Charles Blackman 'Standing nude' mixed media embossed lower right

embossed lower right

In ‘Rapids above St Johns Falls’ Pugh’s adoration for the land is clear

Unerring and complex

Abstract yet evocative

Evening Primrose evokes the poetry between transience and transcendence

Charles Blackman 'Standing nude' mixed media embossed lower rightFrom 1970 to 1971, Charles Blackman escaped Australia for Paris. He had won the prestigious Cite des Artes scholarship and upon setting down in France, fell in love with the culture, commencing what art historians refer to as his Golden Era for drawing. He set out to immerse himself in Parisian culture, to become a serious artist by mastering the nude. Standing Nude comes from this era. It recalls Kenneth Clarks famous delineation between naked and