The Bond, 36-40 Queen Street, Woollahra
MEL: Fri 17 Oct - Sun 19 Oct, 10am - 4pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Wiebke Brix
wiebke.brix@leonardjoel.com.au
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