THREE GRACES, 1993
Charles Blackman
oil on canvas
122.0 x 183.0 cm
signed upper right: BLACKMAN / JAN 93
Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, February – March 1993
'Three of the strongest forces in the genre of Charles Blackman are the world of literature, the lost domain of childhood, and women. He is pursued by images that have constantly arisen from these sources. Of these most powerful invocations, the image of women is perhaps the strongest, such that he has painted women in a fashion rarely ventured by other painters.
Unique is a word he does not like, although he admits that what he attempts to paint is 'virtually unpaintable.' His paintings of women reach the emotions, the dreams and the inner world of the female psyche...'1
1. Amadio, N., Charles Blackman: The Lost Domains, A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty. Ltd., Sydney,1980, p. 32