CHARLES BLACKMAN, (1928 - 2018)

Etching On Paper

Title: Visage Ii, 1989

Image Size: 15 x 10 cm

Frame Size: [UNFRAMED]

Signature Details: Signed 'Cb' In Margin And Stamped By The Studio (Work Of Art Illustrated Is A Representative Work From The Edition. Any Number From The Edition May Be Supplied.)

Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity

Condition: Good Visage Ii' Is Up Close And Personal. A Woman'S Face Fills The Frame - Cast In Deep Red, She Has Thatching Hair And A Wistful Expression, Resting Placidly In Her Palm. Perhaps She Is Listening, Daydreaming Or Bemused By Some Distant Action. In A Few Lines, Charles Blackman Evokes Her Inner Life With A Subtlety That Is Only Born Across Time And Conversation. He Knows His Subject Well. Blackman'S Career Pivots Around His Understanding Of People. Fluent In The Language Of Emotion, His Imagery - While Whimsical, Fantastical Or Lurid - Is Anchored In Genuine Feeling. The Pathos Alice Feels In Wonderland Is No Make-Believe. It Is With This Intelligence That 'Visage Ii' Captviates. It Is A Simple Yet Penetrating Portrait - A Spectre Of A Soul, For We Can Only Ever Know People Peripherally, As Visages. For Collectors Of Blackman, Portraits Or Important Works On Paper, Be Engrossed By 'Visage Ii'.

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