Charles Blackman 'Puck' mid century modernism

Charles Blackman 'Puck' mid century modernismCharles Blackman stands among Australia's most beloved and collectable artists. With a career as distinct as it is diverse, Blackman has a knack of teasing out universal truths through his own unsparing candour. This drawing from the artists sketchbook is of the capricious Puck (or Robin Goodfellow) from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Nights Dream. Puck is the miscreant and magical character who sets many of the plays events in motion through

titled and numbered in margin in pencil below image: 29/30 Dark Mirror Aspden

For collectors of international art and admirers of the Renaissance

works on paper and the female form

'Black Treescape with Red Leaves'

Spurring from the desert and into the sky

Conceived in drawing class then animated in Auguste’s studio

Mallyon's work can be found in various corporate

He is a past winner of the prestigious Archibald Prize (1998) and twice winner of the Sulman Prize (1994

He is represented in all regional and many state collections

'The Philosophy of Objects No 3'

Sebastian Smee wrote that he is singular: “there is nobody really like him… his commitment unmistakable

who is best known for her landscapes