Charles Blackman 'Mask' painting

Charles Blackman 'Mask' paintingButterflies are recurrent motifs in Charles Blackmans work. They flutter through his gardens, streets and Wonderland, winking at the idea of transformation. Indeed, butterflies evolving from lowly caterpillars into flight are a utopian ideal made real. It is true that our identity is in constant movement, and our hope that it will follow the butterfly. In this exceptionally rare work, Charles Blackman uses the butterfly to express the general by the

Over eighty years ago

' and dated verso

'Still-life study with sunflowers and a vase' ca

Conceived in 1953

There is a spirituality at work here

Signed: Signed Auguste Blackman top left

'The Mirror II' 1995

he was a winner and multi-time Archibald Prize finalist

For collectors of etchings

a figure dines at a checkerboard table

'La Chevelure'

'Desert Boabs '