Lot 63
Sleeping Boy 1954
oil and enamel on board
signed and dated lower right: Jan 54 / Charles
Gould Galleries label attached verso with cat. no. 13392
62 x 74 cm
Estimate $40,000 - $60,000
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 1990
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher- Menzies, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, lot 51
Company collection, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Sleeping Boy 1954 is an exemplary early work by Blackman, highlighting the artist's predisposition to portray the biographical. With Barbara Blackman further transitioning into blindness, Charles reveals his own subconscious in the painting. The boy's reclining pose and stillness of sleep are contrasted against the crisp and sharp lines of the figure's form and dark shadowed background.
Fine Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8241
6:30pm - 5 June 2018
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141
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