Sleeping

Details

Artist

Charles Blackman

Title

Sleeping

Year

1957

Medium

oil and enamel on pulpboard

Size

63.5 x 77cm

Details

signed lower right: BLACKMAN 57

Stock Number

220386

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Acquired by Private Collection, USA.

Provenance

private collection, Melbourne
Fine Australian and European Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 25 August, 1997, lot 227
private collection, Sydney
private collection, Melbourne

Further Information

Charles Blackman's paintings of 1956 -57 are considered some of the most important of his career. The golden haired girl in Sleeping closely parallels the iconic femal eimage in Blackman's famous Alice in Wonderland series. painted at the time his wife Barbara was expecting their first child, Auguste, this is an intimate moment in the artist's life. Blackman evokes an almost surreal dream world. In Sleeping the closed eyelid, a shutter into another realm, acts as a point of departure between day and night. It refers, as well, to Blackman's experience of his wife's blindness. (Sotheby's, Melbourne, 25 August 1997, lot 227)