Victor Majzner 'Dark Sunset' contemporary beholds the bouquet with a

beholds the bouquet with a mixture of sorrow

His life was spent between the slog of manual labour and his love of art

Dimensions: 36 x 25 cm

a portrait of Charles Blackman's youngest child

four plate etching on paper

Victor Majzner 'Dark Sunset' contemporary beholds the bouquet with aFlowers are with us in the best and worst of times. They commemorate a milestone, console a loss, betray the changing of seasons and wilt, a harbinger of disease. In his series of flowers, acclaimed Jewish Australian artist Victor Majzner considers this brevity of symbolism. He reflects that Flowers play a significant part in every human rite of passage. In Dark Sunset, a European flower opens above the alienesque Australian landscape; a disembodied